Your favorite card issues - as far as backs

[asphaltman]

Sometimes card backs don't get the recognition they deserve. What are some of your favorite card backs? Here are a couple that immediately come to mind....and I believe I traded both to board members last year.

[bbcard1]

Not prewar, but I am partial to the 1971 Topps/OPC

[quinnsryche]

I know this will be an unpopular post BUT, I really don't and never have, understood the attraction to card backs. I thought we collected the photos of the baseball players on the front, not the advertising on the back? I will never understand why someone would care what the back looks like, although I guess I can see some appreciation for the artwork, colors etc. But not enough to change what or why I collect, the ball players on the front. If all cards were issued with blank backs, would anyone not collect cards? Forgive my ignorance and I certainly don't wish to demean anyone's collecting decisions, I just felt I finally needed to ask the question and this seemed a reasonable place to do it. Thanks for listening.

[asphaltman]

Tony -

I understand many are not into the backs. Most issues I'm the same...it's the front the matters. But there are a few issues where I just find the backs to be pretty cool. For me it all started when I was into the T206 set and started really focusing on backs and that just kind of branched out.

[quinnsryche]

That's cool, I tried it also with T206s, I just couldn't get into it. I guess to answer the question, I always thought the Red Sun back was really neat looking.

[Leon]

Personally I love collecting the backs. I like them MORE than the fronts. I don't know why...maybe it's because it's how many of them are identified or, because of them, it makes some far more scarce than others. I have just always enjoyed it. My first back collecting was the M101-4/5's....then the E94 Overprints then...the list goes on...

The back of this one makes it arguably the best T207 in the hobby. With a more common back it's still a nice card but not the special one that the Red Cross makes it. Again, it's like chocolate and vanilla. To each their own.

[ChrisStufflestreet]

Originally Posted by quinnsryche

I thought we collected the photos of the baseball players on the front, not the advertising on the back?

While I don't presume to know what "we" collect...I can tell you that "I" was able to enjoy some very stormy Summer days as a kid by reading card backs. I attribute that fact that numbers usually come easy to me from those afternoons.

Unfortunately, the cards I read as a kid are well outside the scope of this board, so I won't bother elaborating about them. Within the scope of Net54, I do like some of the more elaborate back designs, like Red Sun.

[drdduet]

1956 Topps has a great back design--love the cartoons...

Prewar--T206 brands take the cake in my book.

[Beatles Guy]

I'm partial to the Red Sun and Polar Bear backs.

[uffda51]

I'm a collector of backs primarily as they relate to type cards. Most of the sets I collect have identical backs (N28) or blank backs (N300).

[WWGjohn]

I love the two back varieties of the 1933 World Wide Gum set, English only and French/English.

John

[mybuddyinc]

Being the worst speller on net54, I've always enjoyed these.
Misspelling "Pugilistic" is bad enough, but misspelling your companies name takes it to a new level.

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[E93]

I love the Mello-Mints, Red Suns and many others, but these are my favorites.
JimB

[Kawika]

Back collecting was an acquired taste that took me a while to acquire. When I started in the Hobby it was all about the pictures on the front but gradually I have come to appreciate the graphics on the reverse that are evocative of the historic context, often depicted beautifully, that the ballplayers of yesteryear lived and played in.
Some really great backs posted already. The Red Suns, of course, are a favorite (never noticed the misspelling before), Jim B.'s OJs are glorious, and gotta get me one of them cool Gertenrichs. Some others that are worthy of cardboard love:

[Jay Wolt]

The T3 ad back is a classic & so large you can display it nicely