2010 TOPPS NATIONAL CHICLE TOM SEAVER
If you’re anything like me, you’ve long imagined a world in which Tom Seaver was a malevolent force of pure evil.
It is a world where Jim Qualls was savagely eviscerated on July 10, 1969. A dark realm where a disemboweled Leron Lee was discovered on July 5, 1972. A benighted land where M. Donald Grant’s severed head was found adorning a pike on June 16, 1977…
Artist Paul Lempa shared his vision of this triple-six Tom Seaver as part of the 2010 Topps National Chicle set.
This set was nominally a tribute to the issues produced by the National Chicle chewing gum company in the mid 1930s, but it became more notorious for its borderline insane artwork.
Beyond the depiction of a demonic Tom Seaver, the set also featured a short-printed card of Babe Ruth as Chipper Jones, and Lou Gehrig as a soul-patch wearing modern Yankees douche…
As Dick Enberg might say — Oh my!
These seem like cards that were made with the sole intent of having kids draw on them. Can’t you just imagine adding devil horns, a tail and a pitchfork to this Seaver card? Or the Gehrig one, for that matter?
Those truly are hideous.Particularly the “Tom Seaver”,he looks like a Batman villain.
Awful. Makes Fleers awful WS cards from the early 1970 s look artistic. A lot of baseball art is just kitsch. I guess these guys tried to be different and creative, but they hit the wrong note.
Boycott the Wilpons!
yeah ..that’s an odd card…..maybe he was getting ready to throw a pitchfork ball.