Show Your Favorite Flying Players

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Jerry's post in the other thread inspired me to start a thread about favorite cards depicting a player in mid-air. <br /><br />Here is his Oakes:<br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/ruckers/variouscommons/small/oakes4.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Chris Counts</b><p>Here's a few flying players from my collection ... sorry about the post-war and football cards, but I couldn't resist ... Stone looks like he's taking off, while Lockman appears to be crash landing ... Reese resembles a helicopter, while Younger looks like Superman, especially with Old Glory waving in the background ...<br /><br /><img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e278/ccmcnutt/stone-1.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e278/ccmcnutt/exhibitlockman.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e278/ccmcnutt/50younger2.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e278/ccmcnutt/reese1.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p><img src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/zouraspm/e106oakesf.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/zouraspm/cobbf.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Bruce Babcock</b><p><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/uffda51/18871890n172oldjudge/N172%20Hengle.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Ken Wirt</b><p><img src="http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/triwak/73.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/triwak/119.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/triwak/169.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/triwak/219.jpg"><br />

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Posted By: <b>Alan U</b><p>O/T-- Not vintage or a card, but my favorite flying player photo<br /><br /><img src="http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee252/robclem21/43429258.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p><img src=http://centuryoldcards.com/images/1922grohauto.jpg>

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Posted By: <b>Tony</b><p><img src="http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/andreatny/sgc40e90-1bell.jpg"> <img src="http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/andreatny/sgc30e90-1hartzellfielding.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>fred</b><p><img src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa211/baseballfan8photos/T%20206/starr.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Jerry Rucker</b><p><p><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/ruckers/hofcards/small/mcgraw.jpg" width="202" height="320"><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/ruckers/hofcards/small/t202griffith.jpg" width="320" height="177">&lt;/p&gt;<br /><p><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/ruckers/hofcards/small/terry.JPG" width="237" height="320">&lt;/p&gt;

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Not sure I have ever seen another one of these but this guy is getting some serious air....<br /><br /><img src="http://luckeycards.com/pwguncstretchedoutplayer.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Leon - interesting card - the front looks exactly like an E120; I would bet that whomever the player is , he has a corresponding E120 with the same image. <br /><br />While I was looking for it, I came across these:<br /><img src="http://www.vintagecardprices.com/pics/49097.jpg"><img src="http://www.vintagecardprices.com/pics/49103.jpg"><img src="http://www.vintagecardprices.com/pics/49111.jpg"><img src="http://www.vintagecardprices.com/pics/49119.jpg"/><br /><br />I'm thinking the photographer had a "thing" for this pose.

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Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>Leon, your game card pictures Heinie Groh. Its the same pose as my postcard pictured a few posts above.

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Good eye Frank! Interesting that the border around Leon's card, while it is found on some of the E120s, is different then the border found on Groh's E120.<br /><img src="http://www.vintagecardprices.com/pics/49256.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>thanks man!!! I think you are absolutely correct. I never knew who it was until now.....Have you ever seen another playing card like that?

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Posted By: <b>Todd C</b><p><img src="http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn211/deadballera/1953Reese.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Mark L</b><p><br />Thanks for showing the E120 of Youngs. As you can see, it is the pose that keeps showing up on all his cards. What I like most about the E220 set is that it usually finds poses that you don't see on the other e card issues. In this case, Ross didn't change his pose for E220 but he did change his shirt.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x318/corsairs25/scan0002.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>John S</b><p>I know its football...but its my all-time favorite. It looks as if he has been launched from a cannon.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1207784174.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Seth B.</b><p>Hey Mark, does Ross have his glove on backwards in both those shots, too?

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Posted By: <b>Mark L</b><p>Darn right the glove is on backwards. Maybe his ability to play great baseball with his glove on backwards convinced quite a few other players that he was the best player ever.

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Mark - that's incredible - two different pictures taken at different times/places, yet the same pose and the same bizzare backwards glove. There must be a story there.