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Has anyone ever seen a list of all of the players that are featured in this famous baseball card book? This was my favorite book as a kid back in the late 70's and I recently purchased it again.

I've decided to try and get each of the cards listed in this shown in the Profiles section of this book in PSA and show them off as a Collectors Showcase. I think there are 200+ cards in the book. I started going through the book and listing them all in an excal spreadsheet, but I was wondering if the list of cards was out there already?

If you like 50's and 50's baseball, you've got to read this book.

http://www.amazon.com/American-Baseball-Flipping-Trading-Bubble/dp/0395586682

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  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭✭
    great book; I still have the copy I got for my birthday back in 1976.....Goodnight Sibby Sisti wherever you may be

    this book is a MUST for any card collector
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  • mccardguy1mccardguy1 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭
    Geez I loved that book as a kid. I will definitly have to find me a copy and the collection idea to find all the cards featured in that book is a unbelieveably great idea!!If someone comes up with a checklist I hope they will post it because I would love to do that collection!!
    I am on a budget and I am not afraid to use it!!
  • StatmanStatman Posts: 597 ✭✭✭
    I had started the checklist (and actually picked up two of the cards so far), but I was hoping there was a list out there somewhere already. I'll work on it in the next few days and post it when I finish.

    Andrew
  • georgebailey2georgebailey2 Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭
    Which card led the author to ask, "Was his hair too tight?"

    (Assuming I am thinking of the correct book)
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Which card led the author to ask, "Was his hair too tight?"

    (Assuming I am thinking of the correct book) >>



    Johnny U (the only football card in the book)
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  • StatmanStatman Posts: 597 ✭✭✭
    The 1960 Topps Unitas card is a classic - even though it's football, I'd definitely make that part of the collection
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭
    GREAT book!! Might be kinda pricey to put together the cards featured in there, I recall a '56T Jackie, 53T Paige, 55T Williams, 63T Clemente among others, oddly no Mantles though.

    "No, Bob Cerv is not trying to knock himself unconscious with a fungo bat"

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  • StatmanStatman Posts: 597 ✭✭✭
    There are definitely some high-priced cards in there, but not too many. Plenty of lesser lights with fun stories to keep the costs down. I'd be happy with PSA 6-7 on most cards, with nicely-centered 4's and 5's on some of the higher priced ones.

    I know there is a Koufax rookie in there, plus 56 Jackie Robinson, 52T Bobby Thomson high number, and the Paige, but I can always get them near the end and just concentrate on the cheaper guys now.
  • StatmanStatman Posts: 597 ✭✭✭
    My favortie card might be the 1952 Topps Gus Zernial - I love how they goof on his pink t-shirt as well as how he got the baseballs attached to his bat.

    From the book:
    How do you suppose they got those baseballs to stay up there anyway? Nails? Scotch tape? Postage stamp hinges? And why do you think Gus is giving us the high sign? Is he trying to assure us that everything is ok? Is he trying to indicate to us that he thinks the Athletics are a big zero? Does he want a cinnamon doughnut to go? And why is he wearing a pink undershirt?

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  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭✭
    I remember about 20 years ago buying a 3x5 autograph of Toby Atwell for no other reason other than I remembered reading about him in the book
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  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    My favorite line from the book:
    Who the hell is Milo Candini, and why are they saying such terrible things about him?
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    Cuno Baragon?

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    You're right, Griffiths. It was Cuno Barragan. That line always cracked me up!
  • georgebailey2georgebailey2 Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭
    As a kid, I remember laughing out loud at the Unitas comments.

    Thanks for the Zernial post. Another classic.

    IIRC, it also introduced those too young (me, born in 64) to see him play to the immortal ears, nose...well, just the whole face of Don Mossi. For some reason, when I hear Centerfield and the line goes " a brown eyed handsome man" , Mossi's face comes to mind a nanosecond after Jackie Robinson (whose image appears at that line in the video). I don't know why. .....Ok, I do. Because it is funny.
  • metsfanmetsfan Posts: 834
    Thats really a great book! Have a copy somewhere, will have to dig it out.
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  • mrpeanut39mrpeanut39 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Has anyone ever seen a list of all of the players that are featured in this famous baseball card book? This was my favorite book as a kid back in the late 70's and I recently purchased it again.

