Nearmint's Vintage Football Card Blog

In previous posts I’ve shown you that the images of Bill Wade and Doug Atkins are reversed on their 1960 Topps football cards. Here’s another reversed image in the same set, Frank Varrichione. I’ve included his 1959 Topps card for comparison–notice his jersey number. Remarkably, on all of Varrichione’s cards, the card companies spelled his name correctly.

To learn more about errors on vintage football cards, see E is for Error Cards.

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Shortly after I added 1962 Post Cereal cards to the Vintage Football Card Gallery, a customer pointed out to me that Mike Henry, who appears on one of the cards, later had a successful acting career. After seven seasons at linebacker for the Steelers and Rams, Henry went on to play Tarzan, Junior Justice, and Donald Penobscot! Brian’s Drive-In Theater has a nice acting biography of Mike Henry.

Shown here is Henry’s 1962 Post Cereal card. To my knowledge, this is his only card, but he did also appear on a 1963 Salada Coin. There are usually one or two available on eBay.

Here’s a clip of Mike Henry as Tarzan. I like how the helicopter goes behind the bushes to blow up!

Pat Brady‘s granddaughter sent me a note a couple of days ago and told me that her grandfather had passed away. Brady was a quarterback and star punter for the Pittsburgh Steelers. According to RGJ.com, in the three years he played in the NFL, he led the league in punting average twice. In college at Nevada, he once kicked a 99-yard punt, the longest possible.

Pictured here is Brady’s rookie card, a 1953 Bowman.