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There a few terrific cards out there that portray the wrong player on the obverse side of the card. I will start with the T3 Turkey Reds of Frank Baker that in reality shows his A's teammate Jack Barry. Any others?
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One of the reasons I just purchased a low-grade E97 Cy young. Cool story behind it that it actually pictures Irv Young.
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We have a member with an avatar showing a picture of Ken Hubbs posthumously gracing the front of Dick Ellsworth's 1966 Topps card.
I remember the 1969 Topps card of Aurelio Rodriguez showing an Angels batboy and a Gary Pettis card from some year also having a batboy showing. I realize these are all post-war cards, they are the only ones I'm aware of. Good Thread Idea. .
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In the April 1, 1957 Card Collector's Bulletin, Buck Barker had a long article about cards that picture the wrong player. I posted most of that issue here: http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218784, and below is Barker's article.
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![]() .... I know it's really Bobby Doerr because on the back of the " Ted Williams " some little kid , back in the late forties , wrote in a childish script , in pencil , "really bobby doerr "......I am a trusting soul , and little kids don't lie about stuff like that. .. |
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Incorrect, sir. That is Cy Young. There was a thread that established that a couple years back.
Cheers, Blair
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This is Irv and when I bought him, a long time ago, I thought it was really CY. ![]()
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I don't think this has been posted yet. It's the deceased Ken Hubbs, not Ellsworth.
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Agreed that E97 is definitely Irv Young. But I was convinced (as were many other posters) by the image one of our members found of Cy that the E92, E90-1 (Cleveland), and other E cards using the same rendering that it was a somewhat poorly drawn depiction of an actual Cy Young photo. Cheers, Blair
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The dyslexic in me noticed that George Bell's E90-1 shows him as left handed. He, of course, was right handed (T206s and any reference). Being not much of a facial image, it could be some one else, or a reversed image:
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My statement was supposed to be in favor of the E92 types really being Cy. We are in agreement.
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Do you have a link to that thread, Blair? I remembered this thread showing a newspaper article proving the Cy image was a reversed Irv: http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...=124640&page=2 |
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I still don't think this card was supposed to picture Cy Young just because it says Cy. Irv Young was called Cy Young back then, sometimes Cy the second, but do you really think they would write out all that on a card? In the early days, they had no problem repeating nicknames if players had the same last name. Even Harley Young was called Cy Young and he went 0-3 in his brief career. If you ever read old papers from when both Cy Young and Irv Young played, sometimes they called Cy Young "Old Cy Young" to differentiate the two players. In my opinion, there wasn't any mistake on that card.
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The 1963 Topps card #113 of Don Landrum is actually Ron Santo.
The 1959-1960 Topps Football cards of Green Bay Packers Jim Taylor actually are cards of Chicago Cardinals Jim Taylor. |
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