@profloumoore
Husband. Dad. History prof at MSU (F25). Author of I Fight for a Living, We Will Win the Day, and The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback. profloumoore.com
PS. For more on the interconnected histories of race & boxing in America, make sure to check out @profloumoore.bsky.social's wonderful book I Fight for a Living.
& PPS. I can't implore you strongly enough to click on the first hyperlink in today's post for a truly delightful pictorial surprise.
That table tells me everything I need to know
It’s an awful set. This year is fine, because they have a license. But even companies that don’t have licenses aren’t this bad
That was such a nice baseball design too. But this looks like an AI copied it.
Topps should be sued for what they did to last year’s basketball cards.
This Jalen Brunson is embarrassingly awful.
eBay
Thank you. I will also look into using research funds for this truly odd set.
It’s perfect
I was sent down the rabbit hole by @lukeknox.me via you and this card alone has turned my day around
Dominik Hasek/Bill Clinton
THREAD: Weirdest athlete/president combos from Leaf’s bizarre President’s Day set
Dominik Hasek/Bill Clinton
Shoutout to @profloumoore.bsky.social for sending me down the rabbit hole with this:
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Tree Rollins and George Washington.
World B. Free and Millard Fillmore because why not?
Bill Bradley and Woodrow Wilson
Oh god you can get a Bret Hart card with Garfield, McKinley, or JFK.
It’s wild.
The only one that kind of makes sense is Deontay Wilder and Obama
That’s why to go get an Audi Crooks 1/1 auto with Grover Cleveland on the card.
That might be it
You sure it's not just a sick player and a sick president?
I imagine the connection comes from how William Henry Harrison was also nicknamed the Human Highlight Film by the WH press corps during his brief tenure.
I might have the connection. WHH was the 9th president and some moron gave Nique a 9 in that one dunk contest.
You can get Leaf auto cards a bit cheaper, because they don’t have a license. So the team name airbrushed away looks bad.
But other than that, you can get an Audi Crooks 1/1 auto card with Grover Cleveland.
I love how these make no sense.
Had to Google this to figure out what's going on. Apparently Leaf does a "President's Day Box Set" with seemingly random combinations of athlete/president.
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It’s so random, it doesn’t make sense.
As a historian, I have to get this, right?
I feel it even qualifies for R&D money.
A 1/1 Dominique auto with William Henry Harrison in the background makes no sense unless the history gods, the basketball gods, and the card gods came together to give me a gift.
You can really see it here.
Happy Black History Month
Bears history, NFL history, Black history, Chicago history. My latest at WCG!
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I need a grant for 25 ps5s and 25 copies of the game, so I can gamify it.
