Happy ending for Hudson, Topps

March 25, 2013

Daniel Hudson's seemingly harmless tweet about his baseball card picture
that blew up across the internet Monday really was, well,
harmless.

The
Diamondbacks right-hander, who is expected to miss much of the season
while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery after tearing a ligament in his
arm last June, took to Twitter on Sunday after he opened some fan mail
that included a new Topps baseball card for an
autograph.

The problem:
The picture Topps selected for his 2013 card is from almost immediately
after his injury last year, which was suffered during a game in
Atlanta.

The tweet went viral, with both FOXSports.com
and Yahoo documenting his
reaction, and when Hudson was made aware of this unexpected media
coverage, he quickly apologized to Topps while making it clear that he
wasn't too serious about the original
criticism.

Fortunately, Topps wasn't offended. The company responded to
Hudson's
initial tweet via its official Twitter account, both offering its
support
and inviting Hudson and Diamondbacks reliever Brad Ziegler -- a
well-known baseball card aficionado -- to the company's corporate office
in New York City.

While Hudson didn't RSVP, he did respond in
kind:

All's well that ends well.

-- Matt Swartz