"Collector's Dream"-Joe Orlando SMR

fsjeter

Joe Orlando, Editor in Chief at SMR, wrote an interesting column in the June 2004 issue of SMR. In it, he listed some dream cards that he would love to see as a collector but they were never meant to be. His top 5 list included the following cards:

1) 1933 Goudey Josh Gibson
2) 1915 Cracker Jack Babe Ruth
3) 1952 Topps Ted Williams
4) 1954 or 1955 Topps Mickey Mantle
5) 1950 Bowman Joe DiMaggio

My list would look something like this:

1) 1909 T206 Joe Jackson
2) 1939 Playball Lou Gehrig
3) 1939 Playball Satchel Paige
4) 1967 Topps Sandy Koufax (regular issue not LL)
5) 1967 Topps Nolan Ryan

I was curious what other Dream cards everyone would like to see?

aconte

1952 Red man Mickey Manlte
1953 Red man Jackie Robinson
1954 Red man Hank Aaron
1955 Red man Roberto Clemente

Just a few that come to mind.... especially the Mantle. That set would of been worth a small fortune!

aconte

frankhardy

One that I have never thought about until just now is 1951 Topps Mantle and Mays.

envoy98

How about my own mug on a '96 Upper Deck?

Now that would be a card I'd like to have! (Not a make believe one you buy from UD either, I mean UD meets me at the ballpark and I get paid to have my pic taken and autograph insert cards and stuff.) !

Hey! I can dream can't I?

sjeanblanc

Oh let's see:

1967 Topps Nolan Ryan / Tom Seaver
1969 OPC Nolan Ryan
1970 OPC Nolan Ryan
1972 OPC Nolan Ryan
1989 Leaf Nolan Ryan

This would at least provide some temporal continuity to the Nolan Ryan issues, but would add a sevre amount of collecting frustration.

Scott Jeanblanc
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CON40

Oh, what the heck!

Since Nolan Ryan pitched in 1966... how about a 1966 Topps Ryan rookie!

sjeanblanc

Keith,

That's why it would be a 67 Topps Ryan / Seaver, for it to be a 66 Topps Ryan he would have had to pitch in 1965 for the Mets, wouldn't he?

Oh and I forgot the Kellogg's cards:

1971 Kelloggs Ryan
1972 Kelloggs Ryan
1976 Kelloggs Ryan
1977 Kelloggs Ryan

Scott Jeanblanc
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CON40

Scott;

That's usually the case... but Yaz did not appear with the Sox until 1960, and he has a 1960 rookie card! I know it's a reach, but one can dream!

bxb

1962 Topps combo card with Mantle and Maris.

ranch

Here are a few Hockey cards I can think of:

1954 Topps Maurice Richard
1954 Topps Teeder Kennedy
1954 Topps Jean Beliveau
1955 Parkhurst Gordie Howe

Allen

Mantle and Maris have a combo card in 1961 Topps with the 60LL HR card. Also features Colavito and Lemon, I have one signed by the 4. I am sure that is not the type of combo card you are talking about but its the next best thing. I would love to see a Mantle Maris like the 1960 Mantle, Boyer. Man I love that card, I wish it was Roger standing beside him though.

I sure woulda liked to have seen MJ in that 93-94 UD SE All Stars set.

Griffins

1 T205 Joe Jackson
2 '33 Delong Ruth
3. 34-36 Diamond Stars Ruth or Gehrig
4. N28 Bid McPhee
5. '48 Leaf Yogi Berra or Pee Wee Reese
6. '53 Bowman Color Jackie Robinson or Willie Mays or Ted Williams
7. Red Heart Bob Feller
8. '63 Fleer Mantle
9. '51 Bowman Joe Dimaggio
10. '41 PlayBall Paige or Gibson

jrinck

A tribute to Clemente in the 1974 set (or even '73 in the last series) would have been nice. As it was, they never acknowledged his untimely death.

