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quinnsryche
01-15-2010, 10:05 AM
I'm bored. Let's start a fun thread. What is the WORST looking card ever produced? How about pre-war, baseball and NOT having to do with condition, just photo or design related. Post your scans of the dumbest looking, goofiest or just plain dopey looking player card. This one is sure to start some feuds!:p

oldjudge
01-15-2010, 10:13 AM
E90-1 Jackson

Leon
01-15-2010, 10:14 AM
E90-1 Jackson

Ditto. Has to be the worst looking, most overpriced card in the hobby, bar none. :)

barrysloate
01-15-2010, 10:22 AM
I like the E90-1 Jackson...it's purple.

oldjudge
01-15-2010, 10:25 AM
Barry--So is a hemorrhoid

Bicem
01-15-2010, 10:34 AM
barry--so is a hemorrhoid


tmi

E93
01-15-2010, 11:04 AM
barry--so is a hemorrhoid
lol :)

collectbaseball
01-15-2010, 11:42 AM
I nominate the W515 Cobb (and strip cards in general, but that one stands out). If the registration is poor he looks evil instead of smiling. Not my scan, but here's a pretty bad example:

http://www.707sportscards.com/psa-cards/11602038.jpg

jbsports33
01-15-2010, 12:46 PM
The above is a great example, some of the strip card examples from the 1920s are just terrible.

Jimmy

canjond
01-15-2010, 01:06 PM
R-302 M.P. & Co. cards!

http://www.oldcardboard.com/r/r302/r302.jpg

ullmandds
01-15-2010, 01:07 PM
While a hemorrhoid may be purple...purple is also the color of dentistry...if I remember my history of dentistry class...something to do with saint applonia...the patron saint of dentistry...so, Barry, I like purple too!

I 2nd the e90-1 jackson...i hate it...and if i owned one...i'd throw darts at it!

PolarBear
04-24-2011, 08:21 PM
http://www.oldcardboard.com/w/exhibits/1948/33.jpg

DixieBaseball
04-24-2011, 08:32 PM
I nominate the W515 Cobb (and strip cards in general, but that one stands out). If the registration is poor he looks evil instead of smiling. Not my scan, but here's a pretty bad example:

http://www.707sportscards.com/psa-cards/11602038.jpg


No doubt this Cobb Strip is one of the most ridiculously ugly cards I have ever seen....

What is up with the Alien Skull ? Could the artist have been sending a message ? His cranium is about to hatch a Lil Tyrus. :D

novakjr
04-24-2011, 10:29 PM
No doubt this Cobb Strip is one of the most ridiculously ugly cards I have ever seen....

What is up with the Alien Skull ? Could the artist have been sending a message ? His cranium is about to hatch a Lil Tyrus. :D

I'd pretty much nominate almost any of the w515's. That Cobb is pretty bad, but I've always thought that the Grover was absolutely the most hideous card ever.

rp12367
04-24-2011, 10:34 PM
That Grover looks like Jay Leno with red hair.

travrosty
04-24-2011, 11:04 PM
probably 1953 bowman pee wee reese

glchen
04-24-2011, 11:46 PM
33 Eclipse. (Not my card, but from the current REA)

teetwoohsix
04-25-2011, 12:19 AM
probably 1953 bowman pee wee reese

-1,,,,,you must be joking :confused:

quinnsryche
04-25-2011, 05:59 AM
probably 1953 bowman pee wee reese

I also hope he was kidding, if not, he should be banned from the board and deported. Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion, just not that one!:D (now I'm kidding)

Ladder7
04-25-2011, 07:32 AM
That Reese greatly resembles the 1907 Red Belt pc... Another terrific card.

My nominee, the Deliverance kid:
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c327/oche16/Raw%20dogs/mollencampt210.jpg

Leon
04-25-2011, 08:56 AM
That Cobb strip looks sort of like Beavis to me :)

rhettyeakley
04-25-2011, 10:09 AM
For some reason this card always reminded me of "Sloth" from the Goonies...it makes me want to go get a Baby Ruth bar!
http://starsofthediamond.com/w515mamaux.jpg

DixieBaseball
04-25-2011, 10:14 AM
I'd pretty much nominate almost any of the w515's. That Cobb is pretty bad, but I've always thought that the Grover was absolutely the most hideous card ever.

