Suggestions for some visually appealing non-RC HoF

[ThePumaLives]

Quick back story: Way back in 1999 my family took a road trip up to NY to see Nolan Ryan's induction into the Hall of Fame. They had an event where kids (I was 12 at the time) got into an autograph signing and we got post cards signed as well as the personalized sheet that is hopefully showing up in this post. I've decided to display this along with some pretty sweet career contemporary card (preferably non-RC). So my question is do y'all have any suggestions? By the way, I plan on putting multiples of some players (such as Ryan with all four teams and Spahn in both Milwaukee and Boston). Thanks for the help!

Player list:
Nolan Ryan
Orlando Cepeda
Harmon Killebrew
Juan Marichal
Tom Seaver
Enos Slaughter
Mike Schmidt
Rollie Fingers
Don Sutton
Yogi Berra
Phil Neikro
Warren Spahn
Al Kaline
Lou Brock

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by ThePumaLives

Quick back story: Way back in 1999 my family took a road trip up to NY to see Nolan Ryan's induction into the Hall of Fame. They had an event where kids (I was 12 at the time) got into an autograph signing and we got post cards signed as well as the personalized sheet that is hopefully showing up in this post. I've decided to display this along with some pretty sweet career contemporary card (preferably non-RC). So my question is do y'all have any suggestions? By the way, I plan on putting multiples of some players (such as Ryan with all four teams and Spahn in both Milwaukee and Boston). Thanks for the help!

Player list:
Nolan Ryan
Orlando Cepeda
Harmon Killebrew
Juan Marichal
Tom Seaver
Enos Slaughter
Mike Schmidt
Rollie Fingers
Don Sutton
Yogi Berra
Phil Neikro
Warren Spahn
Al Kaline
Lou Brock

For Nolan Ryan, I think his best looking cards for each team are '69 (Mets) '74 (Angels), '82 (Astros) and '91 (Rangers).









For Spahn, I love his '53 Topps.

[MattyC]

Some suggestions on great looking cards...

Nolan Ryan - 71T, 74T
Tom Seaver - 74T
Mike Schmidt - 74T, 76T, 80T
Yogi Berra - 51B, 57T
Warren Spahn - 50 & 51 Bowman

[vintagetoppsguy]

Oh, and welcome to the boards.

[ThePumaLives]

Thanks for the welcome and the suggestions, love those Ryans and the Spahn.

[GaleClark23]

Maybe its because I am a Cubs fan......

[David W]

Originally Posted by GaleClark23

Maybe its because I am a Cubs fan......

Maybe because I'm a Cardinal fan.....

[Robs70sCards]

I've always like the 1980 Topps Nolan Ryan card. Similar action shot to the 1974, but with an A.L. All Star banner.

[paul]

For Seaver, you might consider going a little exotic with his 1971 Bazooka. Sorry for the grainy lines in the scan. They're not in the card.

[ThePumaLives]

I do like that 71 Bazooka! One of my favorite things about this site is finding out/ learning more about the non-Topps/Bowman releases.

[Peter_Spaeth]

For Berra and Spahn 53 Bowman.

[David W]

The 71 Topps Nolan Ryan is my favorite. It's as if he was waiting to be anointed the strikeout king, just exploding out of the Royal Crown sign

[hcv123]

Nolan Ryan - 1971 Topps

Orlando Cepeda - 1962 Sporting news all star

Harmon Killebrew - 1959 Home Run Derby

Juan Marichal - 1967 Venezuelan Topps

Tom Seaver - 1973 Topps Pinup

Enos Slaughter - 1952 Topps

Mike Schmidt - 1975 Topps

Rollie Fingers - 1974 Topps

Don Sutton - 1967 Topps

Yogi Berra - 1950 Bowman

Phil Neikro - no suggestion

Warren Spahn - 1953 Bowman color

Al Kaline - 1955 Topps

Lou Brock - 1964 Topps

[paulcarek]

'55 Bowman Kaline

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by David W

The 71 Topps Nolan Ryan is my favorite. It's as if he was waiting to be anointed the strikeout king, just exploding out of the Royal Crown sign

I also like the '72 Topps Ryan. Great portrait shot and one of the very few examples of a good Topps cap airbrush job.


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[DBesse27]

Photo wise, these are my favorite Yaz items. I would pick up one of these.

[the 'stache]

For me, the 1953 Bowman is Warren Spahn's best looking card.

[DBesse27]

I can't post a photo at the moment, but Spahn's exhibit card is pretty awesome too.

[NateMack]

I second Bill's nod to the 53 bowman Spahn, one of the best baseball cards ever made!