2002 Upper Deck
Boy, is there a lot to like about this card.
You know me, I love pictures. If you can give me a card with
a large expanse of uninterrupted picture, I’m a happy camper. That’s exactly
what Upper Deck did with this design.
The best part about it? They were still able to put all the
information you could want on the front of the card. You have Pedro’s name in
the biggest font, along with his team name. It has his position, and even his
uniform number. All of that is nicely tucked onto the bottom of the card, out
of the way. That leaves about 80% of the card as clean picture.
Of course, with so much picture on the card, there’s limited
space for design elements. There’re a couple bands of color, a bent line or
two. It’s certainly simplistic, but it definitely works in this case.
Unfortunately, for a card so dedicated to the picture, they
didn’t select a great one. I know that every card of Pedro can’t show him
throwing a pitch. There needs to be some variety in there somewhere. But,
stretching out his shoulders? The picture does do a great job of showing the
slits Pedro made in his jersey sleeves. But, that’s really all it does for me.
The card itself, though, is almost perfection.
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