Real Card or Hollywood Prop?

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

From The Pride Of The Yankees

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Posted By: whitehse

Babe Ruth??? A rookie!!!!!!!!!

I love that movie

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Posted By: Steve

Great movie, Best part, when the forty year old Pledge serves supper to the frat boys.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

A board lurker has or had the Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra baseball card props from the 1949 movie Take Me Out to the Ball Game. They resemble T206s, and are hand painted cards with made up tobacco ads on back. I haven't seen the movie, but believe Gene and Frank played 1800s ball players.

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Posted By: Chuck

Looks like it might be the real mccoy? I think this is a tribune card or something to that effect? The schooled posters here should know the date. It seems to me the reprints and subsequent fakes have his foot cut out of the picture. This one, you can see his whole shoe, so My guess is that it was the real? What did they know from props back then?

BTW, like many of you, I have seen that movie 50+ times and don't remember that part with the card?

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Posted By: barrysloate

In the part of the movie where the kids take out the cards, they refer to them as "Sweet Caporals." Obviously there was some poetic license there.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

The book came out before the movie and the screenplay was written by the same guy who wrote the book...I'm guessing that it says "Sweet Caporals" in the book...The writer probably remembered cards from his youth, but either forgot or was unaware that Sweet Caporal no longer produced cards when Ruth was a rookie. The propmaster for the movie probably just grabbed whatever baseball cards he could find, but he had to find one of Babe Ruth as a rookie as this scene takes place in 1915 because the kid that doesn't want Gehrig to play ball with them has no interest in the Ruth card because in his words Ruth is "just a rookie". The great part about that scene is that when Gehrig "hits" the baseball you can clearly see the ball comes from the left and behind the catcher. It's so obvious that it's almost embarrassing.

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Posted By: barrysloate

While Pride of the Yankees is a classic, much of it is campy and seems dated. But it's still one of the all-time great baseball movies.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Uhh...yeah. That "Tanglefoot" part? Can't be a real event can it?

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Posted By: JK

"I think this is a tribune card or something to that effect? The schooled posters here should know the date. It seems to me the reprints and subsequent fakes have his foot cut out of the picture"

Chuck - the card you are talking about above (ie the one that reprints show the foot being cut out of the picture) is a different pose altogether. Specifically, its the pose seen on the M101-4/5's and the various backs that are found with that pose.

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Posted By: Chuck Tapia

That's exactly what I was referring to.

It's easy to see how a novice like me can be easily fooled. Give and idiot too much information and he becomes a bigger idiot.

Thanks JK