Baseball cards that were never issued
 

Baseball cards that were never issued like the 54 & 55 Topps Mantle etc. Here is mine I developed 33 years ago of Ruth & Gehrig. Back then I sent the image to HOF and they were interested in displaying it, but I never did send it.

https://www.collectorfocus.com/image...93/ruth-gehrig

Sam nice job, looks great

It's post war but Bob Lemke (RIP) did a couple of versions of the missing Ed Bouchee 1958 Topps. Happy to have them and this one fills the empty slot on that binder for me.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F6h_fGil2...00/EFizshd.jpg

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cHVQ6A-0u...00/lR0xIeS.jpg

Here's the other version.

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ikabEgPTz...f%2Byellow.jpg

The Ed Bouchee story is here although I figure everyone here is likely aware of it.

I had no idea about Ed Bouchee, thanks for sharing. That first 58 is spot on!

Bob made some great cards.

This would have been a nice edition to the 33G set.

Image is not mine and I did not create it. Found it via Google image search.

He sure did, and it was great corresponding with him about them. RIP, Bob.

These 2 are pretty cool, because they were real planned cards but never issued. Seaver and Gibson are known from a preproduction sheet with these poses, but Topps changed the photos because of them apparently posed with the wrong hand as a joke.

Some guy on eBay I don't know has been selling these customs using the original poses as Topps first intended.

If the thread rules can be stretched a little to include the slab, then I got one...:D

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Lou & Babe
 

Thanks Jay!

- Diamond Stars Ruth and Gehrig would have been nice.
- T205 Sam Crawford - does anyone know why he doesn't have a card in this set?
- A Topps card with Reggie Jackson on the Orioles in an Oriole uniform

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The court ordered breakup of the ATC is probably the cause, but for whatever reason the set was only about half finished. As Crawford was a star under contract, he probably would have appeared in a series that never got released.

Here are a few 1976 Topps Traded Reggies (complete with awful Toppsian airbrushing work) that I did for my 'Cards That Never Were' thread...

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Goodwin & Co. gave us the "Brown's Champions 1886" in 1887 after they defeated Chicago. They issued both Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Brown's Champs portraits. It would have been nice if they did the same for the 1887 champion Detroit team. Here is a fantasy card I pulled together a couple years ago. This could have been, should have been, a late 1887 addition to the set.

Love the Diamond Star Ruth Scott.

Diamond Star Ruth
 

Yes I agreed Diamond Star Ruth is so cool!

He missed the set by a couple of years, but I have always thought an N300 Mayo King Kelly would have been cool. I like 1955 Topps as well and Mantle would have been a good addition.

Here's one of my favorite mockups of a card that never was. Too bad the game didn't integrate sooner.

https://helmarbrewing.com/images/car...r_26_Front.jpg

So when I saw the title of this thread, it gave me an idea to create a card than never happened. In short, Arod was invited to play for the 1993 USA Baseball Team. Each player had to agree to appear on a Topps baseball card, which would be part of the 1993 Topps Traded set. Due to a baseball card disagreement, Arod was knocked off the team. However, he stayed with the team during the week-long dispute, participating in practices and pregame workouts.

I have the Team USA Media Guide with Arod in it. I have the article from the local newspaper that explains what occurred, and I have a baseball that Arod signed on 6/16/93, while he was with the team.

So I thought, why not create the card myself to display with the ball and media guide.

The only thing I couldn't do was place the correct USA on his jersey. I'm not a graphics or photo shop person. I did this all using word.

If anyone knows someone who is good with graphics and could help, it would be greatly appreciated. Of course, willing to pay for the help.

Thanks!

Here's a fun one...

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Here is my "fantasy" T205. The one you have in the slab, where or how did you get that done?

https://https://www.net54baseball.co...1&d=1659311349

These were sold on eBay a couple of years ago. Never issued, but I think they are insanely cool.

I feel confident that Goudey Gum decided Napoleon Lajoie would fill 1933's gap at #106 either because Carl Hubbell bumped Lajoie out of Sport Kings series 2 or because Goudey scuttled Sport Kings before printing series 3, which would've included Lajoie. They then added a 1933-style back to this existing art, printed it in mid-1934, and mailed them out to satisfy written complaints for their missing #106.

In 2020, I mocked up Lajoie as a Sport Kings card and think it turned out great. Adding a design-free version to this post for anyone who wants to try something similar.

I think you're spot on with your theory Matthew.

As good as you guys are at making these mock ups, could one of you do a Joe Jackson T211? That’s a card I would like to have seen Red Sun make!

Wood
 

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That’s really cool Joe and completely agree. I wish we could find a 1889 Detroit baseball currency or have a fantasy image to post.

I wonder how many of us had the same experience. Bouchee was listed as card #145 on one of the checklists. I was ten years old and I rode my bike all over our little midwestern town, looking to trade with kids from other elementary schools whom I'd met in Little League. I never could find an Eddie Bouchee -- needless to say -- and that missing card was one of the great disappointments of my childhood. (In retrospect, I guess I was pretty lucky.)

Fast forward to 1971. I was one year out of college and I had a decent job. I saw an ad in Street and Smith's (or maybe The Sporting News) from Stan Martucci on Staten Island, advertising baseball cards for sale. I bought a '55 Topps set, the '58 set (which had been my favorite), and the '60. I remember the '55 set cost $35 and that I passed on the '57 because I thought $55 was too much. The sets were most VG-Ex and better and I was thrilled.

Martucci's flier said that card #145 had never been issued. I didn't learn the whole story about Bouchee until much later, but it was odd to realize that this major disappointment was really nothing at all. There never was a Bouchee card.

Here's another fantasy version, blank-backed.

It’s a crying shame 1950 Bowman doesn’t have DiMaggio or Musial. That set was pure art, but those are two glaring holes.