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  • maddux69maddux69 Posts: 2,147 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I feel ashamed to say this, but I just watched "The Sandlot " for the first time tonight. There are a few more cards that are on the wall in the scene with the vision of Babe Ruth. A 63 Aaron is at the bottom ( which doesn't coincide with the film being set in 1962), the middle one is a 62 Topps that I can't determine who it is and I have no idea of the one at the top.

  • GDM67GDM67 Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭✭

    Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly play deadball era players in "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"

    At one point we see this T206 style card of Frank's character. I've always wondered if it's in someone's collection somewhere.

  • muffinsmuffins Posts: 469 ✭✭✭

    "the accountant"

    briefly, but some key cards properly displayed during a pivotal scene touting thier intrinsic value.

    best movie ive scene in a long while.

  • rtimmerrtimmer Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭✭

    @LOTSOS said:
    Originally posted by: maddux69

    I was watching the "Muffin Tops" episode of Seinfeld tonight and there was a scene which had quite a few framed t205s on the wall. I could make out one being Mathewson, I am sure the experts can make out others. It is pretty well known that there was a scene on the Wonders where Kevin is trying to trade for Paul's McCovey, but they couldn't make it happen even with the Schwartz! What other instances have cards made it on the screen?

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    Will you open it up to hockey cards too? I saw your post and then was flipping through the channels and stumbled onto Strange Brew? Cult classic! Bob and Doug run into Rosie La Rose at the brewery and ask him to autograph his card for him.

    I have it narrowed down to a 1972 card. NHL. WHA had the logo on the left side. White jersey, circular logo, red background, team name is long enough to reach the horizontical player name stripe. Players name is long as well. I just can't figure it out. It screams Montreal but they all seem to have a green back ground. Detroit wore white but none I've found match. Could be Vancouver but the logo looks round not square. You would think OPC because it's a Canadian classic but there are fewer red backgrounds. Que up the Jeopardy theme song!

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  • georgebailey2georgebailey2 Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭
    edited February 6, 2017 1:23PM

    I can't believe the collective knowledge on here has figured this out yet! Let's get this solved I want one when the mystery is cracked.

    I remember this when originally posted. I looked through my sets (both 72-73 Topps and OPC hockey) several times with no luck at a match. I am pretty certain that the card is a specially made prop.

  • HighGradeLegendsHighGradeLegends Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭✭

    Didn't that horrible bruce Willis movie the last boy scout have a scene where a girl asks the wayans qb character to sign a proset card?

  • SumoMenkoManSumoMenkoMan Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭

    XFiles Season 6, Episode 5 Dreamland II. 5 or so baseball cards are taped to the cash register in the gas station towards the beginning of the episode. Can't make out which ones though. Look modern.

  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭

    Definitely 61's from the card backs.

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  • ugaskidawgugaskidawg Posts: 882 ✭✭✭

    @maddux69 said:
    I feel ashamed to say this, but I just watched "The Sandlot " for the first time tonight. There are a few more cards that are on the wall in the scene with the vision of Babe Ruth. A 63 Aaron is at the bottom ( which doesn't coincide with the film being set in 1962), the middle one is a 62 Topps that I can't determine who it is and I have no idea of the one at the top.

    Jason - It is 3 year run of 1961-1963 Braves cards.

    The top card is this one - 1961 Topps #29:

    The second one is 1962 Topps #289

  • saucywombatsaucywombat Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭
    edited February 6, 2017 2:37PM

    OK - so what card is this? Ron Swanson looking through Andy's "tool box" in Parks and Recreation

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  • 76collector76collector Posts: 986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In the first season of the show Prison Break (which I highly recommend if you haven't watched) one of the inmates (tweener) is in a max security prison for grand larceny, because he tried to steal a T206 Honus Wagner. He supposedly just wanted to try to grab something and make a few bucks, and had no idea the value of the card, so they play it out as a sad story, not so bad guy in prison for a much less serious offense than the rest of the inmates. A few times he even says screw Honus Wagner, lol.

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  • muffinsmuffins Posts: 469 ✭✭✭
    edited February 6, 2017 5:26PM

    @saucywombat said:

    serious answer:

    a mix between the '89 topps walt terrell for the back, the '00 topps pedro martinez for player on the front and some "custom work" from the art department for the front borders and a sharpie'd black background from the field up/foot so as to remove the topps logo and add ficticious logo.

    ...all done simply to avoid copyright infringement issues.

  • saucywombatsaucywombat Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭

    @muffins said:

    @saucywombat said:

    serious answer:

    a mix between the '89 topps walt terrell for the back, the '00 topps pedro martinez for player on the front and some "custom work" from the art department for the front borders and a sharpie'd black background from the field up/foot so as to remove the topps logo and add ficticious logo.

