The Outragious Use of Super Glue in 2013 Topps Baseball

These sets I've been purchasing lately are mostly hand-collated.  They're a lot cheaper that way.  But the risk is missing cards, and I got burned with the 2013 Topps baseball set.  Two cards were missing, and are now on my want list.  There was an extra Giancarlo Stanton.  Anybody need it?

As I was sorting this set, I realized that Super Glue is used on a lot of the cards.  I mean it's everywhere.  Most years' sets have some of it here and there, but the 2013 set must hold the record.  Super Glue is used to stick baseballs to about anything you can imagine on these cards.  Here are some examples.

The players use it to stick baseballs to the front of their baseball caps...

to the barrels of their bats...

And to their open gloves...

They're sticking baseballs to their bodies too.
To their fingertips...

cheeks...

chins...

pinkies...  (That's some strong glue there!)

upper arms...

shoulders....

bellies...

Doh! No comment on this one.

elbows...

backs...

 

Fielders are gluing baseballs to the rims of their gloves...

Catchers are gluing baseballs to their chest protectors...

Relief pitchers are sticking baseballs to themselves in the bullpens.

Poor Ben here got two drops of Super Glue, resulting in both his shoulder and hat being stuck to the ball.

The fans in the stands want to be just like the players, so they're using Super Glue too.  They're sticking balls to their shoulders and shins...

more shoulders...

heads and chests...

sides and tops of heads...

cheeks and arm pits...

 

Look around the ballparks.  Baseballs have been glued to...
outfield walls...

foul poles...

scoreboards...

even to the lenses of television cameras...

Oh the painstaking work it must have been to stick each individual ice cube!

I doubt Super Glue can stick to liquids, so this is most likely a perfect timing shot that caught it in mid air.

Super Glue is a registered trademark product.  There should be an R in a circle next to each time it's used in this blog.  I didn't know how to add that in this text editor.