Does Anyone Else Remember doing this..
 

Back in the mid fifties....my brother and I would mutilate cards of players that changed teams.......cutting off logos off doubles and insignias on caps and uniforms and tape the new team ones on to create our own "traded" cards. Destroyed a lot of cards but did we have fun!!!! Some looked pretty cool too. Aloha, Dave.

Moldy Memory
 

Yeah, Dave - my brother and I used to do the same thing in the '50's. I think there were more trades going on back then because not as many rules and regs limiting them. I can remember sneaking my mother's pinking scissors because of the thickness of the pasteboards, and later shifting over to chopping up Street & Smith yearbooks because it was easier to get a closer match on the cap logos, and then pasting the pics into a huge scrapbook. Great way for a kid to waste time on a rainy weekend.

Kiddie Airbrushing...
 

Definitely! When I was a kid we used to erase the ink off the fronts of Topps cards (it works!) and then we'd color in the new logos and teams. Had a lot of fun doing that back in the day.

I did the same thing (70s) or if need be just made up my own.

Cards That Never Were, Nor Should Have Been
 

Yes...did it Keith's way. And not always to reflect trades. If I needed a player for one of my teams and could not find the card or there was none, I would make one up with another card of a player who may or may not have looked remotely like the player involved. I know I did that with at least one 1959 Mantle card

The second year I collected cards was 1971. Even though I was only 10, I quickly decided (and still believe 41 years later) that black-bordered cards are a bad idea. So I trimmed the photos out of countless '71's. Amazingly, without the black borders and with the corners of the photos rounded (that's the way they were printed), they look exactly like cards from the 1969 Topps Super test set, which I always liked. Mine actually came out nicer than the '69 Supers because the '71 set has so many great actions photos. It also has the nicest shots of Connie Mack Stadium I've ever seen on cards (with apologies to the 1955 Bowman set) ...

Another thing that was common for all us kids in the early 70s to do was to draw sideburns, long hair and mustaches on players. Many of the pictures on cards were old, so we were merely updating the fashions depicted on them. Once we saw Oscar Gamble's afro, it was all over ...

In 1967, it seemed every pack of cards had a Phil Roof. My brother and I collected dozens of them and glued them to the back of our bedroom door. After a while we started trading for them so we could cover the entire door top to bottom. I think it took over 200 cards. When we moved out, Dad had to replace the door.

Interior doors aint cheap
 

What - The new occupants weren't Phil Roof fans? Some people have no taste.

Roof
 

Phil obviously should have been on the ceiling

I decopaged (sp??) a bunch of 74's to a clipboard by taping them to the clipboard and them coating them with a thick layer of Elmer's glue.

I wish I could find that clipboard.

We also used to change the team name when a player got traded to his new team, or change positions we'd cross it out and put the new position in.

holy cards
 

Back in 1969... I took all my cards and holepunched them at the top, then I threaded a string thru there...stapled the string on the head board and the wall...and there it was.. the whole set on a home made rol-a-dex !..what a life..laying on the bed..all your cards hanging above ! LOL

Ralph

In 1957 as a 9 year old I cut all the top right corners off of the complete 1st and 2nd series of Topps baseball to keep my older brother from stealing them.Must have worked because I still have all of them.

I didn't cut and paste...but I do remember in 1975 in N. Calif, I bought a box of Topps packs and the cards were small (ofcourse they were minis) and I thought they were all like that..then went to another store and bought more packs and they were larger! :confused:...So wth...I cut those up to make it look like the mini because I thought the larger cards were errors. :rolleyes:

Ricky Y