What are your 5 favorite cards of all-time?

[AMBST95]

In no particular order, I like the following cards:

1915 CJ Walter Johnson
1982 Topps Traded Cal Ripken Jr
1911 T3 Joe Tinker
1887 N28 Mike Kelly
T206 Cy Young Glove Showing

[CMIZ5290]

No particular order....

T206 Waddell (throwing)
T206 Cobb (green port.)
T206 Dahlen (Brooklyn)
T206 Keeler (batting)
1953 Topps Mantle

[Sean]

1- T206 Cobb bat off shoulder
2- T206 Donlin fielding
3- 1965 Topps Carl Yastrzemski
4- T206 Chase throwing white cap
5- T206 Mathewson pitching black cap

[iwantitiwinit]

1. 1970 Topps Johnny Bench
2. 1967 Topps Mickey Mantle
3. T205 Matty
4. 1953 Topps Dizzy Trout
5. T206 Magee

[rainier2004]

I may change my list to include a W600 Matty, Wags or Cobb since our latest thread on those...

[Cardboard Junkie]

Just So......Young
T206.........Wags
E90-1........Joe J.
Balt. News..Ruth
52T...........Mantle

[fkm_bky]

1. 1911 Zeenut Halla - own a heavily trimmed one
2. E95 Merkle - have multiple
3. E93 Leach - have multiple
4. T206 Speaker - have
5. M110 Wagner - not likely that I will find a reasonably priced example

Bill

[RGold]

My favorite card because it looks like my Uncle Morris. But he was a Levi not a Cohan.

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by Sean

1- T206 Cobb bat off shoulder
2- T206 Donlin fielding
3- 1965 Topps Carl Yastrzemski
4- T206 Chase throwing white cap
5- T206 Mathewson pitching black cap

Sean, you're right about the Matty dark cap. It's one of the few T206s that actually looks like a photograph....

[Bobsbats]

Kalamazoo Bats Harry Wright
Four Base Hits King Kelly
N29 Buck Ewing
Mayo Cut Plug Anson
Four Base Hits O'Rourke

[Touch'EmAll]

1949 Bowman Satchell Paige
1926-29 Exhibits Ruth, pose
1967 Panini Cassius Clay
Colgans Chips Honus Wagner
Dockman's Mathewson (the one with the sunset colors, horizontal)

[darwinbulldog]

In the order I thought of them:

E135 Babe Ruth
N172 Con Doyle
N167 Buck Ewing
N162 Dan Brouthers
T207 Buck Weaver

[jimhopkins82]

1. T206 Lajoie with Bat
2. Cracker Jack H.R. Baker
3. T206 Walsh
4. 1908 E102 Mathewson
5. T206 Jack Hayden

[Bugsy]

1. T205 Mathewson
2. Turkey Red Lajoie
3. 1914/15 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson
4. 1910 Tip Top Honus Wagner
5. 1887 Tobin Litho Mike Kelly

[wolfdogg]

in no particular order these are a few of my all-time favorites

1.N28 Anson
2.E135 Jackson
3.1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig
4.1941 Play Ball DiMaggio
5.1965 Topps Pete Rose

Notable Mention:
M101 Ruth
N162 Anson
CJ Jackson
T205 Young
1956 Topps Clemente

[wolfdogg]

Originally Posted by Andy Baran

My 5 Favorites that I once owned:

1869 Peck & Snyder Red Stockings
1886 N167 Buck Ewing
1893 Just So Tobacco Jesse Burkett
1903 E107 Honus Wagner
1903 E107 Christy Mathewson


The 5 Cards that I wish I owned:

1914 Baltimore News Ruth (had a chance to buy one from Barry Sloate years ago - still kicking myself)
1910 T210 Old Mill Joe Jackson (had a chance to buy one from Steve Verkman years ago - kicking myself over this one too)
1893 Just So Tobacco Cy Young (never had a chance)
1909 Cabanas Pete Hill (never had a chance)
186? Peck & Snyder James Creighton

Andy---I started to call about that T210 Jackson that Verkman had around 10 years ago.....same card????

[quinnsryche]

Not in order:
T206 Walter Johnson Portrait
1953 Bowman Mickey Mantle
T3 Nap Lajoie
1934 4 on 1 Exhibit Ruth/Gehrig/Dickey/Gomez
Any OJ Cabinet (really)

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by RGold

My favorite card because it looks like my Uncle Morris. But he was a Levi not a Cohan.

Are you sure, I thought he was a member of one of the lost Tribes.

[GoudeyJim]

1) T206 Mathewson - Black cap
2) 1941 Play Ball Ted Williams
3) 1933 Goudey #92 Lou Gehrig (I like the darker blue shade better than the #160)
4) 1948 Leaf Stan Musial
5) 1983 Fleer Ron Kittle - many great memories of my Mom buying me packs and boxes to get as many of these as I could find.

