{"id":13662,"date":"2011-04-16T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=13662"},"modified":"2011-04-19T14:39:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:39:55","slug":"ultimate-sacrifice-baseball-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/16\/ultimate-sacrifice-baseball-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Sacrifice Baseball Card Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 142 professional baseball players who lost their lives during World War II, I doubt any of them ever appeared on a baseball card. This got me thinking about how nice it would be to create cards for each of them and I have to admit I have taken my inspiration from Gary Cieradkowski&#8217;s wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/infinitecardset.blogspot.com\/\">Infinite Baseball Card Set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have produced card fronts for about 30 of the players so far and I&#8217;m now working on the reverse sides. Here are the first three. I&#8217;d love to hear what you think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alan-Grant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alan-Grant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alan-Grant.jpg 372w, https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alan-Grant-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alan-Grant-Reverse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alan-Grant-Reverse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alan-Grant-Reverse.jpg 389w, https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Alan-Grant-Reverse-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Art-Keller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Art-Keller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Art-Keller.jpg 371w, https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Art-Keller-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Art-Keller-Reverse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Art-Keller-Reverse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Art-Keller-Reverse.jpg 389w, https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Art-Keller-Reverse-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lefty-Brewer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lefty-Brewer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lefty-Brewer.jpg 368w, https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lefty-Brewer-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lefty-Brewer-Reverse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lefty-Brewer-Reverse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lefty-Brewer-Reverse.jpg 390w, https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Lefty-Brewer-Reverse-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballinwartime.com\">www.baseballinwartime.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13670\" style=\"width: 407px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Book-Cover-v2.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13670\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13670 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Book-Cover-v2.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"567\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseball&#39;s Dead of World War II (McFarland 2010)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 142 professional baseball players who lost their lives during World War II, I doubt any of them ever appeared on a baseball card. This got me thinking about how nice it would be to create cards for each of them and I have to admit I have taken my inspiration from Gary Cieradkowski&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4235],"tags":[4892,14362,5086,14363,6596,605,6298,6304,2224],"class_list":["post-13662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-baseball-card","tag-card-fronts","tag-cards","tag-inspiration","tag-lost","tag-mcfarland","tag-professional-baseball-players","tag-ultimate-sacrifice","tag-world-war-ii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}