7 Sports Card Logos We’d Love to See! - Ep. 3.28

Sometimes it's the smallest thing on a sports card that tells the biggest story. Happy hobby. I'm David Gonz. Build a better sports car collection with a real world budget. That's what we talk about this channel on this podcast on this video on YouTube channel on our sports card substack on Happy Hobby Sports cards. Listen, today we're talking about seven sports card logos that we would love to see. Now one of the little things that can make a sports card feel special is a great little logo added on. Now in a previous video podcast article, we talked about some of the greatest sports card logos that change the hobby forever. Well, today we're thinking along those lines. Now in that article we talked about the All Star Rookie cup logo, we talked about the rookie card logo itself, we talked about the future stars banner. Lots of awesome stuff back then. Today though, we're talking about some other tiny design elements that we think could really help tell the story of about a great player on a little piece of cardboard. The way I'm thinking is what if I somehow became commissioner of sports cards for a day? That seems like that'd be a pretty awesome job, right? That sounds like that'd be pretty good. Here are a few logos that produce to our awesome hobby if I were elected immediately. Now don't get me wrong, not these aren't all aren't great ideas. It's just something that came to my head resident, our resident happy hobbyist sports card designers like Alan Camuto and and Ryan Hennessy, they would think differently. Even our sports card photographer in house photographer Randy Litzinger, who's done many photos that have gone on modern sports cards today, including some James Wood cards from last year, some great cards from this year. They would disagree with me I'm pretty sure because it'd just be cluttering the card landscape. But thankfully I don't know anything about card design. So these are just card logos that sound fun. So the first one I'm talking about an MVP or a Cy Young winner logo on the card. This one kind of seems like a no brainer to me. But if a player wins the MVP or if they one-of-one the Cy Young award from the previous year only is what we're talking about. Every card they receive the following year should include a little small MVP logo or a little small Cy Young award. That'd be pretty cool right now. Even better if they've one-of-one multiple awards during their career, including the one last year, then just stack those logos on top of each other. Maybe it's like three Cy Young wards next to each other. Maybe it's three MVP little Shohei Otani action. Imagine looking at a Shohei Otani card someday and seeing multiple MVP logos right next to his name. And what if he wins a Cy Young Award and then he'd get that Cy Young Award next to his mvp. That would be amazing. You'd want to add that one to your collection for sure. Without reading the back of the card you see these logos, you'd instantly know you're looking at one of the greatest players of his generation. That's pretty cool. Second one, the All Star logo. Now, this isn't new technically. Card companies have done this for a while, including they do it right now when players make the All Star team. I'm talking about tops. Many cards in the update series show those All Star game logos on those cards. That's fine, but I'd rather see something a little more timeless. Bring back the oversized stars from the 1976-19 Topps baseball set. Now, that was a cool All Star logo. That would be great on cards going forward. Add a number beside it to show how many All Star teams that player has made so far. That would be pretty cool. Like an eight times All Star. Simple, clean, yet it's instantly recognizable. That's a good thing. Third one, the number one overall pick. A logo that calls that out. Some accomplishments deserve to follow the player forever. If someone was selected first overall in the draft, every base card going forward should have that number one pick logo proudly displayed on their cards. It doesn't matter if it's base. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, any sport with a draft, If a player was the number one pick in that entire draft class, that's a pretty huge accomplishment. And they deserve some recognition and some celebration for that draft day one-of-one Number four, I think Heisman Trophy winner. Now, along the same lines as the number one pick overall, if you one-of-one the Heisman Trophy in football, well, you should have the Heisman Trophy logo on every card going forward. Every base card should have that Heisman logo. It's one of the most prestigious awards in all of sports. Just like that number one pick logo. This accomplishment doesn't disappear after a player's rookie season and becomes part of who they are. Wouldn't it be cool to pull this year a 20, Topps Fernando Mendoza rookie card with both card logos being number one pick overall and the Heisman Trophy on the same card? That would be pretty cool, right? All right, number five. How about rookie sensation? I like this one a lot because it brings back the old FLIR rookie sensation cards from the early 90s that I loved a I'd bring that back, but with a modern twist. Unlike the Topps All Star Rookie cup, which which it only recognizes one player at each position, Rooking sensation would celebrate all the standout rookies from the previous year. And. And you can kind of stretch that definition a little bit. Maybe it's a few highly anticipated young stars like that not quite earned the superstar ness yet. You know, kind of truly they haven't broken out. But similar to how the Rated Rookie card often predicts future greatness, that's what the rookie sensation would be. It'd be instead of rewarding past performance, it would be rewarding future greatness, future prospect greatness. Sometimes the hobby is about celebrating potential, just as it is just as much as it is about production. Number six Hey, I wanted to call a timeout here for one minute. I have a quick question for you. Do you