Nearmint's Vintage Football Card Blog

Occasionally I pick a random player and do an internet search on him. My pick today was Gene “Big Daddy” Lipscomb, the Colts and Steelers defensive tackle whose famous line was “I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel ‘em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep.”

My search turned up this wrestling article. It seems Big Daddy did a little wrestling in the off-season. A bit of trivia from the article: Big Daddy got his nickname because if he couldn’t remember someone’s name, he called him Little Daddy.

Pictured is Big Daddy’s 1960 Topps card. You can see all of his cards in the Vintage Football Card Gallery.

Give it a try! Pick an old player from your favorite team and do a search. Let me know if you find anything interesting.

As the About page says, the Vintage Football Card Gallery is a reference site. The cards in the gallery are not for sale, but I do have lots of cards for sale on my Nearmint’s Vintage Football Cards site.

You can search the gallery for your favorite set, team, player, or college. To do complex searches, such as “Show all the rookie cards of Hall of Fame players named Bob,” try the Advanced Search page.

On the Site Map you will find links to other miscellaneous pages. Among them:

• The sports card auction finder, a tool for searching eBay auctions that is tailored for vintage sports cards
• A page that shows a bunch of cards that picture the wrong player
• A page showing lots of vintage football card wrappers
• Interactive team cards: 1959 Topps New York Giants, 1961 Topps Green Bay Packers, 1963 Topps Dallas Cowboys, 1964 Topps Oakland Raiders, and 1967 Philadelphia Cleveland Browns
• Puzzles of Bart Starr, Len Dawson, and Fran Tarkenton, assembled from the backs of 1968 and 1969 Topps football cards
• Examples of pre-rookie cards, minor issues that were printed before players’ commonly accepted rookie cards
• “Virtual” uncut sheets of cards: 1948 Bowman, 1958 Topps, 1959 Topps, 1960 Fleer, 1960 Topps, 1961 Fleer, 1962 Topps, 1963 Fleer, 1966 Philadelphia, 1968 Topps, 1969 Topps, and 1970 Topps Super.

I add to the gallery whenever I have time, so check back occasionally for new cards. Enjoy your visit!