i think this is very rude a lot of these players were very talented and i think these videos are just your jealous of them you didn't do anything with your life but make fun of other people lame
I ain't making fun of the players. I'm making fun of the cards & Topps. Some of these pictures, how could anyone pick them for a baseball card? The players must have had enemies at the Topps company. How'd you like to be Dan Schneider & that picture is the one they picked for the only baseball card he ever appeared on?
Other candidates: Danny Napoleon (Mets), George Alusik (KC A's). We sorted out the best cards of fat guys with double chins, dudes who look super old, greasy hair jobs, nicknames, weird photos, etc. Great video. Keep em coming.
Never knew Steve McQueen went by the alias of Dan Osinski. Man, had I only known... the collection I had thru the entire 60's was nothing short of legendary. It always seemed like they issued millions of the guys like Don Mossi, Steve Renko, and Lou Johnson and it was always a special day when Clemente or Koufax popped up.
You could have just used 12 Don Mossi cards.I have pretty vague recollections of Don when he was pitching for the Tigers in early 60s.Guess I was too young back then to think of him as looking like a Martian mongoloid.What I do remember is that he had a pretty unothodox delivery,and I tried to copy it when I was pitching.Was a pretty good pitcher though,not great,but better than average.
My brother's favorites were always the pitcher cards, where you see their arms bent at these horrible angles during the delivery of the ball. Action shots. Looking at them closely would make you wonder how long anyone could throw a ball at all!
Obviously, many of the people looking at this can't seem to understand what you're trying to show here. It's not the best PLAYERS - it's the best CARDS - as in the picture on the card. I'd recommend that anyone who enjoyed this (I did) go out and find the book "The great American baseball card flipping and trading book" (or something like that - I can't remember the title exactly). Great stuff!
He was a so, so reliever on the 1967 Red Sox Impossible Dream team. He and manager Dick Williams (who passed away this pat weekend) had a disagreement in 1968 and was let go shortly thereafter. Osinski to this day has never gotten over it. They never spoke to one another again, and he would never attend any of the '67 reunions because of Dick's presence.
Love this video!I had totally forgotten George Wills`(very) short stint with the Cardinals back in the 70`s when he played under the name of "Rich Folkers"(get it?).Didn`t fool anybody(especially not right-handed hitters with his "curve" ball)!
Love the Denny McLain international silverstring band.The Dan Osinski Story starring Billy Bob Thorton.The Lost Loves of Don Mossi starring Abe Vigoda.I'm not The Duke! starring Dan Schneider.The Mirror Has 17 Faces staring Dick Gernert.High School Horror Starring Rich Folkers.The Color Purpleand other shades Starring Lou Johnson and Hal "SKY" King.
@bettydaw1970 The song on that is from the German krautrock group CAN. It's from an album called "Tago Mago" (around 1971) and is an excerpt from the song "Peking O".
Funny video of some really obscure cards. I had the mossi, niekro, folkers, and mcfadden cards. The fleer cards shown suffer from a very minor league card style photography. Personally, I would replace Niekro's card with the 1970 topps Fred Norman (LA Dodger). The worst card picture I've ever seen, especially given in many other cards he was kind of good looking.
Left out "Old Penitentiary Face" Jeff Leornard from early 80's SF Giants. Very scary lookin' guy. Also Pumpsie Green's card from 50's Bosox is quite funny.
@BenGH2 These are only my favorites of the cards I have. If I had a Honus Wagner T-206 it would be my favorite, but not for long, coz I'd sell it as soon as I got it. I'd rather have the money,
@BenGH2 SWEET!! my great grandfather gave me his old baseball card collection 3 years ago. although he died last year which sucks, he was 108. he got the honus wager card when he was only 4
@Austin101123 well your lucky my dad had the 1909 Honus Wagner Card worth over 2.8 Million. Man dont sell it it is worth a lot and it will be worth even more when
@BenGH2 well it rapped his favorite cards up in plastic and put them all in a little box, and that was in the first pack he got so its probably one of the ones in there, im guessing id be in great condition. ill tell ya by tomorrow if its not in there, there this trunk full of cards, ill have the answer in like a couple hours if it is though
Seems like you could have had the Bill Ripken card - can't remember the year, but you know which one I'm talking about. Or the 1970 Aurelio Rodriguez card where the bat boy posed for the picture instead of the player.
