What are your 10 favorite vintage cards of all-time?

[the 'stache]

Beautiful cards, and very nice selections. It's hard to narrow it down to 10, isn't it? I'm having a terrible time with it. I want to keep a maximum of one card per player so I leave out as few players as possible. As much as I love the '52 Topps Mantle, I like the '53 Bowman more, and I just can't have two from the Mick if it means excluding somebody else.

01. 1953 Bowman Color Stan Musial
02. 1941 Play Ball Joe DiMaggio
03. 1958 Topps Roberto Clemente
04. 1975 Topps Robin Yount
05. 1954 Topps Hank Aaron
06. 1951 Bowman Ted Williams
07. 1953 Bowman Color Mickey Mantle
08. 1971 Topps Thurman Munson
09. 1963 Fleer Sandy Koufax
10. 1953 Bowman Color Pee Wee Reese

[Hammerin'Hank]

Great topic ! All collectors have unique taste and favorites.

This list is not in order. I don't know how you put them in order. As you can see I love the 50's stuff.

Hank Aaron 1954 Johnston Cookies
Hank Aaron 1954 Topps
Stan Musial 1953 Bowman Color
Mickey Mantle 1953 Bowman Color
Ted Williams 1948 Leaf
Mantle / Aaron WS 1957 Topps
Pete Rose 1964 Topps (Don't know why but I love this card)
Babe Ruth 1933 Goudey
Joe DiMaggio 1939 Play Ball
Lou Gehrig 1934 Goudey

Love those 50's Red Man cards too. The 53 Bowman Color Yogi Berra was tough for me to leave off but I could not list 3 cards in 1 set.

[kailes2872]

1.) 56 Jackie Robinson
2.) 57 Clemente
3.) 54 Aaron
4.) 54 Williams 250
5.) 41 Play Ball Joe DiMaggio
6.) 68 Manager's Dream
7.) 76 Johnny Bench
8.) 78 Reggie Jackson
9.) 65 Willie Mays (to get double credit w/68)
10.) 56 Mantle

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[MattyC]

Originally Posted by Hammerin'Hank

Great topic ! All collectors have unique taste and favorites.

This list is not in order. I don't know how you put them in order. As you can see I love the 50's stuff.

Hank Aaron 1954 Johnston Cookies
Hank Aaron 1954 Topps
Stan Musial 1953 Bowman Color
Mickey Mantle 1953 Bowman Color
Ted Williams 1948 Leaf
Mantle / Aaron WS 1957 Topps
Pete Rose 1964 Topps (Don't know why but I love this card)
Babe Ruth 1933 Goudey
Joe DiMaggio 1939 Play Ball
Lou Gehrig 1934 Goudey

Love those 50's Red Man cards too. The 53 Bowman Color Yogi Berra was tough for me to leave off but I could not list 3 cards in 1 set.

Too funny; I agonized over including the 64 Rose and the Mantle/Aaron card myself. The Gehrigs didn't fit in the OP's range so thankfully that decision was made for us. The 64 Rose also always struck me every time I saw it in a card shop as a kid. Something about that massive trophy?

[brian1961]

Al Richter--- My sincere thanks for taking the time and trouble to load up scans of some powerful nice cards, plus that super rare Mickey Mantle premium plastic portrait. Then again, they're ALL super rare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ya'll sure know how to bowl us over! Thanks for allowing us to peek at some of your swell stuff. --Brian Powell

[Hammerin'Hank]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Too funny; I agonized over including the 64 Rose and the Mantle/Aaron card myself. The Gehrigs didn't fit in the OP's range so thankfully that decision was made for us. The 64 Rose also always struck me every time I saw it in a card shop as a kid. Something about that massive trophy?

You have good taste..........What can I say ?

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by Hammerin'Hank

Great topic ! All collectors have unique taste and favorites.

This list is not in order. I don't know how you put them in order. As you can see I love the 50's stuff.

