Most boring card ever?
I am a huge fan of Harmon Killebrew, but I despise his '61 Topps card. I cannot bring myself to buy a copy, it is just so painfully boring... especially for a player of his caliber.
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Ted Williams 1939 Play Ball is such a boring rookie for such a great player.
Also, I think Yaz had three total photo sessions for Topps over his 23 years and they just reused the same photos :) Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk |
1962 and '63 Topps Mantle. I mean, really...???
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Give 'Killer' a break and pick up one in nice condition.
Referencing my big hard-cover 'Topps Baseball Cards: The Complete Picture Collection - A 40 Year History', I found that any player without an identifying team cap - what has to be a record 101 cards out of the 589-card set fall into this 'boring' category...including five more Hall-of-Famers, two of which are All-Star cards. This fact pinpoints why the 1961 set is one of my least favorite sets. |
Ray,
Totally agree, the hatless photos are very boring to begin with. But there's something about the closeup of his bald noggin that just adds to the mundaness of the card. |
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Hatless manager cards, particularly bald ones, are a level below hatless players
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Actually, I remember the crushing disappointment of getting a 1972 rack pack at the supermarket and coming across this beauty...
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George that card is awful!! Never been a fan of the 72 topps cards, that one has to be the worst !! Perfect for this topic :-)
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I always found it boring, or annoying, when I pulled a checklist out of a pack as a kid. My opinion of them hasn't changed much since then.
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This is the card that comes to mind immediately for me.
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I always imagine the disappointed Cold War kids ripping open packs of 1956 cards hoping for Jackie Robinson or Ted Williams and instead pulling a flannel-suited league president.
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I know what you mean Andy. But this one for me is not that bad, I think because it's Stengel who always looked like the definition of a "weathered old man" and that makes it interesting to me. That 1972 card of the minor league trophies is painful to look at! |
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I just posted this image elsewhere in the same manner. There are plenty of boring cards, too many to pick just one, but this turned out to be Munson's last card and it looks like he rolled out of bed, slapped on a cap and posed for this photo. I don't know if that is a jersey or some sort of undershirt, but it even looks to me like he has PJs on! Major disappointment after his awesome 1978 Topps card.
It would have been nice to see Topps do a tribute similar to this fantasy card, but instead we are left with roll out of bed, PJ wearing Munson instead! |
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While kind of boring, the Stengel really comes to mind because it had so much potential to be the first classic Mets card, but really disappoints with its logo-less, drab design. |
I've always considered the 66 Keane the worst Topps card ever made.
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Lazy
I think that in 1966 Keane would be disappointing to find in your pack , much like most manager cards and checklists. Most of us , understandably , want ball players :roll eyes
You can keep the coaches, trophies and for heavens sake the umpires out of the sets!! Topps really showed a lack of creativity, design or appreciation of what a great opportunity they had in the 60's. They just look lazy. Hatless portraits, repeated poses year after year, dull pictures , plain designs...ugly airbrushed pictures. Sometimes I wonder why I collected them! I have that ugly Keane card in my binder but I don't think I have looked at it since I slid the card into the plastic sheet... I like the cards in the 70's much better (and the 50's) as a rule. i may be biased since the 70's I was pulling cards out of the packs...and somehow despite the dumb trophies, 1972 is my favorite set of all. Give me the psycho set all day! (damn high numbers!) |
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The hatless wonder cards from the 1960s are pretty boring.
This Japanese card from the 1988 Calbee set I think is the worst though (discounting checklists, etc. Slightly out of topic since its post-1980, but a 1988 Calbee is a vintage card by the standards of the Japanese hobby). Its a card of the Tokyo Dome. A domed stadium by any standard is an ugly, boring thing to look at, but the photographer in this one found the best way to maximize those qualities in his work. Its genius. You have the grey ugliness of the Dome itself framed by a grey sky in the background and a grey concrete retaining wall in the foreground, accented by a tree that has no leaves on it. There is nothing that is not grey in this photograph. I actually get physically sick when I look at this card. It is that boring and depressing to look at. I apologize for having made you look at it by posting it here. http://baseballcardsinjapan.blogspot...ever-1988.html |
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This gets my vote, simply because it could have been so much more. Topps, how dare you take the most compelling player in baseball history and make him look like a lost, wandering Grandparent. In a Dodgers uniform, no less. Nice work gents.
