The Mt Rushmore of Sportscards

ndleo · February 7, 2021 3:21AM

OK, some of the topics are getting a little too heavy. Let's have some fun. Can you come up with a Mt Rushmore from your collection?

Here is mine, 1970's FB Greats Mt Rushmore

balco758 · February 7, 2021 5:06AM

Changed my mind

dan89 · February 7, 2021 5:32AM

Tough call

coolstanley · February 7, 2021 7:22AM

Love that Bradshaw rookie. Nice looking card.

NGS428 · February 7, 2021 7:42AM

Trout is trying to break the all Griffey Mt. Rushmore.

sjjs28 · February 7, 2021 8:12AM

My Mount Rushmore has 5 heads....
Always looking for 6th, and beyond

If anybody would care to help me carve out number 6 - I would love to acquire and slide a 1955 Bowman Mantle (8) and/or a 1957 Topps Mantle (8) into the mix ....

ndleo · February 7, 2021 8:34AM

Don't forget to add why it's your Mt Rushmore.

I love the 1956 Mantle. I have one in a 4 in my Mantle pile.

sjjs28 · February 7, 2021 8:47AM

Isn't it obvious?

Classic, Enduring, Eye Catching and most assuredly Vintage

stwainfan · February 7, 2021 8:54AM

I will go with these.

nam812 · February 7, 2021 10:58AM

I'm going to do a vintage and a modern.

rmh111985 · February 7, 2021 11:49AM

I almost exclusively collect Patrick Roy, and these are definitely the Rushmore cards of my PC:

MantleFan23 · February 7, 2021 12:19PM

What a great idea for a thread. I needed something different to read other than about market speculation.

Here is my modest Mt. Rushmore

Sitting in the #1 spot would have to be my 1962 Topps Wax Pack PSA7. After purchasing this "unknown" series wax pack, I was able to get help from a member of the Vintage Wax and Packs Facebook group to determine that this pack was a 3rd series wax pack. The 3rd series contains the great Mickey Mantle. I will probably never send it back in for reholdering due to fear about gum damage during transit. However, the day that he messaged me and told me the good news, I was on cloud nine. I've always wanted a pack from a Mantle series, and it was great to know that I had one all along.

Sitting in the #2 spot is my 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth graded PSA1. For as long as I could remember, this card has always been iconic to me. It seemed like every National I attended, I would see the Goudey Ruth at tables and just wonder what it would be like to own one. A few years ago, a PSA1 with, in my opinion, tremendous eye appeal appeared up for auction. When I saw it, I knew that I had to have it. Luckily, my snipe barely held up in the end.

The #3 spot is housed by another wax pack, my 1971 Topps PSA 8, 3rd series (Garvey RC series). One of my most fondest memories of growing up was seeing all the 1971 cards that my dad collected. He probably opened 20-30 boxes as a teenager and still had many of them in the mid 1980s. I recall seeing about 30 Steve Garvey rookies. Obviously, the 1971 wax pack is the most difficult to obtain of the decade. I had completed an entire 1970's wax pack run, and the last remaining pack was the 1971. I snagged this one as a buy it now at a reasonable price about 3 years ago.

The #4 spot is my Ryne Sandberg PSA 10 Topps Rookie Card. Ryno was my favorite baseball player growing up and until just recently, I never had a PSA 10 copy of his rookie card. I've probably had 10-15 raw cards over my lifetime and one PSA9. The 1983 Topps card designs is one of my favorites, and this is one of the few PSA10's in my collection.

bruin805 · February 7, 2021 12:27PM

Here are my Mt. Rushmores for football, baseball, and basketball.

DBesse27 · February 7, 2021 3:12PM

Are raw cards allowed? Because my best football card was a raw purchase and is currently sitting at SGC.

ndleo · February 7, 2021 7:26PM

Post away. Bonus points if u get the poses right

coolstanley · February 8, 2021 12:11AM

@DBesse27 said:
Are raw cards allowed? Because my best football card was a raw purchase and is currently sitting at SGC.

Some of my best are currently sitting at Beckett. Be sometime this summer before I see them again.

hslice · February 8, 2021 5:08AM

Wow this makes me regret selling all my collectibles 25 years ago upon college graduation. I actually had a walk-in closet that you couldn't walk-in anymore. I had so many of those same cards

DBesse27 · February 8, 2021 11:38AM

Gonna do a football and baseball one, football first. In narrowing them down, I favored variety. Most of my main projects, either completed or in progress, are represented.

Football. Includes 1 card of each of the 3 players whom I collect:

Baseball. Didn't want this one to be all Yaz. Includes some Venezuelan love and the SP that completed my 59F Ted set:

3stars · February 8, 2021 12:05PM

OPC Gretzky rookie
1952 topps Mantle
1986 Jordan RC
Jim Brown RC

DBesse27 · February 8, 2021 12:13PM

@3stars said:
OPC Gretzky rookie
1952 topps Mantle
1986 Jordan RC
Jim Brown RC

Pics or it didn’t happen

azvike · February 8, 2021 12:31PM

@3stars said:
OPC Gretzky rookie
1952 topps Mantle
1986 Jordan RC
Jim Brown RC

I agree with these 4.....and the JB rookie is UNBELIEVABLY under-valued....

1951WheatiesPremium · February 8, 2021 12:58PM

My Mt. Rushmore of The Yankees Mount Rushmore (Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio Mantle)😁

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balco758 · February 8, 2021 4:16PM

Prize Captive is my favorite !!!

LGC · February 8, 2021 4:30PM

My hockey rush some more:

CW · February 8, 2021 5:23PM

^^ we need a "WOW!" button to click on for posts like that one. Gave it a "like" in the meantime. Nice, LGC!

balco758 · February 8, 2021 5:57PM

That 54 Topps Howe is a piece of art work. Awesome card.

