Pre-War cards shown on TV/Movies

Originally Posted by VoodooChild

Not sure if this has ever been discussed. I started watching Seinfeld re-runs again for the first time in like 5 years. The "Muffin Top" episode was on yesterday. A scene in that episode takes place in George's office when he works for the Yankees. Now, I would not have noticed this 5 years ago since I wasn't collecting back then, but on the wall of his office hangs what looks to be a T205 NY (american and national?) team set. Not sure if they are real or reprints, but I thought it was pretty cool to see a Matty (my wife didn't get as excited). Has anybody else noticed pre-war cards on display in any TV shows or Movies?

There's also a 1888 Goodwin Champions (ball players) reprint set displayed similarly to these T205's in the hallway outside George's office. You can see it in the episode where Kramer gets the birthday card signed by the Yankees framed and Paul O'Neil has to hit two homers to get it back from the sick kid. They can also be seen in the episode where Jerry accidentally squirts Grapefruit juice in George's eye and he keeps squinting/winking and in the episode when George eats the Kung Pow chicken and is sweating when being questioned about stolen Yankees equipment. Love Seinfeld. Pretty sure I've seen some pre-war cards displayed in "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia" bar as well.

[JollyElm]

Did anyone mention that old movie, "Mask," yet? Rocky wanted to get his hands on a Rube Walker card. Part of his 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers collection, I believe.

[geor952]

"Mask" was mentioned, but I recall a 1973 Munson being place on his headstone after he dies. I also want to say his cards are pinned on his wall in sandwich baggies. It has been 25 yrs since I have seen this movie, I could be making it all up, but I think I am right???

[sniffy5]

Just for clarification, and maybe someone already mentioned this, the framed poster in or near George Costanza's office at Yankee stadium is a poster produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it features a selection of cards from the Burdick Collection that is housed there.

[Steve D]

An episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had Jake Sisko bidding on a 1951 Bowman Willie Mays to give to his dad on his birthday. When he didn't win it in the auction, he spent the rest of the episode trying to buy it from the guy who did win it.


Steve

[Writehooks]

In a classic second-season episode of The Fugitive (1963-67), a very young Kurt Russell, in his guest-starring role as Lt. Gerard's son, hides in Dr. Richard Kimble's car when the good doctor-on-the-run flees a police dragnet. The kid eventually reveals himself and he and Kimble agree that he won't try to make a run for it -- but in order to leave a "trail," the boy secretly starts flipping his football cards out the car window. When Kimble catches him, he confiscates the remaining cards ... then strikes up a conversation with the kid, who laments that he's never been able to pull a Johnny Unitas. In the final scene of the episode, after Kimble is back on the lam and the kid has been reunited with his parents, there's a close-up of the doc slipping a Unitas card into an envelope addressed to young Mr. Gerard.