Baseball Cards - where obscure players become legends

[brianp-beme]

Benny Bengough - 1933 Goudey #1 card

Brian

[brianp-beme]

John Halla - 1911 Zeenut (because it is an awesome horizontal pose)

Brian

[Tennis13]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

John Halla - 1911 Zeenut (because it is an awesome horizontal pose)

Brian

He never quite made it, but there was a Wes Chamberlain rookie Topps error card in the 1990s that had a different guy on it. I asked him to sign it in spring training and he said No. Ha. So he is legendary in my mind

[IMAXMAX]

Lou Lowdermilk+Bill Ripken

[BleedinBlue]

Ron Tomkins and Bill Denehy have an elevated status is most collections due simply to which guy Topps elected to pair them with on their rookie baseball cards. Tomkins shares a card with Johnny Bench and Bill Denehy is the guy sharing a card with Nolan Ryan.

Most of the T206 Southern League guys would have been lost to history if not chosen for a T206 card. Now they are highly sought after.

[almostdone]

Originally Posted by BleedinBlue

Ron Tomkins and Bill Denehy have an elevated status is most collections due simply to which guy Topps elected to pair them with on their rookie baseball cards. Tomkins shares a card with Johnny Bench and Bill Denehy is the guy sharing a card with Nolan Ryan.

Most of the T206 Southern League guys would have been lost to history if not chosen for a T206 card. Now they are highly sought after.

Agreed about the sharing of a rookie but Jerry Koosman shares the card with Ryan, not Denehy.
Drew

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by almostdone

Agreed about the sharing of a rookie but Jerry Koosman shares the card with Ryan, not Denehy.
Drew

Denehy shared Tom Seaver's rookie card, not Ryan's.

[Brian Van Horn]

Magee was a good ballplayer. Now to follow up on Daniel's notation. As for obscure, and in one case never were major league ballplayers, please reference the T207 set with Louis Lowdermilk and Irving Lewis.

[Topps206]

It's too bad Sherry Magee isn't in Cooperstown. The man belongs.

I wouldn't call Billy Ripken obscure, especially since he's an MLB Network analyst.

[deucetwins]

1975 Topps Herb Washington. The only player to ever have his position listed as "Pinch Runner" by Topps.

[71buc]

1952 Topps Gus Zernial
1976 Topps Oscar Gamble and Kurt Bevaqua

[clydepepper]

for several years, Claude Raymond could not seem to zip up on picture day.

[irv]

Originally Posted by 71buc

1952 Topps Gus Zernial
1976 Topps Oscar Gamble and Kurt Bevaqua

I have wanted that card since I joined here as I also thought, based on this older thread, it was unique/fun card.
I never knew, however, that it reached some of the prices shown in this thread.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=121128

[Topps206]

Originally Posted by 71buc

1952 Topps Gus Zernial
1976 Topps Oscar Gamble and Kurt Bevaqua

While 1952 is Zernial's most famous, he isn't an obscurity. He was an All Star and home run champ.