for everyone! -- what's your favorite card of all time?

[Yoda]

I must go with the Philadelphia Carmels E95 Ty Cobb.

[Luke]

If the question is what is your favorite specific card you own, then it's this Speaker that my mom bought for me when I was 12.

If it's what card in general is your favorite (not a certain copy of it), then that's a tougher question and I probably have a dozen different answers, but for today it's Gwynn's 1982 TCMA.

[GaryPassamonte]

Originally Posted by benjulmag

+1

Always been my favorite card. Shows Kelly at the absolute peak of his popularity and career, just after he was sold to Boston for $10,000, at the time a colossal sum. The image depicted is the result of a photo shoot. Some years ago REA sold an imperial cabinet of a different image of Kelly from the same shoot, which is also depicted.

My favorite card, too. The pose was also used on the Yum Yum issue.

[danmckee]

1910 Washington Times Ty Cobb

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by t206fanatic

this one checks every box for me, personally

Agreed. That card is just mesmerizing! For common cards, pretty much every T212 Obak.

[mordecaibrown1]

[Apple_Robert]

Originally Posted by mordecaibrown1

That card has great eye appeal.

[nat]

It might change from day to day, but today here's my favorite. (I've shown this one before, so forgive me if it's familiar.) In 1909 the University of Wisconsin toured Japan to play against a bunch of college teams (professional baseball didn't exist there yet). The photo on this postcard was taken during the first game of the tour. It was mailed part way through the tour by one of the American players, telling one of his friends back home about what he's been up to and asking him to take notes in class for him because he's going to miss the beginning of the semester.

[ldrunner27]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

This is the best-looking baseball card there is.

I agree!

[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Hockey-1954-55 Topps Gordie Howe
Baseball 1953 Bowman Musial and 1959 Bazooka Mantle
No basketball cards knock my socks off.

[vintagerookies51]

Gotta be the one in my profile picture. Can’t get much more iconic than that as far as baseball history

[Balticfox]

If I were forced to narrow my selection down to a single specific card, it would be one or the other of my Warren Spahn cards:

[Hoy'sNoDummy]

For me, it's this one of Teddy Ballgame.

[parkplace33]

I will go a little pre war non sports

[Johnny630]

Beautiful Custer!!

[todeen]

I think about these two cards quite often. I prefer the All Star pose.

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[calvindog]

Originally Posted by parkplace33

I will go a little pre war non sports

Took me 20 years to find another Custer collector!

[tiger8mush]

Originally Posted by danmckee

1910 Washington Times Ty Cobb

Don't recall seeing this image before

[Northviewcats]

My favorite player from the year that I first opened a pack.

[dbussell12]

these are really great posts guys. its wonderful to see everyone come together to share the cards that they love.

[GasHouseGang]

I've always been partial to the 1950's.

[dbussell12]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

I've always been partial to the 1950's.

love your username and totally agree on this card. this and the satchel from 53 topps are just absolute peak baseball art and genius of the card for me. those two and mathewson + cy young retirados are central to my collection.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Northviewcats

My favorite player from the year that I first opened a pack.

I have a great longtime hobby friend with the same exact favorite card for the same reason. Nice card.

It's a bad old pic but I made him a superfractor of it many years ago.

[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Took me 20 years to find another Custer collector!

Beautiful examples.

[terjung]

For me, it is the 1934 Goudey of Lou Gehrig that is in Kawika's (David McDonald's) collection. Gehrig's gorgeous signature graces that card in the set that features him. To me, there is no better card in the hobby.

[Section103]

Larry is a sentimental favorite because he simply doesnt get his due respect in the game.

[mark evans]

1957 Topps Mantle. It made a lasting impression on me as an 8-year-old collector. I bought one (PSA 5) as soon as I could afford it.

[REG1976]

My two picks are Sam Barkley the name behind the Pirates and Jackie Robinson

[Schwertfeger1007]

Different Kelly for me...

I've been looking for a nice example of this card for years and finally won this last summer at REA.

[ClementeFanOh]

Tough question- if I was forced, I'd vote the 53 Bowman Color Pee Wee Reese.

Trent King

[Johnny630]

One of my favorite Non-Sport Baseball Related

[Epps]

Mesmerizing

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[CW]

Originally Posted by terjung

For me, it is the 1934 Goudey of Lou Gehrig that is in Kawika's (David McDonald's) collection. Gehrig's gorgeous signature graces that card in the set that features him. To me, there is no better card in the hobby.

Solid choice, Brian. One of my favorites as well. I hope it's OK that I post the card here (had to do some digging to find a scan). Top notch card from a top notch collection.

