TV Shows/Movies featuring Cards....I'll start Hart to Hart (1982)

[Yastrzemski Sports]

A couple of years ago on an episode of Better Call Saul - one of the cohorts had his valuable collection of 50s baseball cards stolen. When he got them back and went through them to confirm they were all there, it was obvious they were a box of 90s commons.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Yastrzemski Sports

A couple of years ago on an episode of Better Call Saul - one of the cohorts had his valuable collection of 50s baseball cards stolen. When he got them back and went through them to confirm they were all there, it was obvious they were a box of 90s commons.

Ha Ha, I remember that. Such a disappointing oversight, from an otherwise great show.

[sando69]

what's that?
a movie involving baseball card collectors entitled "Diminished Capacity?"
and,
jerry g- fond memories of sat morns in socal spent watching fury, sky king and whirlybirds!

[Jerry G]

jerry g- fond memories of sat morns in socal spent watching fury, sky king and whirlybirds! [/QUOTE]

SANDO 69 Yes! Sky King flying the Songbird with his honey pot niece, Penny.

[olecow]

Not sure about the movie but in Stephen Kings Needful Things novel one of the items in the store that's coveted is a 1956 Topps Sandy Koufax. I believe it's a 56. I haven't read the book in 25 years.

[brianp-beme]

There is a 2013 episode of Modern Family that has Phil and Manny meeting a guy in a parking lot near a dumpster to purchase a mint condition signed Joe DiMaggio card. The card appears modern in the brief flashes that it is seen (1980's Topps?), but the scene is classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDssBLVALDU

Brian

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by olecow

Not sure about the movie but in Stephen Kings Needful Things novel one of the items in the store that's coveted is a 1956 Topps Sandy Koufax. I believe it's a 56. I haven't read the book in 25 years.

If my memory serves me...in the book...in this scene...there was also a honus wagner in this "box."

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by olecow

Not sure about the movie but in Stephen Kings Needful Things novel one of the items in the store that's coveted is a 1956 Topps Sandy Koufax. I believe it's a 56. I haven't read the book in 25 years.

As with many of King's stories, there's both a book and a movie. Interestingly, there's a divergence whereas it concerns the card.

Yes, it's a 1956 Topps. In the book, the card is a signed Koufax. For the movie, it was Mantle.

[Yastrzemski Sports]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Ha Ha, I remember that. Such a disappointing oversight, from an otherwise great show.

Painful to watch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYOd5I2M_I

[pokerplyr80]

There were a couple in different Star Trek shows. A 62 Maris in an episode of TNG that was supposedly the last known baseball card. And a 51 Bowman Mays in DS9 that Jake wanted to buy for his dad.

Just noticed this is a duplicate of an earlier post.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by Yastrzemski Sports

A couple of years ago on an episode of Better Call Saul - one of the cohorts had his valuable collection of 50s baseball cards stolen. When he got them back and went through them to confirm they were all there, it was obvious they were a box of 90s commons.

Bumping as I’m finally getting around to watching Better Call Saul. The whole episode was devoted to this guy getting his baseball cards back. Pretty funny as I can relate. If this happened to me, I’d go to the cops too. He’s spouting off names and cards that would be upsetting to have had stolen.

Anyway, another weird movie fact I saw a few years ago (2018). While watching Creed, they show Pardon the Interruption on tv, which happens to show that Patriots vs. Eagles on the bottom line. This was the Super Bowl matchup in 2018. Cool thing is, Creed was made three years earlier in 2015! Great prognostication? Cool that I happened to watch this movie shortly after the 2018 Super Bowl, so it stood out to me.

[BobC]

How about 'Cop Out' from 2010 with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan. Willis is a cop who loses his 1952 Topps - Andy Pafko card #1, and spends the whole movie trying to get it back so can sell it to help pay for his daughter's wedding.

[25801wv]

I remember watching an episode of Dennis the Menace where he had a 1955 Topps Koufax.

[mrreality68]

Wow this is a fun thread.

Watch many of those and never paid attention pretty cool

[vthobby]

Just saw a new Xtandi (drug) commercial and a guy named Karl Foster plays catch with a kid then shows him a box with his baseball card in it. It was a fantasy 1980 topps card and showed him playing for the Armadillos.

Pretty cool commercial with a card that never existed but showed him playing catch with a neighbor kid which was cool.

Mike

[Gary Dunaier]

CONTENT ADVISORY: NON-SPORT CARD RELATED, WITH SPOILER

Everybody Loves Raymond, season 4, episode 17, "Hackidu," original airdate 2/21/00

Synopsis (cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia, slightly edited and supplemted by me): In a spoof of the Pokémon craze, Ray's daughter Ally makes a Hackidu card trade (all of her cards for one Scramisaur card) which Ray does not agree with. He reverses the trade, only to find out that the Scramisaur card that Ally was getting is actually very rare and an expensive. Ally is devastated and to make it right, Ray buys her a Scramisaur from an eccentric card shop owner. Ray presents the mint condition card to Ally, who promptly folds it and puts it in her pocket.