Oddball card poses

[HercDriver]

Matt --

The only thing that card is missing is a lady in a dress...

Cheers,
Geno

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by HercDriver

Matt --

The only thing that card is missing is a lady in a dress...

Cheers,
Geno

It's the "gimmie five, down low" pose

[Runscott]

Jump! I'll catch you!

[brianp-beme]

I recently posted these on another thread, but it seems like these cards were just meant to be here.

The 1913 Leard captures the classic Tinkerbell cross handed bunting stance.

The 1914 of Arbogast has that pained, disappointed look of having just been called out on strikes.

Fisher is showboating for the camera, as all good catchers do.

Brown in his 1916 card has a very elaborate hideaway pitching windup, which unfortunately seems to come at the end of his stride.

Both Downs and High just got a piece of it.

The 1919 cards of Kenworthy, Conkwright and Seaton all are pussyfooting around in the batter's box.

Dumovich is awfully bashful around the lady folk.

Meet Oompa Loompas Griggs and Cox in their 1920 cards.

At the opposite end of the height spectrum, Knight must have been one elongated string bean of a player.

Baker was just a bit camera shy when asked to pose for his 1920 card.

With an obvious penchant for pitches thrown high and tight, it is no surprise Duchalsky never made it to the majors.


Brian

[brianp-beme]

Was searching this site and came across this fun thread from the past. Thought I would bump it up so others can enjoy, and hopefully someone will also erase me from the unenviable position of the final poster of a thread.

Brian

[Bliggity]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Jump! I'll catch you!

Not sure if this was the card Scott had originally posted, but I always thought it looked like he was catching someone falling out of a window.



There are some real gems in the E121 family too.

[Steve D]

T210 Benny (the one I was thinking about in post #4 above):

Steve

[DHogan]

[CobbSpikedMe]

I always liked this image...

[alanu]

Not my scans

But pre-war E101 Chance

e101 chance.jpg

Postwar 1956 Killebrew... is he making an error in the background picture

56killebrew.jpg

[Jaybird]

aren't these a little weird?

[philliesphan]

Hengle "Dead" shot is one of my favourites:

[Matthew H]

Awesome pose Marc!

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Matthew H

Awesome pose Marc!

+1

I've got to have one of those! A framed enlargement on the wall would freak out all visitors.

[sycks22]

Originally Posted by alanu

Not my scans

But pre-war E101 Chance

Attachment 50568

Postwar 1956 Killebrew... is he making an error in the background picture

Attachment 50569

Pretty sure Killer is trying to field a foul ball. That's funny

[rdixon1208]

This dude swings like a girl!

[Brian Van Horn]

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[Collectorsince62]

Many years ago, after reading the thoroughly enjoyable Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubblegum Book, I slapped an "interesting cards" label on an 800-count box. Every time I came upon a card from any era that was cool or unusual, I added it to the box. That box filled up much quicker than I ever imagined and now I have several just like it. I particularly like the action shots, especially shortstops turning DP's, outfielders scaling walls, and sluggers in full follow-through, but there is always room for odd names (Muddy, Choo Choo, Oil Can, Fair Hooker, Happy Feller), crazy bios (55B Eddie Waitkus, Jim Morris, 64T Dave Bennett, 63T Dalkowski) and just plain goofiness (64T Sadecki, 52T Zernial, Herb Washington). Certainly not the most valuable part of my collection, but just as enjoyable as a vintage complete set.

[JollyElm]

I can't be the only one who immediately went to ebay to check out the 1964 Topps Dave Bennett, 1963 Dalkowski and 1964 Sadecki cards, am I???? Ha ha!!! Good stuff!!!!