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By The Way, Topps, You Are A Bunch Of Dickheads

seawolf17 Jun 18 2008 08:36 AM

The last few years, Topps (and Upper Deck, to a lesser extent) have allowed "mistake" cards to "slip" through the cracks into packs. Inevitably they get discovered, interest goes up, prices go up, and everybody wins, except for fans. For example, the Derek Jeter card last year with a photoshopped Mickey Mantle and George Bush in the background, or the 2006 Topps Alex Gordon (Royals) rookie card that wasn't supposed to be produced because of the new-at-the-time "rookie card" licensing agreement. Anyway... they have six short-printed "mistakes" (I'm not going to dignify them by calling them errors, which have a long and storied baseball card history) in their recently-released '08 Series 2 set: an Al Gore "Presidential Campaign" card, two Japanese players (Fukudome and Yabuta), one Cuban player (the White Sox' Alexei Ramirez), a "2012?" Arnold Schwarzenegger card, and this: Dickheads.

metirish Jun 18 2008 08:38 AM

I don't collect cards but that seems beyond childish.

AG/DC Jun 18 2008 08:41 AM

I like the design at the top of the card. Queering the market is for the birds, though.

metsguyinmichigan Jun 18 2008 09:42 AM

AG/DC wrote: I like the design at the top of the card. Queering the market is for the birds, though. The first series had a "Sidd Finch" type of card with a Japanese teen-ager, and apparently a Red Sox celebration card with Rudy Giuliani or something like that. Ick. Horrible.

soupcan Jun 18 2008 09:51 AM

Fuck the no-no, they have Johan going 11-1 the rest of the way. I'll take that.

bmfc1 Jun 18 2008 10:21 AM

BTW, the Mets are also no-hit in the game. The Marlins made no errors so perhaps walk, steal, GB to advance the runner, Sac Fly.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 18 2008 10:27 AM

According to the card, they drew four walks in the bottom of the ninth.

Nymr83 Jun 18 2008 10:31 AM

thats just lame.

Grote15 Jun 18 2008 11:01 AM

The most produced card of all time is the 2006 Topps Mickey Mantle MMHR1 at 2.7 million The printing presses are at full speed since MLB changed the rules of what a true Rookie card is. They seed these series with some "short prints" or they would never sell out their inventory. The Gordon Blank card is already considered the most counterfeited card of the modern era and can be detected in the width of the oversized card stock. For more info hit ebay user-id Moops-Baseball...yes I do this for a living.

Methead Jun 18 2008 11:59 AM

I would have thought the most produced card was the 1987 Topps Dan Plesac, based on how many I ended up with.

attgig Jun 18 2008 12:07 PM

i laughed. lighten up.

Nymr83 Jun 18 2008 12:17 PM

]For more info hit ebay user-id Moops-Baseball...yes I do this for a living know the way to the member promotion forum?

G-Fafif Jun 18 2008 03:47 PM

Methead wrote: I would have thought the most produced card was the 1987 Topps Dan Plesac, based on how many I ended up with. I have more 1974 Steve Stones than Steve Stone's mother has baby pictures of Steve Stone.

G-Fafif Jun 18 2008 03:48 PM

attgig wrote: i laughed. lighten up. My eyes actually misted up slightly.