Don Mossi was not pretty, but Ron Karkovice looked like he never used a mask when he caught a game. By the way, all of the pre 1960 Topps sets are good looking, but my favorites are 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957, and 1958. 1953 and 1957 were probably the best of all.
Up until the later 1980's all anyone bought were baseball cards. Once Jordan, Montana, and Orr took off all the money went chasing after Basketball, Football and Hockey. It spread the investing money too thin to support prices. Then card companies compounded the problem by issuing multiple products per sport. Lets put it this way....put 3 different hamburgers on the menu and you can sell them. Put 10,000 different hamburgers on the menu...and you'll still sell only 3.
Now I understand why Rafael Ramirez made all those errors. I had the Don Mossi card. Not exactly a ravin' beauty, but a pretty good pitcher in his day.
since I quit collecting in the early 80s, all of my cards are more or less vintage. I think the 67 topps is the best looking set they ever did. I started collecting in 68 and remember kids throwing away (!) their last years cards & I scooped them up & still have a lot of '67s, but they are pretty beat up & worth nothing as collectibles, but still have nostalgic value to me since I've had them over 40 years. Other best sets were 57, 68, 70 & 71. Ugliest were 72 & 75. Most boring were 73 & 74
Yep, when you think now you may have stuck a Carlton Fisk rookie card on a clothespin into the spokes of your bicycle without having a clue then about the later implications.
But I agree, around 1990 baseball cards suddenly became hot collectibles, and people were hoarding box sets of cards without even cracking the package! I think most of those people got burned in the end when the prices of annual sets crashed.
68's a favorite of mine for sentimental reasons. It was the first year I collected. I like 70 coz it was the first time I got a complete set. I still have it.
What makes 57 so cool is that it's the only set where you can really see Ebbets Field. Topps was a BKLYN based company, so most NL players were shot in Ebbets field, but the earlier sets like 53, 55, 56 were painted from photos or like 54 the photos were cropped. After 57, the Dodgers moved. So only in 57 do you see Ebbetts Field.
BTW, you can tell it's Ebbetts Field because the fence railings were painted red. If you see that, it's Ebbetts Field. There are also some good Polo Fields shots in 57, but you got to see some of those in later years when the Mets came into the league. Only the 57 set has a lot of good Ebbetts field pictures.
I was hoping that you would show the famous Billy Martin as Tigers manager seemingly flipping the bird at the camera.
I wasn't quite old enought to remember McClain mania, but my family lived in the Detroit area at the time, where my dad had been a professional musician. He went to a bar once where Denny was playing the organ to see what the fuss was all about. His assessment of Denny's playing the organ was "He's a damn fine pitcher".
I have that Billy Martin card because I have the complete 1972 set (which I bought in 1975 for about 30 dollars!) What I'd really like is a Billy Martin card when he had a black eye and a broken nose after Ed Whitson punched him out. Maybe it ain't nice to talk bad about the dead, but Billy Martin was a low life all the way.
McLain became a hero of mine because 1968 was the first year I really watched baseball. I was about 6 yrs old at the time, and even growing up in NYC, it was a big big deal
those are not the top 12 cards
pizza242424 1 month ago
You'd think that if they were gonna make a million copies of some guy's face on a card, they'd at least make it presentable!
jln55 1 month ago
@curtisjones400 I must be a dip shit. I don't get it?.. anyway... a comment and a thumbs up! WTF?
