2014 Spirit Base: 811-825

#811 - Eury De La Rosa, #812 - Emilio Bonifacio, #813 - Jimmy Paredes
Here are three image types I haven't used a ton of just yet. Unlike a lot you're about to see.

#814 - Brandon Workman, #815 - Hector Rondon, #816 - Matt Lindstrom
Pitch, pitch, pitch. That's all you ever do.

#817 - Donald Lutz, #818 - Scott Atchison, #819 - Tommy Kahnle
The Atchison photo was a last resort. Didn't find a lot with him in Cleveland. Another nice Rockies photo, too.

#820 - Jim Johnson, #821 - Gregorio Petit, #822 - Josh Willingham
Petit was a last-minute replacement when I couldn't find a usable photo of some other Astros reliever. Thems the breaks at this point.

#823 - Cory Rasmus, #824 - Jamey Wright, #825 - Tom Koehler
It's nice to have a high-angle shot everyone once in a while to break the monotony. Especially since most of us see the field and diamond when watching games instead of field level shots like these photographers get.

2014 Spirit Base: 371-380

#371 - Marc Krauss
I wonder what the binary code in the background says.

#372 - Jeremy Guthrie
This is a really cool photo with the angle of his follow through and the lighting and everything.

#373 - Tyler Skaggs
Another starting pitcher to have season-ending surgery.

#374 - Matt Kemp
When I came across these dugout shots I knew I had to use one. Trying to keep every card from looking like another in the set is difficult.

#375 - Jeff Mathis
Here's some BButt for all interested readers out there.

#376 - Rickie Weeks
I'm sure Brewers' fans are counting down the days until Weeks is gone.

#377 - Kyle Gibson
Pay no attention to the empty seats in the background. This was from an actual MLB game.

#378 - Daniel Murphy
Something about this looks familiar...

#379 - Brian McCann
Him going to the Yankees was too perfect.

#380 - Jim Johnson
Boy, did this move backfire for Oakland or what? It'd be a shame if his bad juju followed him to Detroit...

2013 Clubhouse

With spring training and the World Baseball Classic in full swing, my mind is definitely focused on baseball again, which hopefully means more frequent design posts. It'll be interesting to see if I have any fresh ideas after a year or if I'll fall into the same patterns like Topps does on occasion. Anyway, here's a look at the 2013 Clubhouse series. This is meant to be the low-end, Topps Opening-Day-esque product in the Spirit line. Like last year's design, it's a bright and colorful, no-frills design.

The front of the cards feature an action shot cutout of the player on top of a team-colored background with an outfield grass pattern. On the bottom is a bar with the secondary team color and a wood pattern. With the player's last name big, their first name and position/team are found above and below. I always find it important to include team/position on base designs, especially for a product marketed towards those learning the game. Alternating corners from card to card, the team's primary logo is the final element of the front design.

For the back, we've got a full-color player photo to the right and the player name/bio on the left. The grass pattern from the front makes it way to the back, this time in its natural green state. The bottom portion sees a big block of team color with a big chunk of career stats on top.

Keep an eye out for a few Clubhouse inserts coming up. I'll probably do another All-Stars design but hopefully I'll find some inspiration for some new and different insert ideas.