Hank Aaron 1954 Johnston Cookies
Hank Aaron 1954 Topps
Stan Musial 1953 Bowman Color
Mickey Mantle 1953 Bowman Color
Ted Williams 1948 Leaf
Mantle / Aaron WS 1957 Topps
Pete Rose 1964 Topps (Don't know why but I love this card)
Babe Ruth 1933 Goudey
Joe DiMaggio 1939 Play Ball
Lou Gehrig 1934 Goudey

Love those 50's Red Man cards too. The 53 Bowman Color Yogi Berra was tough for me to leave off but I could not list 3 cards in 1 set.

Russ, my last cut was a '55 Redman Willie Mays. I love those. The Kiner is awesome, too, as are the Musial and Teddy Ballgame!

Oops. A few of your cards are from before 1939. I'll let you take a mulligan, though. I certainly can't argue with the '34 Goudey Gehrig, especially card #37, which is one of my all-time favorites from any era. I will be adding that one soon, hopefully before the end of the year.

You can pick two other vintage cards, and we'll leave the Bambino and The Iron Horse in for good measure.

[the 'stache]

That World Series batting foes is phenomenal. I love those kinds of cards, like the Buc Blasters (Smokey Burgess, Dick Stuart, Roberto Clemente and Bob Skinner), or the Berra, Bauer & Mantle 1953 Bowman Color. Or the 1963 Topps "Bombers Best", with Tom Tresh, Mick and Bobby Richardson. Or the 1964 "A.L. Bombers" with Roger Maris, Norm Cash, Mickey Mantle and Al Kaline. Then you have your various "Managers' Dream" cards, with Mantle & Mays, or Tony Oliva, Chico Cardenas and Clemente.

Then there are the All Star cards. Oh, how I love the 1961 Sporting News All Star cards. You know, the ones with the picture of your favorite player bursting out of the newspaper. Great stuff!

[Hammerin'Hank]

Originally Posted by the 'stache

Russ, my last cut was a '55 Redman Willie Mays. I love those. The Kiner is awesome, too, as are the Musial and Teddy Ballgame!

Oops. A few of your cards are from before 1939. I'll let you take a mulligan, though. I certainly can't argue with the '34 Goudey Gehrig, especially card #37, which is one of my all-time favorites from any era. I will be adding that one soon, hopefully before the end of the year.

You can pick two other vintage cards, and we'll leave the Bambino and The Iron Horse in for good measure.

Love the art work and color on those Red Man cards. My like for them is more as a set then as for an individual card.

My bad on the brain lapse with years.

Now to narrow it down to just 2 more:

1948 Bowman Stan Musial
1957 Topps Roberto Clemente

Had to go with 2 classic head shot photos of HOF's in their youth.

[39special]

1. '53 Topps Satchel Page
2. '56 Topps Ted Williams
3. '64 Topps Pete Rose
4. '58 Topps Rocky Colavito
5. '62 Topps Roger Maris
6. '71 Topps Nolan Ryan
7. '53 Bowman color Pee Wee Reese
8. '65 Topps Frank Robinson
9. '53 Topps Jackie Robinson
10. '56 Topps Sandy Koufax

[Hammerin'Hank]

Originally Posted by 39special

1. '53 Topps Satchel Page
2. '56 Topps Ted Williams
3. '64 Topps Pete Rose
4. '58 Topps Rocky Colavito
5. '62 Topps Roger Maris
6. '71 Topps Nolan Ryan
7. '53 Bowman color Pee Wee Reese
8. '65 Topps Frank Robinson
9. '53 Topps Jackie Robinson
10. '56 Topps Sandy Koufax

Nice list !

The '53 Topps Page was hard for me to not to include. Same with the 53 Bowman Color Reese card. I just already had 2 listed from that set.

[39special]

Originally Posted by Hammerin'Hank

Nice list !

The '53 Topps Page was hard for me to not to include. Same with the 53 Bowman Color Reese card. I just already had 2 listed from that set.

There are a lot I left out.I could do a top 25 list or more!