How about a baseball card movie ?

[uffda51]

There was an episode of Deep Space Nine, written by my late friend and fellow collector Michael Piller, entitled "In the Cards."

Synopsis:

The mood aboard Deep Space 9 has grown dark as the Dominion threat has intensified. Three ships have disappeared along the Cardassian border in just the last three weeks, Odo has canceled a vacation due to increased thefts of food rations and medical supplies, and the crew is generally gloomy – Captain Sisko most of all. What's more, Kai Winn Adami announces she'll be visiting the station. Fortunately, Jake Sisko has a plan to lift his father's spirits – Quark has invited him to an auction at which a mint-condition Willie Mays rookie year baseball card will be available. He'll show up, purchase the card, and make a gift of it. "How hard can that be?"

[Eric72]

"Needful Things" by Stephen King...the first customer purchased a 1956 Topps Mickey Mantle.

Interestingly enough, in the book, the card was Sandy Koufax.

[jimivintage]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124298/

Brendan Fraser comes up from the nuclear shelter his dad, Christopher Walken, built to sell his cards with a Mantle and turn in his IBM stocks they bought in the 60s.

[bbcard1]

Somebody help me out on this, but wasn't there an episode of McMillan and Wife that focused on high stakes baseball card flipping?

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

Somebody help me out on this, but wasn't there an episode of McMillan and Wife that focused on high stakes baseball card flipping?

I believe it was an episode of Hart to Hart.

[Eric72]

I checked into the card flipping TV show a bit further:

Hart to Hart
The Harts Strike Out
Season 3, Episode 22
Aired in 1982

You can YouTube the episode; however, I was only able to find it in segments. I believe the fourth one has the card flipping. For those who may have an interest, try Googling:

youtube harts strike out (d)

Best Regards,

Eric

[AMBST95]

I just watched the movie, due to the recommendation earlier on Amazon.com's instant download for $2.99. I thought it was okay. The scenes at the card show were somewhat realistic, but all in all it wasn't that great of a movie. Alan Alda's character was pretty good, but Broderick's performance was so-so. It's worth the 3 bucks I guess, but don't get your hopes up for Oscar winning performances.

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by Eric72

I believe it was an episode of Hart to Hart.

"and Mrs H...she wuz gorgeous"

[scoutsout47]

How about "Goonies" when a young Sean Astin stumbled across the remains of 'Chester Copperpot' who had been crushed decades earlier while searching for 'One-Eyed Willy's' gold fortune. Upon thumbing through Copperpot's journal, he stumbled across a '33 or '34 Goudey Lou Gehrig.

[scoutsout47]

Even "Big" with Tom Hanks showed a young Billy Klopecke (Sp) flipping through a freshly-opened pack of Topps cards after giving his gum to Josh Baskin. "Need it. Need it. Got it. Need it...etc."

[JoeyF1981]

Originally Posted by scoutsout47

How about "Goonies" when a young Sean Astin stumbled across the remains of 'Chester Copperpot' who had been crushed decades earlier while searching for 'One-Eyed Willy's' gold fortune. Upon thumbing through Copperpot's journal, he stumbled across a '33 or '34 Goudey Lou Gehrig.

Thats one of my favorite all time movies and I never noticed that. Now im gonna have to watch it tonight and look out for it

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by scoutsout47

How about "Goonies" when a young Sean Astin stumbled across the remains of 'Chester Copperpot' who had been crushed decades earlier while searching for 'One-Eyed Willy's' gold fortune. Upon thumbing through Copperpot's journal, he stumbled across a '33 or '34 Goudey Lou Gehrig.

Haha, this is the part that has always bothered me about the movie. It would have made sense for it to be a 1933, but in reality it was a 1974 (possibly 73, I forget) topps Gehrig card. It never made sense that a guy that died in the 30s had a 70s baseball card. Every time I have seen that part of the movie, even as a child, I got annoyed with that scene.

[glynparson]

Lou Gehrig card in goonies.