I pulled the Randy Johnson error as a kid. Sure wish I still had it. I got back into the hobby last year and you are by far my favorite channel Chris. Thanks for all the great content!
Great lecture, Professor Sewall. A related lecture that you might want to prepare would cover short prints, alternate versions (I'm thinking of the 62T green-tint variations), withdrawn or unauthorized cards (54B Ted Williams, 59F Ted Williams "Ted Signs for 59"), etc.
The Ripken FF frenzy was something else in 89. My dad asked if I knew any stores that were selling em and there was a drug store that had cellos earlier in the day. Luckily he got em before someone else did. Pulled 3 out of a box and a half and gave me and my brother each one. Within a month my dad was the only one who still had his
Great video, as usual. I would categorize the Uribe card in the "scammer" category. Another scam card is the 1990 Topps Ken Griffey Jr "bloody scar". I was at a show in Montreal and I said to the dealer, "They all have bloody scars." His response: "Yeah, but this one is bloodier."
My buddy had the Frank Thomas NNOF when we were kids. His parents bought him all kinds of expensive baseball cards. He had Ruth's and Mantles. Roger Maris. Clemente. I was so overwhelmed he had those. His dad kept them in a safe for him. When we got about 17 or 18 he got into drugs really bad and got into the safe and pawned and sold all of the cards. It still breaks my heart to this day.
Great video as always, wasn't aware of the King/Sain mixups. If you need any more material for closing: "Don't run with scissors" "Cover your face when you sneeze" "Only you can prevent forest fires" "Wear a helmet when you bike" "Don't take candy from strangers" and finally, "Always walk when you are near the pool"
I remember very well the error card craze of the 1980s. One of the most famous hockey card errors (which was never corrected) is the 1974-75 Topps and O-Pee-Chee Jacques Lemaire card. Lemaire played his entire career for the Montreal Canadiens, but was inexplicably shown as a member of the Buffalo Sabres on his 1974-75 card. Topps even airbrushed a Sabres uniform onto his photo. Us little kids back then all wondered how a mistake like that could happen.
Compounded by the fact that Ben McDonald was a sought after rookie card in 1990. He had a nice career but didn't fulfill collector expectations for sure.
1989 Upper Deck Dale Murphy Reverse Negative was the holy grail when I was 12 years old. The card shop close to my house had one under the glass for $150 that I used to drool over daily.
Thank you for this! Have a 90 upper deck uribe *error birth date card. Took to 3 store fronts that didn’t give time of day to explain like you did saying they don’t look at old cards. Sounds like my card is a common base. Thanks again
Great vlog the Frank Thomas no name topps rookie seems to have risen to the cream of the crop in card error land. Would be funny to have a master set of the billy ripken errors
I go for master sets, but when I set about to assembled the variations/errors, I had to make a rule that I was only looking to acquire design variations - i.e. where the cards went to print, an error was detected, there was a redesign of some sort, and then the new version went to print. Obvious examples are the 1974 Washington variations, the 1979 Bump Wills Blue Jays, and many others. I stay away from printing flaws where the process caused the variation - this would include the Pancho Herrera card shown here, but also the NNOF Thomas, and others. If you go down that rabbit hole, there's no end in sight.
As always, wonderful content. The Joe Doyle T206 error card, Indicating that Slow Joe was a member of the NL NY Giants may be the rarest of T206 cards. In 2016 a psa 2 went for $190k. Not sure if more recent sales. Definitely a case of an unremarkable player making someone very happy.
Great video! There is a Paul Gillis Bloody Nose from 1990 Pro Set Hockey that carries some value. Also, 1990 Pro Set Football has some pretty interesting errors.
Great video. Hard to believe at one time, error card received more attention from collectors then rookie cards. I can remember being at a card show in 1981 when the Fleer baseball set first came out and chasing down the errors was running like wildfire through the hotel lobby.
The ones that I distinctly remember from the Beckett price guides of my youth were the Bump Wills and Pascual Perez errors. I doctored my own Perez corrected version to look like the error, and had it for about 35 years until I gave it to my buddy Chris this past Xmas. 🤣
Why isn't more made of the T-206 ShaRPe/ShaPPe error cards? Not only is the spelling wrong, (apparently due to a printing error where the bottom part of the R is missing, leaving a tiny dot at the bottom) the pictures of both Shappe/Sharpe is actually that of Harry Hinchman (Toledo). Can't recall offhand who is actually in the Hinchman photo. I enjoyed this vid and maybe you could shed some light on this "Triple Play" of errors... or 3 Strikes? Keep up the good work.
