Help with card identiy

fur72

I recently went through a couple boxes of junk cards (and I mean junk) I have not looked at in years I found a few I am wondering what they are. I know I have seen the cut outs posted on here before but the Chuck Connors and Nick Leonard cards are throwing me for al loop. I didnt know Chuck Connors played baseball.

SoonerCowboy

Don't know about the card but he also played in the Yankees minor league system, for the cubs and for the Celtics.

storm888

Chuck Connors

Early life

Connors was born Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Marcella (Lundrigan) and Allan Connors, immigrants from the Dominion of Newfoundland via Ireland. Connors grew up with a two-years-younger sister named Gloria; their father was a longshoreman and their mother a homemaker. He was raised a Roman Catholic, serving as an altar boy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

His natural athletic abilities earned him a scholarship to the private high school Adelphi Academy, and then to the Catholic college, Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. After two years in college he then dropped out and in 1942 enlisted in the Army at Fort Knox, Kentucky, listing his civilian occupation as a ski instructor. Serving mostly as a tank-warfare instructor, he was stationed at Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and later at West Point, New York.


Sports career

During his tour of duty Chuck moonlighted as a professional basketball player at night. Following his military discharge in 1946, he joined the newly formed Boston Celtics of the Basketball Association of America. Connors left the team for spring training with Major League Baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers. He played for numerous minor league teams before joining the Dodgers in 1949, for whom he played in just 1 game; and the Chicago Cubs in 1951, for whom he played in 66 games as a first baseman and occasional pinch hitter.[1] In 1952 he was sent to the minor leagues again, to play for the Cubs' top farm team, the Los Angeles Angels. Connors was also drafted by the Chicago Bears, but never suited-up for the team. Chuck Connors is one of only twelve athletes in history to have played for both Major League Baseball and in the NBA. Connors is credited with being the first professional basketball player to break a backboard. Connors jumped center and smashed the glass backboard in the first-ever Boston Celtics game on Nov. 5, 1946 at Boston Arena[1]

EchoCanyon

The cut-outs were on the bottom of Hostess boxes

ryaneversole

<< <i>Chuck Connors is credited with being the first professional basketball player to break a backboard. Connors jumped center and smashed the glass backboard in the first-ever Boston Celtics game on Nov. 5, 1946 at Boston Arena[1] >>



Haha, that is awesome. First ever times two!

SDSportsFan

The Chuck Connors card is from the old Baseball Cards Magazine. For a while, they put inserts in the magazine that had two "fantasy" cards on them, such as a 1948 Bowman Mantle, and 1952 and 1953 Topps Ted Williams.

The Fisk, DeCinces and May cards are 1977 Hostess.


Steve