Favorite Image on a Trading Card
 

Just thinking about my favorite images:

1) 1969-70 Topps Chamberlain - I love everything about this card, great player, great color, the headband, the blue satin jacket, the cocky expression, seems as if he's jumping right out of the oval and it's a tallboy.

2) 1933 Goudey Ott - Look at that mug. Enough said.

This.

T3 Turkey Red Ty Cobb is the best image on any type of card.

I wish I still had mine...

I have always been absolutely enthralled by this shot...

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That I own? Probably anything from the Red Heart series. Specifically this guy right here:
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That I don't own? This entire series is beautiful but there's just something about Matty. Probably the movie star looks he had!

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Way too many cards immediately come to mind.

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Tough to choose between these two...... I think the first one might be altered.

That's not altered it's clearly a mint 10!!

this is one of the few cases where the alterations are okay in my opinion!

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I love everything about this card, the image just makes me happy.

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Perfect portrait, perfect action shot, perfect design.

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Cannot do better from the Goudey set.

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Nicest salesman sample ever. Marciano RC tops the cake.

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It glows. The image freakin' glows.

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Young Mickey. Nuff ced.

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Great player; greater man.

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Baseball is a game of youth; these cards of a 21 year old Bench prove it.

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Sometimes we forget cards are supposed to be fun for kids. These Schutter-Johnson cards remind me.

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You better eat your Wheaties...

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Special in any condition.

T3 beauty. Not a superstar player; however, I’ve always liked the image.

Honorable mention for:

53 Bowman Pee Wee Reese

It's a postcard but love the image.
Get out of my face!

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One of my favorites
 

Love that image Leon.

Leon, can you imagine today dropping a letter to someone with just Milwaukee, WI for the address?
My favorite pose is the Texas Tommy Joe Jax. Sadly, long gone.

Give me Walter Johnson every time.

I'll have to think about this a bit more, but this guy would be in the running for me.

I will never own this card

But the 1914 Boston Garter Cards are amazing Graphics

This is the Favorite Image to me

I don’t own one, but the 33 Goudey Pepper Martin is one I’ve always wanted just because of the look of it.

Here's one for reference, agreed its a great image.
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;) thanks, Phil. Nice card!

Peter beat me to the 53 Bowman Musial but I have a couple of other faves....

On the pre-war side I had no reason to buy this 1911 Obak Curt Bernard other than the wonderful background showing Chutes Park.

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Hard to choose a post-war card other than the Musial but I'm partial to the '78 Murray rookie. It's just different and it's 100% Murray.

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Thanks for all the other great cards posted in this thread!

This is a Sophie's choice thread, there are so many great images I can't pick just one but here are pre-war, post-war, and Japanese cards I never get tired of looking at.
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My all time 4 favorites are:
1934 Goudey Gehrig batting pose
1953-54 Parkhurst Sawchuk
1954-55 Topps Gordie Howe
1959 Bazooka Mickey Mantle
Have all 4 in my collection.

Billy being Billy...

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Tough call but I’m thinking…:

surprised no one has posted this one yet
 

The great Johnny Grubb in a classic Grubb pose.

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Seriously though, this Grubb is pretty sharp.
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I think the 1912 T227 Cobb is a beautyhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...fc245f20d4.jpg

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Keep Those Images Coming

I love the images and the diversity of the different sets

I'm like a broken record on this one. It's been my favorite from the day I saw it for the first time. 1911 Zeenut Halla.

Mine is significantly trimmed, but still makes me smile every time I look at it. Eventually I'll upgrade it when the right one comes along.

Bill

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I must really like this one because we've been together for 30 years (got it at the infamous 1991 Anaheim National).

'53 Bowman Rizzuto/Martin

When I was younger,
 

thought it would be cool to have that much hair coming out from under my cap.

Now that I’m older, think it would be cool to have hair.

Hard to pick just one

That Johnson portrait is amazing!

Bill

Fave:::
 

N172 Ewing w/ Mascot

E90-1 Tris Speaker

No longer own mine, but from the internet: Classic 1957 Topps baseball pose at bat rack, with a great old-time television camera in the shot.

Richards isn't mine but I have always thought that it is a great image. Terry too - and he is mine.

Young DeMaggio.

