Great athletes with no cards

[Peter_Spaeth]

Thanks to issues like 60s and 70s Paninis, Mira Tuttosport, SI for Kids, Stadion from Czechoslovakia, Svijet Sporta from Yugoslavia, and the amazing Sportscasters, most great athletes even in the lesser sports have a card. A few who appear not to have any, at least not that I've seen, come to mind, the great maybe GOAT figure skater Yuna Kim, and all time great gymnast Svetlana Boginskaya. Doubtless there are others.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Also Plushenko

[wdmullins]

Possibly Dennis Hare, an important and early Beach Volleyball player?

Are there online checklists for the Panini and the other foreign sets you mention? I could throw out a number of names, but figure many of them do in fact have cards that I don't know about. TCDB.COM is helpful but by no means complete.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by wdmullins

Possibly Dennis Hare, an important and early Beach Volleyball player?

Are there online checklists for the Panini and the other foreign sets you mention? I could throw out a number of names, but figure many of them do in fact have cards that I don't know about. TCDB.COM is helpful but by no means complete.

Not that I know of. I found most of my cards just by trial and error, there are better resources on the music and movie card side. Glad to help if you have some names, but obscure ones I likely won't know.

[maniac_73]

Willie Oree who broke the colour barrier in the NHL comes to mind. Probably lots of great Negro League players who never had cards.


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[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by maniac_73

Willie Oree who broke the colour barrier in the NHL comes to mind. Probably lots of great Negro League players who never had cards.


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O'Ree has a team issue from the 50s.

[bnorth]

I could only find one trading card printed just for a single event for the greatest strength athlete of all time Big Z(Zydrunas Savickas).

Next time I get back into making customs I need to make a cool set of the best strongmen from the last few decades.

[wdmullins]

I'd bet many (most?) of the pre-1976 players in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame do not have cards.

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I could only find one trading card printed just for a single event for the greatest strength athlete of all time Big Z(Zydrunas Savickas).

Next time I get back into making customs I need to make a cool set of the best strongmen from the last few decades.

Well said about power lifters,
Speaking on more strength sports.
One of my favorite sports to watch is arm wrestling. It's rise in popularity over the past 5 years has been mind boggling. Certainly the sharpest growth in popularity I've ever seen from a sport. Unfortunately cards have not followed.
Only the goat Of the sport John Brzenk, has a card from Goodwin champions from the early 2010s.
Devon larratt,
Dennis cyplenkov, Levan saginashvili, Dave Chaffee and tons more have nothing.

[wdmullins]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

One of my favorite sports to watch is arm wrestling. It's rise in popularity over the past 5 years has been mind boggling. Certainly the sharpest growth in popularity I've ever seen from a sport. Unfortunately cards have not followed.
Only the goat Of the sport John Brzenk, has a card from Goodwin champions from the early 2010s.
Devon larratt,
Dennis cyplenkov, Levan saginashvili, Dave Chaffee and tons more have nothing.

What about Lincoln Hawk?

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by wdmullins

What about Lincoln Hawk?

Over the top helped grow arm wrestling from it's infancy in the 80s. The movie Held a legitimate tournament for real arm wrestlers which John won. And not only did he win, he won a $250,000 Volvo semi. Good read of it here: https://www.thearmwrestlingarchives....mpionship.html

As far as Stallone being good at arm wrestling outside of the movie, no lol. They did make some cool action figures for the movie though.
Some are quite rare and go for hundreds.
Though no cards were ever made even of the movie characters.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

Well said about power lifters,
Speaking on more strength sports.
One of my favorite sports to watch is arm wrestling. It's rise in popularity over the past 5 years has been mind boggling. Certainly the sharpest growth in popularity I've ever seen from a sport. Unfortunately cards have not followed.
Only the goat Of the sport John Brzenk, has a card from Goodwin champions from the early 2010s.
Devon larratt,
Dennis cyplenkov, Levan saginashvili, Dave Chaffee and tons more have nothing.

I am going to this years Shaw Classic so I am so hoping they are making trading cards for the event again this year. The GOAT Big Z is scheduled to be there as are almost all of the current top strongmen.

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I am going to this years Shaw Classic so I am so hoping they are making trading cards for the event again this year. The GOAT Big Z is scheduled to be there as are almost all of the current top strongmen.

That's sweet, looks like Mateusz Kieliszkowski won't be there unfortunately. Love watching him compete. Take some nice pics!

[wdmullins]

Does Eddie Feigner have any cards beyond Sportscasters?

And I'll bet that some of these top 100 women athletes are without cards.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by wdmullins

Does Eddie Feigner have any cards beyond Sportscasters?

"The King" has a MacGregor Advisory Panel card I believe.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

O'Ree has a team issue from the 50s.

He is also on the 1962 Topps Bruins team card



As far as i know, this is his only career-contemporary Topps/OPC NHL issue and is his rookie. I think there are some minors cards.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I don't think I ever found a card for Jason Belmonte, one of the very few top bowlers of all time, or Giba, voted the greatest men's volleyball player ever.

[Arazi4442]

Speaking of the power/strength sports, how about Magnus Ver Magnussen?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Arazi4442

Speaking of the power/strength sports, how about Magnus Ver Magnussen?

He was awesome back in the day. He is still very active in strongman as a judge.

My favorite strongman Matjaz Belsak just started making the big shows before his bad hip took him out of competition. I watched him come up through the Strongman Champions League.

[GasHouseGang]

I'm sure many women athletes from the early days (even as recently as 1980's WBL) don't have cards unless they were team issued. I've never seen any kind of set for the league and the WBL folded after three seasons. I would imagine the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) is similar.

[shagrotn77]

I'm sure some of these HOF football players appear on team issues, but I'm not aware of any individual issues from their playing days:

Joe Guyon
Ed Healey
Fritz Pollard
George Trafton
Duke Slater

I have seen a Guyon postcard, but it appeared to be a one off, not part of an actual multi-item issue.

I have a list of basketball HOF players with no individual issues somewhere. There are a LOT.

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

I'm sure many women athletes from the early days (even as recently as 1980's WBL) don't have cards unless they were team issued. I've never seen any kind of set for the league and the WBL folded after three seasons. I would imagine the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) is similar.

There are a number of cards for the great female players - Cassie Campbell, Geraldine Heaney, Hayley Wickenheiser, Cammi Granato, Manon Rheaume. I remember the Esso Heroes of Hockey set. The cards were about 5x7 and came with a binder. When I followed the U.S. Women's national team rather religiously from 1997-2003 I would see the Classic cards pop up every so often, especially the Cammi Granato in the Providence uniform. They trained in my town, Walpole, Mass, just a mile from Gillette Stadium. One of the greatest players who does not appear to be on a card is Hockey Hall of Famer Angela Ruggerio. It is possible the Tulsa Oilers may have issued a card or postcard when she played with them.

FYI, the Patty Kazmaier Award, the women's equivalent of the Hobey Baker Award, is named after the daughter of Heisman Trophy winner Dick Kazmaier, the last Ivy Leaguer (Princeton) to win the award.

Here is a link to a site for women's hockey cards:

http://www.whockey.com/card/