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Baseball cards that were never issued like the 54 & 55 Topps Mantle etc. Here is mine I developed 33 years ago of Ruth & Gehrig. Back then I sent the image to HOF and they were interested in displaying it, but I never did send it.
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Sam nice job, looks great
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It's post war but Bob Lemke (RIP) did a couple of versions of the missing Ed Bouchee 1958 Topps. Happy to have them and this one fills the empty slot on that binder for me.
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Bob made some great cards.
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This would have been a nice edition to the 33G set.
Image is not mine and I did not create it. Found it via Google image search. |
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He sure did, and it was great corresponding with him about them. RIP, Bob.
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These 2 are pretty cool, because they were real planned cards but never issued. Seaver and Gibson are known from a preproduction sheet with these poses, but Topps changed the photos because of them apparently posed with the wrong hand as a joke.
Some guy on eBay I don't know has been selling these customs using the original poses as Topps first intended. |
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Fast forward to 1971. I was one year out of college and I had a decent job. I saw an ad in Street and Smith's (or maybe The Sporting News) from Stan Martucci on Staten Island, advertising baseball cards for sale. I bought a '55 Topps set, the '58 set (which had been my favorite), and the '60. I remember the '55 set cost $35 and that I passed on the '57 because I thought $55 was too much. The sets were most VG-Ex and better and I was thrilled. Martucci's flier said that card #145 had never been issued. I didn't learn the whole story about Bouchee until much later, but it was odd to realize that this major disappointment was really nothing at all. There never was a Bouchee card. Here's another fantasy version, blank-backed. |
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It’s a crying shame 1950 Bowman doesn’t have DiMaggio or Musial. That set was pure art, but those are two glaring holes.
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These were sold on eBay a couple of years ago. Never issued, but I think they are insanely cool.
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I feel confident that Goudey Gum decided Napoleon Lajoie would fill 1933's gap at #106 either because Carl Hubbell bumped Lajoie out of Sport Kings series 2 or because Goudey scuttled Sport Kings before printing series 3, which would've included Lajoie. They then added a 1933-style back to this existing art, printed it in mid-1934, and mailed them out to satisfy written complaints for their missing #106.
In 2020, I mocked up Lajoie as a Sport Kings card and think it turned out great. Adding a design-free version to this post for anyone who wants to try something similar.
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I think you're spot on with your theory Matthew.
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As good as you guys are at making these mock ups, could one of you do a Joe Jackson T211? That’s a card I would like to have seen Red Sun make!
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Ed Collecting PCL, Southern Association, and type cards. http://hangingjudgesports.com |
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