    ...all done simply to avoid copyright infringement issues.

    Well I have to ask...

    How do you know this?

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  • EstilEstil Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 6, 2017 5:42PM

    I posted this one a few years ago but how about this classic gem from The Wonder Years (S03E06 - Odd Man Out). At 7:30 into the episode (which takes place in 1969; the show took place 20 years prior to the then present day), apparently the Arnold family must have a DeLorean in the garage in order to get these 1989 Topps cards!!

    http://dai.ly/x2m7r9p?start=450

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  • georgebailey2georgebailey2 Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭

    Wait....wait. I'm afraid what you heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me ALL the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?

    Google Ron Swanson vs Food. Has most of the best parts of the burger contest and the closing of Mulligan's Steakhouse.

    Also, that card could have been from any company. Could have been a 100% from scratch prop. It certainly looks like it has a colored to the edge border and some type of graphic in the lower right corner.

  • muffinsmuffins Posts: 469 ✭✭✭
    edited February 6, 2017 6:13PM

    "The co-creator of Parks and Recreation is Michael Schur, who goes by the pen name Ken Tremendous on Twitter and when he wrote for Fire Joe Morgan. This evening I sent Ken Temendous a message asking if he could tell us which card was in the tool box?

    Just a few moments later I received his reply and an answer:

    "The image was constructed by our art department for rights reasons. The back was a 1989 Topps Walt Terrell."

    And so the great Ron Swanson's Card Search of 2011 can come to an end...there is no full card for all of us to track down a copy of but we can dig out our Walt Terrell cards from 1989 and wonder what possible use a baseball card would have in a tool box. "

    and verified via simple text to kt.

    but believe what you wish, dr. seuss.

    the answer i provided is 100% the truth no matter what you wanna think.

    regardless, i have no use in arguing what you "think" over such a mundane topic.

  • georgebailey2georgebailey2 Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭

    @muffins said:
    "The co-creator of Parks and Recreation is Michael Schur, who goes by the pen name Ken Tremendous on Twitter and when he wrote for Fire Joe Morgan. This evening I sent Ken Temendous a message asking if he could tell us which card was in the tool box?

    Just a few moments later I received his reply and an answer:

    "The image was constructed by our art department for rights reasons. The back was a 1989 Topps Walt Terrell."

    And so the great Ron Swanson's Card Search of 2011 can come to an end...there is no full card for all of us to track down a copy of but we can dig out our Walt Terrell cards from 1989 and wonder what possible use a baseball card would have in a tool box. "

    and verified via simple text to kt.

    but believe what you wish, dr. seuss.

    the answer i provided is 100% the truth no matter what you wanna think.

    regardless, i have no use in arguing what you "think" over such a mundane topic.

    Thank you for the great information.

    But, what is happening with everything after "verified via simple text to kt"?

    Was there a deleted post by a Dr. Suess? I am really confused as you seem genuinely upset about something. I only see Saucywombat innocuously asking "How do you know this?" and my further speculation of a prop card (my post was more geared to the Ron Swanson stuff as I find that character hilarious).

  • saucywombatsaucywombat Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭

    @Estil said:
    I posted this one a few years ago but how about this classic gem from The Wonder Years (S03E06 - Odd Man Out). At 7:30 into the episode (which takes place in 1969; the show took place 20 years prior to the then present day), apparently the Arnold family must have a DeLorean in the garage in order to get these 1989 Topps cards!!

    http://dai.ly/x2m7r9p?start=450

    Good stuff there, very funny. Too bad Kevin was such a loser, he could have at least turned this find into a career as a major league scout identifying major league talent in the 5th grade.

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  • dytch2220dytch2220 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭

    There are some fake 1914-1915 Cracker Jack cards at the beginning of Field of Dreams. Ruth, Gehrig and Jackson.

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  • For more than a couple of reasons, I know a 1990s era Lauren Holly offering a Ted Williams rookie card as part of a kid's fantasy [?] on a TV show called Picket Fences.

    The only buzz kill was the card is actually a 1992 Upper Deck Heroes insert as opposed to a card made-up to mimic the real thing.