BugsWisely 2 months ago
The greatest card of all time is hands-down the 1989 Bill Ripken Fleer.
toucansam3 2 months ago
Who ever made this video has no clue concerning baseball cards
curtisjones400 3 months ago
i think this is very rude a lot of these players were very talented and i think these videos are just your jealous of them you didn't do anything with your life but make fun of other people lame
harrylongballslol 4 months ago
@harrylongballslol
I ain't making fun of the players. I'm making fun of the cards & Topps. Some of these pictures, how could anyone pick them for a baseball card? The players must have had enemies at the Topps company. How'd you like to be Dan Schneider & that picture is the one they picked for the only baseball card he ever appeared on?
RRaquello 3 months ago
Your video inspired me to make a baseball card video featuring some oddball cards...check it out on my channel: jongreek
jongreek 4 months ago
Other candidates: Danny Napoleon (Mets), George Alusik (KC A's). We sorted out the best cards of fat guys with double chins, dudes who look super old, greasy hair jobs, nicknames, weird photos, etc. Great video. Keep em coming.
jongreek 4 months ago
Never knew Steve McQueen went by the alias of Dan Osinski. Man, had I only known... the collection I had thru the entire 60's was nothing short of legendary. It always seemed like they issued millions of the guys like Don Mossi, Steve Renko, and Lou Johnson and it was always a special day when Clemente or Koufax popped up.
Jethro719 5 months ago
You could have just used 12 Don Mossi cards.I have pretty vague recollections of Don when he was pitching for the Tigers in early 60s.Guess I was too young back then to think of him as looking like a Martian mongoloid.What I do remember is that he had a pretty unothodox delivery,and I tried to copy it when I was pitching.Was a pretty good pitcher though,not great,but better than average.
DwighttFrye 5 months ago
Where's the 1984 Glenn Hubbard card with the boa constrictor?
yohannbiimu 7 months ago
My brother's favorites were always the pitcher cards, where you see their arms bent at these horrible angles during the delivery of the ball. Action shots. Looking at them closely would make you wonder how long anyone could throw a ball at all!
rklewis2 7 months ago
Obviously, many of the people looking at this can't seem to understand what you're trying to show here. It's not the best PLAYERS - it's the best CARDS - as in the picture on the card. I'd recommend that anyone who enjoyed this (I did) go out and find the book "The great American baseball card flipping and trading book" (or something like that - I can't remember the title exactly). Great stuff!
rklewis2 7 months ago
He was a so, so reliever on the 1967 Red Sox Impossible Dream team. He and manager Dick Williams (who passed away this pat weekend) had a disagreement in 1968 and was let go shortly thereafter. Osinski to this day has never gotten over it. They never spoke to one another again, and he would never attend any of the '67 reunions because of Dick's presence.
hootenhtn 8 months ago
Love this video!I had totally forgotten George Wills`(very) short stint with the Cardinals back in the 70`s when he played under the name of "Rich Folkers"(get it?).Didn`t fool anybody(especially not right-handed hitters with his "curve" ball)!
brianwells456comcast 8 months ago
what about the fleer Jay Johnstone w/budweiser hat
BIODTLOTHER1terrapin 9 months ago
I have you know Dan Osinski is my grandfather, and I don't appreciate you talking crap about him
TheGreekMan1981 9 months ago
@TheGreekMan1981 Lighten up!!
hootenhtn 8 months ago
@hootenhtn I was actually kidding...I have no clue who the guy is...lmfao
TheGreekMan1981 8 months ago
wat the fuckkkkk ive never heard of any of these motha fuckazz,,, man what u smokin n!!!
xXBeAsTXx99 9 months ago
lol at all the mentions of Honus Wagner. Are those people even watching the video? Everything from the music to the captions is comedy gold
MrHotpantsImComin 10 months ago
Love the Denny McLain international silverstring band.The Dan Osinski Story starring Billy Bob Thorton.The Lost Loves of Don Mossi starring Abe Vigoda.I'm not The Duke! starring Dan Schneider.The Mirror Has 17 Faces staring Dick Gernert.High School Horror Starring Rich Folkers.The Color Purpleand other shades Starring Lou Johnson and Hal "SKY" King.
robphilll22 11 months ago
What's the music? Is it by Walter Wanderley?
jmg999 1 year ago
I don't collect cards, but found this video to be one of the funniest I've seen in a long time. Love the music and your comments!
