Top 3 favorite individual sports cards?

[AWA85]

Re: Top 3 favorite individual sports cards?

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?

[Jags Fan Dan]

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Nice, Mark, I enjoyed that.

[Mark17]

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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.

[Chess2899]

Re: Top 3 favorite individual sports cards?

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.

[PAC]

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[teddy406]

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Baseball:
1976 Topps Pete Rose
1974 and 76 Topps Johnny Bench
1976 Topps Dave Concepcion
1958 Ted Williams all star
Bball:
1957 Topps Bill Russell
Pete Maravich Icee Bear
1975 Topps Marvin Barnes

[1970REDS]

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1) 1970 Topps Johnny Bench
2) 1957 Topps Ted Kluszewski
3) 1964 Topps Pete Rose

[Jim65]

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#1 1967 Topps Tom Seaver rookie card, my favorite player growing up, the last card I needed for my Mets collection.

#2 1975 Topps Johnny Briggs, We are from the same hometown, I got the card in a pack in '75 and knocked on his door and asked him to sign it for me, still have the card.

#3 1974 Wonder Bread Larry Csonka, I think I tore the store shelf apart looking for a loaf that had Csonka or Griese,

[Jags Fan Dan]

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Sorry about the picture quality...

[Jags Fan Dan]

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One of my favorite Brunell cards:

A close second would be the Playoff Edge Gameball card with him and Elway, commemorating the biggest win so far for the Jags!

[Jags Fan Dan]

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Ok. I went with cards in my collection. I just like these 3 the best. For baseball:

1. I love the color tv 1955 Bowman look.
2. I have had that 1969 Bench since I was 12. I always loved the gold cup Topps card, and I always loved how young Johnny looked on it.
3. I love Nuxy! If you live in Cincinnati and don't, I don't know what to say!!

[Jags Fan Dan]

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Great topic. I'm going to kick this around and reply in a bit...

[jake33]

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My top 3 in baseball

1) Don Mattingly 1984 Topps Tiffany
2) Darryl Strawberry 1983 Topps Traded
3) Don Mattingly 1982 TCMA

Top 3 in Football
1) 1989 Score Hardy Nickerson
2) 1999 SPX Shaun King
3) 1996 SP Mike Alstott

[jake33]

In the game used industry, many of us at one point collected cards, and some of us still do as well. Just curious, if you had to name your top 3 favorite sports cards that you do or do not own, what are they? Could be ones with high value, or just ones that you like the look of so some particular reason.