    I've decided to try and get each of the cards listed in this shown in the Profiles section of this book in PSA and show them off as a Collectors Showcase. I think there are 200+ cards in the book. I started going through the book and listing them all in an excal spreadsheet, but I was wondering if the list of cards was out there already?

    If you like 50's and 50's baseball, you've got to read this book.

    http://www.amazon.com/American-Baseball-Flipping-Trading-Bubble/dp/0395586682 >>



    Great idea on the Collector's Showcase. I could see myself picking those up. The book is hilarious with plenty of irreverent humor that many around here would get a kick out of. I like the one about Smoky Burgess where they say he was fat like your Uncle Dwight.
    "I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
  • PigsPigs Posts: 761
    I really loved that book also. I believe it got me into collecting the older cards back then. The cards were so cool looking along with the funny comments that have been mentioned. Everytime I see the Zernial card I notice his pink shirt. Great childhood memory for sure.
  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    I bought it in 1976 when I was ten. It was the first time I had ever seen most of those cards. And I learned a little something about a lot of players. When I got a Sibbi Sisti autograph in the early 1990's, that book was all I could think of. A classic!!!
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  • StatmanStatman Posts: 597 ✭✭✭
    I finally finished the list of cards from the book - I included all the cards in the Profiles section - looks like 241 cards in all!

    I have 2 cards from the list - 60 Estrada and 63 Duren - going to be a LONG process. But fun, I hope. As I pick up different ones, I'll throw out some scans of my new purchases.