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  • EstilEstil Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭✭

    There was a Deep Space Nine episode where Ben Sisko's son Jake(?) tries to get his dad a 1951 Bowman Willie Mays rookie card...but you can tell it's not real because the back of the card is blank! :disappointed:

    As for Kevin, I wonder if he noticed Mark McGwire's card that predicted he'd break* Roger Maris' HR record? After all the card is #70 and 89 is the year he hit 70 HRs* in reverse! :)

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  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭

    I was watching Unsolved Mysteries last night and I had seen the Dennis Walker episode before, it features a small shop an 1951 Bowman Mantle and mays in the reenactment and it looks like they were authentic cards. The mantle was miscut and priced at $995 on the back and the mays looked ex-mt and centered on the front for $225. That was probably about right for a shop in 1988 or so. The other episode (season episode 8 i think) about Steve Cox who ran a ponzi scheme and had purchased jewlery, coins and some cards with the money. When they caught him it showed what I am pretty sure is an evidence photo of part of what was in a suitcase in his trunk. I attached a pic since I was too lazy to screen shot it. All of the first two seasons of unsolved mysteries are now on amazon prime and they had a production company do updates to the ends that cover any developments that happened over the past 25 years since it aired.

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  • HighGradeLegendsHighGradeLegends Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭✭

    Watching the natural...saw the quick scene of a printing machine making roy hobbs tobacco cards

    And saw patriots day last night where mark walberg was flipping through 1990s red sox cards

  • 81 Topps Guy81 Topps Guy Posts: 228 ✭✭✭

    The card doesn't actually appear on the show, but in season one of Prison Break Tweener tells Michael Schofield he got sent to prison for grand larceny, he stole an Honus Wagner card from his friends dad.

  • countdouglascountdouglas Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's been awhile since I watched it, but there was about a 3 episode story arc late in the first season of Better Call Saul that involved a minor character/ wannabe drug dealer that not only had his drugs and stash of cash stolen by members of another drug crew, but they also swiped his valuable baseball card collection. It was, for me anyway, laugh out loud funny, because of the conglomerate of personality tics the character exuded while trying to get his cards back. I saw characteristics of not only myself, but also of many collectors that I've known. Of course, when he finally is able to retrieve them, they are loose in a monster box, and he rifles through them like an old librarian going through the card catalog. I want to say that I recall them all being 88 Topps on camera, even though the character had continually been going on about his Ty Cobb and Hank Aaron, etc.

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  • secretstashsecretstash Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭✭

    @OAKESY25 said:

    If I didn't know better, this looks like the back of the head of the kid from Elephant Boy.

  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If I didn't know better, this looks like the back of the head of the kid from Elephant Boy.

    I was thinking the same thing.

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  • secretstashsecretstash Posts: 1,396 ✭✭✭✭

    @divecchia said:

    If I didn't know better, this looks like the back of the head of the kid from Elephant Boy.

    I was thinking the same thing.

    Donato

    @secretstash said:

    @OAKESY25 said:

    If I didn't know better, this looks like the back of the head of the kid from Elephant Boy.

    Actually on 2nd thought it IS him! It was called Mask and that was his mothers biker gang. I have to watch that clip now!

  • skrezyna23skrezyna23 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭

    @Estil said:
    There was a Deep Space Nine episode where Ben Sisko's son Jake(?) tries to get his dad a 1951 Bowman Willie Mays rookie card...but you can tell it's not real because the back of the card is blank! :disappointed:

    Look on the first page. I uploaded about this.

  • skrezyna23skrezyna23 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭

    Thanks! Means a lot to me to see this. I thought so too!

    @BLUEJAYWAY said:
    Originally posted by: skrezyna23

    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episdoe "In the Cards" uses a 1951 Topps Willie Mays RC. I had a reprint copied by actors in the show.

    The two actors on the show:

    My reprint signed by two Trek actors in the episode.

    What a great original idea.

  • psychumppsychump Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭

    "the accountant"

    briefly, but some key cards properly displayed during a pivotal scene touting thier intrinsic value.

    best movie ive scene in a long while.

    Just watched this movie and saw that scene! One hour and one minute and 20 seconds into the movie a drawer is pulled out and there is the T 206 Honus Wagner card, a 1911 Gold border of somebody named Dick Hoblitzell (maybe), and a 1915 Cracker Jack Christy Mathewson along with some old Action comic books (Superman and one other). Fun movie but falls apart at the end. Ben Affleck looks like Peter Sellers in Being There.

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  • muffinsmuffins Posts: 469 ✭✭✭

    falls apart at the end? watch it again. garauntee there's bunch of things you missed...the end ties it all together.

    the ali puzzle is on the wall.

    the brit on the phone is the girl who handed him missing puzzle piece from childhood scence (hello dreamboat)

    the treasury director knew who he was the entire time. wanted to ensure they'd keep using him as an assest, hence the female agent during press conference said "we". "someones gotta be there when she calls"

  • mrmoparmrmopar Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭


    Watched the movie last night and didn't remember it ever coming up in a topic, but sure enough it had...