mrc32

T-205 Honus Wagner

fsjeter

I'd like to see a 1955 Topps All American Jim Brown (in his Syracuse Uniform) as well!

goodriddance189

more prewar hockey sets
67 nolan ryan
KELLOGGS 3-D HOCKEY SETS
75 kelloggs george brett
70 kelloggs munson, with that killer 71 topps pose

MorrellMan

1960 Topps Maury Wills (1961, 1962, 1963, etc.)
1960/1961 Bell Brand Don Drysdale
1955 Topps Mickey Mantle

...and I always thought there shouldabeena '58 Topps Campy.

34GoudeyCollector

1934 Goudey Babe Ruth (Portrait)
1934 Goudey BabeRuth (Full Length - Swinging)

Scumbi

My five -

1972 Childhood Photo of the Stars/Don Mossi
1952 Topps Satchel Paige and Stan Musial
1948 Leaf Gehrig and Cobb
1933 Goudey Hank Greenberg (I think he was already playing)
1964 Topps Stand-Up Roy Campanella - God, am I a deranged freak or what? I apologize in advance.

And

Juan Marichal and John Roseboro any year standing back to back holding pistols.

S.

Butcher

I would like to see:
1935 National Chicle Red Grange
1935 National Chicle Jim Thorpe

Griffins

<<1972 Childhood Photo of the Stars/Don Mossi
1964 Topps Stand-Up Roy Campanella>>>

You sick, twisted man. Keep 'em coming!

Spigrimace

Theres an 84 or 85 topps league leader card with Ryan, Seaver & Carlton, my boyhood pitching idols growing up. I just love looking at it.

For fun...How about a PSA 10 Topps mid to late 1970-somthing Kurt Bevacqua Bazooka Bubble Gum champ card? That was some bubble!

wolfbear

1968 Topps Warren Wells
1969 Topps Warren Wells
1970 Topps Warren Wells

highend

1- 54 & 55 topps mantle
2- 55 bowman clemente & killebrew
3- 72 topps schmidt (card 788)
4- 67 topps ryan seaver rookie
5- 2003 & 2004 topps heritage h. matsui (i know....but it's the only modern i collect)


"64 topps campy stand up"

phreakydancin

1954/55 Topps hockey Rocket Richard / Boom Boom Geoffrion / Jacques Plante
1990/91 OPC Premier hockey Mark Recchi / Ed Belfour

gemint

1989 Topps John Constantino


...I can dream can't I?

SOM

How about some combo cards?

1970 Dock Ellis/Timothy Leary
1984 Alan Wiggins/Magic Johnson
1973 Fritz Peterson/Hugh Hefner
1987 Pete Rose/Michael Jordan (on location in Atlantic City)
2004 Juan Marichal/Todd Bertuzzi

frankhardy

Wouldn't we all like to have seen a 1974 Topps Roberto Clemente?

WinPitcher

i always wondered why Topps did not have a 74 card of Clemente, perhaps it was an estate issue? if memory serves me though he died on 12 31 72 and didnt play the 73 season so perhaps that was their "tribute" card of him then?

Vargha

Along those lines, how about a 1979 card of Lyman Bostock? He was a very good player and a decent human being. I had the chance to meet him in person and he was very cordial about giving his autograph. When he signed a free agent contract with the Angels in 1978, he got off to such a poor start in the first two weeks of April that he committed to giving his entire month's salary to charity. Even though he was above .280 by the end of the month, he followed through on his commitment.

aro13

Vargha - Good story about Bostock. I remember being late for a Blue Jays game at Exhibition Stadium in September 78 and pausing at the top of the steps as they had a moment of silence. It took a while for my friend and I to figure out what had happened. Very sad. He was a very good player.

helionaut

Clemente's 1973 Topps wasn't exactly a tribute card, and it was in the first series so it probably was already well into the design process when he died. I always liked that card, showing him pulling off a pitch but with his face in shadow it seems kind of sombre and understated. It does seem kind of odd that there was no specific tribute card for him. In fact, I am not aware of many real tribute cards for players who die, especially those who die "before their time." There's that Gil Hodges card in 72 OPC with a tiny notation, a 1964 Ken Hubbs, and I think there are a couple others but I can't recall them right now.

