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Rainmaker · 07-25-2017, 04:23 AM

A post from the SABR Baseball Cards Committee Friday noted that the change became apparent with the 2017 releases, noting that Wahoo was present on 2016 issues.

Craig Calcaterra of NBC Sports writes this:

"Topps has dropped Chief Wahoo from Indians card designs. They’re doing it for the old Braves “screaming Indian” logo as well, though the Braves no longer use that themselves.

They’re not airbrushing these logos out of photos of players — that would be Orwellian even for my extreme Wahoo-hating tastes — but in card designs which have team logos, Topps is using the block-C logo, not Wahoo, and the Braves “A” logo in place of the old logo. This includes throwback issues like the Heritage sets which put modern players on card designs from the 1950s-1960s and on simple retro designs like their 1987 variations. Any cards which once featured Wahoo on the border or on the back now features the block-C."

I agree that the time came long ago that these logos relegated to history, but so far it hasn't evolvedv to tampering with the old photos that will be forthcoming from the Vault. Most recently, a 1963-era Cecil Butler was posted with the laughing Brave plastered on his sleeve. Hoping that revisionist history does not become part of the Topps legacy.

07-25-2017, 04:23 AM	#31357
Rainmaker Banned Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 432 Infractions: 0/1 (4)	Topps Purges Chief Wahoo A post from the SABR Baseball Cards Committee Friday noted that the change became apparent with the 2017 releases, noting that Wahoo was present on 2016 issues. Craig Calcaterra of NBC Sports writes this: "Topps has dropped Chief Wahoo from Indians card designs. They’re doing it for the old Braves “screaming Indian” logo as well, though the Braves no longer use that themselves. They’re not airbrushing these logos out of photos of players — that would be Orwellian even for my extreme Wahoo-hating tastes — but in card designs which have team logos, Topps is using the block-C logo, not Wahoo, and the Braves “A” logo in place of the old logo. This includes throwback issues like the Heritage sets which put modern players on card designs from the 1950s-1960s and on simple retro designs like their 1987 variations. Any cards which once featured Wahoo on the border or on the back now features the block-C." I agree that the time came long ago that these logos relegated to history, but so far it hasn't evolvedv to tampering with the old photos that will be forthcoming from the Vault. Most recently, a 1963-era Cecil Butler was posted with the laughing Brave plastered on his sleeve. Hoping that revisionist history does not become part of the Topps legacy.