General Forum

When opening a pack of 2017 Topps, I pulled a card of Jean Segura.  Pretty cool I thought.  He was actually traded to the Mariners in the offseason but he was pretty good for the snakes last season.

Later on I opened up a pack of 2017 Topps Opening Day and...wait a minute.  This card looks oddly familiar.  

Pretty cool how they were able to get him in the exact same position while he was playing in spring training huh? 

No, Robin, "Holy Photoshop!"  You forget my young ward, this is the digital age. Are nemesis have become more sophisticated.

Nice find. Wonder how many more of these there are.

Getting him in the same position wasn't as difficult as getting the same exact crowd to Spring training.

Is it me, or did they photoshop the background too? The wall padding seems darker in the Mariners card.

I feel like a "list" is in order.

Somebody, I forget who, has a list of reused photos.  Definite candidate for the list.

I know that there is a list with the strike season in the 60s (MLBPA didn't sign with Topps one year and they had to reuse many photos from the previous year).  Not sure if there's a list of reused photos beyond that anomoly year.

Found the list; Same, But Not the Same by ShoTime

Apparenlty they could not completely figure out the stripe on his pants.

Wow, Topps really put a lot of effort into 2015.  Glad I wasn't actively collecting then.  

haha I just noticed that.  I knew those stupid half stripe pants the Diamondbacks decided to start wearing were bad news.