OK, I want to get some chatter going. Let's try a topic that anyone can chime in about. Any sport, any card set, any player...what is your favorite action shot on a card. It can be a a great photo, a genuine "In Action" card (they had those in a few set in different years), a horizontal card...whatever. You show us your all-time favorite action shot OR shots captured on cardboard.
Picking just one or even a couple for me is tough. When I first started collection, the 70s action shots on Topps cards drew me in immediately. That was one of my favorite card types. Small, multi-player pictures where you could barely tell who was the player on the card were great! Portraits bore me. Posed fielding and batter shots were corny. Real game action, now that is where it was at. Added point for me if the card design was appealing as well. Action shots are great, but the whole picture had to come together too.
So, just to get the ball rolling, one of my favorite action cards of all-time...from each major sport!
I mainly collect baseball these days, so i will start here. This may be one of my most favorite cards of all time. There are a lot of action shots in 1970s Topps sets, but few as great as this one!
1971 Topps Thurman Munson
Football has their fair share of great shots too, but a lot of bench and head shots. True action football cards are awesome though. This card may be the greatest football card image ever to grace a trading card. Too bad he was not a HOFer to boot! 1978 Topps Greg Landry MUD FEST!!!
I had to slip one more in because Fran Tarkenton was my favorite growing up and this card was stunning to me.
1974 Topps Fran Tarkenton
Basketball action shots are fairly common, but great ones are not. I may have to think a while to get the best, but this one ranks up there for me and a HOFer doesn't hurt. The doctor had a lot of great action cards thankfully. I like this one the best though.
1975-76 Topps Dr. J
A pair of weird colored cards get honorable mention. Both nice action shots, but the port/starboard background colors set off this pair for me: 1977-78 Topps Artis Gilmore and Bobby Jones
Lastly, I rushed this pick to get the thread started. I may have to sit down and look for some better shots, but this one is of a favorite player and a great shot too. He too had a fair number of "action" cards, but this one is just too cool.
1976-77 Topps Ken Dryden.
So there you go...a few of my favorites. You might notice i like the extra "flair" too, such as the All-Star, All-pro and All- Rookie badges, trophies, banners and such. I think those just made cards more fun back in the day. New cards really do bore me today, so it is fun to look back to a time when the most you had to look forward to was a cool photo, all star badge or special card.
Now, show your own favorite card or several. Get the comments flowing and interact. Let's talk action cards!! Hopefully we'll see some greats from numerous sports...someone may even toss in some golf, boxing, tennis, Olympics or others???
Picking just one or even a couple for me is tough. When I first started collection, the 70s action shots on Topps cards drew me in immediately. That was one of my favorite card types. Small, multi-player pictures where you could barely tell who was the player on the card were great! Portraits bore me. Posed fielding and batter shots were corny. Real game action, now that is where it was at. Added point for me if the card design was appealing as well. Action shots are great, but the whole picture had to come together too.
So, just to get the ball rolling, one of my favorite action cards of all-time...from each major sport!
I mainly collect baseball these days, so i will start here. This may be one of my most favorite cards of all time. There are a lot of action shots in 1970s Topps sets, but few as great as this one!
1971 Topps Thurman Munson
Football has their fair share of great shots too, but a lot of bench and head shots. True action football cards are awesome though. This card may be the greatest football card image ever to grace a trading card. Too bad he was not a HOFer to boot! 1978 Topps Greg Landry MUD FEST!!!
I had to slip one more in because Fran Tarkenton was my favorite growing up and this card was stunning to me.
1974 Topps Fran Tarkenton
Basketball action shots are fairly common, but great ones are not. I may have to think a while to get the best, but this one ranks up there for me and a HOFer doesn't hurt. The doctor had a lot of great action cards thankfully. I like this one the best though.
1975-76 Topps Dr. J
A pair of weird colored cards get honorable mention. Both nice action shots, but the port/starboard background colors set off this pair for me: 1977-78 Topps Artis Gilmore and Bobby Jones
Lastly, I rushed this pick to get the thread started. I may have to sit down and look for some better shots, but this one is of a favorite player and a great shot too. He too had a fair number of "action" cards, but this one is just too cool.
1976-77 Topps Ken Dryden.
So there you go...a few of my favorites. You might notice i like the extra "flair" too, such as the All-Star, All-pro and All- Rookie badges, trophies, banners and such. I think those just made cards more fun back in the day. New cards really do bore me today, so it is fun to look back to a time when the most you had to look forward to was a cool photo, all star badge or special card.
Now, show your own favorite card or several. Get the comments flowing and interact. Let's talk action cards!! Hopefully we'll see some greats from numerous sports...someone may even toss in some golf, boxing, tennis, Olympics or others???
