YOUR TOP TEN VINTAGE CARDS.

I really enjoyed Jay's thread of the Top Ten Vintage Cards of All-Time. I thought another interesting thread, that would lead to more diverse opinions, would be this one, so here are mine!

1) T206 Uzit Cobb Bat Off Shoulder
2) E90-1 Joe Jackson Rookie
3) E92 Magee (great leaping pose with SUPER background colors!)
4) TIE E92 Mathewson (great looking background on a horizontal card!) and E92 Lajoie (great looking background on this one as well)
5) T3 Cobb (this card is more of a work of art than a Baseball Card!)
6) E98/E93/E94 Ty Cobb (great leaping pose - looks really nice with red background or the E93 orange)
7) E92 Dooin (Another card with super background colors!)
8) 1910 Obak Hetling (Super background on this card - pink colors with, of all things, a windmill in the background!)
9) E92 Jacklitsch (another of my favorites due to the super background colors)
10) TIE - Ty Cobb with a Ty Cobb back and T210 Jackson - Super looking cards I have always wanted. In fact, of all the cards I have always wanted to own, these are the only two I have never owned that I wanted!



Portait cards have always been higher and more popular than cards with action shots or ones with super nice backgrounds. I hope this trend continues, as I am elated to have cards with awesome backgrounds like this Hetling!

1 T204 Square Frame Ramly Dineen

2 E98 Mathewson (Red Background)

3 M116 Blue background Tenney

4 E107 Mathewson/Wagner

5 T206 Cobb bat off shoulder

6 M101-4 Ruth

7 T210 Benny

8 W600 Wagner

9 1952 Bowman Mantle

10 t206 Wagner

Just a little clarification before I post mine. How does this list differ from Jay's? Is this list based on aesthetics? Or "importance" to us? Or both? Do we have to own the cards on this list?

Jay's was more or less what you consider the Top Ten cards in the Hobby to be. This list is simply YOUR top ten - could be any player - regardless of "Hobby Importance".

Also, no - you don't have to own the cards on the list. These are simply YOUR FAVORITE VINTAGE CARDS.

Sounds good Scott. Here's mine:

1. 1912 Boston Garter Matty
2. N162 Kelly
3. 4BH Kelly
4. Ramly Plank
5. D359/E104 Mack or Plank
6. E92 Matty
7. E107 Wagner
8. D304 Cobb
9. E90-1 Young (Boston portrait)
10. E92 Magee

1910 Washington Times Ty Cobb
1910 Washington Times Walter Johnson
1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth
T206 Wagner
1894 Alpha Photo Engraving McGraw
1933 R337 Babe Ruth
1933 Goudey Lajoie
T206 Plank
Boston Garter Jackson
T210 Jackson

Square_Frame_Ramly wrote:7. That Zeenut card where the guy is pretending to ride a motorcycle

Do you mean the T210 Benny?

I'm sorry...for some reason i thought it was a zeenut.

Mark

My top 10 cards are players who had a good, interesting day or days in an otherwise quite forgetful career. Since they each require an explanation, I will keep my list short. These are all cards which I have, but most are readilly available.

#1 Pat Seerey, Leaf
Pat was a player who thought he was the Bambino every time he strode to bat.
But he wasn't. He struck out 25% of the time, once hit over 20 HRs, and was typically in the double digits, with triple digit Ks in about 400AB.
One day he shined ! That day he joined Gehrig, Klein, Delahanty, Hodges and others with 4 HRs in a game.

#2 Johnnie Burnett, R314D
Burnett really did not have much of a career. He only made it on to this one baseball card (other than a Conlon), but he did what no one else has approached - 9 hits in a game !
Yes, yes, of course it was extra innings; but it is still nine hits !

#3 Charlie Pick, Zeenut
Charlie was just the opposite of Johnnie Burnett above.
And we all know that in the Oescheger/Cadore 26 inning marathon, somebody had to set the record for single game batting futility.
Well Charlie is that man ! He went 0-11 in that game.
I know that he hit into one DP, maybe more.

#4 Ernie Shore, Indianapolis Brewing (e - somethinorother, whogivesahoot or what catagory do breweries really belong in?)
Ernie pitched a perfect + game in relief.
He came on after the starter, Ruth, was thrown out for arguing a walk to the first batter.
Had the runner erased in a failed steal attempt.
Then retired the 26 batters he faced.
Faced 26, retired 27, and I don't think that he got credit for a perfecto, but I could be wrong.



Thanks for your time. This stuff is what I like best about my card assembly.

Balt News Babe Ruth
T210 Joe Jackson
E107 Honus Wagner
E107 Mathewson
T204 Walter Johnson
M101-4 Babe Ruth
Cobb w/ Cobb back
Billiken Oscar Charleston
E135 Rogers Hornsby
T206 Honus Wagner

1-T206 Baltimore players with Drum reverse
2-Virginia Extra-Baltimore player
3-Victory/Smith-got this one-Thanks Steve
4-Joss/BL 460-got this one-Thanks Dan
5-E95 Wagner
6-Mino Bender
7-E106 Bender-striped cap
8-T206 Plank
9-T206 Magee Red Hindu
10-T206 M. Brown Brown Hindu

These are my top ten today- probably will change in the future

These are all very impressive lists guys! I don't see a bum card yet! Dan.

My dream 10 would be as follows (I own two, used to own 4 others)

m101-5 Thorpe
Sockalxis pin (forget if it's Cameo Pepsin, etc)
t208 Plank
n300 Delahanty
n162 Anson
e92 Nadja Thorpe
t210 Jackson
Balt News Ruth (gotta be red)
Peck & Snyder Jim Creighton
FBH Kelley

honorable mention, J=K Candy Bedient