How about a baseball card movie ?
 

Has anyone seen "Dimished Capacity" ? It stars Alan Alda as an old man with a very rare Wildfire Schulte card (looks like a T206 size-wise) and Matthew Broderick plays his nephew, who is driving him to a card show to sell it ?
I saw it a while back and the discussion about baseball movies made me wonder if others were aware of it.
Have a great day !

I've wanted to see this movie, but have not been able to find it on t.v.

MASK with Cher & Eric Stoltz
 

1955 Brooklyn Dodger Cards

I wanted to like the movie but couldn't. I thought it was terrible.

"Cop Out" with Bruce Willis. Story revolves around somebody stealing his 1952 Andy Pafko.

"Rainman"

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise....at the start of the movie, Dustin is displaying his BB card collection.


TED Z

That's a good one.Gem Mint Pafko I can't remember what Willis said the value was though.

Ds9
 

There was an episode of Deep Space Nine, written by my late friend and fellow collector Michael Piller, entitled "In the Cards."

Synopsis:

The mood aboard Deep Space 9 has grown dark as the Dominion threat has intensified. Three ships have disappeared along the Cardassian border in just the last three weeks, Odo has canceled a vacation due to increased thefts of food rations and medical supplies, and the crew is generally gloomy – Captain Sisko most of all. What's more, Kai Winn Adami announces she'll be visiting the station. Fortunately, Jake Sisko has a plan to lift his father's spirits – Quark has invited him to an auction at which a mint-condition Willie Mays rookie year baseball card will be available. He'll show up, purchase the card, and make a gift of it. "How hard can that be?"

"Needful Things" by Stephen King...the first customer purchased a 1956 Topps Mickey Mantle.

Interestingly enough, in the book, the card was Sandy Koufax.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124298/

Brendan Fraser comes up from the nuclear shelter his dad, Christopher Walken, built to sell his cards with a Mantle and turn in his IBM stocks they bought in the 60s. :)

Somebody help me out on this, but wasn't there an episode of McMillan and Wife that focused on high stakes baseball card flipping?

I believe it was an episode of Hart to Hart.

I checked into the card flipping TV show a bit further:

Hart to Hart
The Harts Strike Out
Season 3, Episode 22
Aired in 1982

You can YouTube the episode; however, I was only able to find it in segments. I believe the fourth one has the card flipping. For those who may have an interest, try Googling:

youtube harts strike out (d)

Best Regards,

Eric

Diminished Capacity
 

I just watched the movie, due to the recommendation earlier on Amazon.com's instant download for $2.99. I thought it was okay. The scenes at the card show were somewhat realistic, but all in all it wasn't that great of a movie. Alan Alda's character was pretty good, but Broderick's performance was so-so. It's worth the 3 bucks I guess, but don't get your hopes up for Oscar winning performances.

The Winning Season
 

Wikipedia: "The Winning Season is a 2004 made-for-TV film with elements of a fantasy drama. It chronicles a young boy's dream in 1985 with playing with the Pittsburgh Pirates great Honus Wagner. The film follows the dream to the point where the boy is assisting Wagner in his 1909 World Series duel with fellow hall-of-famer Ty Cobb."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379029/

And as expected has the famous T206 Honus Wagner

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Frank

It's on Netflix streaming...it was almost unwatchable in my opinion. The dealers were just caricatures and the acting all around was horrible.

I stuck it in my cue

The movie A Christmas Story has some old cards near the beginning, stuck to the headboard of Ralphie's bed. If you're anything like me, you'll see that scene about 6-10 times nine days from now

I concur Diminished Capacity was ok...worth watching...the way they handle baseball cards in these always drives me up the wall. My mother-in-law who had dementia, lived with us for several years until her death, so it was interesting to me from that perspective.

"and Mrs H...she wuz gorgeous"

How about "Goonies" when a young Sean Astin stumbled across the remains of 'Chester Copperpot' who had been crushed decades earlier while searching for 'One-Eyed Willy's' gold fortune. Upon thumbing through Copperpot's journal, he stumbled across a '33 or '34 Goudey Lou Gehrig.

Even "Big" with Tom Hanks showed a young Billy Klopecke (Sp) flipping through a freshly-opened pack of Topps cards after giving his gum to Josh Baskin. "Need it. Need it. Got it. Need it...etc."

I believe it was $80k. His justification was that "Gem Mint 10" sold for $80k, so he believed his would as well(typical non-collector)..

As bad as that movie was. I still enjoyed the hell out of it..

I believe the Goonies
 

They actually find the 1973 Gehrig Topps in Mr. Copperpott's possesions though he was supposed to be down there in the time frame better suited for the Goudey. Im not sure why they didn't just spring for a repro instead of a cheaper almost modern at the time card. Heck a total beater would have even been relatively cheap by hollywood standards in the early/mid 80's when Goonies was made.

