I do not have many "modern" baseball cards. The shiny multi-variant cards of today are  really not my thing. I appreciate them, I just relate more to the cards of my youth. By the late eighties I had stopped buying baseball cards all together. In the early nineties, by happenstance I remember picking up a few packs in Toronto on Queen St. West of fancy Upper Deck cards more to see what they were all about than anything. If I'm not mistaken I was shocked at the more than $20 price tag for a pack of baseball cards. I would have opened them and put them in a box with my other cards, and forgot about them. It wasn't until the pandemic when the sports card hobby was booming that I got word that Derek Jeter's '93 Upper Deck SP card was very sought after. This was also around the time when Jeter had been elected to the Hall of Fame. I looked for my box of cards from the 90's, and low and behold there I found the Upper Deck Jeter. Shortly thereafter a pristine example sale of this card set records and made headlines, and feeling all this Jeter momentum, I decided to paint it. It would be a challenging one with the shiny mixed media, but I was up for it. These cards are among the first of when baseball cards switched to being covered in foil and shine. This modern trend is now over 30 years old, and although they are not my favourite, and the Yankees are not my favourite team, I always had respect for their Captain. He played the game the right way. I may not have many shiny cards, and I may not have many shiny paintings, but I believe this iconic image of Mr. November is a fine exception to both.