    1940 Play Ball Van Mungo
    1951 Bowman John Berardino
    1951 Bowman Vic Wertz
    1951 Bowman Granny Hamner
    1951 Bowman Ned Garver
    1951 Bowman Early Wynn
    1951 Bowman Ewell Blackwell
    1951 Bowman Andy Seminick
    1951 Bowman Ed Stanky
    1951 Bowman Cal Abrams
    1951 Bowman Emory Bubba Church
    1951 Bowman Alfonso Chico Carrasquel
    1951 Bowman Sal Maglie
    1952 Bowman Sam Jethroe
    1952 Bowman Roy Campanella
    1952 Bowman Harry Lowery
    1952 Topps Stan Rojek
    1952 Topps Willie Jones
    1952 Topps Less Moss
    1952 Topps Frank Crossetti
    1952 Topps Richie Ashburn
    1952 Topps Clyde Kluttz
    1952 Topps Gus Niarhos
    1952 Topps Clint Hartung
    1952 Topps Eddie Miskis
    1952 Topps Vern Law
    1952 Topps Bill Nicholson
    1952 Topps Larry Doby
    1952 Topps Ralph Branca
    1952 Topps Bobby Thomson
    1952 Topps John Antonelli
    1952 Topps Johnny Lipon
    1952 Topps Eddie Waitkus
    1952 Topps Al Zarilla
    1952 Topps Sherman Lollar
    1952 Topps Enos Slaughter
    1952 Topps Ferris Fain
    1952 Topps Ted Beard
    1952 Topps Eddie Yost
    1952 Topps Pete Reiser
    1952 Topps Curt Simmons
    1952 Topps Hoot Evers
    1952 Topps Gus Zernial
    1952 Topps Johnny Sain
    1952 Topps Maurice McDermott
    1952 Topps Bill Pierce
    1952 Topps Bob Kuzava
    1953 Bowman Joe Garagiola
    1953 Bowman Bobby Avila
    1953 Topps Bob Del Greco
    1953 Topps Satchel Paige
    1954 Bowman Earl Torgeson
    1954 Bowman Joe Nuxhall
    1954 Bowman Billy Cox
    1954 Bowman Gus Bell
    1954 Bowman Solly Hemus
    1954 Bowman Billy Loes
    1954 Bowman Bob Friend
    1954 Bowman Nellie Fox
    1954 Topps Charlie Silvera
    1954 Topps Cot Deal
    1954 Topps Joe Black
    1954 Topps Mike Fornieles
    1954 Topps Ted Kazanski
    1954 Topps Jim Delsing
    1954 Topps Ed & John O'Brien
    1955 Topps Wayne Terwilliger
    1955 Topps Ted Williams
    1955 Bowman Wilmer Schantz
    1955 Bowman Nestor Chylak UMP
    1955 Bowman Cal Hubbard UMP
    1955 Bowman Al Barlick UMP
    1955 Bowman Dusty Boggess UMP
    1955 Bowman Frank Dascoli UMP
    1955 Bowman Frank Secory UMP
    1955 Topps Rip Repulski
    1955 Topps Gene Conley
    1955 Topps Jim Gilliam
    1955 Topps Laurin Pepper
    1955 Topps Harry Agganis
    1955 Topps Sandy Koufax
    1955 Topps Camilo Pascual
    1955 Topps Bill Consolo
    1955 Topps Spook Jacobs
    1956 Topps Minnie Minoso
    1956 Topps Carlos Paula
    1956 Topps Whitey Lockman
    1956 Topps Toby Atwell
    1956 Topps Dick Brodowski
    1956 Topps Herb Score
    1956 Topps Al Silvera
    1956 Topps Jackie Robinson
    1956 Topps Harry Simpson
    1956 Topps Dave Philley
    1956 Topps Dale Mitchell
    1956 Topps Fred Hatfield
    1956 Topps Ernie Oravetz
    1956 Topps Wilmer Mizell
    1956 Topps Russ Meyer
    1956 Topps Jim Busby
    1956 Topps Hank Bauer
    1957 Topps Harridge/Giles
    1957 Topps Dusty Rhodes
    1957 Topps Ruben Gomez
    1957 Topps Frank Thomas
    1957 Topps Del Ennis
    1957 Topps Elmer Valo
    1957 Topps Clint Courtney
    1957 Topps Hank Aguirre
    1957 Topps Robin Roberts
    1957 Topps Jack Myers
    1957 Topps Ted Kluszewski
    1957 Topps Moe Drabowsky
    1957 Topps Dave Sisler
    1957 Topps Ed Bouchee
    1958 Topps Bob Shaw
    1958 Topps Gail Harris
    1958 Topps Sam Jones
    1958 Topps Steve Bilko
    1958 Topps Herb Plews
    1958 Topps Foster Castlemen
    1958 Topps Hal Griggs
    1958 Topps Ray Narleski
    1958 Topps Bob Cerv
    1958 Topps Stan Musial AS
    1958 Topps Series Hurling Rivals
    1958 Topps Rival Fence Busters
    1958 Topps Sandy Amoros
    1958 Topps Carl Furillo
    1958 Topps Carlton Willey
    1958 Topps Don Larsen
    1958 Topps Dale Long
    1958 Topps Gino Cimoli
    1958 Topps Harvey Kuenn
    1958 Topps Sam Esposito
    1958 Topps Yogi Berra
    1958 Topps Marv Throneberry
    1958 Topps Jim Brosnan
    1958 Topps Rocky Colavito
    1958 Topps Whammy Douglas
    1958 Topps Dick Hyde
    1958 Topps Vic Power
    1959 Topps Coot Veal
    1959 Topps Casey Wise
    1959 Topps Joe Jay
    1959 Topps Reno Bertoia
    1959 Topps Stan Lopata
