Interesting Card Art Anomaly

LeeD · 04-04-2024, 01:26 AM

So, Vito Tamulis was a journeyman pitcher who played parts of six seasons in the majors. His card art, despite pitching from the mid-Thirties until 1941 (and after the war in various minor leagues), shows an iconic picture of Carl Mays, the notorious submarine baller who killed Ray Chapman with a pitch in 1920. It's mirrored to show a lefty, but it's Carl Mays nonetheless, complete with the high socks and dark undershirt. Meanwhile, Carl Mays has a card of his own, which shows a pitcher who looks like he'd be more at home during the 1940s, when Tamulis was still pitching and Mays had been retired for over a decade. It's an oopsie, but really, the pitcher's motion on that card is clearly a submariner, and the submarine ball had been banished in rule and in fact by the time Tamulis reached the majors in 1934.

On the bright side, I do like the late-Forties Unsung Heroes cards with Joe D's bat barrel coming around. It looks a little funny on slap-hitters like Stan Rojek, but Joe was certainly one of the premier Forties players.

04-04-2024, 01:26 AM	#1
LeeD All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2022 Posts: 873	Interesting Card Art Anomaly So, Vito Tamulis was a journeyman pitcher who played parts of six seasons in the majors. His card art, despite pitching from the mid-Thirties until 1941 (and after the war in various minor leagues), shows an iconic picture of Carl Mays, the notorious submarine baller who killed Ray Chapman with a pitch in 1920. It's mirrored to show a lefty, but it's Carl Mays nonetheless, complete with the high socks and dark undershirt. Meanwhile, Carl Mays has a card of his own, which shows a pitcher who looks like he'd be more at home during the 1940s, when Tamulis was still pitching and Mays had been retired for over a decade. It's an oopsie, but really, the pitcher's motion on that card is clearly a submariner, and the submarine ball had been banished in rule and in fact by the time Tamulis reached the majors in 1934. On the bright side, I do like the late-Forties Unsung Heroes cards with Joe D's bat barrel coming around. It looks a little funny on slap-hitters like Stan Rojek, but Joe was certainly one of the premier Forties players.