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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Anonymous
The only requirement is that the movie had to have a scene in it in which baseball cards were shown. For Example: |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Rich Klein
The Movie Mask had a baseball card subplot as the kid was trying to collect the 1955 Dodgers set. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: James Feagin
"Pride of the Yankees" might be the earliest film with Baseball cards. A young Lou Gehrig during the opening talks about pictures of Hans Wagner and Tris Speaker. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: davidcycleback
There's also the Simpsons where homer sells a Joe DiMaggio to the Comic Book Guy. After buying it, the comic book guy accidentally gets nacho cheese on the card, and ruins the card licking it off. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: glynparson
blast from the past and it was alicia silverstone and brendan fraser not drew barrymore. but my favorite would be the goonies. though they find a 1973 topps lou gehrig that is supposed to be from the 1930s. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Josh Adams
Needfull Things, a Stephen King book. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Steve M.
"Blast from the Past" with Alicia Silverstone, Brendan Frasier, Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek where the Dad (Walken) thought the Russians had invaded and so Fraiser and his Mom and Dad spent thirty some odd years in their bomb shelter. Well anyway Dad sends Brendan out into the world for supplies. He pays for the supplies with baseball cards |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Rich Klein
Had a dumb blonde moment there |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: davidcycleback
Also, in Sienfield, when George works for the Yankees, he is shown with a framed series of T205s behind him. Couldn't tell if they were real. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: MVSNYC
hope that answers your question. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Pete Z.
Dead hubby leaves clues written on baseball cards from the 60s that leads wife on a trail around the planet. There's one scene (that I instintively winced at while watching) where, after figuring out the clue on the card, she rips it up and throws it in the trash. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
I recall (vaguely) an episode of this TV series where Robert Wagner was on the |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: T E
and I don't even remember the actors. I think it was Peter Falk and Natalie Wood. Made in the late 1960s, maybe '68. He's a detective. He buys a pack of baseball cards, opens it and sticks the gum in his mouth. She pulls out a card and asks him, "What is a Ron Swoboda?" He answers, "I just buy them for the gum." |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: barrysloate
In Seinfeld, George Costanza always has reprint cards framed behind him. I even think he may have a reprint N162 set, as well as Topps, T205, etc. There's a Leave it to Beaver episode where Whitey takes some cards out of his pocket and they are on the screen for barely a second but they look like 1959 Topps. And besides Homer selling a Joe DiMaggio card to Comicbook Guy (whose name has actually been revealed to be Jeff Albertson), there is an episode where Homer is at a fair and rummages through the $1.00 junk box and finds a Superman #1, a full sheet of inverted Jenny airmail stamps, a Stradavarius violin, and one other great antiquity- and passes on them all. But for a really great movie baseball reference: in the fine 1947 film "Life with Father" starring William Powell and a young Elizabeth Taylor, the action takes place in a NYC mansion during the 1880's and near the beginning of the film, William Powell walks down the stairs to see his two young sons reading the newspaper. They turn to their father and one exclaims: "the Giants won and Ewing hit a homerun." Now I challenge anyone to find another movie that cites Buck Ewing by name. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Brueso
I think some on the board mentioned the book "Honus and Me" about a dreamer kid who discovers a Honus T206 while cleaning out an old lady's attic- wrestles with whether he should keep it, is transported back in time to spend time with Honus (and Ty Cobb is around, too). I saw a play version of it here in Seattle- and what made me chuckle was when the kid tells the old lady at the end that he found the card- turns out Honus broke her heart back in the day- and she gets angry, takes the card and tears it up. Even though I knew they were using a reprint, I winced! |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Russ Bright
Good movie about the greed that can encompass the "find of a lifetime"... not to ruin anything, but there is a baseball card kicker at the end of the movie |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Sean Besser Hank
I would have to say "Big" with Tom Hanks; they are opening packs and flipping through the cards saying, "got it, need it, need it, got it..." just the way I used to open packs when I was young, I'm sure that's where Tom got the line. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: barrysloate
Ted- you are correct about that Robert Wagner show, but I don't remember the details either. One fascinating aspect of the baseball cards in "Pride of the Yankees" (and also an inaccuracy) is that although the kid is holding what I believe to be an M101-4 of Babe Ruth, he actually refers to them as "having some Sweet Caporals." The error aside, what is interesting is that the designation "T206" hadn't been coined in 1942, and I guess they all were simply referred to by the ad backs. This leads to the question were all of the white bordered cards called Sweet Caporals in their day? In other words, if you had one with a Uzit back, would you say "I have a Uzit" or would you still say "I have some Sweet Caporals?" Of course we don't know the answer, just posing the question. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Jeremy
I was awfully young but I seem to remember that TV show involved a game of high stakes "flipping" possibly a '52 Mantle? Was it "Hart to Hart"? |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
Barry |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: barrysloate
Although the movie was filmed in 1942, remember the scene where Lou Gehrig is a young boy of say 10 years old would have taken place around 1913, when T206 were still circulating and being collected. What term did people use at that time when referring to the cards? Were they all generically called Sweet Caps with disregard to the actual ad on the back? That was my question. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
It was Hart to Hart with Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers. Wagner was also in |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Ricky Y
I remember a great movie called Mask with Cher and Eric Stoltz about a boy with sever skull and facial deformity. The boy was a big Brooklyn Dodger fan and I recall in one of the scenes he had all of the cards (1956 Topps I think) mounted on the wall in his room and he and his grandfather were pointing to each card and discussing the merits of each player. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: MVSNYC
