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.