MrHotpantsImComin 1 year ago
Where's Honus?
DoctorLawyerWhatever 1 year ago
This is great. Thank you!
Schmoe552001 1 year ago
love this!! everything about it!!!
the music the cards the nostalgia the comments!!!
what is the last song when u introduce the #1 card?
bettydaw1970 1 year ago
@bettydaw1970 The song on that is from the German krautrock group CAN. It's from an album called "Tago Mago" (around 1971) and is an excerpt from the song "Peking O".
RRaquello 1 year ago
Funny video of some really obscure cards. I had the mossi, niekro, folkers, and mcfadden cards. The fleer cards shown suffer from a very minor league card style photography. Personally, I would replace Niekro's card with the 1970 topps Fred Norman (LA Dodger). The worst card picture I've ever seen, especially given in many other cards he was kind of good looking.
Holste42 1 year ago
Left out "Old Penitentiary Face" Jeff Leornard from early 80's SF Giants. Very scary lookin' guy. Also Pumpsie Green's card from 50's Bosox is quite funny.
rhinohouse 1 year ago
Osinski, lmao! Nice job!
3443bh 1 year ago
andy etchebarren could give mossi a run for his money in the ugly column...
wiedep 1 year ago
Memories
bertoradzio 1 year ago
Ok. Those cards are horrible
12penn2 1 year ago
dude i have that don mossi card
yosoytacoseasoning 1 year ago
1963 was the "Topps" of all years.
Hearingspec 1 year ago
haha
juliankingston2 1 year ago
roland offic is only 1$
TNT8900 1 year ago
You should have included the rarest basrall cards ever 1909 Honus Wagner card worth over 1 million dollars!
BenGH2 1 year ago
@BenGH2 These are only my favorites of the cards I have. If I had a Honus Wagner T-206 it would be my favorite, but not for long, coz I'd sell it as soon as I got it. I'd rather have the money,
RRaquello 1 year ago
@BenGH2 are you telling me that my 1908 baseball card could be worth $1million!!!!!?????
Austin101123 1 year ago
@Austin101123 it matters which player it is
BenGH2 1 year ago
@BenGH2 its honus wagner. is that worth a lot!?
Austin101123 1 year ago
@Austin101123 YES That Is Worth A Lot Man where did you get it
BenGH2 1 year ago
@BenGH2 SWEET!! my great grandfather gave me his old baseball card collection 3 years ago. although he died last year which sucks, he was 108. he got the honus wager card when he was only 4
Austin101123 1 year ago
@Austin101123 well your lucky my dad had the 1909 Honus Wagner Card worth over 2.8 Million. Man dont sell it it is worth a lot and it will be worth even more when
its over 150 years old
is it in great condition?
BenGH2 1 year ago
@BenGH2 well it rapped his favorite cards up in plastic and put them all in a little box, and that was in the first pack he got so its probably one of the ones in there, im guessing id be in great condition. ill tell ya by tomorrow if its not in there, there this trunk full of cards, ill have the answer in like a couple hours if it is though
Austin101123 1 year ago
@Austin101123 Dude Suscribe Me And Just Send ME Messages If You Wonder How Much Money A Baseball Card Is. I Will Subscribe You Too
BenGH2 1 year ago
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Austin101123 1 year ago
@BenGH2 i looked at the card and its in pretty good condition, and oh yeah. it was made in 1909 not 1908. i was wrong about the year
Austin101123 1 year ago
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Austin101123 1 year ago
That was funny as hell! great video
joezeppi1 1 year ago
funny vid!
creamofcardstv 1 year ago
Seems like you could have had the Bill Ripken card - can't remember the year, but you know which one I'm talking about. Or the 1970 Aurelio Rodriguez card where the bat boy posed for the picture instead of the player.
generalbullmoose 2 years ago
Don Mossi was not pretty, but Ron Karkovice looked like he never used a mask when he caught a game. By the way, all of the pre 1960 Topps sets are good looking, but my favorites are 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957, and 1958. 1953 and 1957 were probably the best of all.
dramusic 2 years ago
You should have included the 1963 John Roseboro card.
