The 12 Greatest Baseball Cards of All Time

I collected baseball cards from when I was about 6 years old (1968) until the early 80s, when all the middle-aged baby boomers came in with their money, tried to recapture their youths, boomed prices up so you needed to have "expert appraisers" rating the condition of cards to "protect investments" and completely ruined the hobby. Here are my all-time favorite cards, though, most of which I got the old fashioned way: out of wax packs with bubble gum, the rest from shoe boxes at collectors conventions in the days when the biggest baseball card show in New York was held in the basement of a church.

For a real baseball flavor, the music is by a hero of my childhood, Denny McLain, at the console of the mighty Hammond Organ from his 1968 LPs "Denny McLain at the Mighty Hammond X-77 Organ: The Detroit Tigers Superstar Swings with Today's Hits" and "Denny McLain in Las Vegas". It's too bad Denny didn't confine his swinging to the ball field or the console of the Mighty Hammond organ. He'd be in the hall-of-fame today.

Category:

Sports

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• Baseball
• Cards
• Topps
• Fleer
• Joe
• Niekro
• Denny
• McLain
• Hammond
• X-77
• Organ
• Dan
• Osinski

[harrylongballslol]

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

[RRaquello]

@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?

[bettydaw1970]

love this!! everything about it!!!

the music the cards the nostalgia the comments!!!

what is the last song when u introduce the #1 card?

[RRaquello]

@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".

[BenGH2]

You should have included the rarest basrall cards ever 1909 Honus Wagner card worth over 1 million dollars!

[RRaquello]

@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,

[pizza242424]

those are not the top 12 cards

[jln55]

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!

[BugsWisely]

@curtisjones400 I must be a dip shit. I don't get it?.. anyway... a comment and a thumbs up! WTF?

[toucansam3]

The greatest card of all time is hands-down the 1989 Bill Ripken Fleer.

[curtisjones400]

Who ever made this video has no clue concerning baseball cards

[jongreek]

Your video inspired me to make a baseball card video featuring some oddball cards...check it out on my channel: jongreek

[jongreek]

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.

[Jethro719]

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.