Pre-War cards shown on TV/Movies

[ErikV]

I just watched this episode of Pawn Stars last week. Guy walked into the shop
with a nice collection of autographed 1933 Goudey's. Here's the YouTube link:

http://youtu.be/C9agglrXu9U

Enjoy!

ErikV

[robw1959]

I cannot recall the title or subject of the movie, but I do believe it was a biography produced maybe five years ago. Perhaps FDR? Anyway, it had by far the greatest baseball card scene ever . . . a child was waiting for the war (WWI) to end so his dad could return home. There he was with a stack of T206 cards, going through them and, I think, even saying that he only needed a couple more to complete the set! And the ones they showed, as I recall, were major HOFers like Matty, Cobb and Big Train. It was so gratuitous and had absolutely nothing to do with the plot that I figured the director had to be a vintage collector himself. The only thing out of place was that they had enlarged these cards to where they looked to be about the same size as the tall boys of '65 Topps football. Coolest baseball card scene ever!

[Sean]

There is a scene in A League of Their Own where one of the women, when meeting the Tom Hanks character for the first time, tells him that he is her husband's favorite player and asks him to autograph his baseball card... and Hanks rips up the card and throws it on the floor.

[swarmee]

on the Paul Milander mini-series within CSI: Las Vegas that the card they use to get his fingerprints from when he was a child was on this card:

[deadballfreaK]

The Hallmark Channel has a series called "When Calls the Heart". Its sort of a "Little House" look alike set in a Canadian mining town. One of the episodes last fall centered around a young boy who was good at finding lost things. He eventually found a missing piece of evidence to help the local Mountie solve a crime. At one point the kid is going through his pocketful of treasures and he drops a T206 Wagner on the ground. Good touch since the show is set exactly in 1910! I laughed out loud when I saw it and my wife thought I was nuts.

[Den*nis O*Brien]

Feature film "Memphis Belle" showed some '41 Playballs. The afore mentioned 'Diminished Capacities" shows a T206 Wildfire Schulte and takes the viewer to a card show where Ernie Banks is the signing guest. Looked like a nice show!