Show Your Favorite Flying Players

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Posted By: Matt

Jerry's post in the other thread inspired me to start a thread about favorite cards depicting a player in mid-air.

Here is his Oakes:

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Posted By: Chris Counts

Here's a few flying players from my collection ... sorry about the post-war and football cards, but I couldn't resist ... Stone looks like he's taking off, while Lockman appears to be crash landing ... Reese resembles a helicopter, while Younger looks like Superman, especially with Old Glory waving in the background ...

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Posted By: Alan U

O/T-- Not vintage or a card, but my favorite flying player photo

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Posted By: fkw

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Posted By: Tony

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Posted By: Jerry Rucker

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Posted By: leon

Not sure I have ever seen another one of these but this guy is getting some serious air....

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Posted By: Matt

Leon - interesting card - the front looks exactly like an E120; I would bet that whomever the player is , he has a corresponding E120 with the same image.

While I was looking for it, I came across these:


I'm thinking the photographer had a "thing" for this pose.

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Posted By: fkw

Leon, your game card pictures Heinie Groh. Its the same pose as my postcard pictured a few posts above.

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Posted By: Matt

Good eye Frank! Interesting that the border around Leon's card, while it is found on some of the E120s, is different then the border found on Groh's E120.

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Posted By: leon

thanks man!!! I think you are absolutely correct. I never knew who it was until now.....Have you ever seen another playing card like that?

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Posted By: Mark L

Thanks for showing the E120 of Youngs. As you can see, it is the pose that keeps showing up on all his cards. What I like most about the E220 set is that it usually finds poses that you don't see on the other e card issues. In this case, Ross didn't change his pose for E220 but he did change his shirt.

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Posted By: John S

I know its football...but its my all-time favorite. It looks as if he has been launched from a cannon.

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Posted By: Seth B.

Hey Mark, does Ross have his glove on backwards in both those shots, too?

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Posted By: Mark L

Darn right the glove is on backwards. Maybe his ability to play great baseball with his glove on backwards convinced quite a few other players that he was the best player ever.

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Posted By: Matt

Mark - that's incredible - two different pictures taken at different times/places, yet the same pose and the same bizzare backwards glove. There must be a story there.