Top 3 favorite individual sports cards?

[Chess2899]

1. Any Griffey Jr. Signed Card. They are a thing of beauty.
2. Any Maddux Signed Card. The ugly signature stirs my heart.
3. 1996 Topps Finest Maddux Gold Refractor. My lawsuit forced the numbering of limited cards throughout the hobby.

[Mark17]

1962 McCovey
My first memory of a baseball card. McCovey was my favorite card from my very first pack which also included Bill Henry, Jim Golden, Turk Lown, and Bob Allen. I remember playing with the McCovey card in my front yard, while it was raining...the card didn't survive. I was a few months from my 4th birthday, so it's one of my earliest memories.

1967 Earl Battey
The first year I actively collected cards. Battey was card #15 in the first series and I always thought that was so perfect. He's wearing a windbreaker, and it was pretty cold in Minnesota when that first series of cards came out, so it looked like the picture was taken that same month.

1968 Rod Carew
By early 1968 I was 9 years old, and annoying the ladies at the corner drugstore every day, asking when the new baseball cards were arriving. Finally one day they did, and news spread through the neighborhood like wildfire. I ran home and told my dad, who was sitting in a lawn chair in the front yard, that baseball cards were at the store, and he gave me a nickel to get my first pack.

I ran back to the store, and came back very happy, but a bit perplexed. "I got Carew! But there were only four cards in the pack..."

My dad, who was always smiling and happy, said, "Maybe they figure Carew is so good, he counts for two." I started to say something about how I didn't think that was how it worked, but he was smiling, pulling my leg. It's one of my best sports collecting memories.

[Jags Fan Dan]

Nice, Mark, I enjoyed that.

[AWA85]

1. Any Griffey Jr. Signed Card. They are a thing of beauty.
2. Any Maddux Signed Card. The ugly signature stirs my heart.
3. 1996 Topps Finest Maddux Gold Refractor. My lawsuit forced the numbering of limited cards throughout the hobby.

Can you fill us in more about that lawsuit?