Cards Of Your Favorite Boxer

[G1911]

N150 is a cool set, finding a John L pose in a commons stack is one heck of a bargain find.



And, here's a cool John L. Sullivan, with the wrong pants.

[Exhibitman]

Love the Leaf misprint. Some QC department.

I've got hundreds of Joe Louis items but here are a few favorites:

The tougher small version of his RC:



1935 Detroit Free Press (M120) Joe Louis premium issued only on July 21, 1935, in a newspaper



1937 Louis v Braddock mailer was intended to be hung on doorknobs of newsstands to solicit sales of a newspaper special on the fight. Someone saved this circular all these years. Only known example:



A rare postcard soliciting sales people, it uses a Louis premium supplied by Brown & Bigelow as the bait. Only known example.



This is a colorized prototype that Ardath briefly experimented with in 1937. I bought it from noted UK collector Bill Priddy and had SGC slab it. Never issued: I guess the purple diaper look wasn't a hit. Only known example.



1938 Louis v. Schmeling head to head card. Only known example:



1940s or 1950s Joe Louis Punch decal. Only known example:



There are two known examples of this signed, die cut folding card. I have to remove that abomination of a GAI label one of these days:



Exhibit Champions Louis with Holloway Black Cow Sucker back stamp, used as a postcard:



1938 CHurchman's Louis, signed:

[G1911]

I only have a lower grade, non stamped version but this Exhibit pose is my favorite of the Louis cards. His Churchmen, Ringside and Ehxibits all being very plentiful is nice. Most of the champion old heavyweights still have career contemporary cards that fit within any collector budget. Louis, in my book, is probably the greatest of the gloved heavyweights before heavyweights became 7 foot tall Eastern Europeans or jacked up muscle men.

[Tripp Trapp]

“The Little Hebrew” Abe Attell. A native of San Francisco where I was also born and brought up.

“We were Jews living in an Irish neighborhood. You can guess the rest. I used to fight four, five, TEN times a day.”

[GasHouseGang]

I always thought this was a great item from Sullivan's career. Not mine, but I kept a scan from an auction many years ago.

[GasHouseGang]

There must be some one else with a favorite boxer they collect. Where are all the Ali collectors; or Mike Tyson?

[G1911]

Not much to show for my pick, but here's some more John L since not many other guys from the era I have stuff from have been selected. 2 common cabinets and the tough T229. Even the easier Pet backs like this one are pretty hard. Shame these weren't produced in the quantity of the Obak's. The cabinet in the middle of the photo is one my favored Sullivan cabinets even though it's common and the image isn't special, because the back has a fight record and accounting of his bouts that takes up the entire size of the back.