Showing posts with label HOF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HOF. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Gentlemen: Gale Sayers

I like, not love, the card design, but the signature stands alone in the light. I haven't seen any instances where Gale created a much different insignia. I love the unintentional way that both initials look like numbers (9, 2 backwards). I am like deleriously hungry, and may or may not be hallucinating. This also looks like it was a signature style that Gale picked up around 8th grade, when he had to start writing essays more. We all know an essay won't get graded without writing your name on it (I teach 18yr olds who still have a problem remembering. some of them must be stoned right?) Damn sticker auto, at least it doesn't cut the y off......wait I just wandered out of the light!
love,
Peterson

Friday, January 1, 2010


Best unliscenced, sticker-auto I have seen to date. (is that the bat-symbol in the "E" of Americana? sorry that just caught my eye. I found a fair amount of images of the checklist of this subset while floating in the reatail world. There are two different coices for photo. "The player" or the "Hall of Famer"The photo of a young Johnny is so much nicer than some of the other double-chin, unavoidable, over-the-hill look from the night they were inducted into the hall, all stubble and rolls. I would certainly like to be remembered with a smart-looking photo of me taken during my playing days, not bloated at the podium. I didn't even have the heart to put up the "Hall of Famer" images. My Cal never looked like Dr. Evil and never will.