The pic of Grover is artist rendering Steroid Era version. If Grover would have been hitting the horse hormones, his head would have certainly looked like that... The Grover and Ty are absurd. Had to be a Wacky Pack for kids back in the day... Those suck. :eek:

PolarBear
04-25-2011, 11:39 AM
Shrunken head.

http://www.vintagecardtraders.com/virtual/t207/t207-033.jpg

PolarBear
04-25-2011, 11:44 AM
Reminds me of Gollum.

We hates nasty tobaccosess.


http://www.vintagecardtraders.com/virtual/t205/t205-170.jpg

dstraate
04-25-2011, 12:20 PM
Not Prewar, but it's just a shame that this card is a rookie. I consider it the ugliest card on my want list.

Zach Wheat
04-25-2011, 02:38 PM
I've shown this card several times in other posts. It was printed as a mirror image of the same W 515 2-2 card Adam posted in the 1920's card thread, Post #12:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=136058

The picture is messy and it doesn't even look like Cobb. Did Cobb REALLY throw lefthanded (No he batted left & threw right handed)?!? I am not sure whether they meant to print this as a mirror image, but my thoughts are they sure messed up this card.

M Wheat

Republicaninmass
04-25-2011, 05:31 PM
That Grover looks like Jay Leno with red hair.

better yet, bastard child of Leno and Conan

novakjr
04-25-2011, 06:08 PM
There's always the most generic set ever made...The 1949 MP&Co. set that borrowed all the images from it's '43 set....Gotta love the white Larry Doby, and as added bonus we get to see what Bob Lemon would've looked like playing for Chicago...Oh yeah, and the corrected version with a giant blank spot across his jersey. It's not obvious or anything. Oddly enough, I love this set..

LanceRoten
04-25-2011, 06:39 PM
I'll cast my vote for the 1923 Cobb. Hannibal Lecter on meth :D

bosoxphan
04-25-2011, 06:45 PM
I'll cast my vote for the 1923 Cobb. Hannibal Lecter on meth :D

Dunno. That Cy Young looks like he just came out of rehab.

PolarBear
04-25-2011, 06:55 PM
What the heck?

http://www.oldcardboard.com/w/exhibits/1948/26.jpg

PolarBear
04-25-2011, 06:59 PM
http://www.oldcardboard.com/w/exhibits/1948/23.jpg

PolarBear
04-25-2011, 08:46 PM
http://www.vintagecardtraders.com/virtual/53topps/53topps-062.jpg

teetwoohsix
04-26-2011, 04:02 AM
Not sure it fits the worst looking card ever catagory, but this is one of the T206's I really don't like too much,,,,,,,,couldn't the artist have done a little better :confused:

HRBAKER
04-26-2011, 07:00 PM
For a card with a lot of potential, the T207 Walter Johnson is hideous IMO.

mintacular
04-26-2011, 07:21 PM
There's a bowman '54 common where a transplanted tiny head is plopped onto of the pitchers body from another shot, looks wierd/ugly.

rhettyeakley
04-26-2011, 08:25 PM
Hey if we are talking transplanted heads it doesn't get much worse than the 1971-72 O-Pee-Chee hockey cards of Rogie Vachon and Mike Corrigan...

Vachon's head slapped on Ross Lonsberry's body...
http://starsofthediamond.com/71vachon.jpg http://starsofthediamond.com/71lonsberry.jpg


Probably the ugliest card ever was the result when they placed Mike Corrigan's head on poor Mike Byers' body...
http://starsofthediamond.com/71corrigan.jpg http://starsofthediamond.com/71byers.jpg

Matthew H
04-26-2011, 08:37 PM
1990 Topps. I was ten when those came out, they almost made me quit collecting.

Wite3
04-26-2011, 09:59 PM
Don't currently have access to my picture files but the Sporting News Supplement (M-101) of Fred Luderus is AWFUL!

Also, any Don Mossi card.

Joshua

tjb1952tjb
04-27-2011, 12:36 AM
Poor ol' Don Mossi..............

VinTX
04-27-2011, 04:10 AM
deee dedeeeee

http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa358/nt_vintagecards/Personal%20Collection/1955%20Topps%20Baseball%20Complete%20Set/IMG_0075.jpg

53Browns
04-27-2011, 07:38 AM
Mossi is a staple in these type of threads.