[Section103]

This would make a GREAT bracket for voting. Maybe when Im back from my daughter's graduation......

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by CW

Solid choice, Brian. One of my favorites as well. I hope it's OK that I post the card here (had to do some digging to find a scan). Top notch card from a top notch collection.

Wow factor

[sammythunder]

For me, it has to be the 1952 Coca Cola Cards. While they're not cards in the traditional form, they are incredibly unique. Especially when you start seeing each card for each player. The way Coca Cola decided on how to design these cards sheds so much importance about the style of the player and what makes them special. When you see them, you can't take your eyes off of them.

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[Kawika]

Originally Posted by CW

One of my favorites as well. I hope it's OK that I post the card here.

Not a problem at all. I was going to get around to it eventually. I bought the Gehrig probably twenty years ago now. I was in awe. Over the next few years three or four other signed '34 Goudey Gehrigs appeared on the market. A couple were acquired by Net 54 members. One of them, in my opinion, had a somewhat nicer signature but don't take that as a complaint. Definitely one of my very favorite cards. It's a special feeling to behold something that the great man once held and to which he affixed his name, separated by nine decades and a 1/16th of an inch of plastic.

Been giving a bit of thought as to what I might post as "my favorite card of all time". I'm lucky to have a number of candidates that on a given day would qualify. I finally decided that my choice would be a card I no longer have. Some of you are familiar with the story of the Benjamin Falk cabinet of Christy Mathewson I won from Mastro which was revealed to have been stolen from the Hall of Fame. Matty is my guy, a man who prevailed over the sport and over the culture like few others. I took it to Cooperstown and gave it back. Broke my heart.



Am pretty fond of his 1914 Cracker Jack. Still own it, has a clean title as best I know.



Used to drive by the old Polo Grounds every time we came into the city when I was a boy, a dark abandoned hulk across the river by that time but once it harbored McGraw's Giants and one could imagine scenes like this.



Less than six months from now it will be 100 years since he passed away, a century in which the world has changed so much yet those distant times still evoke alluring dreams that are depicted by our cardboard souvenirs.

[calvindog]

David, your CJ Matty is still one of my all time favorite cards.

[tycobb]

Hard to choose one favorite of all time but here is a top 5 for me. Sadly i do not own this card but i will one day.



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[dbussell12]

wow guys... this is really showing the diversity and the beauty of the tastes and depth of history that our community of thoughtful and considerate collectors has. truly wonderful to see the posts on this thread; the stories that are coming with them. lots of cards here that i personally had never seen nor heard of before. great to expand my (and i'm sure many others' in our community) understanding of the history and diversity of the medium of the card

[mrreality68]

Some great cards and amazing variety indeed

Really cool thread

This may seem odd as my favorite but it is a minor league Joe Jackson posing with his wife.
And the look on both there faces in addition he is wearing his baseball uniform that is so different from what they wear today

[bleeckerstreetcards]

this one is often #1

[DeanH3]

So hard to choose just one. But for this moment I will go with this one.

[ejharrington]

My short list:

[brunswickreeves]

I love all Wagner portraits-such an iconic pre-war baseball card.

But especially the 1906 Fan Craze. It’s original facing orientation, much earlier issue than other portrait versions, incredibly scarce, and large scale like a 52 Topps-making for a mesmerizing pre and post-war pairing.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

This may seem odd as my favorite but it is a minor league Joe Jackson posing with his wife.

And the look on both there faces in addition he is wearing his baseball uniform that is so different from what they wear today.

"So Joe when are you going to grow up and get a real job?"

[brunswickreeves]

Another picture from that same day. ‘Photo of Joe with two of his Savannah teammates taken at the corner of Broughton and Habersham Streets. The unique part about this photo is Joe's wife Katie is the girl on the left with the sweater on. We presume the other two ladies are the wives / girlfriends of the other two ballplayers. The name of the player on the right is Al Demaree and the last name of the player on the left is Murray.’

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by brunswickreeves

Another picture from that same day. ‘Photo of Joe with two of his Savannah teammates taken at the corner of Broughton and Habersham Streets. The unique part about this photo is Joe's wife Katie is the girl on the left with the sweater on. We presume the other two ladies are the wives / girlfriends of the other two ballplayers. The name of the player on the right is Al Demaree and the last name of the player on the left is Murray.’

That is an amazing photo.
Congrats on having it

Love it

[robw1959]

Mine is clearly the '33 WWG Ruth I obtained from a member here last year. It checks every box - Classical, full-color issue, nice condition, English-only on the back, the G.O.A.T., and rarity as well (under 100 graded by PSA population).

[t213]

My favorite pose.

Andy