Jim

[Theoldprofessor]

A & G Kelly 001.jpg 1952 Topps Campy 001.jpg

1952 Bowman Musial 001.jpg T206 Matty 001.jpg

1941 PlayBall Joe D 001.jpg

[wazoo]

I can't necessarily choose a top 5, but aside from all the t206 cards, my favorite would have to be the E95 Eddie Plank. That card is beautiful.

[tbob]

E94 Wagner
E98 Mathewson
T207 Lowdermilk
E90-1 Walsh
E97 Keeler

[triwak]

1. 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth
2. 1863 Jordan and Co. Harry Wright
3. 1909 T206 Honus Wagner
4. 1909 Cabanas Pete Hill
5. 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle

[ejharrington]

My favorites:

1. 1909 E95 Philadelphia Caramel - Eddie Cicotte (red background)
2. 1909 E90-1 American Caramel - Cy Young (Boston)
3. 1895 N300 Mayo's Cut Plug - Tommy McCarthy
4. 1903 E107 Breisch Williams - Cy Young
5. 1921 Frederick Foto Service - Babe Ruth

[cfc1909]

I am sure my answer would be different if I filled this out 5 times except my number 1 but here goes

1. Revelle portrait-t210-AWH-206-Old Mill cab.-any will do my number 1.
2. Matty 205-something about this card I always liked
3. Jacklitsch Mino
4. Adkins Drum 1/1
5. Cobb bat on my first vintage card-still have it ex for 100 bucks in 89 or 90.

206 Boston Herzog, the pink pose of an E card of McGraw, Wagner e107, w600 Matty, e 90-1 Upp, e93 Leach, t209 Hooker, pretty much any T3, Lajoie bat pose.

nonsport-t80, turkey red cars, red robin

[Shoele$$]

In no particular order of preference:

1903 E107 Christy Mathewson
1909 E90-1 Joe Jackson
1910 T206 Eddie Plank
1910 T210 Joe Jackson
1914 Baltimore News Ruth
1914 Cracker Jack Ty Cobb

Sorry I had to list 6

[glynparson]

1. 1953 bowman pee wee Reese
2. 1953 topps satchel Paige
3. T5 Pinkerton Connie Mack
4. 1933 goudey babe Ruth (yellow)
5. 1955 topps Roberto Clemente

[itjclarke]

That I've owned-
N162 Anson
T202 Cobb Steals Third (Cobb/Jennings)
E121 Ruth pitching
E95 Wagner
1954 Topps Aaron

All time-
1914 Cracker Jack Jackson
T206 Wags
1952 Topps Mantle
Zeenut Dimaggio batting
N172 Delahanty bat on shoulder

[Griffins]

That I've owned
1. '33 Goudey #181 Babe Ruth
2. '34 Goudey #37 Lou Gehrig
3. '15 CJ Peckingpaugh
4. Tango Eggs Rebel Oakes
5. '70 Topps Tony Perez

That I'd like
N162 Anson or Kelly
Kbats Andrews
Newsboy Ward
'33 Lajoie
Any of the 3 Duke Cabinets

[cdn_collector]

Top 5 that I've owned at one time or another:

1. Voskamp's Coffee Gibson
2. Obak Ten Million
3. C46 Gandil
4. E105 Mello-Mint Gibson
5. 1952 Topps Jackie Robinson

Probably best to stop there. The "that I'd like to own" list stands at about 500 so to cull out just 5 will take a while...and I need to go to work today

Regards,

Richard.

[Vintageclout]

Here are my top five:

1) 1917 Ruth (Collins McCarthy, Boston Store or Standard Biscuit)

2) 1921 E220 Nat'l Caramel Ruth (Early 1920's Ruth in swinging pose donning striped white cap, Pologrounds grandstand in background & American flag draped by stands - talk about Americana at its best!)

3) 1914 Cracker Jack Cobb (classic baseball card)

4) 1917 Joe Jackson (Collins McCarthy or Boston Store)

5) 1911 JKA Mathewson (by far my favorite Mathewson Card because of the unique real photo pitching pose)

[Al C.risafulli]

1) T206 Rube Waddell Portrait. My first prewar card, got it when I was 9 or 10 years old back in the early 80s. Still have it.

2) N162 King Kelly. I think this is one of the two most beautiful baseball cards.

3) T205 Cobb. I think this is the other.

4) N173 King Kelly. Don't know why. I just love it.

5) 1964 Topps Billy Williams. I bought one when I was a boy, at the old Montclair, NJ card show. I fell in love with the colors and the contrast against the white border. Still have that card as well.

-Al

[npa589]

I was scrolling down to see if someone else had posted the T3 Cobb.

That would be mine as well for #1

How awesome would it have been to have a Honus Wagner T3!


The T3 Cobb would be followed by:

T206 Kling
T3 Frank Chance
Breisch-Williams Honus Wagner
1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan

Originally Posted by Tabe

I don't know that I have a top 5. But I definitely have a #1:




Tabe