Roberto Clemente is Alive!

...via the magic of enchanted cards, where the power of imagination brings your wildest baseball card dreams to life. With this post, we whimsically wrap up Clemente-mber, in tribute to a great man.

That's one's a bit Python-esqu, but stick with me.

Yeah, that one's kinda creepy, but now we're getting to the good stuff.

That one would have looked better as a horizontal card, but I wanted to stay somewhat true to the original (and was too lazy to mess with photoshopping the text). --The original, which by the way is a "bummer card", with Clemente appearing to react defeatedly to a called third strike. How unfortunate that one of the very few "action" cards of Clemente out there depicts such a negative moment. Oh well. I did my part to help right that wrong. Here's the cool source image I used:

Thanks to whomever made that gif from video.




Repeat alert. Here's a blinker I first posted a few months ago:

Next, here are a couple fantasy cards.

This is the type of card I pull in my happiest dreams:

Lastly, here's a card-that-never-was I whipped up as sort of a nod to multiple-exposure cards Upper Deck put out back in the day:

I think this one's pretty neat, even if I did fudge the dimensions a little. I got lucky finding 2 amazing overhead photos from a moment apart. Big ups to the photographer, apparently snapping these shots from up in the Astrodome's rafters.

Thanks for visiting and celebrating Clemente-mber with me!