Card Identification Forum

Got this Harwell in a big lot I picked up and I can't ID it.  I think it may have come from a Tigers team set from between 2000-2003 as the lot also included a Steve Sparks card, and those were the years he was with the team.  There's no copyright info or anything and this may not be eligible for the DB anyway, but I thought I'd see if anyone recognized this one.

I dont know where it came from, but I sure do like it.

Religious organizations often made "cards" of players who were devout followers for kids. Kinda like an "advertisement" for lack of a better word for the church or organization.

You mean like this?

engine614 -- cool, we might be able to work out a deal including that in the future!

rmpaq5 -- thanks, that makes sense. Maybe it was the font on the back but it reminded me a bit of a Tigers team set or two I have, though like I said, there's nothing that would indicate that it was produced by any major manufacturer.

hockeydude  -- WHOA, a Methuselah rookie card! 

Agreed- not a team-issue.  A "tract" card by a Christian athlete group of some kind.

Whoa! A Methuselah rookie card!

Edit: Too slow while fialing to post an image.

Possibly Ernie himself had it made up. I have a similar card put out by Gary Carter. He signed them and gave them out to people who wrote asking for autographs.

Thanks, Dave. If there's a Halloween this year I could give that to a kid instead of candy so they'd get mad enough to TP my house 

I have a couple of John Olerud's, from 1998 (Mets) and 2001 (Mariners), that look very similiar. The background I got on them is just what Ron said - they are apparently cards the person had made up, and a lot of players used them to give away when people asked for autographs.

I don't think there's any way to checklist them or include them in TCDB.

RonEaston wrote:

Possibly Ernie himself had it made up. I have a similar card put out by Gary Carter. He signed them and gave them out to people who wrote asking for autographs.