Great athletes with no cards
Thanks to issues like 60s and 70s Paninis, Mira Tuttosport, SI for Kids, Stadion from Czechoslovakia, Svijet Sporta from Yugoslavia, and the amazing Sportscasters, most great athletes even in the lesser sports have a card. A few who appear not to have any, at least not that I've seen, come to mind, the great maybe GOAT figure skater Yuna Kim, and all time great gymnast Svetlana Boginskaya. Doubtless there are others.
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Also Plushenko
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Possibly Dennis Hare, an important and early Beach Volleyball player?
Are there online checklists for the Panini and the other foreign sets you mention? I could throw out a number of names, but figure many of them do in fact have cards that I don't know about. TCDB.COM is helpful but by no means complete. |
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Willie Oree who broke the colour barrier in the NHL comes to mind. Probably lots of great Negro League players who never had cards.
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I could only find one trading card printed just for a single event for the greatest strength athlete of all time Big Z(Zydrunas Savickas).
Next time I get back into making customs I need to make a cool set of the best strongmen from the last few decades. |
I'd bet many (most?) of the pre-1976 players in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame do not have cards.
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Speaking on more strength sports. One of my favorite sports to watch is arm wrestling. It's rise in popularity over the past 5 years has been mind boggling. Certainly the sharpest growth in popularity I've ever seen from a sport. Unfortunately cards have not followed. Only the goat Of the sport John Brzenk, has a card from Goodwin champions from the early 2010s. Devon larratt, Dennis cyplenkov, Levan saginashvili, Dave Chaffee and tons more have nothing. |
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As far as Stallone being good at arm wrestling outside of the movie, no lol. They did make some cool action figures for the movie though. Some are quite rare and go for hundreds. Though no cards were ever made even of the movie characters. |
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Does Eddie Feigner have any cards beyond Sportscasters?
And I'll bet that some of these top 100 women athletes are without cards. |
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https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/slYAA...E4/s-l1600.jpg As far as i know, this is his only career-contemporary Topps/OPC NHL issue and is his rookie. I think there are some minors cards. |
I don't think I ever found a card for Jason Belmonte, one of the very few top bowlers of all time, or Giba, voted the greatest men's volleyball player ever.
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Speaking of the power/strength sports, how about Magnus Ver Magnussen?
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My favorite strongman Matjaz Belsak just started making the big shows before his bad hip took him out of competition. I watched him come up through the Strongman Champions League. |
I'm sure many women athletes from the early days (even as recently as 1980's WBL) don't have cards unless they were team issued. I've never seen any kind of set for the league and the WBL folded after three seasons. I would imagine the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) is similar.
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I'm sure some of these HOF football players appear on team issues, but I'm not aware of any individual issues from their playing days:
Joe Guyon Ed Healey Fritz Pollard George Trafton Duke Slater I have seen a Guyon postcard, but it appeared to be a one off, not part of an actual multi-item issue. I have a list of basketball HOF players with no individual issues somewhere. There are a LOT. |
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FYI, the Patty Kazmaier Award, the women's equivalent of the Hobey Baker Award, is named after the daughter of Heisman Trophy winner Dick Kazmaier, the last Ivy Leaguer (Princeton) to win the award. Here is a link to a site for women's hockey cards: http://www.whockey.com/card/ |
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