Cards that never were

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Posted By: Nate

Everyone has their own ideas about what cards are the most attractive or appealing from a collecting standpoint, but does anyone out there ever fantasize about the cards that were never printed?

For example, in my opinion, the greatest card never printed would have to be a N300 King Kelly. If his health and career would have lasted longer, maybe this card could have been produced...wasn't the Ward printed with the denotation of "retired," anyways? Other than that, I think that a '52 or '53 Topps Ted Williams would have been a very attractive card, and any other stars in the N162 set would have been great additions. Oh yeah, can't forget about a '54 and '55 Topps Mantle.

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Posted By: dstudeba

If you want a '54 Topps Mantle, check out the black and white insert in the 2nd issue of Sports Illustrated. Issued by Topps and in the same format; the closest you can get.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Two I've always thought of is a T206 Joe Jackson, as some of his New Orleans teammates show up among the Southern leaguers; and how about a Duke cabinet of Cy Young- he was already a star, so why not?

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Posted By: Julie

..making the N300 either memorial or imposasible.

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Posted By: Chad

Sets of the California Winter Leagues, the Western Canadian Provincial Leagues, and the pre-integration Mexican leagues would be a fantasy come true. Any league that had the top tier Negro League players. Shoot, it's too bad there weren't any tobacco issues of Negro league stars with their American teams. How about a Bingo DeMoss or a Bruce Petway or a Smokey Joe Williams T issue. I'm going to make myself cry. In more realistic terms, I wish Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, etc. had been pictured in the '51 Topps sets just so there'd be an affordable way to collect a complete set that included those guys. And why didn't Goudey issue a parallel numbered refractor series!

--Chad

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Posted By: warshawlaw

52 Topps Musial and Williams

Exhibit cards of Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, Satchell Paige (with negro league team; I know there is one of him with the Indians--have it) and other NL greats.

T205 Wagner

T206 Mack

T207 most any HOFer you choose

1920s Exhibit Lefty O'Doul as a pitcher with the Yankees

1928 PCL Lefty O'Doul Exhibit.

T227 formatted cards of all the HOFers not already pictured.

1951 Ringside Jack Dempsey and Rocky Graziano (had to throw that in)

1948 Leaf Rocky Marciano (Ditto)

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Posted By: Chuck R

Wasn't there a thread on these fantasy cards a couple of months ago in which someone had posted some beautiful versions of many of these "cards that never were" they had created electronically? I searched the posts but couldn't find it...

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Posted By: ted

Yes there was a thread and I fantasize, beyond any possible black sox card that could have been produced, that Am. Tobacco had produced a Keith Olberman T206 card. What a glorious piece that would have been, a man who never played professional baseball, and wasn't even alive then...just imagine the possibilities....


BlackSoxFan

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Posted By: Bruce Dorskind

How about an Old Judge (albeit 2 years later) of Moses Fleetwood Walker

Also a T-207 of Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner

And Topps Cards for Maurry WIlls - who for a number of reasons fought
with Topps for years and would not agree to appear on a card

We should have a contest and then have someone design a set using
well-known sets of cards and cards that never were

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Posted By: warshawlaw

He appeared on his FTC in 1967. He was the only prospect not signed in a training camp and got so insulted that he refused to sign with Topps for years after he reached the majors.

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Posted By: Zach

I didn't make it...I found it on google awhile ago.

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Posted By: Greg

I was always disappointed Fleet walker never made it into one of the early sets. 1884 was just a bit too early, and it's too bad Syracuse released him in 1889 before they jumped to the Player's League in 1890.

Similarly, several minor leaguers made it onto cards in the 1880s, but Frank Grant, George Stovey, Bud Fowler, and the other pioneers never made it...

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Posted By: Paul

I always wanted to see a 51 Bowman DiMaggio with him leaping against the center field wall to take away a home run.

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Posted By: Dan Koteles

1915 Ruth Cracker Jack
t207 Cobb, Young
t205 Plank, Crawford, Waddell
e103 Young, Speaker
e105 Cobb.......alright if their is one , where the hell is it ????
t201 JAckson/Bradley....had to think of someone
t204 Young
Boston Garter - Young

endless.................

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Posted By: Frank Evanov

Here's one I did awhile ago:




Frank