Favorite football card

[Mikehealer]

Lets see your favorite football card, or if you don't have a scan tell us the card. If you have more than one, show them all. For me it's the 1950 Bowman Sammy Baugh.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by Mikehealer

Lets see your favorite football card, or if you don't have a scan tell us the card. If you have more than one, show them all. For me it's the 1950 Bowman Sammy Baugh.

Beautiful card, Mike! I'll have to think long and hard about my favorite. That's a tough one.

A quick story about the '50 Baugh. When I was a kid in the 70's and started collecting football cards, I used to go with a buddy to a local card shop and a local flea market where we discovered vintage football cards existed ... i.e. pre 1970 cards. I would try to pick up a card of a player I'd read about in a book (ideally their rookie card) every time we went but was constrained by having a kid budget so often had to pass. I did pick up a 1950 Bowman Dante Lavelli and 1951 Emlen Tunnell that I still have. Most of the others were late 50's / early 60's Topps and Philly cards.

One weekend I stopped by the flea market and a card dealer had a 1950 Bowman Sammy Baugh. I'd never seen it before and loved the color! He wanted $10 for it and I only had $8 in my pocket. He wouldn't budge on the price so I left without it. The next weekend when I went back, it was gone. Always haunted me that I didn't get that card as a kid so it was one I was after first when I started putting together the 1950s Bowman sets 5-6 years ago.

Love that card.

jeff

jeff

[Mikehealer]

Thanks Jeff, I guess what I really meant was all things being equal(rarity, value, condition etc.)which is your favorite. I have many favorites, but the '50 Baugh is the one I probably like best if all cards were equal. If that makes any sense.

I look forward to yours as well as others.

[LuckyLarry]

Say what you want but it IS a Namath RC

Larry

[pawpawdiv9]

@Larry: I gotta go with Joe as well. For the fact its a super-sized card just adds more character. It was my 1st football card. I have only seen a few of the 'butterfly tatoo' versions on his hand.

[ZernialFan]

A couple of my favorites that I pulled from packs when I was a kid. Have a few more, but the '52's always had a certain look that I liked.
Charlie

[quinnsryche]

Not old but I love it.

[HappyJack41]

Legend.....

[clamendo]

I think I am starting to like 1920s football cards the most. The dawn of the NFL and CFL. Almost impossible to pick one but I like the quartet of Granges... Star Player, #9b Shotwell, Sport Company of America, & Rogers Peet...


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[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by clamendo

I think I am starting to like 1920s football cards the most. The dawn of the NFL and CFL. Almost impossible to pick one but I like the quartet of Granges... Star Player, #9b Shotwell, Sport Company of America, & Rogers Peet...


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Dang Carl! My heart skipped a beat when reading this as I thought we had converted somebody new to pre-war

You are already the grand master of 1920s cards so I'm glad you like them!

jeff