Wow, those are some great images and I'm nodding my head as I scroll down the post. i'll just add a couple of my favorites (not mine):

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LOVE both of those images!!

Mine is even rougher than this one, but I love the image.

1974 Topps had two of my favorite action cards:

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1964 Morinaga Katsuya Nomura:

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Such a classic baseball catcher pose. For those who don't follow Japanese baseball (from Wikipedia):

During his over 26-season playing career mostly spent with the Nankai Hawks, he became one of NPB's greatest offensive catchers. He was awarded the Pacific League MVP Award five times, was a Best Nine selection 19 times (basically, the best catcher in the game), became the first NPB batter to win the Triple Crown in 1965, and holds the record for second-most home runs (657) and RBIs (1,988) in NPB history to go with 2,901 hits

JKA Jimmy Sheckard

In terms of looks, the 1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig takes the cake with me today. It captures Lou in all his glory. Just a truly beautiful card. But the 1933 DeLong cards and 1953 Bowman color cards are gorgeous, too, IMO. I love Whitey Lockman in the Polo Grounds, in living color. Bobby Morgan's pic shows off the Brooklyn Dodgers blue perfectly, and Pee Wee Reese firing over a sliding ballplayer (some say Gil Hodges) at Vero Beach is maybe the perfect baseball card.

Favorite card image
 

The look of Ed Cicotte on his 1914/15 Cracker Jacks- perfect for him

Trent King

That is a great image!

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N162 King Kelly


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Here are some of my favorite Baseball images on a sports card - the 1933 Goudey Charlie Gehringer. The 1911 T206 Home Run Baker, Elmer Valo's 1957 Topps and Eddie Stanky's 1952 Bowman and the 1950 Bowman Ferris Fain.

How about the Williard Chocolate of Cobb? Leon, I think you could help me with a scan. Please.

Here is my choice.

Not Leon, but an amazing simulation. Here is a V100 Willard's of Cobb pulled from the internet. I assume it is this one from 1923, and not the much smaller and less interesting 1924 Willard's of Ty.

Brian

Not my card.

I've always loved this image:

I have also always loved that image of Ted Kluszewski but I do not own one (although I did get my daughter one for her birthday a few years ago). The closest I have is this 19th century version which is my favorite pose on any of the cdvs I own.

Growing up as a Mets fan, this was always one of my favorites.

I can be a bit fickle, so I might answer this question differently next month.

I stopped following pro football years ago. But my wife, as a born and raised Ohioan who has lived in Norman, OK for nearly 25 years, follows the Browns now. I found this card at a show last weekend and ostensibly bought it for her, though I really like how it captures the gritty nature of football back in the day.

1966 Philadelphia Gum Company #104

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My favorite cards of my favorite player. (The Red Heart is no longer in the screw-down.)

Fantastic Klu!

And then there's this one.

The original python king.

Pre-War

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b3bd6df7_z.jpg1910 E96 Philadelphia Caramel by Greg Martin, on Flickr

Post-War

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Always liked this one:

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Image courtesy of Sports Collectors Daily.

Doug Ault....
 

Red Sox fan here but I'll never forget seeing this amazing pic from the 1st time I pulled it back in 1978 to just now! Munson behind him.........what a cool "real" shot!

Peace, Mike

PS It's all there, the dirt, the grass, the chalk, the bat, helmet, glove.... LOVE it!

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Iconic Cobb
 

It’s gotta be the red

I have a lot of favorites, but here is one of them...a Diamond Stars card of Fritz Ostermueller.

Brian

Brian, thanks for posting the scan and ,yes, that is the card indeed. I love that Ty seems to be enjoying playing in a sand lot game.

A few of my favorite card images

Favorite Image on a Trading Card
 

Hard to beat this one in my opinion:

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Love that Campanella and nice to see some early Bowman representation. '52 Bowman Musial is real nice too

Some of my favorites....

favs
 

Some of my favorites:

T3 Cobb and Leaf Ted Williams are gorgeous classics, would love one of each someday.

I don't own one of these but its still one of my favorite images of all time!

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Love it!
Love this one even better:
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I feel like it kind of gets a bad rap, but the '54 Bowman Campy I think has a great and fitting portrait. He was in a lot of pain in '54, and it shows. That card won't win any "best image" contests, but I love it.