Bring Frickin' Joy Now!!!!!

[JollyElm]

There's been an ever-growing pestilent plague of nastiness going on in all sorts of Net54 threads lately, so it's time to fight back!!!!!

Grab and post pics of cards that show the players loving life and being incredibly joyful for being able to play the game they love so much!!
Cards that define "HAPPINESS" and immediately make you grin from ear to ear!!

Heck, if you prefer, just post cards that make YOU YOURSELF extremely joyful...and do it now to help turn the nasty tide around...


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[Leon]

Ducky is always happy as long as he's playing baseball!

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by Leon

Ducky is always happy as long as he's playing baseball!

And he's got plenty of room on his dance card, ladies.

[Lucas00]

Happy

[Beercan collector]

HOORAY !! ... i’m not on the Cubs no more

[edjs]

Happy

[JustinD]

[Exhibitman]

[Leon]

Originally Posted by JustinD

Happy doesn't really look that happy.
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[CW]

The first cards that come to mind for this thread are the '53 Bowman Color Stan Musial and the '56 Topps Mickey Mantle, but I don't own either of those.

Seems like the further you go back in card issue, the tougher it is to find someone smiling. For example, how many T206's show the player smiling, even among the portraits? Not many.

Pre-war



and post-war

[dstudeba]

[Jay Wolt]

[Seven]

The Mick is thrilled to be here, gracing the Pre-War section with his presence.

Side note: Am I the only one that thinks some of his best issues are not from Topps?

[brianp-beme]

Except for the headless fellow, they all seem to have a smile on their face.

Brian

[4815162342]

[CardPadre]

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[philliesfan]

I know its not baseball but............we adopted this sweet thing today. My son saw her on a rescue site and fell in love with her. We thought she was in the Philadelphia area as the site referenced. However, we were asked if we could wait for about a month because she was in South Korea! It is an International Rescue. Long story short, she arrived at JFK around noon today and they dropped her off at my house around 3:30.

We introduced our other three dogs one at a time and they all get along very nicely! In just a few hours we saw a change in her that was skiddish from us at first to sitting in our laps.

I think we brought as much joy to her as she has to us.

Bob
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[cgjackson222]

Love that Home-Run King card of Aaron.

[BioCRN]

A few Charlie Hollocher cards got posted on another thread and I made a comment about how good he might have been without the burden of mental illness. He made it until his mid-40s before he decided he couldn't take it anymore.

Here's a card documenting what seems to be one of his better days, hopefully during an extended period of better days.

[MikeGarcia]

[edjs]

Originally Posted by dstudeba

Dan! Great to see you post. That’s a happy guy for someone named Krapp. Here’s a Happy guy.

[jingram058]

Hank and Ralph look like they're pretty happy, don't they?

[molenick]

Lots of smiling faces in Wilson Franks. Maybe they got free hot dogs for being part of the set.

[ValKehl]

I'd smile too for my 1925 cards if I had driven in the winning run in the 12th inning of the 7th game of the most recent World Series to make WaJo the winning pitcher!

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

There's been an ever-growing pestilent plague of nastiness going on in all sorts of Net54 threads lately, so it's time to fight back!!!!!

Grab and post pics of cards that show the players loving life and being incredibly joyful for being able to play the game they love so much!!
Cards that define "HAPPINESS" and immediately make you grin from ear to ear!!

Heck, if you prefer, just post cards that make YOU YOURSELF extremely joyful...and do it now to help turn the nasty tide around...


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Jolly, I think it's time for you to bring out that cool looking bear guy from several threads back. If he can't lighten things up, nothing can.

[Bigdaddy]

I was going to post the '77 Fidrych, but I see someone beat me to it. Instead I'll share a photo that always makes me smile.

[molenick]

Another E99 smiler for the thread.

[Vintagedeputy]

The Mick

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Jolly, I think it's time for you to bring out that cool looking bear guy from several threads back. If he can't lighten things up, nothing can.

By your command, Heeeeeeeeeeee-eeeeeeeeeeere's Harvey...

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Full of joy (except while watching Mets games, of course), that one.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

I was going to post the '77 Fidrych, but I see someone beat me to it. Instead I'll share a photo that always makes me smile.

That's awesome Tom, thanks for posting.

[Bill77]

Here are a few.

[prestigecollectibles]

Smiling Sadaharu Oh and Isao Harimoto

[Tom S.]

E98 Walsh

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by prestigecollectibles

Smiling Sadaharu Oh and Isao Harimoto

Awesome pic, Harimoto was the ultimate Badass.

[doug.goodman]

Conlon capturing some joy

[Kawika]

The ever joyful Mr Berra

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Awesome pic, Harimoto was the ultimate Badass.

+1 Awesome card featuring some awesome players, that is perfect for this thread.

[GeoPoto]

Put me in coach!

[SyrNy1960]

Now this is my kind of thread!

[SyrNy1960]

Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

I was going to post the '77 Fidrych, but I see someone beat me to it. Instead I'll share a photo that always makes me smile.

What a great pic! Thanks for adding this one! Made me smile!

[tjisonline]

Amen

Originally Posted by JollyElm

There's been an ever-growing pestilent plague of nastiness going on in all sorts of Net54 threads lately, so it's time to fight back!!!!!



Grab and post pics of cards that show the players loving life and being incredibly joyful for being able to play the game they love so much!!

Cards that define "HAPPINESS" and immediately make you grin from ear to ear!!



Heck, if you prefer, just post cards that make YOU YOURSELF extremely joyful...and do it now to help turn the nasty tide around...





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[steve B]

Oh, those aren't quite right...



Well, the kid is happy but the players aren't.
Strike two.



Ah, that's better.
It's a little surprising how few cards I have scanned have players that look happy. Maybe calm and satisfied, but not happy.

[mybuddyinc]

Those the back of the card count ...................

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Fun, fun, Scott

[ChasingPaper]

[MikeGarcia]

..any guess on the hat size ?

..

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by edjs

Dan! Great to see you post. That’s a happy guy for someone named Krapp. Here’s a Happy guy.

Perhaps that smug, self-satisfied smile was the result of really having had a good one this morning.

[ValKehl]

The "Boy Wonder" often smiled for his baseball card pics:

[deweyinthehall]

Here are several from the greatest Topps set ever....as well as one from a lesser issue....

[dstudeba]

Originally Posted by edjs

Dan! Great to see you post. That’s a happy guy for someone named Krapp. Here’s a Happy guy.

Thanks Ed, very kind of you. Good to see you and thanks for sharing cards out of your magnificent collection.

[oldjudge]

A grin at least