interesting/funniest description on Back of Card

[mets41]

1964 Topps Dave Bennett rookie (Phillies) card: "this 19 year old fire-baller is just 18 years old).

[bnorth]

I am going with the 1970 Pedro Borbon.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

The 1954 Paul Minner I just won in the raffle says that Paul declined to fight a batter last season to protect his new $200.00 set of teeth!

[tonyo]

I borrowed this from another thread

[clydepepper]

That last one is hard to beat, but here is my attempt.

1989 MLB Umpire Set

Standard questionnaire responses on card backs.

Frank Pulli's response to 'No one knows I'm' - Blind

Several others answered - 'Sensitive' or even 'Very Sensitive'

John Shulock said no one knows he's 'Really a nice guy'

Bob Davidson said that no one knows he's 'Intelligent'

[WhenItWasAHobby]

I love this one:



Trull played up to and including 1969, while Blanda played though 1975.

[Exhibitman]

Read Dave Bennett's bio:



I always got a kick out of the 1974-75 Frazier card too:

[h2oya311]

My favorite:

1969 Topps Test - Bowie Kuhn

Check out his eyes, batting and fielding records. Not very PC at all!

[Republicaninmass]

52 topps also waitkus

"shot by a crazed girl and was close to death"

[Koufax32fan]

Here is the Waitkus

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by tonyo

I borrowed this from another thread

Memorex or Photoshop? I guess from my childhood, I liked some of the ones in Topps Big Baseball, but can't remember any specific one.

[darkhorse9]

My favorite is from the 1941 Play Ball card of Harry "Gunboat" Gumpert. It says: "harry did not set the baseball world on fire last year. At times he wasn't very good....."

[Exhibitman]

Holy crap, I can't believe a card maker would really write that. The poor guy's family must have been so excited about his being on a card...until they read the back. Sy Berger once said in an interview that the hardest part of his job was trying to find something nice to say about a lousy player for a card back: "What can you say -- 'This guy stinks'?" Apparently, at Gum, Inc., the answer was "yes." I can't see that on the back of my Gumpert card; it has this instead: