Ed Mailliard

For more than 30 years, Ed Mailliard has believed in getting a good vantage point to get "the shot" and that's what it took for him to get a job with the Topps Chewing Gum Co. He is a former sports writer, photographer then managing editor for The Meadville Tribune in his hometown of Meadville, PA.

On his days off Mailliard also took pictures for Sporting News, Baseball Digest and Street and Smith's. When he submitted a portfolio of his photos to Topps in 1981, they hired him right away to begin shooting photos for football cards. Mailliard is set to begin his 28th consecutive season of shooting photos of baseball players for Topps during spring training in Arizona. He estimates that about 15,000 of his images have appeared on trading cards.