Over the past 15 years Topps has sourced lots of their images through Getty Photographs. The photographs are usually properly documented and an amazing useful resource for historic info & particulars together with images credit. My favourite aspect of the picture assortment is it permits me to tie a buying and selling card to a selected date.*
Lately I’ve discovered that Getty Photographs has a “Board” possibility which is mainly a bulletin board or folder by which one can “retailer” pictures. I’ve created a Board titled “SABR Baseball Cards” utilizing this perform. The board may be seen utilizing this link.
I’ve added just a few dozen pictures to the SABR Baseball Card Board that are associated to playing cards—largely Phillies.
The Board perform additionally permits feedback. For every picture added to the Board I’ve additionally posted a remark that has the associated card 12 months, set and card quantity. If there’s a column written on the cardboard (both right here at SABR Baseball Playing cards or elsewhere) and/or picture I’ve additionally added a hyperlink to that posting.
Analysis Course of
Researching Card Images can usually be tedious and disheartening. For example if one goes into Getty Photographs and searches “Bryce Harper 2025” it returns 4829 pictures. That’s 36+ Images for Each Sport he performed final 12 months (8+/PA). Discovering a card in that ocean is simply this facet of needle/haystack territory. However it may be executed:
Let’s work our means via a current column on Reed Johnson written by John Racanelli.
One of the best factor about Reed Johnson’s 2012 card (for this kind of analysis) is the seagulls. Looking “Reed Johnson” on Getty returns 3045 pictures.
“Reed Johnson Seagulls” returns THREE.
And a kind of jumps proper off the web page because the one on the high of John’s column.
Discover the textual content above the picture provides us a bit of data. We now have the Date and Location Wrigley Subject June 18 2011. Johnson’s quantity and place are listed in addition to the Cubs opponent, the Yankees. On the finish we get the picture credit score David Banks—who I’m betting is the individual that additionally added “Seagulls” to the outline and drastically helped our search.
Editor—Save Authority
In case you have modifying privileges for the SABR Baseball Playing cards Board a “Save+” button seems beneath the picture. That is how we add a picture to our Board.
Right here is the place Editors can add the above talked about feedback.
It is a couple of pictures I’ve added to the library. Word beneath every picture there may be each a spot for a word and there’s a depend of the variety of feedback added to the picture. Reed Johnson has two, The rest have one. There may be additionally a notes perform that reveals the place I’ve duplicated the knowledge for Johnson. I’m debating whether or not to only use this space slightly than feedback. That is all new and a piece in progress.
CrowdSource
There are, after all, tens of 1000’s of baseball playing cards. To make this a helpful analysis device will take the work of many volunteers. The hyperlink above is read-only, if there are any SABR Members curious about contributing to the SABR Baseball Card Board please attain out through a remark beneath and I’ll share the edit hyperlink.
*Getty Photographs Misinformation
We must always word that the textual content accompanying a Getty Picture just isn’t at all times correct, significantly for earlier photographs which can be usually default dated as January 1 of a selected 12 months. This JasonCards column on a Hank Aaron Heritage set notes a variety of doable variations we may even see between what’s on a Buying and selling Card and the information said inside Getty Photographs. There’s additionally the Al Kaline story which caught co-chair Nick Vossbrink as well as Topps.
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