Nearmint's Vintage Football Card Blog » doug atkins http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog News, trivia, and musings of interest to vintage football card collectors Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:41:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2011/01/06/new-orleans-saints-hall-fame-football-cards/ http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2011/01/06/new-orleans-saints-hall-fame-football-cards/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:49:00 +0000 nearmint http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/?p=4557 Today I identified the members of the New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame in the Vintage Football Card Gallery. Pictured here are cards of the first two members, Archie Manning and Dan Abramowicz, who both were inducted in 1988. Manning is on his 1972 Topps rookie card, and Abramowicz is on his 1969 Topps rookie card.
Archie Manning 1972 Topps rookie football cardDan Abramowicz 1969 Topps rookie football card
While researching Saints Hall of Fame players, I found something interesting: according to several web sites, including the Pro Football Hall of Fame site, the Saints have retired Jim Taylor’s number, 31. Taylor played only one season for the Saints, however, and he is not a member of their Hall of Fame. The team also retired Doug Atkins’s number, though Atkins was a Saint for only three seasons. It appears that someone in charge was in a hurry to retire numbers. (Taylor is shown here on a 1968 Topps card, though he retired before the 1968 season. Atkins is shown here on his 1969 Topps card.)
Jim Taylor 1968 Topps football cardDoug Atkins 1969 Topps football card
You can see the full list of Saints Hall of Famers on the team’s web site.

]]> http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2011/01/06/new-orleans-saints-hall-fame-football-cards/feed/ 3 Doug is Backward, Too http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2009/07/19/doug-is-backward-too/ http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2009/07/19/doug-is-backward-too/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:50:54 +0000 nearmint http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/?p=786 In a post last month I showed that the image on Bill Wade’s 1960 Topps card is reversed. Looking at my Beckett’s catalog this week, I found that the image on Doug Atkins’s 1960 Topps card is reversed as well. It’s not obvious when you look at that card by itself, but it is when you put it alongside his 1961 Fleer card. It’s funny how you can look at a card a hundred times and not notice an error like this.

I did a little ‘net search to look for bits of trivia about Atkins, and I found that he has an official site. The quotes by John Unitas and Jim Parker are worth a look.

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