for everyone! -- what's your favorite card of all time?
 

share pics and dialogue. stories, ideas, you name it. very exciting and fun topic for us all to participate in if you so choose!

i'll go first. 1953 satchel paige with wear. the lived aspect is crucial. i just got this piece today. very very happy. its everything about his mythos to me expressed in the portrait distilled in this beautiful painting. and as it was transferred to the industrial printing process of the card, it acquired another level and layer of power which isnt immediately apparent in the painting. to me this is the best card of all time, and my personal absolute favorite. so much of what satchel brought to the game in image-card form.

excited to hear your picks, choices, and stories!! lets chat!

Aesthetically, gotta go with the T218 Johnson side pose:

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this is awesome. the t3 turkey red boxing cards give the baseball ones a serious run for their money too. just beautiful designs all around. the green on this one is striking. cheers!

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This one.
The only card my Dad and I bought together. He wasn't one to drive to a card store, too busy trying to makes ends meet. On the one occasion we did he bought this card for me. Purchase price was $225 and I know he wasn't in a position to afford silly luxuries like baseball cards at the time.

It meant/means the world to me and I would never sell it.
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man that's everything right there. a beautiful and essential moment behind it. priceless beyond anything. really glad you have this and the moment with it. its beautiful. thanks for sharing.

To me, it's 1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig. A lot of gorgeous cards, but right now this is it for me.

love the '34 too of course, but legendary card here. i hear ya! great choice.

1953 Stahl-Meyer Franks Mickey Mantle

--- Brian Powell

absolute classic!! :D

!954 Bowman Ted Williams. A beautiful card and I think his best by far. I'm still on the lookout for one for my collection.

wishing you a ton of luck on your search! his cards are really something special. its a beautiful set and card + i love the topps edition of his from the same year. cheers!

My all-time favorite card is the 1998 Donruss Crusade Red Larkin.

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But if we are trying to focus on vintage, it's the 1964 Topps Rose or Robinson. I absolutely love the 64 design, even though a lot of people don't like it.

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ah a fan of one of the most storied franchises in the game i see! these are all really cool pics. i see you snuck in a venezuelan at the end :p!

let me throw in the 59 topps frank robinson with you too. the black circle frame is like a fisheye lens almost; the reds logo and print on it make it feel like a cut still from a old school bond movie or something. these are great pics; thanks for sharing these cool cards!! 64 is a great set.

for everyone! -- what's your favorite card of all time?
 

My favorite.


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Yep, Redlegs collector here. ;)

I appreciate the kind words. I get a lot of joy from photographing my collection.

I did slip a Venny in there. ;) I've been on a bit of a Venezuelan kick lately and this Robinson just came in the mail and I haven't shared it yet.

An honerable mention for favorite card is this beast:

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For me it is a pair. I bought these directly from Score back in the day. It is my 2 favorite players Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens on a wrong back pair. I have owned most of the cool cards and many many insanely rare cards but these have been by far my favorite cards since the day I bought them. I can't say I would never sell them but it would take life changing for me money to do it.

the silhouettes at the bottom of the card really elevate this to another level. really idyllic. you have three copies? nice!! thanks for sharing. very very cool card. essential early 20th century stuff. love the cobb from this set too.

i've been meaning to get into the venezuelans + some retirados! maybe someday soon... the ted card is definitely a beast. love the jersey types from this era. bring back the short sleeves + cutoffs! perfect for that dog day summer.

ah woah i need to do some research on these! upside down backs too.. hmmm reminds me of the 1915 cracker jacks! thanks for sharing! didn't know about this. awesome to have some rare pieces from your all time favorites.

for everyone! -- what's your favorite card of all time?
 

Yes, those are my current 3 copies. I love the write-up on back as well…so lengthy. The Cobb is quite striking also, such a neat set.

Babe Ruth rookie, wish I had one!

that's one of the things i love about the cracker jacks + play balls myself. the writeups, although less lengthy on the CJs, are really wonderful. the play ball nicknames too. its great stuff. congrats on the awesome pieces!!

can't argue with you on this one! pretty top notch stuff :D

I’ve always loved the E-90 Tris Speaker. Talk about a beautiful card.

now you're speaking my language. e90-1 might be my favorite set of all time. its a work of fine art mechanized. really beautiful choice.

My fav player on a set I collected as a kid. Not a lot of value here, but lots of good vibes.

tons of value here. could swear his sporting news all stars '70 card is worth hundreds... one of the best to ever do it and great shot of him here. makes a ton of sense its your favorite! thanks for sharing this one!

I almost posted that card. It's my favorite photo on a card.

Always been a favorite of mine. Priceless artwork of a pitching legend.

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This is an all time favorite card of mine in my collection. I don't like most of the 58 All Stars but this one always caught my eye:

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Not that I own this, or ever will, but this is my favorite baseball card of all time.



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So many to choose from…
 

These two are up there. The Dukes are fantastic. The Hank DS always a favorite. Wajo portrait as well (not pictured).

