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[sthoemke]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Is this Buster Douglas card actually a tough card? I've got at least a couple stashed away in an album and never thought twice about them before, but there doesn't seem to be much of a history of them on-line. I figured they were mass produced like the Muhammad Ali AW Sega card.....but maybe not so much.

Just picked up the French version. Add this to the Buster Douglas checklist.

[G1911]

Barry and Sullivan are from the Heroes of the Ring set, the 3rd card from numbered series F. Loving these Ogden's, up to 31 different boxing cards across the series that constitute these closely related black border issues.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by G1911

Barry and Sullivan are from the Heroes of the Ring set, the 3rd card from numbered series F. Loving these Ogden's, up to 31 different boxing cards across the series that constitute these closely related black border issues.

If I remember correctly, that last card is Bob Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher re-enacting their bout near the Texas border for the cameras. This time on higher ground and with a bigger crowd, then their original mostly secret location of a sand bar, just on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

If I remember correctly, that last card is Bob Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher re-enacting their bout near the Texas border for the cameras. This time on higher ground and with a bigger crowd, then their original mostly secret location of a sand bar, just on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.

Thanks Dave. I thought I recognized the back of Bob Fitzsimmons head, but no clue on the other gent. The card appears in series B as well, with a different tint and a differently cropped photo. I believe its the only fight card in the Ogdens' series.

[G1911]

Nothing gold can stay. But silver lives forever.

Young Corbett's T220 card sometimes feels like the only time he was ever depicted differently from the photo used for this T218/T225.

[G1911]

The image is from Gans' audition for the original stage version of The Karate Kid.

[searching]

2 x mid 1920 boxer cards, dont know which set they are from, the backs are blank
Rose and Smith.jpg

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

The image is from Gans' audition for the original stage version of The Karate Kid.

I always thought that Hong Kong Phooey thing was such a weird pose that they had to be making it up. I was wrong.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by sthoemke

Just picked up the French version. Add this to the Buster Douglas checklist.

Tres bien.

[sthoemke]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Tres bien.

I believe there is a Spanish version, as well. (Italian, also?)