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Originally Posted by Merkle923
...I ask: Please don't degrade this useful baseball photography site into the 5,000,000th "let me show you my card collection" place on the net.
Cards are often the primary photographic record of players (particularly in the minor leagues prior to 1990) and those who produced them like Dexter and Topps provide us with additional negatives and pictures not shown elsewhere.
But the only relevance here of actual cards is the images they carry.
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Merkle, I would agree with you in not wanting to see this site degenerate into a large quantity of baseball card postings. However, if what triggered this posting was Rainmaker's display of 1997 Bryan Braves cards, I actually responded favorably to that posting. I have collected baseball cards off and on for decades, and have a reasonable collection. I had never seen cards from the 1997 Bryan set before. Rainmaker's posting reminded me that I was not satisfied with the Braves' images I possessed of Alan Embree and Mike Cather. The Bryan cards were an improvement. I now realize that a Google Images search would have revealed nice Getty Images versions of these two players in Braves uniforms, but if Rainmaker had not made his posting, I would never have looked.
In sum, my position is that baseball card postings should be OK on this thread if they are used infrequently and judiciously.