It’s been just a few years since my last 3D Wiggle Gif post and I’m again with one other set of 3D baseball playing cards. This time it’s again to the Fifties with a set of Sal Maglie Stori-View playing cards.
Whereas Viewmaster is form of the model identify 3D youngsters toy, within the Fifties and Sixties, Stori-View was a competing product. Identical form of plastic/bakelite viewers however a really totally different manner of packaging the photographs. The place Viewmaster used discs containing seven pairs of slides, Stori-View used playing cards that had just one or two pairs of slides.
This set options Sal Maglie as a Large—making it of curiosity to me on a number of fronts—and has numerous data on every card because of the quantity of cardboard actual property out there within the Stori-View design. Sadly, Stori-View’s pictures will not be as sharp as Viewmaster’s so I don’t see some extent in offering a nonetheless model of every picture the best way I did with the 1953 Viewmaster set.
The playing cards themselves are form of good and can look good in a binder. The slides, whereas form of blurry, are sharp sufficient to be seen holding these as much as the sunshine and are on movie inventory which hasn’t light. Scanning issues although I can positively see why Viewmaster received out. Only a higher high quality product imagewise and with the power to inform an entire story on one disc as a substitute of requiring 6 totally different (misplaceable) playing cards.
As an educational set I’m amused at noticing the issues which have modified to how my youngsters are being taught in the present day. The way in which Maglie stands actually on the rubber for his windup is vastly totally different from the trendy standing in entrance and pushing off of the rubber. And his slider directions are the precise reverse of the slider that almost all of my son’s friends are throwing as their first off pace pitch. As a part of the era which is being taught by the “curveballs will damage your arm” era, the trendy kiddie slider is mainly throwing the baseball like a soccer—ie additional stress on the index finger to offer it that gyro rotation.
