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StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
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This might be a 1/1 of sorts. A card depicting a player arguing with an ump. I am sure Major League baseball would not want to portray this type of thing on a card. It reminds me of when I read something about how the NHL did not want to have any photos of players fighting on the cards anymore.

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  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,067 ✭✭✭
    I have never seen that card before. Very funny! Thanks for posting.
  • tkd7tkd7 Posts: 1,799 ✭✭
    Here's another one.

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  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    I'm trying to figure that card out--He played for the Yankees in '72, so I can understand the card being airbrushed. But those aren't Yankees colors on the rest of the uniform? Why would they airbrush the front of the jersey?
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  • Writer11Writer11 Posts: 738 ✭
    onlyanumber,

    I was wondering the exact same thing. Anyone?
  • SoutherncardsSoutherncards Posts: 1,384 ✭✭
    Could be that since Topps only had photographers in a few cities, Ellis moved team to team and missed the photographer. They might have had to resort to using an older photo. It could be a photo from the minors or even less far fetched, it could be that the pic is not even Ellis at all!
  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    Odd. He didn't play for any other teams besides the Yankees and the Indians up until 1973... Minor League? Baseball Cube doesn't have any minor league stats for the guy after he got his first call up, but I'm not sure if they're 100% complete with their stats.

    The stripes are consistant with the Indians' jersey of that year, but the buttons on the shirt are not. Maybe Topps added the stripes and the red?
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  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    The more I look at it, the more it appears the stripes and stirrups are painted on.
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    Maybe a Yankees away uniform that has been touched up? If someone could zoom in on the shirt part, I wonder if you could see the name any better, does not look completely blanked out.
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,492 ✭✭✭✭
    It's a Yankees road jersey with Indians colors painted on (they are playing in Oakland). The 1973 set is famous for their "paint on jobs" (as we used to call them as a kid). Maybe someone can post Graig Nettles card from that year which is a classic (who I believe went the other way in that Ellis trade).
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  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    I see what you mean

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    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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    Looking for Al Hrabosky and any OPC Dave Campbells (the ESPN guy)
  • gameusedhoopgameusedhoop Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭✭
    Here is one of the few Hockey fight cards that I remember, it may be one of the last, 1973?

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  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭


    << <i>Here is one of the few Hockey fight cards that I remember, it may be one of the last, 1973? >>

    If memory serves, there was an early Upper Deck card (91-92?) that showed a fight picture on the reverse of a card. Also, the 1982 OPC Marc Crawford RC shows him bleeding after a fight.
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