The Baseball Cards Hall of Fame Thread...

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Originally Posted by JollyElm

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• 1974 Topps #575 Steve Garvey - what a wondrously marvelous, psychedelically inviting horizontal shot of the star first bagger. This card seemingly has its origins in the work of Monet. (Side note: Dave Kingman received the same treatment in the set, but it was a less effective effect (Holy redundancy, Batman!) on his vertically oriented card, and the fact that Garvey captured the MVP that season makes his card that much more memorable.)

For me, the '74 Garvey will always be notable for it's appearance in "Mask" (the one with Cher and Eric Stoltz; not the one with Jim Carrey...)

"You don't even have a Garvey card Ben, jeez..."

Despite the fact that the movie was set in 1980 or so, the card that Rocky's character had was the '74, and he had like 3 of them. He trades one for his cousin Ben's '55 Topps Rube Walker, which is one of the last cards he needs for his '55 Brooklyn collection.