One of my favorite Non-Sport Baseball Related

Mesmerizing

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Solid choice, Brian. One of my favorites as well. I hope it's OK that I post the card here (had to do some digging to find a scan). Top notch card from a top notch collection.

This would make a GREAT bracket for voting. Maybe when Im back from my daughter's graduation......

Wow factor

For me, it has to be the 1952 Coca Cola Cards. While they're not cards in the traditional form, they are incredibly unique. Especially when you start seeing each card for each player. The way Coca Cola decided on how to design these cards sheds so much importance about the style of the player and what makes them special. When you see them, you can't take your eyes off of them.

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Not a problem at all. I was going to get around to it eventually. I bought the Gehrig probably twenty years ago now. I was in awe. Over the next few years three or four other signed '34 Goudey Gehrigs appeared on the market. A couple were acquired by Net 54 members. One of them, in my opinion, had a somewhat nicer signature but don't take that as a complaint. Definitely one of my very favorite cards. It's a special feeling to behold something that the great man once held and to which he affixed his name, separated by nine decades and a 1/16th of an inch of plastic.

Been giving a bit of thought as to what I might post as "my favorite card of all time". I'm lucky to have a number of candidates that on a given day would qualify. I finally decided that my choice would be a card I no longer have. Some of you are familiar with the story of the Benjamin Falk cabinet of Christy Mathewson I won from Mastro which was revealed to have been stolen from the Hall of Fame. Matty is my guy, a man who prevailed over the sport and over the culture like few others. I took it to Cooperstown and gave it back. Broke my heart.

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Am pretty fond of his 1914 Cracker Jack. Still own it, has a clean title as best I know.

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Used to drive by the old Polo Grounds every time we came into the city when I was a boy, a dark abandoned hulk across the river by that time but once it harbored McGraw's Giants and one could imagine scenes like this.

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Less than six months from now it will be 100 years since he passed away, a century in which the world has changed so much yet those distant times still evoke alluring dreams that are depicted by our cardboard souvenirs.

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David, your CJ Matty is still one of my all time favorite cards.

Hard to choose one favorite of all time but here is a top 5 for me. Sadly i do not own this card but i will one day.
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wow guys... this is really showing the diversity and the beauty of the tastes and depth of history that our community of thoughtful and considerate collectors has. truly wonderful to see the posts on this thread; the stories that are coming with them. lots of cards here that i personally had never seen nor heard of before. great to expand my (and i'm sure many others' in our community) understanding of the history and diversity of the medium of the card :D

Some great cards and amazing variety indeed

Really cool thread

This may seem odd as my favorite but it is a minor league Joe Jackson posing with his wife.
And the look on both there faces in addition he is wearing his baseball uniform that is so different from what they wear today

this one is often #1

So hard to choose just one. But for this moment I will go with this one.

Some of My Favorites
 

My short list:

I love all Wagner portraits-such an iconic pre-war baseball card.

But especially the 1906 Fan Craze. It’s original facing orientation, much earlier issue than other portrait versions, incredibly scarce, and large scale like a 52 Topps-making for a mesmerizing pre and post-war pairing.

"So Joe when are you going to grow up and get a real job?"

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Another picture from that same day. ‘Photo of Joe with two of his Savannah teammates taken at the corner of Broughton and Habersham Streets. The unique part about this photo is Joe's wife Katie is the girl on the left with the sweater on. We presume the other two ladies are the wives / girlfriends of the other two ballplayers. The name of the player on the right is Al Demaree and the last name of the player on the left is Murray.’

That is an amazing photo.
Congrats on having it

Love it

Mine is clearly the '33 WWG Ruth I obtained from a member here last year. It checks every box - Classical, full-color issue, nice condition, English-only on the back, the G.O.A.T., and rarity as well (under 100 graded by PSA population).

My favorite pose.

Andy

During my first run at the E105 set, I watched this card change hands at auction a few times. I finally won it last year, but it had to make an 8 month trip through the judicial system before it finally made it home.

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Oh no, I don’t own that. I was researching the one with Joe and Katie and found the second one with teammates etc. I didn’t know the second one existed, found it fascinating it was taken on same day. Had always wondered about where the one with Joe and Katie was taken.

cool custer piece I saw at auction for y'all

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