Love the details you give in your videos, Thank you for sharing. I also want to point out that nobody mentions that there are many variations on the Billy Ripken card. Most people know the regular and black box, you will hear some talk about the scribble and white out but you noted that there are several other varieties. Nobody talks about those. I was dealing when this came out and had at least 7 different varieties in my hand at one time. Most of the others are scribble varieties. The other comment is on the Frank Thomas. That card is so rare. I was always buying and opening the first of all the products and I never even saw this card in person at the time. We knew about it and were hunting for it and still never saw it. Thanks again for the great video.
I went off the rails trying to piece together variations in the 68 Topps set. Spelling errors, color variations, wide mesh versus narrow mesh backgrounds, centering on pictures, etc... It was fun but took an incredibly long time.
Only error card(s) I ever got were the Nolan Ryan diamond kings and standard card with the backs switched (or the fronts depending on your perspective)
Hey Playboy 👋 I bought 300 rookie Barry Bonds cards for $500 just while he was going through his legal woes. It had 2 pages of the Opening Day Johnny Ray. Right now I have 4 of them left. When the 89 Fleer 1st made it here to Nevada. I bought 26 packs and pulled 17 FF and sold 1 to Smokey's Baseball Card Shop for $75 They were easily pulling $125-$175. Eventually I wound up having 40 of the FF. I now have all of the corrected versions saw cut is one that you forgot. I have 4 complete sets of the graded O was contemplating grading them all and selling the error and correcteds there's also hole punched. I have the Littlefield autographed and 2 unopened sets. I had a binder that was all errors and corrected it had 100 pages but only 60- 62 were full both sides. Next weekend I am going to put together another 45 hot 🔥 Packs and yours will be one of those Packs.
81 fleer and donruss .errors galore.81 fleer greg nettles … c nettles..remmember running around philly with my neighbor hitting every ben franklin woolworth and pharmacies looking for error boxs. Good times
About the Randy Johnson Marlboro issue, I have a maybe 1992 Joe Carter Community Heroes card and the background includes prominent and plain billboards for both Marlboro and a beer company. I dont understand why there was an issue with the Randy Johnson card in '89 and no one cared about the same thing in subsequent cards. Any insight?
I feel like the 2006 Alex Gordon was a pretty big omission. Other than that, I really like the 1990 Donruss John Smoltz with photo of Tom Glavine. As a Braves fan, it's really cool how two future hall of famers and cornerstones of one of the best teams ever got mixed up that way. A real oasis within the desert wasteland of the junk wax era, and surprisingly affordable.
Ahh, the intentional error era , 89 ripken kicked it off. The 90 donruss Nolan Ryan diamond king reverse back , was a hot item for awhile Luckily, manufacturers quickly realized that Chase cards were much more fun! I was not aware of the Randy Johnson. Thanks Chris !
The 1981 Fleer Graig Nettles (spelled "C"raig on the back) was truly the first one that brought attention to errors. Some collectibles magazines had classified ads for the card asking as much as $35 for this card. Fleer was just starting to get back into the hobby in 1981 (along with Donruss in their inaugural year), and tried to drum up more sales by printing these less printed "error" cards. It certainly worked in their favor, too.
Being a collector for SOOOO long, I turn to error, misprints and other 'unique' variations of cards to keep the hobby fresh for me. I have some that I know for a fact are "1-Offs" and they will stay with me until......it's time to sell for survival.
I have the Littlefield error and a bunch of early 80's errors. I bought sets back in 97 and alot were in binders and in the back pages was every error in every set. Awesome bonus score.
Another fun throwback video. The 1990 ProSet hockey was full of errors as well. Something like 47 errors in the set. The highest value in these was the 246a Paul Gillis Bloody nose card lol
Actually, every card in series 1 of a player who had played more than 4 NHL seasons prior to 1990-91 is an error card because the totals for the statistics include only the 4 seasons shown on the back of the card instead of the player's career totals. They fixed that mistake for series 2.
@@chrisjones6289 I actually really like that set. It has a lot of stuff you don't see almost anywhere else, like referee and linesmen cards, coach cards and team logo cards. Plus, it's one of the biggest hockey sets ever made, with 705 cards.
