I love collecting Cleveland Indians baseball cards. Those adventures appear at www.tribecards.net. This page will highlight certain posts from that site among other aspects of my collecting habit.
Cleveland Baseball Cards
Blogging about the baseball team from Cleveland and their boys on bits of cardboard. Plus, giveaways and stuff.
A couple years ago, I started a project in which I was going to create a custom set of Indians cards. The set would include EVERY player to have played for the Tribe. I used the 1981 Topps layout because that's one of my all-time favorite sets. Below are the cards I was able to complete. There are subsets within the main set. They include the "81-on-81" (1981 Topps cards on my 81 Topps design), "The Jerseys" (Featuring jerseys from various eras), "Mascots and Logos" featuring mascots and various iterations of Wahoo and other logos, "Alternate Images" and there were probably others that have escaped my brain at the moment. I used the name "PAPPS" in the baseball because my granddaughter calls me "PAP" and there is no better reason in the world that I can think of. 🙂
These pics represent players whose first names start with A, B, some C, and then some random folks that I made along the way. Click on images to see the full version. My personal versions do not have the watermark, of course. 🙂
I may pick up the project in the future, but with the team name change and all, it's probably a dead project at this point. I thought it would be fun to share anyway (not necessarily in any order other than how Blogger uploaded them):
Welcome to Guardians Baseball Cards. Well, I assume that's what we'll call this joint now. I'm actually fine with the name. Would I have preferred others over it? Sure. But, meh. It is what it is.
As for the logo and font design, though!? The organization has the prime opportunity to REBRAND itself. Quite literally. Drop the old 50's-70's font style. Heck, why even keep the same color scheme? Well, okay, keep the red, white, and blue. You know, 'Murica and all.
But, these designs...
Just... no. I can only hope these are potential options, though I am sure we are too far into things now for them to just be concept art. Look, folks, even Coke messed up when they did New Coke. Okay? we get it. You tried. This fails on every level. Now, hire a real brand marketing and design company and find some self respect.
I do wonder now, though, if they will ink a deal with GoGuardian...