[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I don't like the tall boy format and am just glad they opted against a baseball issue. I appreciated them more in the past, but care less for them the more I encounter them.

As you pointed out, there are a lot of bad photos, but they're not just bad due to being head shots. What's with the graininess? They could have used crisper images if they cared enough to do so. Did they tweak those photos, because the hair glare looks absurdly phony. Mahovlich, Bathgate and Goyette all have shiny hair like Astro Boy that proved impenetrable to fleets of jackhammers. Phil Goyette's hair makes me wonder if he had a brother named Don and they sang beautiful harmonies but just never got along. Big M and Goyette's fuzzy photos are unforgivable.

The sizing of these things always bothered me, though it might be charming to some. Being in Canada (you can relate), finding the proper sleeves/pages/top loaders was impossible way back when, at least in our hometown and vicinity. How the heck was I supposed to store them? Given their popularity and higher price as compared to other period cards, I just passed on them altogether as a kid.

I remember seeing T card pages for the first time on a childhood trip to the States and being so impressed! We simply weren't afforded such luxuries in this fairly large Canadian city.