Player's Bizarre New Baseball Card

Player's Bizarre New Baseball Card

Player's Bizarre New Baseball Card

 

Fine, that's not totally correct. The bottom of Skip Schumaker's pants leg is in fact quite visible in the 2012 Topps Series 1 baseball card set that's initiation on Wednesday.

But most of the cardboard real land belongs to the rally squirrel that dashed across Schumaker's path as Roy Oswalt delivered a pitch during the fifth inning of Game four of the NLDS previous October. In the weeks that followed, you'll remember that the rally squirrel became a baseball sensation as Schumaker plus the St. Louis Cardinals surged to an improbable World Series title. Now that l'il critter has somehow become big enough to push Schumaker almost completely off his own baseball card. According to Topps, it's the first time in company history that a player's card has not featured the player's countenance.