After years of doing all the standard poses for his baseball card, Keith Comstock wanted to do something different. (OnlyAGameNPR)
Keith Comstock played professional baseball for 17 years.
But what makes this card truly stand out — the reason fans continue to bring it up — is the location of the baseball in the photo. Comstock ended up in Iowa, playing for the Single-A Quad Cities Angels. That’s where he got his first card as a professional baseball player. "You're lifting your leg and you're holding your balance point," Comstock remembers. "The other one is when you're finishing your follow through, and the ball's still in your hand. It looks like you're about ready to release it. There's other ones that you would kind of just sit there in a stretch position, or in a windup position before you even started.
"And so when you get that first card in the mail, man, there was just nothing like it — at least not for me," Comstock says."I played with Ken Griffey Jr., and I'm sure his first baseball card was a totally different experience. Because it was a year after high school. Mine was, you know, I'm almost in my 30s for crying out loud, so it was justification of me sticking through it.
For Keith Comstock — who’d been in the minor leagues for so long, who’d finally gotten a real major league baseball card — this was tough to take. So, before it was his turn, Comstock basically snapped.Now, the creative process can be mysterious, and Comstock's not sure where exactly this particular stroke of inspiration came from. But he decided that he wanted — no,"I just said, 'I'm gonna take it to the nuts,'"Comstock says.
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