Dude has no mouth or nose.

Leon - there’s probably a perfect image of Frank Chance under that button! Looks like a pre-cursor to the 1916-20 “Big Heads”.

I was just sorting my 1975 Topps cards and came across Len Randle and I immediately thought of this thread.

Sure, he wasn't a household name, but this is the BEST Topps could do for poor Len?

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I always despised this strip set & the Cobb especially. Reminded me of the joker or Mr burns from the Simpson’s. Complete Yuck..

If you find any stories about Randle, you might have a change of perspective and consider it an awesomely fitting photo! Randle is assuredly one of baseball's eccentrics. 2 a.m. phone calls to fans and collectors are not out of the question. The last update was that he's currently hospitalized. Hope he's faring better.

This Tarzan Bread card of Munns, I used to own, looks like he might be a bit constipated.

Munns either liked that photo, or it's perhaps one of the few shots of him in Dodgers garb, because he sent me a signed copy many years ago. Guess he used to Xerox the image and send to collectors. Funny, I always thought it was more of a "GRRRR!" expression.

My impression is that Farrish is an unemployed goalie who is asking a passerby if he has $50 for a cup of coffee.

Len Randle makes me automatically think of this awesomeness:

https://youtu.be/AJPpTXzPxFs?si=i5Skt8aCXs-8K2rC

If we're talking about hockey, then I think it's time to quote a little Rush to describe Topps' WTF efforts with Keith Magnuson:

"Living in a fisheye lens
Caught in the camera eye"


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THAT Keith Magnuson CARD was the LAST card I needed to complete my 1972-73 Topps Set as an 11-year-old kid!

When I FINALLY got it, I thought that THIS was the COOLEST card EVER MADE!

Yeah, I've always loved the Magnuson card. Not sure why this type of photo was uesd for it, but reminds me of album photos for Neil Young's Harvest and Ragged Glory.

Len looks like he just took a pitched ball in the nuts.

A top contender…

I've seen that clip a hundred times but didn't put it together that was the same guy on my 1975 Topps card.

Thanks to your post (and the post from BillyCox up above) I spent some time Googling Len Randle. Quite a character.

Here's another Len Randle highlight (blowing a ball foul) that I've seen a million times that I didn't associate with that Topps card until now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLroDoPFdWY

There was something reeeaaaallly interesting going on up there.

You can see how little Topps cared in the 70's with this one:

The ole uni-brow. Nice.

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Overall the 1923 WG7 Walter Mails Game cards have lower quality photo images of the players. I like the look of my full sized type card of Heinie Groh (I also have a few others that are cut down to just the photo), but the images and wildly inconsistent graphic design on a quite a few of the 56 cards are humorous, horrible and head-scratching (which of course is the coveted 3 'H' designation), as seen in the sampling below.

Brian (non-Groh images are from the Old Cardboard website)

Hey Brianp-beyou, the WG7 images of Sam Rice & WaJo are gorgeous! :D

This image always creeps me out.

Hey Val, how can I beyou when I am beme? Those are great cards, and I suggest that you also put them in my newly created Walter Mails Game card appreciation thread.

Brian

Can someone post that Melchior with the (ahem) alternate text?

Here you go...the D311 Melchoir with the T212 1911 Obak-esque back with alternative text.

Brian

I love the 1971 WS card of Robinson alone in the dirt smothering another Cincy potential hit. He was a man on an island no one could come close to his fielding in that Series. It's a dramatic photo I think.

To the original poster, the Schmidt is half of a photo with Harry Davis sliding in. I always thought it was cool that both cards were in the set.

Awesome!

Thank you, Brian.

Ditto. Especially as a kid, I marveled at how much ground Brooks was covering.

That's cool, I never realized that.

Not My Favorite Phillies Photo:
 

.. This guy has always scared me...:

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I know, it's not a baseball card, but I did think of the 1986 Fleer Basketball Kelly Tripucka ... his "balls out" hustle was pretty evident that day.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zKIAA...n/s-l1600.webp

Cobb's pose is sliced off a cameo with Commissioner Landis. The only thing worse than the Landis serious face is the Landis smiling face!

I gotta go with the 1951 Bowman Paul Richards.

There are some truly awful images in this thread. Here's one I despise, not because it's a contender for the worst image ever, but because it's by far the worst looking card in a set that is filled with perfect images.

Yep - That's one fugly-ass portrait.

The somewhat nice thing about cards in the D381 set is that they depict the unvarnished truth about the player's appearance. But sometimes this approach backfires, as is seen in the D381 of Egan. Compare this with the T206 of him, and in this case I prefer the sugar coated T206 version.

Brian

I couldnt disagree more on the 73 Clemente. I think it's an awesome image, especially considering it's his last card and he's in shadow like that. It's almost.. poignant.

The 1958 Brooks Robinson was the fiorst card that came to mind. haha. I mean cmon, seriously Topps??

These give me nightmares!

Seems like it would have belonged on a Garbage Pail Kids card from many decades in the future :D . That said, I might have to find one of these just because of the photo. I wonder if any of his other cards have photos as bad, sheesh.