Has a card ever mesmerized you?

[Leon]

Just curious if a card has ever mesmerized (not crazily) our board members when looking at it? I admit, as a card addict, I have been before. Or is this not normal?

[ullmandds]

Those Kelloggs 3-D cards definitely mesmerize me!

[Enfuego]

When I first laid eyes on a Satchel Paige card, i was in a state of awe for a few min.

[wheels56]

not necessarily in order:

1. 56 Topps Ted Williams (total beater, creased in several places. gift from my Dad. very sentimental)
2. 52 Topps Mantle (totally cliche, I know. but true)
3. 53 Bowman Pee Wee Reese (the visual + the back story)
4. 54 Topps Ernie Banks (I never get sick of looking at this card. Like the Golden Gate Bridge, but on a different scale)
5. T206 Evers Portrait (the green background, the jersey)
6. 33 Goudey Gehrig #92 (sentimental, love the baby blue background)
7. 80 Topps Bird, Magic, Dr. J

As a kid:

1. 1989 Score Bo Jackson #697 (truth be told, I still love this card)
2. 1985 Topps Mark McGwire Oly (bittersweet)
3. 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. (captures youth and optimism, just like the Banks rookie)

[paulcarek]

1933 Goudey Mickey Cochrane.

The bright red background. The crisp white uni. The deep blue eyes...

[MattyC]

Too many times to count.

As for many, the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle seemed like it only existed in a dream. The first one I ever held or saw in person was one bought as an adult. It gave me chills and thrills that the card continues to give me to this day. I stare at it for long periods, and it does what I imagine Xanax is intended to do.

The Babe Ruth Rookie and Lou Gehrig Rookie do the same for me, but less for any magic lingering from childhood, as I didn't learn of them until many years later; rather, they mesmerize because of their significance to the sport, their age, their subject images, the near 100-year journeys through time that such a card must have taken to wind up in my hand-- depicting the game's best players, the cards must have been handled and beloved by all hands they passed through before mine. I hold the 1933 Goudey Ruths and the 1933 & 1934 Gehrig in nearly the same regard, and enjoy them in hand almost as much.

A child of the 80's, 1984 Mattinglys, Goodens, and Strawberrys will always send me in a trance back to days when smashing homers and scorching line drives in schoolyards or streets or little league fields was all I cared about, alongside baseball and cards-- as opposed to all the annoyances and malaise of adult life.
I enjoy images of these cards and others several times a day. As the old saying goes: they soothe the savage beast.

[Econteachert205]

1975 topps baseball partial set I bought in 1988 when I was 6. The color!

[AK11]

I have one in mind from my youth:

1994 Upper Deck Ken Griffey, Jr. #224

The glossy photo stock and design complementing the awesome leaping catch pic does it for me everytime.