Stars Come Out For Derek Jeter —Cagle
BITS AND PIECES
PEOPLE WHO work in prepress and creative have entirely too much time on their hands. At least that’s the case for the creative department at Topps, the sports card specialist, in its handling of the 2007 baseball card set that hit shelves in February.
Card No. 40 in the set features New York Yankees player Derek Jeter, engaged in the at-bat of a lifetime. His audience was considerable; in the card’s background, standing in the dugout, is a 1950s vintage image of Mickey Mantle. (Last time we checked, the Mick had been dead for more than 10 years.) And if you look in the stands, just above Jeter’s bat, is a smiling and waving President George W. Bush. (The last time we checked... Nah, fill in your own gag.) Looking at the card, the chief executive seems to have lost his left arm somewhere along the line. On the blown-up image Topps sent in, however, the arm was intended to be obscured by fans and seats.