Show your favorite card(s)

[S_GERACE]

Pretty cool image & story! Do you know if any of the players went on to play college ball?

[jefferyepayne]

Great idea for a thread! I'm struggling to figure out what to show, though. I hope others have more clarity on their favorites than I do as I'd love to see some more cards in this thread!

jeff

[HRBAKER]

This is my favorite football card. Although not near the most valuable FB card I have it combines a lot of things for me - one of my favorite players from my favorite team in one of my favorite sets.

[Mikehealer]

This is easily my favorite card. I'm thinking about hoarding them.

[revmoran]

Don't ask how many - ask how many more!

Originally Posted by S_GERACE

Pretty cool image & story! Do you know if any of the players went on to play college ball?

Sorry, missed your question. Two played for State Normal School of Ellensburg (CWU), and one played at WSU (Craig Wimpel, DB/HB Top row third from left). This Entiat team finished the season with 5 wins, 1 tie (Yakima HS), and beat archrival Wenatchee HS.

That is quite the collection of Hap Moran's..... WOW! More?

Sammy Baugh seems to be a favorite of many....

The 1964 Kahns is an interesting choice, any particular reason Charley Johnson is a favorite player?

[CW]

I don't have a lot of football cards, and this also isn't technically my most valuable, but in terms of visual appeal this is my favorite (if I had a nice '62 Topps Jim Brown that might change, but I have yet to land one).

The composition and aesthetics of this card are just perfect to me -- a tastefully colorized version of Jim Thorpe holding his old school leather helmet, the black n' white photo of the gridiron as a background, and all of it surrounded by that blue frame with the Carlisle logo in the corner. The stars aligned when the folks at Topps designed this beauty.

At one time I owned a perfectly centered PSA 9 of this card, but sold it to fund another purchase. After I sold it, I was immediately on the lookout for another decently centered copy (as many know, this card is notoriously difficult to find with good centering). While this one isn't perfect, it helped fill the void left behind by the PSA 9 example, and it didn't break the bank.