Vintage Cards in the Movies

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Posted By: Pat

I recall a Leave it to Beaver episode centered around an autographed 1927 Yankees Baseball. Ward has it on a pedestal in his study and he shows it to Beaver telling him some story how Ward's Dad took Ward into the Yankee dugout and got all the signatures. Beaver and Larry are playing catch and lose their baseball or something but bottom line is they need a ball. Larry convinces Beaver to use the Yankee ball. One of the boys misses the ball and it goes into the street and it is run over by a car and ruined or something along those lines. So the boys don't get in trouble they try to forge the autographs on another baseball that they go out and buy.



Not being too familar with the "old time players" and not being able to read the names very well because the ball has been run over, they botch the names and instead of writing Bob Meusel they write like Bobby Musical or something like that. They put the new ball on the pedestal thinking they have gotten away with getting in trouble.



Later on Ward has a friend over and shows him the ball and the friend laughs at the names and tells Ward that is a good joke. Ward confronts Beaver and the lesson for the episode is acted out.

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Posted By: Jerry

Not a Movie but I recall an show on TV called Hart to Hart starring Robert Wagner that had an episode about his baseball card collection.

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Posted By: David McDonald

Wasn't that the episode where Ward killed the Beaver?

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Posted By: Jerry

No, that was the episode where June wore a pearl necklace and Lumpy's car broke down.

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Posted By: Frank B

I beleive in the locker of the Voodoo-worshipping Serrano
there are a half dozen cards hanging from the top shelf. Looks
like a Leaf and maybe a Bowman among them. Cuban players probably
who could hit a curveball.

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Posted By: David Goff

I can't remember the boy's name in the movie Mask, but he got a '53 Color Bowman PeeWee Reese and I think he then pinned it to his wall. Also, Barry mentioned that George Costanza had some in his office. In the episode "The Muffin Tops", he has a couple of framed T206's and T205's which you can see very well.

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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

Does anyone remember this episode from the later Twilight Zone series?

http://postcardsfromthezone.blogspot.com/2006/08/302-extra-innings.html

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Posted By: barrysloate

Here is a more accurate synopsis of the episode with Ward's baseball:

Ward shows Beaver a baseball he got when he was a kid, signed by Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Gabby Hartnett, Ki Ki Cuyler, et al. Beaver then shows it to Larry Mondello, who suggests to Beaver they should have a catch with it. Larry the wise guy throws the ball over Beaver's head and into the street, where it is run over by a garbage truck.

Larry decides to forge a new ball and they place it on the pedestal in Ward's study, hoping he won't notice. Fred Rutherford comes to visit and Ward shows him his cherished keepsake. But Larry has signed it Baby Ruth and Ki Ki Gehrig, and Fred thinks Ward is pulling a practical joke. And as always happens, the Beaver gets punished.

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Posted By: Scott Fandango

"The monoliths in 2001: A Space Odyssey are shaped like T206s.



Of interesting note, the word monolith is never said or used in the movie. The word is a creation external to the film"







i never noticed they are like T206's...are you making this up or do others agree?



i think they use "Monolith" in the chapter titles or something like that

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Scott, I came up with the T206 monolith comparison. I wasn't being serious, though they are similarly shaped.







The last picture is what it looks like when you smoke the mold from a T206 card.

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Posted By: Butch & Co.

Somebody had to do it...

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Posted By: Butch & Co.

By the way, since we're including other baseball memorabilia, in addition to cards, featured in movies and TV, does anyone have a DVD titled "Reel Baseball: 1899-1926"? There's an 18-minute excerpt on it from a 1917 five-reel silent titled One Touch of Nature, which incidentally also features John McGraw (as himself). The clip includes a sequence in which a character is having updates of a crucial ballgame relayed to him by telephone -- and is prominently keeping track of the results on the gameboard from either Major League Base Ball Game or Major League Indoor Base Ball by the Philadelphia Game Mfg. Co.

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Posted By: Kyle

Always got a kick out of the boys finding explorers Chester Copperpots belongings and pulling out a Gehrig Card-funny thing was it was from the 78 Topps set......