You Can’t Trust Card Cartoonists
May 9th, 2013 | Published in error cards | 2 Comments
Yesterday I was looking at some 1964 Philadelphia football cards, and I happened to read the cartoon on the back of Lamar McHan’s card. The cartoon says that McHan won the Heisman Trophy. Hmm, I thought, that doesn’t sound right. So I checked my Heisman Trophy candidates page, and sure enough, the highest McHan finished in Heisman voting was ninth. Ninth is great, of course, but it isn’t first.
This is at least the second whopper I have seen in a cartoon on the back of a card. Homer Jones’s 1968 Topps football card says that “Homer defeated the Russians in the 1960 Olympics,” but that isn’t true, either. For a list of football players who did win Olympic medals, see my page of Olympic athletes on vintage football cards
May 20th, 2013 at 1:28 PM (#)
Not true he was frist draft choice I am his daughter. Most of the records r messed up…
May 20th, 2013 at 1:29 PM (#)
Hecwas runner up for trophy.. All his cards say he won. We believe of course that he should have…