That's right! Ruth had a similar card in that set, too, I believe.

Girl 6

Spike Lee holds up 1989 UD grffey jr an says he buying tons of them, and they'll be worth a fortune one day

Fury, The story of a horse and the boy who loved him.
 

Let's go way back to the late 50's. Jim Newton hires a drifter to help out on the ranch. Nephew, Joey and his buddy Packy recognize him from a baseball card. (I remember that it resembled a 1958 Topps.) The drifter has dropped out of society due to remorse after killing a batter with a wild pitch. The boys can't say anything about baseball because they are afraid the former pitcher will have an emotional upheaval. Unfortunately, the first thing that Packy excitedly says to him is, "Can you teach us to throw a curve ball?" Doh!

"Why would you ask me that?"

"Uh, um, um, because all adults know how to throw a curve ball."

That's all I can remember. How come I can remember crap like that and forget to pick up bread and milk on the way home?

I think I found the Fury episode.
 

It is probably Season 5, Episode 2. It was called, The Big Leaguer. Originally aired October 17, 1959.

I'm going to assume the part of the big leaguer was played by Charles Aidman.

The other regular characters and actors were:

Jim Newton (Peter Graves)
Joey Newton (Bobby Diamond)
Packy Lambert (Roger Mobley)
Pete (William Fawcett)

To add....I just saw "Memphis Belle" last night. In one scene a guy is talking about trading his DiMaggio card. Then when they're on their final flight, when they showed the planes navigator at his maps, he had a 1940 PlayBall card on top. I collect this set but the view was so quick, and unexpected, I couldn't tell who the player was. It was a players head/face card so I know it was not the DiMaggio card.

Pride Of The Yankees. Dont they show a Babe Ruth card when a young Lou Gehrig breaks a window playing baseball at the beginning of the movie? To me this is a great baseball film.

Movie "Simon Birch" kid has a stack of cards the priest confiscates.

Ralphie also mentions "Rube Walker" calls him "Ruby" as many of us oldtimers did.:) Dave. Kinda like "Hooteman or Houteman"?

You can see some T206 cards taped/glued to Ralphie's headboard in one scene from A Christmas Story.

Anyone seen Brighton Beach Memoirs? Lots of cards/memorabilia on the walls of the main character's bedroom.

The Natural- it has the uncut sheets of wanna be '41 Play Ball type cards

Mask- Rocky Dennis rips his buddy's '55 Topps card... I think it's Rube Walker but might be wrong.. Check that, I think he rips a '74 Topps Dodger (Cey?).. But think they have a '55 Rube Walker

Major League- Pedro Cerrano has a '54 Topps Aaron hanging in his locker

Boardwalk Empire- Jimmy's son has a stack of T206's including a Cobb bat on (assuming reprints)

I'll add more if they occur to me... I'm not sure this is the OP's intention but I like where this is going.

ADDING-

Jacob's Ladder- sort of a downer here... little McAauly Culkin while crossing the drops a stack of '74 Topps cards and gets run over by a car while picking them up

Stand By Me- Gordie Le Chance's big bro (John Cusack) has some Topps cards hanging from his wall.. I think maybe a '60 Mantle? Which I think I remember bugging me because the movie is supposed to be in the late '50's. I may be making that memory up though.. Haven't seen the movie in year

Big- flipping through a wax pack ('86 or '87 based on shooting dates) saying, "got em, got em, need him, got em"

+100

"...Babe Ruth....A ROOKIE!!!!"

Ruby Cairo
 

Andy McDowell, Liam Neeson and Viggo Mortensen---woman searches for missing husband and baseball cards provide her clues throughout the movie

Thats one of my favorite all time movies and I never noticed that. Now im gonna have to watch it tonight and look out for it

Haha, this is the part that has always bothered me about the movie. It would have made sense for it to be a 1933, but in reality it was a 1974 (possibly 73, I forget) topps Gehrig card. It never made sense that a guy that died in the 30s had a 70s baseball card. Every time I have seen that part of the movie, even as a child, I got annoyed with that scene.

1973 topps
 

Lou Gehrig card in goonies.

+1

Star Trek: The Next Generation , season 3 episode 22

Data is captured by Kivas Fajo, an alien trader who also has amassed a large collection of unique and one-of-a-kind artifacts from around the galaxy.

One of the prized possessions he shows Data is a 1962 Topps Roger Maris card sealed in an airtight container because it still retains its bubble-gum smell.

There was an episode of "Who's the Boss?" where Angela pays a hundred bucks for Tony's rookie card, which I believe was an '81 Donruss.

At the end of the film "Comic Book Villians," a closet full of baseball cards is revealed, but I don't think any individual card can be seen.

Well, if Hollywood ever wants to do a proper movie about baseball cards, they could cast Nicolas Cage as John Titus.

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