Attachment 265593 Also, for a more modern Honorable Mention, the "Baseball Heroes" Header cards from Upper Deck in the early 90's. And they were uniformly the most expensive card in the subset as well. Whatever. Attachment 265594 |
At least you can excuse Topps for the '61 Killebrew given that Twins logos were a new animal that year and could have posed airbrush problems for the artists. So too for the '62 Stengel, which is identical to his nice-looking 1960 card but for the cap logo (or lack of same).
Killer's '61 card is vibrant and eye-catching compared to the Willie Mays card from that set, which looks like it was shot about an hour after Willie ate a bad burrito http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/iAIAAO...tfq/s-l500.jpg. Must ditto the Keane observation (pun intended). That was my first year collecting, and that card reminded me of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. |
Weird for me to see so many HOFers in this thread. To me a HOFer card could never qualify as the most boring card of all time, even if he looks like he's falling asleep.
The 72 minor league award card is a great submission for this thread, but at those awards cards have some color to them and are visually pleasing. For me one of the most boring cards that pops into my mind is the 1972 high number Pat Corrales in action card. http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTE1OFg4NT...YTKIY/$_58.JPG Can't see his face and somehow someone at Topps decided a photo in which HIS GLOVE ISN'T EVEN ON qualified as an "action" shot. |
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I'd concur on the hatless head shot cards and emphasize the subset of those of players forced to look into the sun for the photo. Awful, squinty stuff. http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SdgAAO...bdx/s-l500.jpg |
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1978 Topps Pete Rosa sitting in the dugout.
Couldn't Topps find a picture of him batting? |
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I might add the 1958 Topps Ted Williams. I remember being at a card show in the early 90s and a dealer had that card and a copy of the beautiful 1955 Ted Williams with the big smile on his face side by side. The 1955 was a total beater with creases everywhere but still had some eye appeal. The 1958 was in way better shape. The price was the same. I said I would take the 1955 Williams and the dealer immediately asked if I would take the 58 from him for 20% off instead. "No." I said. 30% off ? No. Half off, please take it! No.
I just couldn't bring myself to it, it was just too boring. In addition to the bland design of the 58 set, you have the glum look on Ted Williams face. Which is just such a stark contrast to the smiling Williams on his 54-56 cards. Its like he knew his picture was going on one of the "bad" sets of the 50s and just decided a smile wasn't worth it. |
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Some might balk at this because by all accounts it is both a popular and valuable card, but I've always wondered why they couldn't find a better picture of the Mick to use on his regular issue '65 Topps card. Looks like a spring training pic taken about 10 am the morning after a bender that Whitey and Mickey probably went on the night before down in Tampa or St. Pete. His eyes look like two piss holes in a snowbank, LOL.
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I'm not sure if it's the most boring card ever, but there's nothing exciting about Tim Harkness circa the 1963 set.
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I guess Harkness came to the Mets from the Pterodactyl's? LOL
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I hated the 1973 boyhood photos. The photo quality was awful, and I couldn't have cared less what Catfish Hunter looked like when he was 6.
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My guesses were always the 1962 and the 1965! Gotta love the Mick... |
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tear jerker right here
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LOL on the 1978 Topps Pete Rose.
Funny how you remember stuff like this, but I pulled that card back when I was a kid in 78 and thinking "cool I got a Pete Rose....sitting in the dugout..." and being somewhat disappointed. I was much happier in 1979 when I saw that card, like that's how you should do Pete Rose. At least his 78 RB card is decent. |
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BLECH designs (from an opinionated graphic designer)
Topps = 1957, 1958, 1961, 1966, 1968, 1970... Any card featuring a hatless player... the "in action" cards.. Manager cards (exception: The 1960 manager cards were AWESOME with that pennant...) GREAT designs 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1965... I also like the '63, '67, '71, and (yes) '72 sets... (after that, my interest trails) Bowman 1950-'53 run was brilliant, too... (not so much the design of '53, but the photography was outstanding) |
In general I don't like the hatless. But not all are bad. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ee02ef7c91.jpg
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Really? I think the '69 Bench is one of the all time classics!
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Worthy of consideration. Probably 32 years old in this picture but people just looked a lot older then.
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LOL..... "I actually get physically sick when I look at this card. It is that boring and depressing to look at." That really is one fugly card...
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You guys have come up with some real snoozers. The following is NOT my card, saw it on eBay.
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There's a strip card set
that just lists the position and has a drawing of the player. For more modern a number of the game cards are boring if you don't play the games. Ie APBA, stratomatic, etc.
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