Mount Rushmore?

[hank_jp]

Forgetting for the moment the intricacies of a full body image versus a portrait, here is my selection for the most significant "Rushmore 4" epitomizing modern day sports:

Babe Ruth 1921 Exhibit The quintessential baseball player
Jim Thorpe M101-5 The olympian who excelled in many sports
Jackie Robinson 52 Topps The man who broke the color barrier in America's
sport
Pele Any card showing his in the air backward scisssor kick
The most well known personality in the #1 international game

[quinnsryche]

Here are my top 4 and why:
T206 Honus Wagner - the most important card in the history of the hobby.
T206 Ty Cobb (red background) - maybe the most popular and sought after pre-war card.
T206 Walter Johnson (portrait) - most frequently voted the best looking card ever produced.
1952 Topps Mickey Mantle - THE definitive post-war and most recognizable card in collecting.
I completely discount any votes for cards from ANY other sport (esp. basketball, hockey and soccer????) than baseball. It all started with BASEBALL card collecting and will ALWAYS be #1 hands down.
Feel free to disagree, that's what this forum is all about!

[alanu]

Not sure which cards but baseball only would be,

Ruth (how could he be left out?)
Cobb
Mantle
Aaron

[paul]

How about these:

Peck & Snyder Reds
G&B Al Spalding
Just So Cy Young
1914 Baltimore Ruth (I'll take a blue one, please)

[Bill Stone]

T206-Wagner
T210-Jackson ( what could have been)
1933 Goudey Ruth
1955 Topps Dale Long -representing every journeyman ballplayer who day in and day out contributed so much to the game.

[oldjudge]

Anson in Uniform
T206 Wagner
T210 Jackson
Baltimore News Ruth

[sox1903wschamp]

Keep in mind this is my personal "Mount Rushmore" so I am a little bias on this subject:

1. M 101-4/5 Ruth Rookie: It's not my intention to spark the 1914 News vs the M 101/4-5 Ruth rookie debate . But it is my choice because he is in a Red Sox uniform.

2. E107 Cy Young: Again with Boston AL.

3. T-206 Walter Johnson Portarit: As mentioned above, what a great looking card and I have more respect for the Big Train after doing a lot of reading about his "Wiesner Wonder" days. What a gentleman.

And T-207 Bushelman! Just kidding but boy this one has been tough for me.
Anyone got one?

4. 1952 Topps Mantle: I don't own one but wouldn't mind. I remember in April 1980 standing at the front of the stage in St Charles, MO (St.Louis, Holiday Inn) as a kid as they "instant auctioned" a 52 Mantle. There was a hush in the room because the card had just set record prices a month or so earlier in Philly.