Tuesday, April 29, 2025

When teenaged me tried to draw Cory Snyder

As I detailed in 2020, I was a big fan of MicroLeague Baseball as a teenager in the late 1980s. Using the "General Manager / Owner Disk," I created my own super team, called the Wallingford Smashers. For versimilitude, and because I never had a girlfriend during high school, I took the time to create a yearbook for each season of the Smashers' existence. (Yes, we're deep in The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. territory here.)

Anyway, I still have most of the yearbooks. For this one, I got creative and did my own freehand sketch of Cory Snyder, who in addition to being a Smasher in my fictional universe was a young slugger on Cleveland's real-world MLB team. That season Snyder batted .321 with 33 home runs and 81 RBIs for the Smashers, edging out Eric Davis for team MVP honors.

So this very poor drawing by me (sorry, Cory) completes the unlikely trifecta of Hideko Takamine, Toshire Mifune and Cory Snyder drawings on Papergreat. 

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