That question is so tough I'm going to limit myself to Baseball cards. And even at that I'm going to cheat by posting an uncut sheet of my 1962 Canadian Post Cereal cards featuring both Ernie Banks and Orlando Cepeda:

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Neck-and-neck would be my sheet featuring both Rocky Colavito, Frank Robinson and Juan Marichal:

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I’m a Yankee fan, but if I was given one choice of a baseball card to describe to someone what a baseball card should look like it would have to be this one

Yes, I know I picked a 1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig above, but that 1953 Bowman color of shortstop Pee Wee Reese flying in the air is right there next to Lou. What a great looking baseball card!

My favorite is the T206 Christy Mathewson shown below, as it was in the first batch of 5 Prewar cards I ever picked up, and the pose and overall look mesmerized me into continuing collecting pre-WW2 cards.

Aesthetically Christy tops my charts as well with his "Creation of a Pitching God" pose seen in multiple 'E' candy card sets.

So I guess at heart I (Ad)am a Matty man since Creation of this hobbyist.


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Gotta throw one more at this.

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I swear, the art on this just glows.

some great picks here guys. really cool to see all of these historic + fascinating cards lined up all in the thread.

This is the best-looking baseball card there is.

I usually point to this one...

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That entire set is beautiful. I picked up a reprint set years ago so I can thumb through them occasionally. :)

I sold mine when I built my house. It makes me think Mordecai might've been barnstorming around here, and maybe on a cow pasture field near my home.

Of course, that isn't likely, but I pretend it is.

One pre war, one post war although there are so many I could choose.

this one checks every box for me, personally

Leaf Teddy Ballgame deserves a mention.
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I gotta go with this as well -- it was my first real vintage purchase after I got back into the hobby after 30 years. It's beautiful art that illustrates that no, he wasn't a young man anymore, but here he was at 46 still striking people out. That he returned at 59 and tossed three shutout innings ... just beyond belief.

+1

Always been my favorite card. Shows Kelly at the absolute peak of his popularity and career, just after he was sold to Boston for $10,000, at the time a colossal sum. The image depicted is the result of a photo shoot. Some years ago REA sold an imperial cabinet of a different image of Kelly from the same shoot, which is also depicted.

I must go with the Philadelphia Carmels E95 Ty Cobb.

If the question is what is your favorite specific card you own, then it's this Speaker that my mom bought for me when I was 12.

If it's what card in general is your favorite (not a certain copy of it), then that's a tougher question and I probably have a dozen different answers, but for today it's Gwynn's 1982 TCMA.

My favorite card, too. The pose was also used on the Yum Yum issue.

1910 Washington Times Ty Cobb

Agreed. That card is just mesmerizing! For common cards, pretty much every T212 Obak.

T216 Wags
 

That card has great eye appeal.

It might change from day to day, but today here's my favorite. (I've shown this one before, so forgive me if it's familiar.) In 1909 the University of Wisconsin toured Japan to play against a bunch of college teams (professional baseball didn't exist there yet). The photo on this postcard was taken during the first game of the tour. It was mailed part way through the tour by one of the American players, telling one of his friends back home about what he's been up to and asking him to take notes in class for him because he's going to miss the beginning of the semester.

I agree!

Hockey-1954-55 Topps Gordie Howe
Baseball 1953 Bowman Musial and 1959 Bazooka Mantle
No basketball cards knock my socks off.

Gotta be the one in my profile picture. Can’t get much more iconic than that as far as baseball history

If I were forced to narrow my selection down to a single specific card, it would be one or the other of my Warren Spahn cards:

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For me, it's this one of Teddy Ballgame.

I will go a little pre war non sports

Beautiful Custer!!

I think about these two cards quite often. I prefer the All Star pose.

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Took me 20 years to find another Custer collector!

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Favorite card
 

My favorite player from the year that I first opened a pack.

these are really great posts guys. its wonderful to see everyone come together to share the cards that they love.

I've always been partial to the 1950's.

love your username and totally agree on this card. this and the satchel from 53 topps are just absolute peak baseball art and genius of the card for me. those two and mathewson + cy young retirados are central to my collection.

I have a great longtime hobby friend with the same exact favorite card for the same reason. Nice card.:)

It's a bad old pic but I made him a superfractor of it many years ago.

Beautiful examples.

For me, it is the 1934 Goudey of Lou Gehrig that is in Kawika's (David McDonald's) collection. Gehrig's gorgeous signature graces that card in the set that features him. To me, there is no better card in the hobby.

Larry is a sentimental favorite because he simply doesnt get his due respect in the game.

1957 Topps Mantle. It made a lasting impression on me as an 8-year-old collector. I bought one (PSA 5) as soon as I could afford it.

My two picks are Sam Barkley the name behind the Pirates and Jackie Robinson

Different Kelly for me...

I've been looking for a nice example of this card for years and finally won this last summer at REA.

Favorite card
 

Tough question- if I was forced, I'd vote the 53 Bowman Color Pee Wee Reese.

Trent King