One of my favorite errors besides the Bill Ripken is the 1990 Upper Deck Mike Witt black box. At one time this was a very rare error that sold for over 1k. After a 820 count box of them was discovered it is more reasonably priced now. At the National last year, I had Mike Witt himself sign one of my copies and spoke with him about it. I was surprised he did not have a copy of his own error card, so I gave him my other one. Very nice guy and great collector experience for me.
More interesting is why the box in the first place,and whether any without the box exist.Apparently the checklist card with Witt as #702 is even more rare than the actual card.
I asked Mike the reason for the black box, and he had no clue. I have heard of the checklist. I believe the black box on those 2 cards was intended for preventing them from getting into packs. Card 702 was replaced with the triple threats from the Expos. Mike Witt was released as card # 548 in his Angels uniform after being traded.
Same thing about 800 count Griffey’s coming out the back door of Upper Deck in Yorba Linda in 1989. Wonder why it was tough to get. Frank and Sons card show was “blowing” them out!!!!!
@@ryangill9909 Rumor is that Witt had a "grey sweatpant"episode.The photo looked like he was a bit overexcited.Instead of substituting a different photo,as UD had done in the past,they changed the whole card.The picture probably wasn't that revealing,they just needed a spot for the triple threats prcture.You've got the trade backwards#548 is !st series,and shows him as an Angel,before his trade to NY in May.The photo on 702 shows him in Yankees gear.I thought it was a Spring training uni,but obviously the timings off,so it's not.But 548 was definitely released before the season began,and before the Trade.Really would like to see a copy without the box.
@@bobegan2121 There were no ethics to card companies.If you had the money,and connections,UD would sell 1000-count boxes of each player directly to you,as long as you took equal amounts of each player.So you'd get 800 1000-ct boxes of each player in the set,perfect for making team sets.Or blowing out the stars and dumping the rest in the trash.Score did the same thing with their 1989 football.I was at a show that Barry Sanders and Troy Aikman were signing at,and they were handing out their rookie cards from 800 count boxes for free to so attendees could get them signed.They were also selling wax boxes that they guaranteed had 2 rookies per pack.Lot of strange stuff going on in the early 90's.
Another great video for the archives... 1) Barry Bonds' face looks so slender on that Opening Day card. How come? 2) There's a master lesson in scarcity for ya. Back in the day, 3 cards from the 80's are worth +$100. Today, the only one that still is is the only common among them (Littlefield) 3) Per the Big Unit card, they blot out the cigarette ad, but coke is okay for kids?
In the 1980's it seemed like Chris said, the companies started intentionally producing errors. I remember there was great demand for the boxes of the early printings since it was assumed these would have errors.
A subject that is interesting to me are errors and variations that were discovered much later. I think the Randy Johnson fits in to that category but I think there are others in 1989 or 1990 Pro Set football.
That Magee card was featured last week on an episode of NCIS. It (a PSA graded copy) was a piece of evidence linking a murder suspect to a robbery years earlier.
In a 1999 Upper Deck Century legends hockey box I pulled a weird card that was blank on the backside (except for the diamond hologram). The front had an imprint of the face of Jeff Gordon with the number 23 “Ken Dryden” on the front that had 4 color separation running vertical to it. The story is that Dryden refused the company to use his likeness being he was ranked with other goaltenders ahead of him. All these card were supposed to be pulled but a few got out. I sold it (regrettably) shortly afterwards for $250. By the way, Upper Deck offered a free box of cards in trade for the card.
The Bonds from opening day...my neighbor had that in his commons, I distinctly remember pointing it out that they screwed up and there's no way thats Bonds. From there....it was lost forever.
Awesome video! I've been waiting for you to do this subject, and you did not disappoint. I really like your comparison of error cards in the late '80s to rare insert cards of today. Thanks Chris!
Cal himself I had heard pulled the bat prank on brother Billy for that 89 Fleer photo shoot. Variations now obviously have overtaken errors in the hobby. Thanks Chris for the history lesson.
1981 was interesting as Donruss and Fleer broke through the Topps monopoly in the business. Of course Fleer had several printing issues and I believe Donruss had over 100 of them. Also Donruss had 18-card packs that had terrible collation. I opened a pack that contained 15 John Tudor's and 3 Pete Rose. The big error at the time though was the "C" Nettles (correctly spelled "Graig" Nettles."
