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Originally Posted by tnfoto
After a five-year hiatus, the Facepack has been updated through the end of the 2021 season. This release includes more than 2,000 new or updated photos, numerous corrections, and all of the player, manager, coach and umpire debuts since the previous release at the beginning of the 2017 season.
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For those forum members who have expressed concerns about this Facepack release after Cinemaodyssey has also produced an outstanding, comprehensive photopack of major league players, please put those worries to rest. CO and I have had many PM, email and phone conversations, and we discussed this release long before I posted it. There is no competition or friction between us. Quite the contrary. I am grateful for his willingness to take on the task of updating the Facepack, and truly making it his own. During the past five years I have been largely unable to devote the time necessary to correcting, updating, improving and publishing the Facepack, and CO's pack far exceeds anything I would or could have done in that time.
In years past, OOTP members such as Pegasus27, Ceej, okcochise, jwisenberg and others have produced photopacks alongside the Facepack. Rather than competing against each other, these packs often compliment and enhance each other. CO has produced a pack that focuses on criteria slightly different than the SABR Pictorial History Committee data I use to produce the Facepack. In many ways that gives him, like the others mentioned above, artistic license and flexibility that the Facepack lacks.
I am happy to continue working with CO and any other members who are active in the pursuit of baseball photos and publication of photopacks, to provide the best images possible based on the criteria each of us operates under.