Best Clemente card

[MCoxon]

With all the Mantle threads, I thought I'd see collectors' favorite Clementes. Obviously the rookie card is super-popular right now.

For looks, I'd say my two favorites are 1956 Topps and 1970 Kellogg's.

Others' favorites?

[stlcardsfan]

64 Giant is ultra cool. Sorry no scan.

[jchcollins]

I'm partial to '64 Topps regular (because I own it) and '56 Topps. '56 Topps is like card porn. Robby making that catch against the Esquire Boot Polish sign in Ebbets Field? I don't know if it gets better than that...


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[KCRfan1]

The "71 Topps is gorgeous.

[bozzio37]

As a goofy 5 year old kid ripping 1972 Topps packs, I immediately got a kick out of Roberto tossing the ball to himself on his regular issue 1972 card. One that always takes me back to those days...

[brian1961]

I'm drawn to Bob's 1971 Kellogg's 3-D, a superior card in every way. Ditto his 1967 Coca-Cola premium, as produced by, but by no means distributed by, the company chosen by the Coca-Cola company to print this piece--Dexter Press.

I only own the Kellogg's, but have cherished it since I pulled the card from a cereal box the summer of '71. That was a real prize!

---Brian Powell

[Neal]

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Not sure what it is, but not a big fan of any of his cards from the 50s and 60s. His Kellogg cards are nice, as are the 70-73 Topps

[CW]

Clemente has a lot of cool looking cards.

I'm not the biggest fan of portrait cards, but even Roberto's portrait cards are appealing, like the '57, '66, and 67 Topps cards. '69 Topps Super also has an incredible image.

My top 3 would be '56 Topps, '71 Topps, and '72 Topps.

[MCoxon]

Originally Posted by Neal

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Not sure what it is, but not a big fan of any of his cards from the 50s and 60s. His Kellogg cards are nice, as are the 70-73 Topps

I like his 3 Kellogg's as well and the 1970-73 Topps

I wonder if his '72 In-Action card pose is meant to show the neck roll that he often did between pitches. His biography, "Clemente," by David Maraniss, describes how Clemente would roll his neck between pitches because of tightness in his neck, after he had injured it years earlier.

One other I really love, speaking of 1967 Dexter Press, is his 1968 Dexter Press card (the same image later showed up on his '77 Sertoma Stars card as well).

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by bozzio37

As a goofy 5 year old kid ripping 1972 Topps packs, I immediately got a kick out of Roberto tossing the ball to himself on his regular issue 1972 card. One that always takes me back those days...

Ditto!!! And add to that his 'In Action' card, too, where he seems to be smiling in derision at the umpire's strike call.

[the 'stache]

I would say that the '58 Topps Clemente is probably my favorite. I don't know what it is, but it's just fantastic. Just Roberto in his batting stance.

This is from a PSA 9 I found on the web. It doesn't get much better than this.



And while I love both the '55 and '56 Topps, I'd say my second and third favorite are the two I own, the '71 and '73 Topps.

First Clemente I ever bought. Probably just a PSA 7, but I love it. Looks much better in person that it does in a scan.



The '73 I bought should grade quite well. It's really a striking card to look at. There's something solemn about the picture used, and I always get this sense of melancholy looking at it. There's the celebration that Robby got his 3,000th hit, yet that's coupled with the knowledge that this great man lost his life not long after the double off of Jon Matlack.



One of the things I plan on doing after I start collecting again is to really work on my Clemente (and Yount) player collections. The '58 Clemente and PSA 9 '77 Yount are really high on my want list.

[Exhibitman]

1956 and 1969 Topps.

[frankbmd]

Yes

[Harliduck]

I was scanning through this thread waiting to see my favorite, I guess I am going to be first with this selection. I own all the Topps and Fleer, and by far mine would be his 1963 Topps. Just love the colors and how it pops (this is not my card) -