Baseball cards on TV or in the movies?

larryallen73 · June 4, 2008 3:11AM

To stay on topic in this forum... we have not had this thread in a while.

I don't want to get in trouble for starting too many threads so am combining TV and movies in one thread. I hate for anybody to have to scroll through to many.

gumbyfan · June 4, 2008 3:12AM

Jerry Seinfeld used to have a wax box of 1990 Donruss on top of his refrigerator...

CDsNuts · June 4, 2008 3:19AM

Kevin Arnold used to always rip off Paul Pfeiffer when they traded cards.

RedHeart54 · June 4, 2008 3:30AM

I recently watched an episode of The Larry Sanders Show (Garry Shandling's former show on HBO) where his brother comes into town and they're looking through supposedly the same cards they had when they were kids. The problem was these were a bunch of '87 Topps and '88 Donruss.

<< Kevin Arnold used to always rip off Paul Pfeiffer when they traded cards. >>

Anyone remember the episode revolving around a "Don Schwartz" card?

Estil · June 4, 2008 3:31AM

<< Kevin Arnold used to always rip off Paul Pfeiffer when they traded cards. >>

Don't forget the fact that they're trading 1989 Topps cards, even though they clearly could not have existed back in 1969.

CDsNuts · June 4, 2008 3:33AM

I do remember that estil. For some reason it pissed me off when I noticed it. How hard could it have been for the prop guys to go to a card shop and spend $20 on some beat up 60s cards?

PROMETHIUS88 · June 4, 2008 3:49AM

Eric Stoltz (Rocky) in the movie Mask. I believe he had 55 Topps Dodgers cards pinned to his corkboard. Best part of that movie was Sam Elliot's t-shirt that said "Free Moustache Rides" ....that was awsome!

zep33 · June 4, 2008 3:49AM

The movie "Mask" with Cher and Eric Stoltz - a classic

"need him, need him, got him, got him, got him....."

fkw · June 4, 2008 3:53AM

There was an old Leave It To Beaver where Whitey (or maybe Gilbert) emptied his pockets to look for something, and out came a bunch of tattered 1950s Topps cards. I havent seen it in 20 years, but its out there.

Slabbed · June 4, 2008 3:55AM

Do not forget Rainman with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. When they were in Raymonds room he had a stack of cards with 53 topps and a 60 Topps Ted Kluzewski, And I believe a 59 Topps Frank Robinson. They were in his hand when he went through them.

tombo · June 4, 2008 4:00AM

Pride of the Yankees - the boy playing Lou Gehrig as an 8 - 10 year old kid, was out in a sandlot with some cards he had and one of them was supposedly Babe Ruth. If memory is correct, the cards appeared to be small - size of T206s'.

Also, didn't Dustin "Rainman" Hoffman have a bunch of cards in his hospital room?

I am embarrassed to admit this, but there was an episode of Silver Spoons (Ricky Schroeder) where his grandpa, played by John Hauseman, purchased all the available Tommy Lasorda cards, and then wanted to start a rumor of his demise, to drive up the values.

Hmmm - did you guys hear that Clemens and Bonds were in a bad accident together?

RedHeart54 · June 4, 2008 4:00AM

There is a 1958 Topps All Star Mantle and a 1960 Topps Berra displayed in Stand By Me. (The flub, though, is the movie took place in 1959.)

The movie "Mother" with Albert Brooks has a '52 Mantle.

NCDOLFAN · June 4, 2008 4:03AM

I remeber seeing I think it was a Mannix episode where a boy was being kidnapped in a car and he was throwing 1963 football cards out the window to leave a trail. They zoomed in to show a Jim Brown in his hand and then out the window...AAAAHHHH !!!!!

69Cubs · June 4, 2008 4:15AM

In the Pride of the Yankees, a very young Lou Gehrig offered a Babe Ruth card to a kid in exchange to let him play in their sandlot game. The kid shot back and said Ruth was a rookie and the card was worthless. Wow!!

Mike

fattymacs · June 4, 2008 4:21AM

If my memory serves correctly an episode of "Hart to Hart" involved the theft of a card collection.

bhl2359 · June 4, 2008 4:37AM

The movie "Blast from the Past" with Brendan Fraser

MantleMarisFordBerra · June 4, 2008 4:53AM

<< The movie "Blast from the Past" with Brendan Fraser >>

+1. That is the first one that comes to mind. Lots of baseball card action in that one. Also, remember the McGuyver episode where there was a counterfeit baseball card ring? I clearly recall them making copies of Dwight Evans rookie cards lol. I'm dead serious, anyone else remember that?

EagleEyeKid · June 4, 2008 4:58AM

The episode of Hart to Hart where Jonathan Hart had to flip
cards with the card tycoon in order to win back the briefcase full
of cards that belonged to a boy.

