Cards with strange backgrounds

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Posted By: Dave F

Shawn gave me an idea for this thread..so might as well run with it. In the Waner card below there is part of an automobile in the background. Would love to see some other scans that have something interesting in the back as well...

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Posted By: Jerry

Cars, I got Cars

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

I always liked cards like that. There were a few great post-war examples, notably in the 1960's-70's Topps sets. Does anyone remember which card features a player who looked like he was scooping up a pickup truck into his glove? It was just an optical illusion, but rather funny. I can't for the life of me recall what card that was.

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Posted By: Matt

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Posted By: Matt Goebel

I am partial to the Billikens, but they do have great backgrounds! I love the uniformed soldier/policeman as well. Oh yeah, Edgar Wesley was also a great slugger.

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Posted By: Steve Murray

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Posted By: leon

Love the backgrounds....

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Posted By: JimB

Love the background on that George Washington portrait.
JimB

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

In keeping with the automobile theme...



These guys are posed in front of an auto shop...you can see the garage and on the window is a sign for Oakland automobiles.

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Posted By: Anthony S.

Great topic. Love those old time cars.

I wonder how long it took for the brush fire to start after the three cars in Steve's photo parked on that dry grass.

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

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Posted By: leon

Shown recently but I really like the umpire dude sitting on the fence....some of the T209-2's have great backgrounds...

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Posted By: S Gross

T220's can be argued as the "best back-groundiest" issue ever ...........







............. boxer in a pool hall, kinda' says it all

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

One of my favorite all-time cards is from the D380 Clement Bros. Bread set of Osborn, Rochester robbing someone of a homerun with fans looking on. This scan is stolen from "Old Cardboard" but I would like to own an example of it at some point.

-Rhett

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Posted By: ramram

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Posted By: leon

Rob=instigator .......btw, is there a 2008 calendar on back?

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Posted By: Bob Ivanjack

Jodi:
Here's your car(d) - it is a strange image.

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Posted By: Rich Klein

But there is a Philadelphia Gum Jim Brown card with his own Cadillac in the background.

And the 1964 Topps Ray Sadecki card has always had one of my favorite backgrounds because of how the outfield sign reads.

Regards
Rich

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Thanks Bob!

I also always loved the 1957 Topps Paul Smith with the radio tower in the background. I also remember a mid-1960's postcard of Terry Fox where he is depicted winding up in front of a white car (a Buick?). It may have been something issued by a Philadelphia area car dealer.

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Posted By: Phil Garry

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Posted By: brock

Nevermind

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Posted By: Bob Lemke

Jodi, the Terry Fox card you're thinking of is a postcard, part of a series of Detroit Tigers posed with various 1962 Ford models. 16 players are known, with half a dozen (including Fox, Mossi and Purdy) being fairly common and the rest next to impossible.

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Posted By: Ricky Y

Its not vintage..nor baseball...but when I saw this title I thought of the 1973 Topps Basketball cards that had some players photographed in what looked like locker rooms and shower stalls..including the Garfield Heard card where I swear he's launching his patented rainbow shot from the shower.

Ricky Y

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Bob,

Thanks for the info. I always assumed the Fox PC was part of a regionally-issued team set. I wonder what's to blame for the rarity of the others you mention. Perhaps a limited print run? Who knows. Thanks again!

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Posted By: ramram

One of the odd ones I remember is the 1964 football cards of the Cleveland Browns. They were apparently taken inside of a parking garage. Not sure if the whole team had their pics taken in there or if any other players from that series were in a similar location (I only had these two cards because Galen Fiss was a family friend and Costello had a restaraunt close to us in KC).



The other odd one was the 75/76 Kansas City Kings team card. Somehow they managed to get several of my family in the upper right corner of the photo.



Rob M.

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Posted By: Chuck

Most baseball card collectors know that a majority of photos were taken at Yankee Stadium.

The stadium facade is visible on these cards. But here is one (1971 topps) that has the monuments ... on the field, before they were moved to a garden BEHIND the fences.