Which player has the best looking cards - overall?

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Posted By: Joann

Seeing a few Matty caramels on ebay tonight, it occured to me that it seems like all of his cards are just really, really nice looking cards. The T206 portrait and black caps are both gorgeous, the horizonal caramels among the best looking in their sets, and even his T205 and M116's are just nice, nice looking cards.

At the other end of the spectrum, Tris Speaker seems haunted by crappy images. His T206 looks kind of okay - and it grows on you b/c it's the only card of him in that set. I will say his T205 is among the best looking of all T205's. But other than that, he has very few cards and the ones he does have look like ... butt. Sorry, but he has some of the ugliest cards out there.

I'm not really prepared to start this post b/c I don't have scans ready to insert (and scans always enliven posts like this). I'll add them this week when I have time.

But in the meantime - which player do you think has the best looking cards on an overall basis? The worst?

Joann

(BTW - the Boss Schmidt "butt shots" that actually do look like butt would have him as a nominee. But he makes such a great comeback with his T206 portrait that I don't think he makes the Top 5 for players with worst looking cards. hee)

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Posted By: barrysloate

Honus Wagner portrait comes to mind. And you can't beat the T206 Johnson portrait- many people feel it is the best of all time.

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Posted By: JimB

Matty has so many beauties, but here are a couple to get things started.
JimB

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Posted By: DMcD

Joann: Here's one Speaker that is a beauty.

For sheer mass of beautiful cards, Matty is the first to come to mind.


edited for speling

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Posted By: Jeff Prizner

hey, it's not Speaker's fault that he looks like this...

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

I think it's the best of the T206 cards.

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Posted By: James Feagin

Without a doubt, Freddie Merkle's cards are stunning...

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Posted By: Steve M.

How about Keeler?

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Posted By: Aaron Cowan

I think the T206 portraits are the best looking tobacco cards. Post-war, I would have to say 1953 Topps is the best looking.



Aaron Cowan
acowan19@gmail.com

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Posted By: Brett

Joann,

How can you not like the e90 and e94 Speaker ! The e94s are all pretty good with alot of detail. I've always liked the t206 Speaker ever since i was around 10 or so. In a baseball book I always looked at, it had a picture of that card in it and I didn't know what "t206s" were at the time. I thought it looked neat anyways. I wish Tris Speaker was in more sets from that time period. Its always irritated me that there are 5 Hal Chase t206s, yet only 1 Speaker and Walsh !!

I agree with JimB, but he left out the best Mathewson of all. The e98 Mathewson ! Whenever I think of Mathewson, I always think of the e98 image, followed by the e93 I'm not too fond of his horizontal cards though...

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Posted By: JimB

Brett,
How could I forget the E98 Matty? Here you go.
JimB

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Posted By: t-205

I think this is the best waddell card out there!
E93

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Posted By: Dan Kravitz

Best...

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Posted By: Scott M.

Couldn't agree more about Speakers T205... One of my favorite images in the set!

http://www.sgccardregistry.com/images.asp?cardid=43862&usetid=1778