Your Turn: Which legends would you want paired?
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By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
We all know Roger Maris‘ story of 61 in ’61 and we all know whose record he toppled.
Today, Topps‘ high-end Five Star brand arrived with a Relic pairing Maris and Babe Ruth — something that, believe it or not, hasn’t happened all that often in the modern era of cardboard. In fact, the players have only been paired up on 50 items in the Beckett.com database.
Want memorabilia cards? On that front there are only 30 previous cards to choose from and nearly all of them are limited to far fewer than 50 copies per card.
It’s an impressive one and it got us thinking … which duos would you like to see on a card?
Tell us in the comments below.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Sports Card Monthly magazines. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
Derek Jeter and Mike Trout
Cy Young / Clayton Kershaw
Cy Young / Felix Hernandez
Baseball – the two biggest names for the Canadian teams in the 80s – Tim Raines and George Bell
Football – Two players who excelled in the CFL – Warren Moon and Doug Flutie
Hockey – Wayne Gretzky and Dale Hawerchuk (don’t think they EVER have shared cardboard)
Stan Musial / Ted Williams
Clayton Kershaw / Sandy Koufax
Matt Harvey / Tom Seaver
Todd Helton / Troy Tulowitzki
Ken Griffey Jr. / Ichiro Suzuki
Albert Pujols / Mike Trout
Dee Gordon / Vince Coleman
Baseball – Curt Schilling & Madison Bumgarner “Series Changing Performances”
Football – Steven Jackson & Charles Tillman “Master Ball Control vs Ultimate Force Fumbler”
Basketball – Scottie Pippen & Robert Horry (Lakers) “Acolytes of the Triangle” #/13 (combined championships)
Baseball/Football – Deion Sanders BB & Bo Jackson FB /w a SP in their opposite sports.
Mark Grace and Ryan Sandberg. What can I say, I am a Cub fan
Any Pittsburgh Steelers from the 70’s.
Mike Ditka and Dick Butkus
Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky in some type of multi sport patch card.
A few pairings I would like to see:
Ed Kranepool / David Wright
Whitey Ford / Brien Taylor
Pete Rose / Ichiro Suzuki
Sandy Koufax / Clayton Kershaw
Mark McGwire / Jose Canseco
and two triples:
Kris Bryant / Javier Baez / Jorge Soler
Jason Isringhausen / Bill Pulsipher / Paul Wilson
and this quad:
Noah Syndergaard / Matt Harvey / Jacob deGrom / Zack Wheeler
Hank Greenberg / Miggy Cabrera
jack morris / justin verlander
sparky anderson / jim leyland
Dick Green and Vida Blue.
All perfect game pitchers and their catchers (Larsen/Berra exists but others do not).
Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby, but on a retro Bowman or Leaf issue.
#1 wish would be for a Gary Carter / Ivan Rodriguez combo with Carter in Expos uniform and Pudge in a Nationals uniform. Aside from that I would love to see the following:
Ivan Rodriguez / Nolan Ryan (both as Texans and Astros)
Ivan Rodriguez / Randy Johnson (both as Yankees and Astros)
Gary Carter / Randy Johnson (both as Expos and Giants)
Gary Carter / Nolan Ryan (both as Mets)
Baseball: Lefty Gomez / Jimmie Foxx – A’s uni
Football: Howie Long / John Matuzak – Raiders Uni
Baketball; Wilt / Dr J – 76ers uni
Hockey: Bobby Clarke / Bobby Orr – Flyers & Bruins uni
Multi-Sport Quad: Babe Ruth – Howie Long – Wilt – Bobby Orr
All need to be cut or on card auto’s with a GU patch containing lettering/emblem….card needs to be 1952 or 1970 Topps style
baseball Larry Doby and jackie Robinson
Football Gales Sayers and Brian Piccolo
Hockey Vezina and Richard
Fred Lynn & Ichiro (only two to win MVP and ROY in same year)
Bert Blyleven & Tim Lincecum (careers are looking similar, statistically)
George Foster & Jose Bautista (careers are looking similar, statistically)
Jim Sundberg & Ivan Rodriguez
Rafael Palmeiro & Will Clark
(obviously I’m interpreting ‘Legends’ very loosely; I didn’t put a lot of thought into this list.)
I like Tom’s ideas – (short but) brilliant list.
Williams / Bird / Orr / Brady relic card would be awesome!
Jeter and jeffrey maier
It depends.
For base cards, I’ve seen most of them, and there are some good ideas already listed.
Make it a cut signature group and it gets better.
But for the new “memorabilia” cards with COAs that promise nothing, I’ll pass, thanks.
Bat cards that basically state that its a piece of wood somehow vaguely related to the game
and we are supposed to assume that its related to player shown, just make me angry, especially
when it turns out to be a stadium seat of some such.
Josh Gibson & Satchel Paige