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Who prefers Horizontal cards over vertical cards?

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  • helionauthelionaut Posts: 1,555 ✭✭
    On the whole, I prefer vertical cards. I mean, people are vertical, so if you're going to make an all-horizontal set, you're probably going to have a lot of portraits just to have pictures "fit" in the space. I really like the 55B set, but that gets kind of boring after a while. But all vertical sets with lots of portraits, like the 60s-early 70s, get boring, too. If you can break up a vertical set with a few nice horizontal cards where the photo is actually composed that way, that's the best.

    I just had an idea. How about an all-action-shot set? I don't mean just non-portrait shots of guys in their batting stance or playing with footballs, but cards where things are actually happening, plays being made. Everyone loves the 53B Pee Wee Reese, 91T Carlton Fisk, 71T Munson, etc. (all horizontal cards, BTW). A whole set like that would be great. It wouldn't even have to be that big, just like an insert set, 20-50 cards. How about a card showing a rundown? When was the last time one was made? I know there's a checklist card from 1964 or something that has a tiny picture at the top of a guy caught in no-man's-land, but can't think of another. Some of the most popular insert sets in hockey were Score's Check-It sets, where they actually showed guys getting hit, something the NHL took pains to prevent. Actually, every sport could use a set like this. Especially golf.
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  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭
    Some innovative grading company (hint hint) needs to come up with a horizontal slab so that the flip is oriented the same way as the card. Or at the very least settle on a single orientation for all horizontal cards in the standard vertical holder and use it exclusively.
  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭
    Here's a mock-up...

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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,407 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> I mean, people are vertical >>


    Helio
    Sometimes, there are some advantages to being horizontal. But I once did do it standing in a hammock!

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    Mike
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,407 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Here's a mock-up... >>


    Nice Job! Please, do, submit that to the PSA email suggestion box.

    Stone
    Mike
  • BigKidAtHeartBigKidAtHeart Posts: 1,799 ✭✭


    << <i>Some innovative grading company (hint hint) needs to come up with a horizontal slab so that the flip is oriented the same way as the card. >>

    I totally agree!
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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    looks nice, but damn, i'll need different size boxes now..


    << <i>Here's a mock-up...

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  • denwd1denwd1 Posts: 430
    i like the horizontal cards in an otherwise verticle set.
  • jrdolanjrdolan Posts: 2,549 ✭✭
    Depends on the cards! I'm rather fond of certain horizontals.

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  • ranger63ranger63 Posts: 328 ✭


    << <i>Here's a mock-up...

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    great idea but these wont stack well with the norm.
  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭
    They would of course only work on an all-horizontal set, not with horizontal cards in an mostly-veritcal set.

    PSA already slabs extra-wde cards (e.g. Redman Tobacco), so I don't think these are a stretch, literally or figuratively.
  • mercurynutmercurynut Posts: 3,207
    I like horizontal ones better.
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