what a cool concept, the possibility that all T206's were referred to as "SC" back in the day...interesting...obviously they are (along with Piedmont), the most abundently found backs... |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
They were called by their respective Tobacco brand. South of the Mason-Dixon line |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: barrysloate
Ted- but in a city the size of New York, where Gehrig grew up, there had to be multiple brands available. Mean to say you couldn't find a pack of Piedmonts anywhere in the city? And I forgot about "Mask". Eric Stoltz had mostly 1955 Topps Brooklyn Dodgers, and he would put each one in a baggie and then tack them to his bulletin board. A unique way to display cards. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: davidcycleback
Not cards, but Beaver and Larry Mondelo forged a signed baseball in Leave It To Beaver. Playing catch, they had accidentally wrecked Ward's prized ball he displayed on his desk. The ball was signed by Ruth, etc. Beaver's forgery was quickly discovered (before the end of the 1/2 hour episode) and he got a stern talking to. In another episode, Don Drysdale appeared. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: barrysloate
Correct David- Beaver and his pals made a long distance phone call to Don Drysdale and ran up a $10 phone bill. And Beaver and Larry had a catch with Ward's signed baseball and it got run over by a truck. So Larry forged a new one, signing it "Baby Ruth" and "Ki Ki Gehrig" by mistake. It took Fred Rutherford to see through this careless ruse. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: John E
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Bob Luce
"Mother", a pretty good Albert Brooks movie, has a scene in which Rob Morrow's character shows off his Mint 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: John Kalafarski
On one episode of this charming show, the boys were horsing around with baseball gear and one of them was showing off and another one (I think it was Wally coming down on Eddie) says, "Who do you think you are? Ted Williams?" |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Jason
The cards in the movie mask were mostly 1974 Topps. I remeber he had Steve Garvey pinned up. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Zach Rice
If you look very closely, in the film A Christmas Story, when Ralphie and his brother are getting ready for school early in the film, you can see multiple T206s tacked to his headboard on his bed. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Jon Canfield
I remember a MacGyver episode from when I was a kid... I believe MacGyver is trying to discover who stole the Reggie Jackson bats and balls from the 3 WS home runs. At one point, he goes to a card shop and buys a bunch of cards (I think to prove he was a big-time collector since it was believed the owner of the shop was behind the theft). I don't remember what he buys but a Ryan rookie stands out in my mind... NOTE: My memory of the plot may be wrong! |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Ryan Christoff
There was a movie with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly called "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" that showed T206ish cards of both of them. They were supposed to be members of a circa 1900 team, I think the Wolverines. It seems like the original cards that were used in the movie were auctioned off a few years ago. Maybe in the Halper auction? I can't remember exactly, but I do remember bidding on them because of how unique they were. Anyone remember these? |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Patrick McMenemy
I'm really surprised that The Natural hasn't been mentioned. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: joe
Brueso, I saw that same play here in Michigan. It was at the Purple Rose Theatre that Jeff Danials started in Chelsea Michigan. Jeff and his family live there. The funny thing about the play it had everything. A dishonest card shop dealer trying to buy the Wagner for $100.00 or so. An auction house selling it for 1.2 million. The tobacco theme where Wagner supposedly did not like tobacco. The kid's mother saying he should return the card to the old lady, who's attic he cleaned out. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: irishdenny
Pride of da Yanks was great, but "The Sandlot" has to be my favorite with baseball cards! |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Matt Goebel
Dustin Hofman collecting cards in "Rain Man" |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Brett
I remember a movie with Brendan Frasier in it where he and his parents live in a bomb shelter for years because they thought there was nuclear war, and his father gives him his old baseball card collection. I remember a t206 Ed Walsh on the top lol. Movie obviously isnt about collecting baseball cards, but i thought it was neat having a t206 in there. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Scot
The Odd Couple II, Walter Mathau/Jack Lemmon, Mathau gives his son a box of old baseball cards. Great movie as well. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Chris Counts
It's not a movie, but it's worth mentioning here. In the early 60s, Charles M. Schulz created a series of "Peanuts" cartoons in which Charlie Brown tries in vain to acquire a Joe Shlabotnik baseball card. In one strip, Schulz mentions dozens of contemporary players from about 1963 as Charlie busts open numerous packs of what were certainly Topps cards. Guys like Mantle and Mays pop up in packs, but never a card of Joe, much to Charlie's chagrin. Another strips mentions Joe went through an entire Major League season with a .004 batting average, which earned him a demotion to Stumptown of the Green Grass League. He later managed a team called the Waffletown Syrups ... |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: jamie
was made into a movie called "the winning season" |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Rhett
I wonder if they could have found somebody that looked any less like Honus. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: jamie
rhett, |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Cobby33
Brett- That was "Blast from the Past," great flick. The "love interest" in the movie ran a baseball card store, owned by her father. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: J Levine
Well, I am going way back here but I seem to remember a card in the movie "Speedy". This was Harold Lloyd's last silent film. A great comedy set in New York with some great old location shots of Coney, Yankee Stadium, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. The other notable scene in this movie is Harold picks up Babe Ruth (played by himself) in his cab. I think there was a scene with a card in it of Ruth but can not remember. I have not seen the movie in years and it is out of print but if you can catch it on TV late one night...try to. Very funny. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Bruce Babcock
There is an episode of "Deep Space Nine" in which a Willie Mays rookie card figures prominently. It was produced by DS9 creator and big time collector Mike Piller. |
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What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?
Posted By: Dan Bretta
I don't remember a scene in "Speedy" that showed any cards. I actually own the book that was released right after the movie came out. |
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