General Forum

If any of you check Twitter often (excuse me, "X"), you might've come across a post from the Toronto Blue Jays' Hagen Danner. The photo on his card in the 2024 Topps Heritage set isn't him. Not the first time that's happened, of course.

But, he says he told Topps beforehand that wasn't him: "Definitely not even close to being me. What do we got @Topps?? Told you guys it wasn’t me and still released" He added that he knew about the photo mistake because they asked him to sign those cards. He said he answer, "No." One of his former teammates, Bradin Hagens, posted that the photo is of him when Hagens was in Mobile in 2013 or 2014. 

If Danner says it wasn't him, couldn't they make a change? And, if it's too late to make a change, why bother asking him if it's the correct photo?

Topps has been the most successful card company since the early 50's and still they seem to make "errors " like this. Seems like they would have come up with systems, checks and balances to perfect the way cards are manufactured by now. Is this laziness, stupidity or do they do it on purpose to drum up interest. I'm guessing it may be a combination of the three. But whatever the reason, it makes them seem incompetent to me.

I agree with every single word of this.

You mean they photoshopped the wrong head of a guy with 1/3rd of an inning pitched in the majors?

Who'd of thunk that was possible?

That's okay.  They couldn't tell the difference between Red Schoendienst and Whitey Herzog either.  Maybe if Red and Whitey could be in the Hall of Fame, they would have enough notoriety for this not to happen...  /sarcasm