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12 Hilarious Old Baseball Cards

From pornographic names to subtle vulgarity to tragic unibrows, these old baseball cards remind us of why we used to collect them.

By ModernMan Editors

Kluszewski not only swung a mean bat, he also chopped down the tree that made the bat and then whittled it himself. With his bare hands.

Some athletes beat the heat by dousing themselves with water or sitting in front of fans. Raymond simply unzipped his fly and assumed the position.

Subtly flipping off the camera? Why, that doesn’t sound like the mild-tempered, even-keeled, teetotaling Billy Martin we knew!

We’d like to point out that Moon won Rookie of the Year in 1954, beating out the likes of Ernie Banks and Hank Aaron. We’d also like to point out that in 1954, a guy with a unibrow was simply known as a guy.

TAGS: baseball, collecting, sports

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Jayme Higdon (Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:15:13 +0000): This is freaking hilarious!
Nick Marcin (Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:51:10 +0000): I have the Rusty Kuntz card. Stubby Clapp might be the funniest thing I've ever heard. I'm crying right now!
Pete Osadnick (Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:07:46 +0000): Get your mind outta the gutter, gent!
John-David Moon (Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:28:36 +0000): I have that Bill Ripken card! And I WAS in middle school in 1989!
Gary Pair (Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:21:05 +0000): Did also wind up touching anything??
Raymond Lassonde (Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:41:30 +0000): I literally have inherited thousands of cards. If I only had time to go through them all. I remember seeing a 1950s Red Sox card and the guys name was Trout. I should have bought it for that reason! Chock it up to one of those, "should have" moments!
Chad Ryan (Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:06:52 +0000): woulda coulda shoulda lol
Dave Smith (Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:59:02 +0000): Classics.
Joshua V. Best (Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:59:00 +0000): Claude Raymond thought the open fly was so fashionable, he did the same thing the next year: http://bit.ly/joccRZ I kid you not.
Marty Mele (Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:23:08 +0000): Gotta give a shout-out to the Phillie Phanatic on the Glenn Hubbard card obviously taken at the old Vet!
Brian Johnson (Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:27:57 +0000): Thanks, now I have coffee all over my keyboard.....
Johnny Rumba (Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:38:37 +0000): Now I know which cards to add to my collection.
Brian Snape (Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:18:27 +0000): Hey, don't mess with Big Klu. Not only as he a beast with the bat, he was the hitting coach for the Big Red Machine in the 70's. And Dick Pole was the Reds' pitching coach for a few years. Once, when he visited the mound, Reds TV analyst made some comment like, "As a pitcher, you don't want Dick Pole in your face."
Greg Chambers (Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:32:29 +0000): You have to check out Billy Ripkin's Baseball Card. Little Brother had a real sense of humor.
Kevin Kraemer (Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:27:01 +0000): hillarious
Mike Moore (Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:13:46 +0000): Best one I've seen is Dirty Kurt winning the Bazooka bubble-blowing contest.
(Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:03:41 +0000): No Oscar Gamble and the fro from hell? How disappointing.

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