Looking at Roseboro's expression, something is going on behind the camera, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is!
markko17 2 years ago
Up until the later 1980's all anyone bought were baseball cards. Once Jordan, Montana, and Orr took off all the money went chasing after Basketball, Football and Hockey. It spread the investing money too thin to support prices. Then card companies compounded the problem by issuing multiple products per sport. Lets put it this way....put 3 different hamburgers on the menu and you can sell them. Put 10,000 different hamburgers on the menu...and you'll still sell only 3.
dtmfr 2 years ago
Now I understand why Rafael Ramirez made all those errors. I had the Don Mossi card. Not exactly a ravin' beauty, but a pretty good pitcher in his day.
bradleyjstevens 2 years ago
ok do u like vintage cards cause those r my favorite
chibbz23 2 years ago
since I quit collecting in the early 80s, all of my cards are more or less vintage. I think the 67 topps is the best looking set they ever did. I started collecting in 68 and remember kids throwing away (!) their last years cards & I scooped them up & still have a lot of '67s, but they are pretty beat up & worth nothing as collectibles, but still have nostalgic value to me since I've had them over 40 years. Other best sets were 57, 68, 70 & 71. Ugliest were 72 & 75. Most boring were 73 & 74
RRaquello 2 years ago
Yep, when you think now you may have stuck a Carlton Fisk rookie card on a clothespin into the spokes of your bicycle without having a clue then about the later implications.
But I agree, around 1990 baseball cards suddenly became hot collectibles, and people were hoarding box sets of cards without even cracking the package! I think most of those people got burned in the end when the prices of annual sets crashed.
tucsonia 2 years ago
i like the 57 topps set too but i think 68 was boring
chibbz23 2 years ago
68's a favorite of mine for sentimental reasons. It was the first year I collected. I like 70 coz it was the first time I got a complete set. I still have it.
What makes 57 so cool is that it's the only set where you can really see Ebbets Field. Topps was a BKLYN based company, so most NL players were shot in Ebbets field, but the earlier sets like 53, 55, 56 were painted from photos or like 54 the photos were cropped. After 57, the Dodgers moved. So only in 57 do you see Ebbetts Field.
RRaquello 2 years ago
BTW, you can tell it's Ebbetts Field because the fence railings were painted red. If you see that, it's Ebbetts Field. There are also some good Polo Fields shots in 57, but you got to see some of those in later years when the Mets came into the league. Only the 57 set has a lot of good Ebbetts field pictures.
RRaquello 2 years ago
@RRaquello i disagree with this shit. babe ruth was the best baseball player to ever live not even god is better then ruth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xGODLYxSKiLLeDx666x 1 year ago
I was hoping that you would show the famous Billy Martin as Tigers manager seemingly flipping the bird at the camera.
I wasn't quite old enought to remember McClain mania, but my family lived in the Detroit area at the time, where my dad had been a professional musician. He went to a bar once where Denny was playing the organ to see what the fuss was all about. His assessment of Denny's playing the organ was "He's a damn fine pitcher".
tucsonia 2 years ago
I have that Billy Martin card because I have the complete 1972 set (which I bought in 1975 for about 30 dollars!) What I'd really like is a Billy Martin card when he had a black eye and a broken nose after Ed Whitson punched him out. Maybe it ain't nice to talk bad about the dead, but Billy Martin was a low life all the way.
McLain became a hero of mine because 1968 was the first year I really watched baseball. I was about 6 yrs old at the time, and even growing up in NYC, it was a big big deal
RRaquello 2 years ago
Some of the choices are pretty good. You did a nice job with #1, thanks to the creepy music.
cuno00 2 years ago
how r those the 12 greatest baseball cards of all time?
chibbz23 2 years ago
well, they're my favorites, out of about 10,000 I have from the late 50s to the early 80s. Of course other people might hve their favorites.
RRaquello 2 years ago