I agree that Arthur K. Miller is a great artist, and perhaps I am being too literal, but so many of his "cards that never were" fall flat to me because it's obvious why they "never were." Willie Mays on a Cracker Jack? Mike Trout on a 1951 Bowman? Of course these cards never existed! There was no reason that they would have! Conversely, I love the 1948 Leaf Roy Hobbs because when Hobbs would have played matches up with the time frame of when the card would have been produced.
I wish Miller had painted cards like a 1934 Goudey Ruth or a T206 Joe Jackson because there would be a touch of realism involved and those works would have more legitimacy. That's my only beef, and it is a minor one at that.
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