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Posted By: barrysloate

In Seinfeld, George Costanza always has reprint cards framed behind him. I even think he may have a reprint N162 set, as well as Topps, T205, etc. There's a Leave it to Beaver episode where Whitey takes some cards out of his pocket and they are on the screen for barely a second but they look like 1959 Topps. And besides Homer selling a Joe DiMaggio card to Comicbook Guy (whose name has actually been revealed to be Jeff Albertson), there is an episode where Homer is at a fair and rummages through the $1.00 junk box and finds a Superman #1, a full sheet of inverted Jenny airmail stamps, a Stradavarius violin, and one other great antiquity- and passes on them all. But for a really great movie baseball reference: in the fine 1947 film "Life with Father" starring William Powell and a young Elizabeth Taylor, the action takes place in a NYC mansion during the 1880's and near the beginning of the film, William Powell walks down the stairs to see his two young sons reading the newspaper. They turn to their father and one exclaims: "the Giants won and Ewing hit a homerun." Now I challenge anyone to find another movie that cites Buck Ewing by name.