ever find yourself wondering what are the best baseball rookie cards from, I don't know, 1987? Or what are the best football rookie cards from 1972? Well, I've got you covered. Head over to davidganis.com where you'll find lists of the best best rookie cards from every year for baseball, basketball, football and hockey cards. And each page is like a time machine, except instead of awkward yearbook photos, you're going to get the greatest rookie cards all neatly listed by year. And every card has a convenient link right to ebay. So if you want to find a forgotten gem for your collection, just click to find a great deal. Also, those links are affiliate links, which means you'll be supporting this podcast and helping me justify my own cardboard obsession. It's a one-of-one one-of-one really, if you think about it. So whether you're chasing hall of Famers or you just want to see who rocked the rookie scene and your birth year, check out davidganis.com your collection and your favorite podcast host will thank you. Number six the Fantasy Scoring a Champion. Now I'm a fancy sports fan like most of you out there. As a matter of fact, I used to write Fantasy Sports for 20 years. I love fantasy sports. I love card collecting. Let's can we make a little bit of both? Whichever player produced the most fantasy points the previous year gets a special logo on all of his cards of the following season. Now, I say the most fantasy points, but really what I mean, because that could be a kick kicker, you don't want that. What I'm talking about is the most the the person considered the fantasy and MVP from the previous year. Maybe that's the logo instead of fancy scoring champion. Maybe it's the fantasy MVP and be a little subjective. Sure, right. But wouldn't it be fun for fantasy managers to argue about scoring formats going forward? Well, this guy was in. He was a fancy scoring champion in ppr, but the touchdown only league this see this guy was the gaming half point. PPR I think is the fancy sports and card collecting. They have so much overlap that I'd love to see these two hobbies collide in a very special way. The 7th awesome logo I would love to see on sports cards is a final card logo. See, that's a great hobby niche that is often overlooked and is how many people collect a player's final card. It's a big deal. There's something poetic about it. We spend so much time chasing rookie cards, sometimes we forget that the card that closes the book on a legendary career is worth noting. It's worth collecting. Whenever a player retires after a season, his card the following year should include a final card logo. It would instantly let collectors know this is the last regular base card you'll ever see of this player. Can you imagine if Mickey Mantle's final regular season regular issue card in 1969 Topps included a final card designation? It brings something to it, right? Bring a little more gravitas if you will, but just something makes it a little more of a prestigious looking card. Something that stands out a little bit more than his 1968 Topps card. One of the best parts is that final cards are often far more valuable than their rookie cards. Not everyone can own a Hall of Famer's rookie card, but almost anyone can pick up the last card for from a legendary career without blowing their collecting budget. So that's pretty cool. For budget collectors like me, it's a fun, meaningful way to own a little piece of sports history now. Yu-Gi-Oh some players retire and then unretire and maybe that would make it a little strange. But wouldn't it be fun to have a final card once and then they come back and they have a comeback card or something after that? That'd be pretty cool. I could see that being fun. So those are my fun hobby logo ideas. Sports car logos that I think should exist. Can we make that happen? Is there something out there that we could. Can we sign a petition? Let's get some of these up here. What are some of your favorites? For me, I love the Heisman Trophy winner, the the number one overall pick. And I love the fantasy mvp. I like Those. But also, you know, when you think about that, I just named seven different logos. There might have to be a limit on how many logos would go on one single card, right? Imagine a card with a rookie sensation, a number one pick, a Heisman Trophy, mvp, All Star fantasy champion, who knows what else. At some point that would start looking like a NASCAR race car, right? So maybe we don't, maybe we, we limit it. So we'd create a ranking system. Only the biggest accomplish it accomplishments make it onto the cardboard. Maybe a player's card could display two or maybe three of these logos. Something like number one overall pick. That's important. How about the Heisman Trophy winner? That's a big one. Mvp. Certainly that should be on there. So that keeps the cards clean while still highlighting the biggest accomplishments that really define that player's career. So I want to know from you, two things. One, do you have some ideas? Do you have some thoughts on what would be good? See, sports cards tell stories and statistics tell part of that story, and the photography tells another part of that story. But cool sports car logos can tell the rest of the story. So whether it's highlighting awards or milestones or fantasy dominance, something nobody has even thought of yet, I think there are plenty of ways sports car companies can make modern cards even more fun to collect. So I want to know from you which of these are your favorite sports car logos that you'd like to see or do you have some ideas of some different ones that I didn't even think of? I love to hear your ideas. So you can either drop them in the comments in this YouTube video or you can drop them in the comments of our substack post on ghanis.substack.com or you can shoot me an email at ghaniscardsmail.com g o n o s cardsmail.com and this might, maybe this will turn into a future article again of sports card logos you want to see on your sports cards. So whatever you do, make sure you continue having a happy hobby.