Are Baseball Cards Going Too Far In The Name Of Authenticity?

My friend Andrew over at Sports Card Forum is a big time collector of David Wright cards.  It is a hobby he has recently begun trying to share with his young son.  So you can imagine his horror when he pulled a David Wright Game Worn Cup Relic card from a recent hobby box of Topps Baseball Series 1.

"At first I was excited to get a Wright relic but then when I took a closer look I threw up a little in my mouth.", Andrew told The Apple.  "I'm trying to get my son interested in cards.  I don't want him touching that.  Plus he's got that creepy tongue sticking out.  The whole thing is just gross."

Sports cards are not the same as they were when we were kids so we went to the source to find out what is going through the minds of the guys at Topps.   David Carter is a marketing rep for the Topps NYC headquarters.  "You have to understand, this is no longer about a nice picture and a piece of gum.  The collectors demand more.", said Carter. "People want to be as close to their favorite star as possible.  We started with jerseys and bats, but people can get those anywhere now.  We had to step our game up."

When asked about the Wright card, Carter told us, "That is a classic card.  What's closer to your favorite player than his jock. Only Topps can get you that close.  It makes Wright's other memorabilia cards look like junk."

At the Apple we agree that Topps is definitely doing something new, we just wouldn't have used the words "Wright's" and "junk" in the same sentence.

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