1947-66 Exhibit Collection
 

I thought I would share my 1947-66 exhibit baseball card collection. Today's mail brought in the Harmon Killebrew portrait card and also Billy O'Dell, which brings my total to 333 out of 350 (which is the number I have been using for a "full" set). I came up with 350 different using the Standard Catalog (I have been told that seven cards listed in the Standard Catalog do not exist).

I have inbound the final card of the four Larry Doby exhibit cards, and maybe I'll post them here after arrival.

Other exhibit card set collectors encouraged to check in.

Here are the card I still need

1947-66 Exhibit Baseball NEED (Ford portrait) Hoak Kranepool (Mantle portrait) (Musial batting) Paige Peters Richardson Runnels (Bill Moose Skowron) Ward Yastrazemski (Dodgers 1956) (Giants 1954) (Indians 1954) (Yankees 1955)


https://i.imgur.com/pGDP9FZl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/LoCFaMhl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Z1HttjAl.jpg

exhibit cards
 

Damn Larry now I am going to have to pull out what I believe to be my complete set, count them and check the catalog variations you mention.

Someplace I have detailed list of my "set" with printing notations etc.

Sealmark
mkbow2@surewest.net

Well done Larry. The Exhibits have grown on me over the years, so much so I wish I had started a set, or sub-set by team, or something, years ago. I really like the Musial with bats. I need to find mine and post it here! I also need to get more organized :)

exhibit cards
 

Have checked my
collection and I DO have all 6 Larry mentioned DO NOT EXIST. My collection numbers 347

sealmark

mkbow2@surewest.net

intertesting Mark I would like to see your checklist. The cards I listed as do not exist comes from another advanced collector like yourself. I looked at the Luke Appling card. All the ones listed on Ebay have "AN EXHIBIT CARD" Appling was included in the 1939-46 Salutation set and all those do not have "AN EXHIBIT CARD". Can you post a scan of your Luke Appling cards one with AN EXHIBIT CARD and the other without. THX
Larry

Larry Doby with "AN EXHIBIT CARD" scratched out arrived today, I am at 334 different out of 350(?) cards in the set. Here are the four Doby variations:

https://i.imgur.com/sQpvZbBl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2UOCmIul.jpg

Exhibt Cards
 

Larry:

If you will email me your mailing address I will copy my list and mail it to you.

I will slso check my Doby's and have my son send you a copy of Appling.

Mark

I have to ask a basic question for those of us who don't collect this stuff, is that scratched out variation literally scratched out physically on the card (which could obviously be scammatically - new adverb to indicate an action done by a scammer - done to trick people), or was it printed with the 'scratch out' in the image itself?

JollyElm: with "AN EXHIBIT CARD" scratched out was printed with the words scratched out.

now Ritchie/Richie

https://i.imgur.com/NsBOpFhl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uiJiGzsl.jpg

Here's the Musial I was looking for. My favorite Musial photo. Some of the Exhibit photo's were very good, including my favorite Ruth!

Agree Jerry, some of the exhibit photos are very nice! Here is the "Printed In USA" version to go with your "MADE IN THE USA" version. The Musial "Batting" version is one of the cards I still need.

https://i.imgur.com/7M0YBKbl.jpg

Ernie Banks

https://i.imgur.com/QwjRs8Dl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/qLxBzA7l.jpg

Love the Banks portrait, I may have to find one of those!

Yogi

https://i.imgur.com/Ajr2P0Ol.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/oc6H0pIl.jpg

Lou Burdette, what a 1957 World Series he had!! He is one of those guys with cards in the mid-1960's Topps sets, with no cap on, that as a kid I thought he looked like he was 60-70 years old! I couldn't figure out why he was still able to play baseball! Smokey Burgess comes to mind too :) Great cards Larry!

When Milwaukee won the 1957 World Series against the Yankees, Burdette became the first pitcher in 37 years to win three complete games in a series, and the first since Christy Mathewson in 1905 to pitch two shutouts (Games 5 and 7), starting Game 7 after Games 1 and 4 starter Warren Spahn was stricken by the flu.

Lew appeared on Topps regular cards for 12 straight years 1956-1967, and on only two cards does he appear without a hat :)

https://i.imgur.com/H1MT9cNl.jpg

That 65T was the card I remember, I was 7 :) Thanks for posting !

1947-66 Mick Exhibits
 

Can anyone explain about the "Canadian" version with the obscured "made in USA"...is this a real variation,thank you

Craig I've never heard of this Canadian version of the Mantle exhibit card. The Standard Catalog lists 4 Mantle cards, here are 3 of them as I still need the "portrait".

https://i.imgur.com/Z9lIhpdl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/fBgrimil.jpg

Very impressive guys.

I'm glad to see it wasn't just Topps...

82. Left Hand of Fate (also Whitey Bored)
The fact that Topps seemingly had no other choice but to feature Whitey Ford holding out his southpaw towards the camera in the very same pose year after year after year.

"Left Hand Of Fate" lol

https://i.imgur.com/wkVh8Lxl.jpg

Picked this up today at Hunt. Wanted a Attachment 638103

compliment to the Type 1 of the Mickey image I have with Joe D.

Nice Jamie! What was that used for? It looks too thick also too big to fit behind the glass of an exhibit machine?

https://i.imgur.com/9TyXgIql.jpg

I do not physically have it yet.Attachment 638231

Here is description:

Note on Gustine
 

He is wearing a Cubs cap and only played for them in 1949 so that card can be dated fairly efficiently

Rich

Is Kaline wearing his pajamas in the card on the right??

Good stuff guys..

yes strange picture and what's wrong with his hat?

https://i.imgur.com/6iZZVJ5l.jpg

Arrived today what appears to be the "badge" from the exhibit machines. Seller just listed ten more at $4.99 each with free shipping.


https://i.imgur.com/vwaBbQ7l.jpg


https://www.ebay.com/itm/40532218469...3Avlp_homepage

On the Pee Wees, it appears to me based on the scans we have on COMC there are actually 4 different versions

Made in U.S.A. -- No Ball Visible
Made in U.S.A. -- Ball Visible

Printed in U.S.A. -- Ball slightly visible
Printed in U.S.A. -- Ball very visible

Regards
Rich

Appreciate the input Rich!

https://i.imgur.com/zxXXBEcl.jpg

Circling back on this comment, Kaline is wearing his Leone's uniform (Sandlot team from Baltimore, MD where he played in 1953). I assume this means that this 1947-66 Exhibit was released shortly after his arrival in Detroit. Here's a wire photo of Kaline (not mine) from 1953 where he's in his Leone's gear:

https://photos.imageevent.com/derekg...20uniform_.jpghttps://photos.imageevent.com/derekg...20Exhibits.PNG

And here's a relatively recent article (2019) discussing this sandlot team and Kaline's involvement with it:
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baseb...-park/27602672

https://i.imgur.com/XjVPjkOl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/V9ICgSal.jpg

Quick Edit to your post
 

Bobby Thomson had no P in his name. *And it took me years to learn that as well*

Rich

haha my bad and I’m still learning. Appreciate the feedback :)

Perhaps, just perhaps, the birth certificate spelling it "Thomson" is a rare error version, and somewhere out there is the corrected document with the surname spelled "Thompson"?????? :D:D:D

Like Kaline, Monte Irvine is also wearing a minor league uniform.

"Imgur" appears to be back, so am I, with just four more to go!

https://i.imgur.com/FXRSuS3l.jpg