Show your favorite card(s)

[S_GERACE]

They don't have to be expensive or rare. But show your favorite card or cards and say what you like about them.

I like the 1951 & 1952 Bowman small Baugh cards for the artwork. The 1951 shows a nice action shot w/ plenty of detailed artwork in the background. The 1952 small is basically the same shot but is cropped more closely. It shows more of the detail in Baugh's weathered face and the background of orange gradually fading to yellow reminds me of Fall and the leaves changing color (Fall means Football weather).

My honorable mention is the 1973 Topps Tarkenton. It's a nice action shot and I just love all of the purple (The players look like a bunch of grapes!).

I don't mean to step out of bounds on the first play from scrimmage as this is not a card.... but here's a personal favorite from my collection; the 1929 Entiat High School football team.

The majority of my collection is central Washington sports history. The more obscure the town or team the better. The pose of this team is great, but the story is just bizarre. The entire town of Entiat was relocated in the 1950's after hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River raised the water level. The hills in the background, once known as Chinaman's Hat, are submerged these days.

[S_GERACE]

Pretty cool image & story! Do you know if any of the players went on to play college ball?

[jefferyepayne]

Great idea for a thread! I'm struggling to figure out what to show, though. I hope others have more clarity on their favorites than I do as I'd love to see some more cards in this thread!

jeff

[HRBAKER]

This is my favorite football card. Although not near the most valuable FB card I have it combines a lot of things for me - one of my favorite players from my favorite team in one of my favorite sets.

[Mikehealer]

This is easily my favorite card. I'm thinking about hoarding them.

Originally Posted by S_GERACE

Pretty cool image & story! Do you know if any of the players went on to play college ball?

Sorry, missed your question. Two played for State Normal School of Ellensburg (CWU), and one played at WSU (Craig Wimpel, DB/HB Top row third from left). This Entiat team finished the season with 5 wins, 1 tie (Yakima HS), and beat archrival Wenatchee HS.

That is quite the collection of Hap Moran's..... WOW! More?

Sammy Baugh seems to be a favorite of many....

The 1964 Kahns is an interesting choice, any particular reason Charley Johnson is a favorite player?

[CW]

I don't have a lot of football cards, and this also isn't technically my most valuable, but in terms of visual appeal this is my favorite (if I had a nice '62 Topps Jim Brown that might change, but I have yet to land one).

The composition and aesthetics of this card are just perfect to me -- a tastefully colorized version of Jim Thorpe holding his old school leather helmet, the black n' white photo of the gridiron as a background, and all of it surrounded by that blue frame with the Carlisle logo in the corner. The stars aligned when the folks at Topps designed this beauty.

At one time I owned a perfectly centered PSA 9 of this card, but sold it to fund another purchase. After I sold it, I was immediately on the lookout for another decently centered copy (as many know, this card is notoriously difficult to find with good centering). While this one isn't perfect, it helped fill the void left behind by the PSA 9 example, and it didn't break the bank.

[LuckyLarry]

I have to many favorites, so I'll go with this one. 1973 Topps #304 Happy Feller

If I was ever going to "hoard" a card it would be this one!
Larry

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Larry I always appreciate your enthusiasm but not in this case since Happy kicked the winning extra point in the Game of the Century to beat my Razorbacks 15-14 in 1969!

[LuckyLarry]

Sorry about that Mike I admit the only reason I've always liked this card was because of Fellers name. I grew up with a family of "Fellers" across the street, and my best friend in High School was Jack "Happy" Richard Ross

I was a freshman in High School in 1969 and probably watched this game on TV but I don't remember. And I've enjoyed the last couple hours reading about the "Game of the Century" and also just watched a video of Happys acceptance speech into the Texas Longhorns "Hall of Honor"

Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham: We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, "Well, there'll be other days." I didn't realize that that was the only day.

It doesn't appear that Happys pro career was all that great, but his significant moment occurred December 6th 1969. And this morning I'm a bigger Happy Feller fan!

Larry

[GoldenAge50s]

The recent death of Frank Gifford reminded me of one of my favorite cards--Frank's Rookie in my 1952 Bowman Large set.

Card is #16 also, which just happens to be his NFL Giants uni #.

[jefferyepayne]

Never noticed that about his '52 card, Fred! Cool the card number is the same as his uniform. Here is my favorite Gifford:



jeff

[quinnsryche]

Not vintage but I think it's awesome.