Best Hornsby Card
 

I'm guessing this topic has come up at some point here, but I wanted to ask: What do Net54 members think is Rogers Hornsby's single best card? Since he didn't make it into the Cracker Jack sets and was largely finished by the time the Goudeys came around, but is a first-tier HOFer up there with Ruth, Cobb, Speaker, Wagner, Gehrig, Foxx, etc. was wondering what people thought.

I like his Goudey #119. I'm not a big fan of the #188 simply due to the placement of his name.

Speaking of.. Hornsby is cursed with having two otherwise cool cards with bad name placement...

https://i.psacard.com/cardfacts/1935...3973.jpg?h=600

1923 Williard's Chocolate v100
1921 Oxford Confectionary e253

The 1921 Exhibit is pretty sweet too..

Personal Fav is his Tattoo Orbits

Here is my only Hornsby. But others I really like include R315, E220, and 1933 Uncle Jacks.

Hes got a bunch of great looking cards IMO. Here are some of my favorites.

1917-20 M101-6 Felix Mendelsohn
1921 Oxford Confection
1922 WM. Paterson
1921 Exhbits
1922 Eastern Exhibits Supply
1922 W503
1922 W575-2
1923 Willards Chocolates
1925-31 Exhibits
1926 Spalding Champions
1928 Exhibits
1929 Kashin
1930 Blue Ribbon
1930 Rogers Peet
1931 W517
1932 Charles Denby Cigars
1933 Uncle Jacks
1933 Goudey 119
1937 O-Pee-Chee

That should about do it;-)

US Caramel or 21 Exhibit.

For me it’s the 1916-20 big heads
That’s the one that got me started on the set

I agree...Hornsby does have a fair amount of attractive, interesting cards. Here is one of my favorites, his W503 card, which has a great batting image and unique backdrop.

Brian

Thanks for posting that card. Never seen it before and agree it's a great image

How about an only graded example Hornsby?

https://thecollectorconnection.com/i...23_1_48748.jpg

I'm going with the first of his five different m114s (not including caption variations) which was among the very first m114 posters released in December 1916, which qualifies as a "rookie card" by my definition.

This...
 

is a good one...and it's available:

Attachment 650340

Lol. Never thought of that.

Great card, Doug! That is a rookie.

Hornsby Cards
 

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Never thought of Hornsby as someone who hit like Clemente, with his back foot off the ground at the moment of contact.

Most folks in his day, though he was a d*ck, so it's appropriate?



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Are there any portraits of him smiling?

Not many!



I vote for the 119 Goudey or the Diamond Star, two very nice looking art cards of the greatest hitting 2B.

Not my favorite but this one hasn't been mentioned so I thought I would show it. Some GREAT cards out there! Thanks for sharing.

Here is my favorite which I do own

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6e3359168b.jpg

E135

Dang that's sharp!

Scarcer type pc...

Awesome card Leon.

That William Paterson is fantastic! I’ve never seen one before.

The 1917 Boston Store and Collins Mccarthy have to be near the top being so rare and his rookie card after all. They don't seem to come up too often.

I recommend a photo or an oddball item instead of a card. Here are two of mine.

Alan

Nice ones Alan.

Here is a Hornsby card that is hardly ever seen from an issue that is obscure as all get out...the 1933 Uncle Jacks set.

Brian (not my card)

Thank you Doug! I had no idea he had such an early M114. Great item!

Alan

Love this one, and is a near "RC"/ one of his earliest :

Austin, Texas is a tourist destination city. If anybody's in Austin, the Hornsby Cemetery isn't too far from the airport. The Rajah was a bat master for sure.

I'm sure it's well-known enough, but it's worth restating here for the heck of it.
Hornsby got his odd, 'pluralized' first name, because it's his mother's maiden name - Mary Rogers. :)

I also like the W517 of Hornsby, especially the sepia tint version. I just noticed that it appears the Tattoo Orbit card of him, seen earlier in the thread, appears to utilize this same photo, just cropped and tilted slightly.

Brian (card not mine)

Here is the photo used to make the W517, taken by Conlon

Thanks Chris...I copied, and pasted the Conlon photo and Tattoo Orbit, and gave the Tattoo Orbit a little tilt, just to emphasize that the Tattoo Orbit does indeed appear to have used the Conlon photo (as does the W517) for its creation.

A related inquiry. Did other Tattoo Orbit cards utilize Conlon photos? Just in case anyone has some ideas.

Brian

Good call on the Tattoo Orbits Hornsby/Conlon connection. The Babe Herman is from a Conlon photo too.

Bad name placement :)

Leon! I posted that card above! haha. Yeah, not sure what they were thinking there. There's not a great place for the name. Pretty sure they had the art made without considering where they would put the name, as no real great place for it.

I'm not sure if the 1923 Lections is his single best card, but it may be his Holiest of Holies:

https://www.net54baseball.com/pictur...ictureid=38231

. . . or is that "Holiest of Hornsbys"?

In any case, not my card.

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I've always had a soft spot for this one.


I choose to think of it as an ultra-rare 1931-ish Times-Dispatch Gossip Section #38 ("Mr. Earl Jordon Found Talking to a Pretty Brunette Girl") with the highly-sought-after Purple Hornsby reverse, though technically of course it's another W517.

https://www.net54baseball.com/pictur...ictureid=38238 https://www.net54baseball.com/pictur...ictureid=38236

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Leon thats a nice one! Nice flat bat from Rogers too. This looks like a worch cigar. What series is this ?

My guess is that, years later, after having served time for his egregious behavior, Mr. Earl Jordon married that Pretty Brunette Girl.

Great card!


Brian

Love his 1917 Collins McCarthy rookie card. Looks so young in that.

His "1916" UNC Big Head has been proven as not being from 1916, so his true rookie card is the 1917 Collins McCarthy (or Boston Store / Standard Baking)