Anyway, as to the thread, there was a thread or two like this in the last couple years. For the record, my top 5 now are:
1952 Topps Stan Musial (and all the other years he missed)
1909 T206 Joe Jackson
1933 Goudey Satchel Paige
2001 Topps Heritage Albert Pujols, Ichiro and Mark Prior (hey, Topps, put out a Heritage update this year!)
1971 Topps Greatest Moments Nolan Ryan

For that matter, I wish Topps had made many of their test sets into full sets. Imagine a 400-card 1968 3-D set, a 330-card 1971 Greatest Moments set, a 598-coin 1964 Coin set, or a 787-card 1972 Cloth set. So many tests, yet how many were ever deemed successful enough to actually turn into regular products?

ajw

1985 Topps Olympic Will Clark (and Barry Larkin, I guess)

I also wish there were more Will Clark "replicards" from the 80s and 90s in BBC Magazine (and other mags from the era). Remember those? They are some of my absolute favorite cards.

KalineFan

Well, lets see....since I am a KalineFan, I guess I would absolutely love to
see would be obvious :


1953 Topps Al Kaline ! YEA BABY! (MINT 9 would be fine! LOL)

also, I can't forget,

1963 Fleer Al Kaline!

Scumbi

I think we are all forgetting a 1969 Milton Bradley Milton Bradley. That would be sweet. Also, a 1956 Topps Pete Gray Gray Back. A Gun used Eddie Watikus bullet card numbered to 22. A 1971 Topps Great Moments Fred Merkle. Any Glenn Burke GAI card. Topps Who Am I Ronald Reagan. A Nolan Ryan card with his real first name, Lynn. Tinkers, Evers and Chance on a Fleer 3 Stooges card. 1959 Fleer Ted Williams - Ted Dressed in Fishnets While Drunk. A 1964 Topps Friend Foes with Steve Sax and his own brain. 1954 Dan Dee Don Meredith.

Okay. Back to sleep.

S.

RedHeart54

I've submitted this one before but how about a 1978-79 OPC WHA Wayne Gretzky. Come to think of it, that set could also include Mark Messier.

rickster

I ended up in the same softball class at CSUN in the early 70’s with Lyman Bostock and some of his friends from the baseball team. We used an oversized, stuffed softball, and played without gloves. Of course, everyone knew who Lyman was, so when he came up to the plate we moved everyone, including the outfielders, to the right side of the diamond. Lyman would always try to pull the ball over the outfielders’ heads, and would then act like he was really pissed off because he couldn’t do it, since no one could hit that kind of ball more than 200-250 feet. He would clown around and throw jabs at everyone in the class, including us peons. I'll bet it was the funniest PE class ever. My friends and I even recruited him to play on our fast-pitch softball team, but the baseball coach found out about it and nixed the deal. Man, that would have been fun to see. It was such a sad day when I heard of his death. I certainly didn't know him well enough to comment on his life, but turning over a month's salary to charity because he didn't feel he was fulfilling his contract said a lot about him. I would have loved to see a tribute card for him.

Rick

Bighurt4

1986 Topps Bo Jackson with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

War Eagle and Go Buccs!

Brent

frankhardy

I think the point was missed when I said that we would all like to have seen a 1974 Topps Clemente - meaning - don't we all wish that he had not have died so tragically and played in 1973 so that he could have had a 1974 Topps (or 1975 or 1976). Who knows how long he would have played. His rookie year was ?1954?

frankhardy

Also, how about a 1980 Thurman Munson or a 2003 Darryl Kile? These two could have played many more years.