[Editor’s Note: Membership card designer Scott M.X. Turner is back with this week’s installment of Remembership, his retrospective series about the Uni Watch membership card program. Enjoy. — PL]
By Scott M.X. Turner
Thanks for all of the kind feedback and commentary on last week’s inaugural Remembership post. I appreciate it all.
As for this week: Mesh and tear-away jerseys are one of those “I can’t believe so many members chose this!” requests, but Paul and I will depict fabric details if the member asks for it. Even within the mesh category, there are sub-categories: Sometimes the mesh holes poked through the screen-printed numbers, while other jerseys used heat-sealed rubber that covered the holes. That’s an important distinction to keep in mind when I’m rendering mesh jerseys. The shoulder yokes were solid fabric, either double-knit or dazzle cloth.
Two members asked that we depict smudges on their cards. The first was Jesse Holt, who wanted us to show the pine-tar on Alex Gordon’s Kansas City Royals jersey. (You could do the same thing with Justin Turner, but we’ve never gotten that request.) And then Charles Meisse wanted a smudge on his Tom Seaver-based card — a symbolic nod to Seaver’s famously dirty knee:
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Some housekeeping from last week’s post about place-based cards:
- I inadvertently omitted two designs — Bob Lane’s Shea Stadium centerfield wall, and Tristan Weiss’s Short Courts floor. Tristan supplied the artwork for his card.
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I misidentified Mike DiLorenzo’s card. This is his Cleveland Stadium card:
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Next week: The wide world of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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The details, like Seaver’s dirty knee or the way the Slippery Rock mascot’s shirt bunches up on one side, are fantastic. They also make me pretty bummed that the 2 membership card designs I’d really love to get are both forbidden.
Wow, I never expected that my membership card would make one of these segments (Werner #74 in the second grouping)! An additional quirk of my card is that during the creation process, Scott noticed on the picture I submitted of my jersey that one of the letters was set just a little bit higher than the others. In all the years that I’ve had my jersey, I never noticed that! He asked if I wanted the card rendered faithful to the photo, or “corrected” on my card. It was a hard decision, since now I could not unsee the single askew letter, but I decided in the end to go with the letters all set correctly, as is shown here. I think Scott sent me a proof showing both options. I’ll have to see if I still have it in my email, and see if I can link the image here.
I wonder how many Seattle Mariner designs there are? I know of at least the 2 I have, one of which is a “northwest green” Edgar Martinez.