    1959 Topps Rocky Bridges
    1959 Topps Neil Chrisley
    1959 Topps Hector Lopez
    1959 Topps Gene Stephens
    1959 Topps Walt Dropo
    1959 Topps Solly Drake
    1960 Topps Duke Carmel
    1960 Topps White Sox Coaches
    1960 Topps Leon Wagner
    1960 Topps Dick Hall
    1960 Topps Chuck Estrada
    1960 Topps Johnny Unitas FB
    1960 Topps Don Drysdale
    1961 Topps Billy Muffet
    1961 Topps Stu Miller
    1961 Topps Ernie Banks AS
    1961 Topps Ruth Hits 60th Homer
    1961 Topps 26-inning Tie
    1961 Topps Eli Grba
    1961 Topps Johnny Logan
    1961 Topps Dick Farrell
    1961 Topps Jackie Jensen MVP
    1961 Topps Jim Piersall
    1961 Topps Harvey Haddix
    1962 Topps Charlie Smith
    1962 Topps Mike De La Hoz
    1962 Topps Roger Craig
    1962 Topps Chris Cannizzaro
    1962 Topps Don Buddin
    1962 Topps Cuno Barragon
    1962 Topps Pumpsie Green
    1962 Topps Jesus McFarlane
    1962 Topps Harry Chiti
    1962 Topps Paul Foytack
    1962 Topps Sammy Drake
    1963 Topps Choo Choo Coleman
    1963 Topps John Roseboro
    1963 Topps Ryne Duren
    1963 Topps Bill Tuttle
    1963 Topps Jay Hook
    1963 Topps Harry Craft
    1963 Topps Charlie Maxwell
    1963 Topps Ken Hubbs
    1963 Topps World Series Game 7
    1963 Topps Rookie Stars
    1963 Topps Dick Stuart
    1963 Topps Rod Kanehl
    1963 Topps Galen Cisco
    1963 Topps Mets Team
    1963 Topps Whitey Herzog
    1963 Topps Billy Klaus
    1963 Topps Albie Pearson
    1963 Topps Tex Clevenger
    1963 Topps Roberto Clemente
    1963 Topps Carroll Hardy
    1963 Topps Bill Skowron
    1963 Topps Cal McLish
    1963 Topps Walt Bond
    1963 Topps Tracy Stallard
    1963 Topps Rich Rollins
    1963 Topps Felix Mantilla
    1963 Topps Tommie Aaron
    1963 Topps Georgre Brunet
    1963 Topps Tom Tresh
    1963 Topps Lou Klimchock
    1964 Topps Phil Linz
    1964 Topps Eddie Broussard
    1964 Topps Jim Gentile
    1964 Topps Charley Lau
    1964 Topps Don Mossi
    1964 Topps Casey Teaches
    1964 Topps Jim Bouton
    1964 Topps Smoky Burgess
    1964 Topps Doug Camilli
    1964 Topps Bubba Phillips
    1964 Topps Joe Koppe
    1964 Topps Earl Battey
    1965 Topps Bo Belinsky
    1965 Topps Dave Debusschere
    1965 Topps Woodie Held
    1965 Topps Casey Stengel
    1965 Topps Giants Rookies (Murakami)
    1965 Topps Frank Baumann
    1965 Topps Dave Nicholson
    1966 Topps Bob Purkey
    1966 Topps Red Sox Rookies - Scott
    1967 Topps Bubba Morton
    1967 Topps Ossie Chavarria
    1968 Topps Ken Harrelson
    1968 Topps Jim Gosger
    1969 Topps Aurelio Rodriguez
    1969 Topps Roy Face
    1969 Topps Walt Williams

  • AFLfanAFLfan Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My favortie card might be the 1952 Topps Gus Zernial - I love how they goof on his pink t-shirt as well as how he got the baseballs attached to his bat.

    From the book:
    How do you suppose they got those baseballs to stay up there anyway? Nails? Scotch tape? Postage stamp hinges? And why do you think Gus is giving us the high sign? Is he trying to assure us that everything is ok? Is he trying to indicate to us that he thinks the Athletics are a big zero? Does he want a cinnamon doughnut to go? And why is he wearing a pink undershirt?

    image >>



    I loved this book as a kid also. I, too, will have to go and dig mine out. Funny thing about the Zernial card... I sent one to him TTM to sign for me about a month ago. I got it back last week. He forgot to sign the card, but he did say that he attached the balls to the bat with scotch tape!
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  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    I bought the book when it came out.I have read it at least 5 times.I could really relate to that book. But my stores were Polish Crows Market and Jack & Dorthys soda fountain store in Detroits North East Side.
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • StatmanStatman Posts: 597 ✭✭✭
    Here are my first two cards towards my goal of 241 - I already had these in my inventory for some reason...

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