A Christmas Story: Who are these 3 baseball cards?

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The middle one is a T206 I think. Is the far right an Obak?

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IS the middle O’Brien? Or Lundgren maybe?

[Luke]

Super tiny on my screen, but my gut says Bresnahan in the middle.

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It’s definitley not Bresnahan. The picture is super large on my phone but got smaller when I posted it.

[Econteachert205]

Pfeister seated? Too yellow I guess. Lundgren is a good bet

[orly57]

I watched that movie last night with the family. I talked it up so much because I loved it as a kid. Boy, did it NOT hold up. The family was bored to tears.

[Beansballcardblog]

In the hundreds of times I’d watched the movie, I never noticed this. About a week ago it was brought up on twitter and then Beckett had a post on it. I love when we can find cards in pop culture.

[btcarfagno]

Interesting (to me anyway) tie in with a baseball movie and A Christmas Story.

Darren McGavin played both Ralphie's father in A Christmas Story and Gus Sands the shady gambler in The Natural. What is interesting is how a controversy surrounding his work in The Natural led to his getting the role in A Christmas Story.

Before shooting began on The Natural, there was a big brouhaha regarding billing for the film. It was pretty much an all star cast and agents were fighting over who would go where. McGavin came to the project a bit late and was told that his billing would have to be well below where it would normally be. He made a big stink and told them not to credit him at all. This led to a bunch of Hollywood insider publicity for McGavin, who parlayed the notoriety from the controversy into a starting role in the interesting little project that was at the time making the rounds at the various studios.

A Christmas Story.

[toppcat]

I assume the T206 cards were his dad's. The 1940 time traveling Play Ball inclusion is forever a mystery as the movie looks set in 1939.

[mybuddyinc]

I wonder if the Reulbach was a Hindu .............

[icollectDCsports]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

Interesting (to me anyway) tie in with a baseball movie and A Christmas Story.

Darren McGavin played both Ralphie's father in A Christmas Story and Gus Sands the shady gambler in The Natural. What is interesting is how a controversy surrounding his work in The Natural led to his getting the role in A Christmas Story.

Before shooting began on The Natural, there was a big brouhaha regarding billing for the film. It was pretty much an all star cast and agents were fighting over who would go where. McGavin came to the project a bit late and was told that his billing would have to be well below where it would normally be. He made a big stink and told them not to credit him at all. This led to a bunch of Hollywood insider publicity for McGavin, who parlayed the notoriety from the controversy into a starting role in the interesting little project that was at the time making the rounds at the various studios.

A Christmas Story.

Interesting. I think McGavin's portrayal of the cranky "old man" is crucial to the charm of A Christmas Story. The guy who played the father in the recent live TV version just couldn't do the character justice. Also, I really enjoyed McGavin's portrayal of Carl Kolchak in the '70s series, The Night Stalker. Also an entertaining character very much dependent on McGavin's unique persona.