Pittfan · June 4, 2008 5:13AM

Sandlot I believe also had a Aaron rookie card in it when Benny was talking to Babe Ruth. Kids watch that movie at least once a week.

paleocards · June 4, 2008 5:16AM

(I posted this in February of last year...)

...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...)

lsutigers1973 · June 4, 2008 5:18AM

The movie Little Monsters with Howie Mandel as the monster. "OOHHH baseball cards! I love baseball cards! Got em got em need em need em need em got em....."

DES1984 · June 4, 2008 5:24AM

Goonies - In Chester Copperpot's wallet, young sean austin pulls out what is supposed to be lou gehrig I think...but it wasn't!

SoonerCowboy · June 4, 2008 5:27AM

Everybody Love Raymond - Ray has some cards on the wall next to his computer in the basement.

MantleMarisFordBerra · June 4, 2008 5:32AM

<< Goonies - In Chester Copperpot's wallet, young sean austin pulls out what is supposed to be lou gehrig I think...but it wasn't! >>

Actually, yes it was, but it was the 1973 Topps "All Time Leaders" card which would be impossible cuz ol' Chester was supposedly a good bit older than that.

boiler75 · June 4, 2008 5:37AM

Arli$$ - There was an episode with a subplot involving Kirby (Jim Turner) hitting an old lady crossing the street with his Hummer. He helps her to her home where he finds a box full of cards left by her recently deceased husband. In attempt to make a quick buck, he and Rita (Sandra Oh) buy the cards from the woman for around $15,000 (thinking they are worth significantly more). They later find that the cards are reprints and they have been scammed. I don't remember any of the specific cards shown, only that it included seemingly every HOF'er from the 50's and 60's.

mrbecker712 · June 4, 2008 5:37AM

In Family Guy, Mayor Adam West mentions how he hates baseball cards in one episode. Sorta weird and random, but I guess it's supposed to be.

jrinck · June 4, 2008 6:35AM

<< 

I am embarrassed to admit this, but there was an episode of Silver Spoons (Ricky Schroeder) where his grandpa, played by John Hauseman, purchased all the available Tommy Lasorda cards, and then wanted to start a rumor of his demise, to drive up the values.
>>

I actually remember this. I remember that the cards appeared to be '84 Topps.

Also, there was a Married with Children ep where Al and Steve obsessed over a Joe Nuxhall card, but from what I recall, the card they showed appeared to be modern.

HighChopper · June 4, 2008 7:13AM

MLB commercial features a '60 Aaron.

RedHeart54 · June 4, 2008 7:22AM

There's an Aaron rookie and a '71 Topps of either Mays, Aaron, or Clemente in Cerano's (Dennis Haysbert) locker in the first Major League.

NickM · June 4, 2008 7:55AM

IIRC, The shop in Needful Things is selling an old, beat-up card that changes to a pristine Koufax rookie when the kid who collects cards looks at it.

Nick

TheCARDKid · June 4, 2008 8:01AM

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<< Goonies - In Chester Copperpot's wallet, young sean austin pulls out what is supposed to be lou gehrig I think...but it wasn't! >>

Actually, yes it was, but it was the 1973 Topps "All Time Leaders" card which would be impossible cuz ol' Chester was supposedly a good bit older than that. >>

I wonder why the producers didn't include a Goudey Gehrig or card from the 30's. Seemed so obvious if you pause the movie...and you know, alot of people did. And card collecting was starting to take off in the 80's when the movie was made.

Goonies is one of my favorite movies. I think Copperpot explored the cave in the 20's?

Also, there was a MacGyver episode, circa around 91 or 92. The entire episode was baseball related. Reggie Jackson was in the story. And MacGyver had to stop these counterfeiters.

It showed him stopping in a card shop. It showed him with a stack of 50's bowmans and topps in a hotel room. Macgyver was undercover, acting like a big card wheeler dealer. I think it showed a 51 bowman mantle and others.

MajorDanby · June 4, 2008 9:10AM

good will hunting...in his office, robin williams had a poster or a frame of likely reprints of high value cards (a goudey gehrig, etc).

1966CUDA · June 4, 2008 10:02AM

In Sandlot, there were also baseball cards up in their clubhouse when Ham Porter was showing how to make "smores"

ps: my son has all three Sandlot movies and watches them religiously!!!

fur72 · June 4, 2008 11:13AM

Brusters Millions was the movie, I dont know what scene they were in. I can remember I would scan some auctions for movie companies that sold props and one was for what I believe was a tri cello pack of 1955 Topps. Not totall sure on the year but they looked fresh in the pack!

Baseball cards on TV or in the movies?

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