    @psychump said:
    "the accountant"

    briefly, but some key cards properly displayed during a pivotal scene touting thier intrinsic value.

    best movie ive scene in a long while.

    Just watched this movie and saw that scene! One hour and one minute and 20 seconds into the movie a drawer is pulled out and there is the T 206 Honus Wagner card, a 1911 Gold border of somebody named Dick Hoblitzell (maybe), and a 1915 Cracker Jack Christy Mathewson along with some old Action comic books (Superman and one other). Fun movie but falls apart at the end. Ben Affleck looks like Peter Sellers in Being There.

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  • RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭
    edited August 3, 2018 4:22PM

    Yes, the movie Mask has several scenes. "Rocky" and his friend trade cards a couple of times and there's a scene of Rocky having a fight with his mother (played by Cher) and she tears up one of his 1974 Topps Steve Garveys. He is also trying to collect a 1955/56 Dodgers team set and he needs a Rube Walker--which he's able to sneak from his friend for an extra Garvey.

  • RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭

    In the move Stand By Me there's a scene where "Gordie" (Wil Wheaton) goes into his recently-deceased brother's room. On the wall are a '58 Topps AS Mickey Mantle and a '60 Topps Yogi Berra. Problem is the film takes place in the summer of '59.

  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We can add another one to the list.

    Monday's (March 14th) episode of NCIS had a PSA 3 T206 Magie error. It was said to have been taken in a bank robbery.

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  • Jayman1982Jayman1982 Posts: 467 ✭✭✭

    Kurt Russell, aka Santa, produces a mint 1952 Topps Mantle card as compensation for borrowing some guy's Porsche in The Christmas Chronicles (2018), but his wife quickly proceeds to rip it up.

  • miwlvrnmiwlvrn Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just remembered watching this old episode of Scrubs w/ Ken Griffey Jr. card after I saw this thread get bumped.

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  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,203 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @76collector said:
    In the first season of the show Prison Break (which I highly recommend if you haven't watched) one of the inmates (tweener) is in a max security prison for grand larceny, because he tried to steal a T206 Honus Wagner. He supposedly just wanted to try to grab something and make a few bucks, and had no idea the value of the card, so they play it out as a sad story, not so bad guy in prison for a much less serious offense than the rest of the inmates. A few times he even says screw Honus Wagner, lol.

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,124 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In an old black and white episode of the TV show "The Fugitive". A young Kurt Russell plays Lt. Gerard's son. He has in his possession a football card of Johnny Unitas or Jim Brown. Think it was Unitas, but may be mistaken hence the Brown inclusion. It figures into the plot at the end. Will update once I can clarify it.

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  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭

    @SDSportsFan said:
    We can add another one to the list.

    Monday's (March 14th) episode of NCIS had a PSA 3 T206 Magie error. It was said to have been taken in a bank robbery.

    Steve

    Haha. Yes! I saw this same episode this week.



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  • EstilEstil Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭✭

    Oh yes; I've mentioned this before but apparently in this Wonder Years episode "Odd Man Out" (S03E06), at 7:30, Kevin apparently must have a DeLorean in his garage!

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5v8lh8

    PS: There are a few other episodes of The Wonder Years that have baseball cards but they do have time period appropriate cards.

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  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭

    "Meet the Fockers". When Jack Burns thinks that Focker is the father of his housekeepers boy, the search turns up an a card of a fictional player of the boys actual father.

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  • daltexdaltex Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You may recall the most expensive 1981 Donruss ever from Who's the Boss?

  • bruin805bruin805 Posts: 50 ✭✭✭


    This was from the HBO Christmas movie "8 Bit Christmas."

    Not the real card, but it's supposed to be the Bill Ripken FF card.

  • DotStoreDotStore Posts: 702 ✭✭✭✭

    Someone posted a picture earlier of the Star Trek TNG with the 1962 Topps Roger Maris. Title of the episode is "The Most Toys" as in the quote "He who dies with the most toys wins"

    The part of that scene I enjoyed the most is when the collector opens the Roger Maris display case and Data notices a smell in the air, and the collector tells Data that he also preserved the scent of Bubble Gum

  • DougGlattDougGlatt Posts: 57 ✭✭✭

    The Sandlot.. The one kid had a dream Babe Ruth appeared to him, and asked for a Hank Aaron card and the kid said take it.

  • DougGlattDougGlatt Posts: 57 ✭✭✭

    Also not a card, but a mention in the movie Airplane, the pilot who came in to help Striker land the plane made mention that flying a plane was easier than putting Baseball cards in the plastic sleeves. Awesome movie, also showed the Air Traffic Control guys playing Atari Basketball.

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