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Anyone remember "Hart to Hart" baseball card episode?
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Anyone remember that episode from that corny show "Hart to Hart"?
I'm thinking mid 80s. This was where a little boy inherited a briefcase of baseball cards from his dad or grandfather (my gawd the cards were sweet!). Anyways, the briefcase was then stolen by these 2 crooks and they sold it to a vendor at a show and purchased by some millionaire old man who collects cards. Jonathan Hart was a friend of the boy's family, and offered to buy it back from this old man but he said he never sells his cards....he only flips for them. To make a long story short ( a bit too late ), J. Hart had to go out and purchase all these old vintage cards (Koufax, Mantles, you name it) and had to go to a flipping contest with this old man. It was awesome! I would somehow like to get a copy of this episode if anyone knows how or remembers that episode.
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I'm thinking mid 80s. This was where a little boy inherited a briefcase of baseball cards from his dad or grandfather (my gawd the cards were sweet!). Anyways, the briefcase was then stolen by these 2 crooks and they sold it to a vendor at a show and purchased by some millionaire old man who collects cards. Jonathan Hart was a friend of the boy's family, and offered to buy it back from this old man but he said he never sells his cards....he only flips for them. To make a long story short ( a bit too late ), J. Hart had to go out and purchase all these old vintage cards (Koufax, Mantles, you name it) and had to go to a flipping contest with this old man. It was awesome! I would somehow like to get a copy of this episode if anyone knows how or remembers that episode.
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Jery
And Al Bundy once coveted his 50's era Joe Nuxhall card. I don't recall getting a good enough glimpse to see what the card really was, though.
Yea, that was wild. Hart thought he had it aced cos he was flipping them in practice prior to the flip off, but when he got to the guy's hotel, the old man said he only flips them off the wall. Of course Hart lost every flip until he was down to like his last 10 cards and he finally got the hang it. It was corny and Hart got all of the boy's cards back. I think I remember them saying that the case was sold for $80,000 at the time in the mid 80s. Probably 20 folds now...but I'm just dreaming and considering if they were all real. My little fantasy.
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In the hit movie Rainman, Dustin Hoffman admires his small collection of 1953 Topps with much zeal.
The movie also starred Sissy Spacek and Christopher Walken? Basically, Frasier grew up in a bomb shelter for the first 20-odd years of his life, because his dad (Walken) thought the BOMB had hit their house, when it was actually an airplane.
Oh, and there was an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation where some alien collector had the supposedly only "mint" copy of a 1962 Topps Roger Maris. The name of the episode was "The Most Toys".
Steve
<< <i>it was BLAST FROM THE PAST with brendan fraser. pretty funny (in a corny) sort of way. his dad (walken) gives him a shoebox (?) or cigar box of cards to go 'up' with in case he runs out of cash. i remember seeing a 52 mantle and a shoeless joe jackson of somesort. how bout the GOONIES when they find the lou gehrig card in chester copperpots wallet. >>
The 1976 Topps Lou Gehrig?
From the first time I saw that movie, back when I was a kid, that scene p!ssed me off. How hard is it to get a Goudey and photocopy it? I still love the movie, all these years later - but that scene gives me the twitches. And when they released it on DVD, did they CGI out the '76 Topps and insert a Goudey? NO.
*grumble*
Morrie, who's going to have to start digging up these other baseball card shows and movies...
Mmmmm - Alicia Silverstone - uuuhhh, what was this thread about?
My thoughts exactly (why do you think I watched the movie in the first place?)
I did like her better in Batman though...must be that black spandex she was wearing
Steve
PS...Thanks Cadillac for the title
On a side note anyone ever read the book "The Trading Game"? I read it in like 5th grade and it was pretty good. Envolves a buy with a great collection he got from his dad and grandad thats goal is to get the rare vintage card of his grandfather when he played pro. One of his friends finds the card of his grandpa somewhere and makes the boy give his 52T Mantle (I think that what it was).
The plot was about McGyver meeting the daughter of a former baseball player. The player had ties to some crooked sports card counterfeiter.
They showed all kinds of cards. Mantle, Mays, '33 Goudey Gehrigs being cut up in a warehouse. Mac did some undercover work, using a whole shoe box of cards as bait. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of cards.
I think the episode aired at the height of the baseball card bonanza in the late 80's/early 90's.