Back
in 2019, I created my first custom card. It featured George Costanza on the
1956 Topps design, and captured the hilarious scene where he barreled over Bette Midler at home plate.
Well,
it took a while, but in 2023 I came up with a second Seinfeld card based on the
’56 design. This one featured Elaine Benes, clad in a Baltimore Orioles uniform,
doing her famous “little kicks” dance at home plate.
It’s
been a couple of years again, but now I’ve finished a third card in the ’56 Seinfeld
set.
But why
is Jerry wearing a Pirates helmet, with the position designation of
"pirate"?
If you're a Seinfeld fan and take a close look at the "uniform" Jerry is wearing, you may have already connected the dots. If not, this 5-minute clip will do the trick.
So now look back at the action on the card. There's Jerry, playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates, wearing the puffy shirt that he unknowingly agreed to wear. The game is about to start, but Jerry
stands in protest, whining loudly to the umpire, “But I don’t wanna be a pirate!”
As a consequence of that whining, the umpire has just thrown Jerry out of the game.
It was a fun way to tie the game of baseball into the card—especially because the George Costanza and Elaine Benes cards also have fun connections to the sport.
So that's card number three in this 1956-inspired set. There's a fourth card as well, but it deserves a post of its own. I'll leave it at that for now.
Thanks for reading. And if you know any low-talkers, don't be bashful to ask them to repeat themselves if you didn't hear them the first time. Otherwise, you might end up in a pickle like Jerry.
Solid work once again! Wondered if you'd try to tackle this one!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much, Jafronius! It was a fun project, for sure.
Delete9P if was a basketball card you know Jimmy would like that card or add to the Drakes line with the big boy right Norman......I mean Newman otherwise that's just Gold Jerry that's gold or we can pain our faces for hockey after all we cant be a very very bad man Mr Jerry sir maybe throw-in some Kenny Rogers chicken or see what Bob Sacramento has to say right Bob *high pitch* that's my name is Bob
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DeleteA. Great card. Love the 1956 Topps design and there was a time when Seinfeld was my favorite tv show of all-time.
ReplyDeleteB. I think the only low-talkers I've encountered over the years were students. Thankfully none of them have asked me to anything as silly as teaching while wearing a puffy shirt.
A. Much appreciated, Fuji! Seinfeld is still one of my favorite TV shows.
DeleteB. Glad to hear you've avoided a puffy shirt scenario at school!