What is your favorite movie that features baseball cards?

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Posted By: Jerry Hrechka

There was an episode of LA Law where there was a lawsuit involving baseball cards (50's Topps) It ends with Benny (The office boy) sitting on the floor in the law offices and arranging trades between the two litigants.

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Posted By: MINE'S MINT

i have an actual uncut sheet from the movie "the natural".. a customer from my fathers store was the son of one of the producers of the film.. and its been in our collection for years.. whenever i watch the movie its always cool wondering if my sheet is one that they feature coming hot of the presses..

Orel Hershiser actually tried to make my father an offer and buy it off of of him around 1990 when we had it on display in our store.. saying "i can get it signed by Redford himself".. to which my father replied.. "no you cant.. because its mine".. hahaha..

needless to say Orel wasnt amused.. haha.



psa/dna authenticated signature -> Richard M.

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Posted By: howard

There was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which a character ("Q", I believe) was showing off a collection of ancient artifacts. One was a 1962 Topps Roger Maris which Q pointed out still smelled like gum.

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Posted By: jackgoodman

For my geek award, I can't remember the alien that played the role, but it wasn't Q. It was some other evil-doer that kidnapped Data as an addition to his collection. It was nice to see the '62 Maris survives into the 24th century with brown borders intact. But interestingly enough, it wasn't graded. So guess grading companies didn't survive into the 24th century, too bad.

Gotta love the internet - the alien was Kivas Fajo (played by an actor named Saul Rubinek) and the episode was titled "The Most Toys."

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Posted By: Andrew Parks

The Sandlot - The Babe takes Benny's Hank Aaron card. I can't believe this wasn't the first movie mentioned - or did I miss it?

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Posted By: Rob_NYC

"There was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which a character ("Q", I believe) was showing off a collection of ancient artifacts. One was a 1962 Topps Roger Maris which Q pointed out still smelled like gum."

The episode was "The Most Toys" and the collector was Kivas Fajo, not Q. The 1962 Maris card is authentic and is (was) actually owned by Gene Roddenberry.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Hey Rob,

I fess'd up to being a geek about two posts up.

Jack

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Posted By: davidcyleback

I'm not a great fan of the show, but I saw an episode of 'About Jim' starring Jim Belushi. The story surrounded his stolen Ernie Banks rookie card. I was curious to see what the card would look like, unsure if the director knew anything about cards, but the card was indeed a 1954 Topps Banks in a lucite screwdown holder.

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

Hi Andrew,
I agree, the Sandlot Ruth/Aaron scene is great, but the whole movie is loaded with cards, balls, statues, and everything baseball . Be well Brian

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Posted By: Despres Louis

FYI: The Kelly and Sinatra cards; with reverses, from the movie "Take Me Out To The Ballgame".





Enjoy. Louis

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Posted By: howard

There was an episode of the "Simpsons" in which Millhouse wanted to buy the card of Carl Yastrzemski in which he has the big sideburns. I think it's supposed to be the '73 card.

There was an odd scene in that odd show, "It's the Gary Shandling Show" where Gary flipped through about twenty cards naming each player as he came to their card. The gag was that every player was named "Jose" (Cardenal, Pagan, etc...)

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Posted By: barrysloate

I was never certain which Yaz card Milhouse wanted, but in the end he, Bart, and Martin pooled their money to buy Radioactive Man #1. Big mistake. And I loved the old Gary Shandling Show, but don't remember that scene.

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Posted By: rp60

It was refered to as a 'mutton-chops' Yaz card...I dont recall a Yaz of the 70's in that way...