Your favorite baseball card

[3_Octave_Fart]

Let's hear it, members and moderators.

Mine is Jim Walewander, 1988 Topps.
Because I make this same face about 20 times a day.

 

[cjericho]

Billy Ripken's **** Face baseball card

 

[novelist_wannabe]

 

[clintrichardson]

The entire 1953 set—all painted images—is amazing. With this Satchell Paige card, it feels like you can see his entire life story on his face.

 

[Severian]

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The entire 1953 set—all painted images—is amazing. With this Satchell Paige card, it feels like you can see his entire life story on his face.

Any more pictures of these painted sets? The card you posted looks great. I've never collected a single card in my life. But there's something great about a painted card versus the high-definition photos in today's sets.

 

[Batman]

Any more pictures of these painted sets? The card you posted looks great. I've never collected a single card in my life. But there's something great about a painted card versus the high-definition photos in today's sets.

Some of the early Upper Deck baseball and football sets from 1990-92 -- football in particular -- were amazing. They had action shots instead of portraits on the front, and the pictures were incredibly sharp. I've kept cards of guys who were scrubs just because I loved the photography.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Think like a 10 year old...

 

[playthrough]

Not necessarily a favorite, but I was obsessive about alphabetizing my sets as a kid and darned if he wasn't first every time:

 

[Neutral Corner]

I'm not sure it qualifies as a favorite, but I inherited at least two of these after my older brother moved out of the house. I know they didn't go to bicycle spokes, but my mother threw out the shoebox they were in because "the cards were old and no one cared about them anymore."

1959 Topps #212 Fence Busters (aaron / Mathews) [white Back] Psa 9 22248682

 

[HanSenSE]

 

[HandsomeHarley]

Not a favorite, but 1978 was the first year I collected religiously, and I swear I had about 80 of this card and none of several others. The reason I remembered it was I often played the game on the card backs. Bombo's was a home run.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

The Gold Standard of modern day cards:

 

[Batman]

The Gold Standard of modern day cards:

I thought it was this one:

But, in all honesty, it's this one. I think it's one of the few cards of that era that's held a significant value because people still are willing to pay for a piece of their childhood:

 

[Slacker]

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I was done collecting by the time the Griffey rookie came out. I stopped in 1991. The market was flooded and I had lost interest.
You are right about the card, I don't consider it part of "my era."

That Mattingly card was my pursuit.

 

[JRoyal]

Had to buy this one when I saw it.

 

[swingline]

The Gold Standard of modern day cards:

Christ, was that taken with a disposable camera? ****, my 4-year-old takes better pictures than that shade-face abomination.

 

[Batman]

Fifteen seconds after this photo was taken, a coked-up Chico Escuela caved in the photographer's head with the bat because it was clearly the only way to kill the purple dragon demon emerging from his ears.

 

[Slacker]

Fifteen seconds after this photo was taken, a coked-up Chico Escuela caved in the photographer's head with the bat because it was clearly the only way to kill the purple dragon demon emerging from his ears.

And then someone shot Buckwheat!

 

[playthrough]

Had to buy this one when I saw it.

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Wow, I don't remember that one and I had a ton of those Donruss cards. Alas, I'm not curious enough to dig out the effing-heavy plastic bin full of cards that I just can't quite make myself get rid of. My kids will have to bear that burden someday (and my guess is they won't bear it for long).