Vintage baseball cards in"Rainman"
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There was a recent thread on baseball cards in movies (and I know there have been others) but instead of dredging them up, I thought it'd be easier to just start a new one. My wife bought "Rainman" on DVD and we sat down to watch it last night for the first time since the '80s. Looks like many of us have something in common with at least one (fictional) autistic savant -- a fascination/obsession with baseball cards. Dustin Hoffman's room in the institution is a shrine to baseball and cards, at one point Tom Cruise's character's girlfriend picks one up and asks about it: a 1960 Ted Kluszewski. Later in the scene, Hoffman is seen checking his stack over and over -- many 1953 Topps commons can easily be recognized. I had completely forgotten about this scene (when I first saw the movie I was in my non-collecting hiatus between my early teens and when I got back into baseball cards at the turn of the millennium). I drove my wife and teen-aged son crazy pausing and re-starting the movie in slow motion so I could get a better look and identify the cards!
In the stack: '53 Topps Cincy Reds commons (Rainman's home team) - Ed Bailey, Grady Hatton, Bubba Church, Jim Greengrass, Eddie Pellagrini, Howie Judson; '58 Topps unidentifiable player; '59 Topps - Frank Robinson (only HOFer, nice mid-grade, but o/c to the right); '60 Topps Big Klu and some inexplicable mid-80s stuff (with blue backs, Donruss?) including Graig Nettles and Darrell Thomas. Earlier, when Hoffman is looking through the stack you can see the backs of another '59 Topps, a couple of '60s and a '62 Topps.
Later in the scene, you can see a number of 1980s uncut sheets (including 1985 Topps), and pins including Duke Snider and Fernando Valenzuela. Check it out on DVD if you can so you can slo-mo and see the cards...
(Boy, I should get a life...)
In the stack: '53 Topps Cincy Reds commons (Rainman's home team) - Ed Bailey, Grady Hatton, Bubba Church, Jim Greengrass, Eddie Pellagrini, Howie Judson; '58 Topps unidentifiable player; '59 Topps - Frank Robinson (only HOFer, nice mid-grade, but o/c to the right); '60 Topps Big Klu and some inexplicable mid-80s stuff (with blue backs, Donruss?) including Graig Nettles and Darrell Thomas. Earlier, when Hoffman is looking through the stack you can see the backs of another '59 Topps, a couple of '60s and a '62 Topps.
Later in the scene, you can see a number of 1980s uncut sheets (including 1985 Topps), and pins including Duke Snider and Fernando Valenzuela. Check it out on DVD if you can so you can slo-mo and see the cards...
(Boy, I should get a life...)
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