PNWcollector · February 8, 2021 10:23PM

@DBesse27 said:
Gonna do a football and baseball one, football first. In narrowing them down, I favored variety. Most of my main projects, either completed or in progress, are represented.

Love your Rose Venz. Beautiful card.

1951WheatiesPremium · February 9, 2021 2:50AM

How about a Topps Donnie Baseball edition?

1951WheatiesPremium · February 9, 2021 2:56AM

Here’s a fun one! Certainly won’t always be accurate but it is today.

Single top pop Mickey’s

1951WheatiesPremium · February 9, 2021 3:04AM

@sjjs28 said:
My Mount Rushmore has 5 heads....
Always looking for 6th, and beyond

If anybody would care to help me carve out number 6 - I would love to acquire and slide a 1955 Bowman Mantle (8) and/or a 1957 Topps Mantle (8) into the mix ....

Outta sight!

blurryface · February 9, 2021 4:29AM

feels like a modern rushmore today for some reason. plus easy is good.

4 of the 25 oranges:

tomorrow we'll carve out something else...

72skywalker · February 9, 2021 5:43AM

Here are my four.

ChewliesGum · February 9, 2021 6:51AM

That’s gotta be the nicest 1 I have ever seen. What pushed it down to that grade?

AFLfan · February 9, 2021 6:55AM

So tough to really nail down just four, but here is an AFL attempt...

An Alworth-specific attempt

1951WheatiesPremium · February 9, 2021 7:02AM

@AFLfan

JESUS, TODD!

I’m sure you posted that Namath before but my goodness!

It feels like the first time.

It feels like the very first time.

AFLfan · February 9, 2021 7:11AM

Lol, thanks Tim. Great Foreigner reference, BTW.

I am so flakey when it comes to these kinds of threads, my tastes change regularly. I might have posted the Namath at some point, but I don't recall for sure.

There are several other cards I like as much, if not more, that could be swapped in also. I guess I just don't have clear cut favorites.

ndleo · February 9, 2021 8:28AM

Great posts. I'm glad that everyone is enjoying this. I need to do a 4-sport post to keep up with UFFDAH

PNWcollector · February 9, 2021 9:35AM

@ChewliesGum said:

That’s gotta be the nicest 1 I have ever seen. What pushed it down to that grade?

Paper loss on the back, no doubt.

DBesse27 · February 9, 2021 10:08AM

@PNWcollector said:

@ChewliesGum said:

That’s gotta be the nicest 1 I have ever seen. What pushed it down to that grade?

Paper loss on the back, no doubt.

Correct. Thanks for the kind words guys. I love that Rose card too.

emar · February 9, 2021 10:08AM

Not an easy choice. (Except for The Mick)
Vintage Rushmore

DBesse27 · February 9, 2021 10:50AM

@emar awesome stuff!

emar · February 9, 2021 11:02AM

@DBesse27 said:
@emar awesome stuff!

Thank you, I appreciate that!

blurryface · February 9, 2021 11:47AM

@AFLfan
@1951WheatiesPremium

have to concur on that namath! color and centering are amazing. it's oversized, and one of the few mistakes ive made by not nailing it down. think this was the swift kick in the stones to get going! so thank you!?!?!

eta: not gonna lie. im nervous to even look at the price tags. it's prolly been 3 years since my last active search...

AFLfan · February 9, 2021 12:22PM

@blurryface... Thanks. I'm glad to have knocked the Namath off my list a while ago. That card was a PSA 5 that I broke out to get signed. I had won a Fantasy Football league one year a while back and used the prize to buy that card. I think it cost $400, if I recall. Namath was $180 at a signing, so I've got a bit over $600 into it with shipping and such. I don't know what the card (signed or unsigned) would sell for today.

blurryface · February 9, 2021 12:34PM

@AFLfan said:
@blurryface... Thanks. I'm glad to have knocked the Namath off my list a while ago. That card was a PSA 5 that I broke out to get signed. I had won a Fantasy Football league one year a while back and used the prize to buy that card. I think it cost $400, if I recall. Namath was $180 at a signing, so I've got a bit over $600 into it with shipping and such. I don't know what the card (signed or unsigned) would sell for today.

easy todd. i can read signals pretty easily. so you're basically telling me to paypal you $1200. got it. and sending now!

but seriously, that's the way to do it. that method and converting blue flips is/was the absolute best way to get into this game and stretch your dollar.

was it a private signing? or did you get the meet and greet too?

1951WheatiesPremium · February 9, 2021 12:41PM

@blurryface said:

@AFLfan said:
@blurryface... Thanks. I'm glad to have knocked the Namath off my list a while ago. That card was a PSA 5 that I broke out to get signed. I had won a Fantasy Football league one year a while back and used the prize to buy that card. I think it cost $400, if I recall. Namath was $180 at a signing, so I've got a bit over $600 into it with shipping and such. I don't know what the card (signed or unsigned) would sell for today.

easy todd. i can read signals pretty easily. so you're basically telling me to paypal you $1200. got it. and sending now!

but seriously, that's the way to do it. that method and converting blue flips is/was the absolute best way to get into this game and stretch your dollar.

was it a private signing? or did you get the meet and greet too?

Perhaps it was a straight exchange?

Todd Tobias has probably done as much if not more than Joe Namath.

Before you call me nuts, Joe only helped make the league credible and memorable. Todd works to ensure its never forgotten.

Which is more important to the AFL’s legacy?

Yes, that just happened.

The Mt Rushmore of Sportscards

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