Prince Fielder isn’t the smallest baseball player at 5’11″ and 275-pound, and neither is this baseball card that Topps unveiled Tuesday in Lakeland, Florida.The card, which is 90 feet tall by 60 feet wide, would take 82,944 normal sized baseball cards and 83,966 MLB sized baseballs to fill.Let’s hope Fielder isn’t taking the size of this mammoth card as a personal attack.
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