Speaking of movies in which baseball cards were featured...

RedHeart54

I discovered something rather strange tonight. I was thumbing through the 2004 SCD baseball card catalogue and came across a listing for a card I never knew existed: a 1984 Topps "movie prop" card of the actor Michael O' Keefe from the 1985 movie "The Slugger's Wife". (O'Keefe, as you'll recall, played "Danny" in Caddyshack.) In this movie, O'Keefe plays a baseball player named Darryl Palmer and I guess (no, I've never seen the film) there's a scene in which this card is shown. The SCD book shows a photo of the card and it looks just like any '84 Topps card. I don't know how many were made but it lists for only $15. Has anyone ever heard of this card? Or was it auctioned in a Topps Vault sale?

joestalin

speaking of oddities, did you know that Jimmie Foxx died after he choked on a piece of meat?

JS

calleocho

i always thought it would be cool to come out in the background of a baseball card.

i would get 15000 copies..lol

fsjeter

I have heard of that card. My guess is that someone involved in the movie, maybe O'Keefe himself, owns the card. I don't recall Topps ever auctioning the card.

Scott

Allen

What about all the Roy Hobbs Rookie Cards from the Natural? You know the scene that shows them printing sheets of them.

wlf3

Mr baseball w/ Tom Selleck had a card
The Natural w/ Robert Redford
Honus (there's more to the title) w/ Matt Modinne recently had a card as well.

they're cool as props as well as a collectible of sorts. I've consided collecting these cards as well.

Griffins

Mastro about 5 years ago had a couple of cards from a baseball movie, Sinatra and someone else, looked like T206's or E90-1's. They looked pretty cool.


Kevin, was Foxx drunk when he choked on the meat? Was it a Mama Cass type thing, where the food didn't actually kill him, just happened to be there when something else got him?

mrc32

Did you ever see that episode of the Wonder Years where Kevin and Paul get into a spat over a trade that inculdes a Willie McCovey card.....

Script....a good read

wlf3

Remember the McGyver episode where RD Anderson goes undercover to break up a dealer scam of selling stolen cards?

RepublicaninMass

Steven Kings Needful Things, has a mint 1956 mantle...best looking card ever!

goodriddance189

there were baseball cards featured in the Sandlot, i believe.

bengineno9

What was the name of that old Cher movie who had that kid with the big freckled melon head?
I beleive he had some 71 T's pinned to a bulletin board. I wanna say he was a big Mets fan. Not for sure.
Help me out!

Ben

Spigrimace

Didn't that Negro League movie have some.....Bingos All Stars...forget the actual name. Lots of famous black actors in it.

Spigrimace

I'd pay a buck for a '78 Tanner with a back pose with that Chico's Bail Bonds ad.

Let them Play!

frankhardy

I remember the MacGyver episode. He dressed up like a dork that collected cards. He walked into a card shop and on the magazine rack was a Beckett with Jose Canseco on the front. I remember that because I had that Beckett at the time.

Tabe

<< <i>What was the name of that old Cher movie who had that kid with the big freckled melon head?
I beleive he had some 71 T's pinned to a bulletin board. I wanna say he was a big Mets fan. Not for sure.
Help me out!

Ben >>


Mask was the movie. Pretty sure the cards pictured were much older than 1971 though...

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Allen

I remember that Wonder Years episode. Good stuff. The Mask featured some 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers cards.

yawie99

I wonder what Winnie Cooper (or at least her real-life counterpart) looks like nowadays. I always thought she was cute.

Back to the original subject, I think a few cards (I wanna say '58 Topps, as I'm pretty sure there was at least one of the distinctive All-Star cards) were tacked up to a corkboard in Stand By Me, which is one of my all-time favorites.

Spigrimace

Now I'm thinking it was Bingo Long's Travelling All Stars.

Stone193

<< <i> wonder what Winnie Cooper (or at least her real-life counterpart) looks like nowadays >>


Yawie
Danica McKellar - she looks pretty good to me!



Stone

jrinck

Regarding the movie "Mask", it was either 1955 or 1956 Topps Brooklyn Dodger cards that he tacked to his wall.

The 1941 "Pride of the Yankees", the Lou Gehrig story, shows some cards in the beginning, but I don't remember what they were as I haven't seen the move since I was 13--over 20 years ago.

bobsbbcards

There's a Simpson's episode with the following line:

Milhouse: Excuse me. Do you have the Carl Yastrzemski baseball
card from 1973, when he had big sideburns?

Also, back to Wonder Years, there was a scene where Kevin was looking at a 1969 Carl Yastrzemski card.

RepublicaninMass

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<< <i> wonder what Winnie Cooper (or at least her real-life counterpart) looks like nowadays >>


Yawie
Danica McKellar - she looks pretty good to me!



Stone >>




Her arms are begining to look like a SAM bat. Nice face though.

packCollector

I always had a thing for winnie


there were auctions on ebay awhile back for "prop" packs from 67 (racks),70(wax) and 74(wax) that were to be used in brewsters millions but tnever made it into the movie

peacockcoins

<< <i>speaking of oddities, did you know that Jimmie Foxx died after he choked on a piece of meat?

JS >>

Momma Cas did too. Ham I believe.