I received this card from jacob mrley of Starting Nine last week. It's from this year's Heritage set, of course, and it's flat-out ugly. Here, I'll show you the original Dodgers Big Three card from the 1963 Topps set for comparison. Isn't that much more purty? Now, you may not notice much of a difference -- or maybe you think I'm whining again -- but I'm not talking about the unnecessary italicizing of "Dodgers" on the Heritage card; the lack of an apostrophe on the Heritage card; or the relegation of Clayton Kershaw's name to the second row, when there was none of that nonsense with the original card. No, I'm talking about something much more apparent. It's the registered trademark symbol. Yup, it looks just about that big when I view the card. In fact, it's about all I see. Part of this is because the fonts used with 1963 Topps were rather large, leading to large trademark symbols. Obviously, trademarks ...
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