The Frank Thomas card was actually a printer's malfunction or error(as opposed to a graphics or setup error)... There are a couple of sites that go into it in detail... The FT card was the most pronounced of what is referred to as the 'blackless' errors of the 1990 Topps set... about one dozen cards adjacent to FT on that sheet were affected... likely happened for a very limited time producing a very limited number of errors... since 1990 Topps is so cheap to pick up I chased these for a little while but eventually gave up...
I've read that the errors may only be in early cello packs. Lots of "lore" out there about about the best way to find the card. Everyone agrees the odds of finding one are insanely small.
@@TheRmm1976 Agreed... much of the lore is old and from the time that little info was available... I believe the 'forensic' breakthrough on this came 15 years or so later, so who knows...
i have a Mike Macfarlane from that set that has no back printed on it. cardboard colored back, presumably the original unprinted color. i can find no mention of this error card online except one guy selling the exact opposite error of the same card - it has the back, but the front has no front printed on it, just the white original unprinted on background. i am tempted to drop the 8 bucks for it (mostly shipping) just to have them both.
@@georgial6398 Blank backs are a niche within the hobby sort of like severely miscut cards... Blank backs are probably rarer but even still I wouldn't expect a common from the junkwax era to ever have much, if any value, so I would only buy if you really want it for your pc...
@@kenrogers1948 yes. i don't think it's worth anything bc he's a regular player. but for me it is a highly valued card bc of the extreme rarity. i have opened many many many packs of topps cards over the years, and many of that set. handled many of those cards. have encountered such an error once.
I have a PC Card that is an error, possibly 1 of 1. 1996 Skybox Premium New Editions Allen Iverson 1:36 packs rookie insert. Missing gold foil (name and skybox premium logo). I can’t find any record of it or others online. I believe SGC gave it an A since they have no record of it. Don’t believe it has much extra value since it’s not known to exist! Funny how error cards work. I’ll definitely be hanging on to that one.
The 91 score Sandberg is a double E, partial UER. The position error and technically the 89 highlight is supposed to be white border. all other 89 highlights are white border. I think the color border mistake led to the position being left out. Great Video. love the error cards. The industry was being shown the short print side of the business.
great video! so i have a large collection from my childhood that i recently found in my moms house after she had passed away. i was really ocd with my collection only keeping the ones that where in mint condition and placing them in one touch cases never to be taken out again. do you recommend any buyers that are trustworthy for me to sell them to? i don’t have any card shops near me and not sure who to trust on the internet. any suggestions would be appreciated thanx buddy.
The 89 Randy Johnson, did an error come out on the 89 fleer glossy with the blue back. Not sure about that one. Plus the 90 topps frank Thomas , did Tiffanys 90 have a no name Thomas?
I think the coolest thing about the Frank Thomas NNOF is that there are other cards on the sheet that are also missing blank ink, but no other card managed to have a missing name. Something got stuck on the printer that prevented black ink from being applied. Some cards are missing a piece of border etc. Not very many sheets were printed before they realized what was happening. I think it was just cello boxes that were impacted and I think even then they were only shipped to a specific part of the country (New England maybe?) At some point people will also start looking for the other cards that are missing black ink and realize they are just as rare.
The 1974 Topps "Washington National" errors were definitely more desired before cards got popular in the 1980's. Topps anticipated a Padres move to Washington Dc that didn't happen because McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc bought the team and kept them in San Diego. Still a nice variation with a great story.
That's the one I remember the most with about 15 players having both Washington and San Diego cards. The McCovey on Washington is the most valuable and gets in the $250 range for a PSA 8
Somewhere out there is a Dave Winfield card with Washington Nat’l Lg on it. It was strange because it was in the middle of the series and there were additional Washington the series after that
Probably just outside your top 10 is the 1957 Topps Gene Baker (Bakep) error card. More of a print defect if you ask me, but still considered an error card. Nice vid - used to crave error cards back in the early 90's.
The billy ripkin by far is my favorite. Great story about how it happened too. I read topps tried to destroy some sheets of the ripkin card by cutting them. Apparently, a few employees took some of the half cut sheets and sold them. I recall seeing some for sale on eBay a few years ago.
Yes,except it was,of course,fleer,not topps.The cards have a vertical cut running from the bottom edge up through the bat knob.The funniest ones were where the cut is on the left side of the card,missing the offending words.Of course you could take the "black box" cards,and with an x-acto knife re-create the "error",so they quickly had no added value.
Error card - Hockey - O-Pee-Chee- Card #135 -1973-74 NHL West All - Star Flyers Bobby Clarke on the front......and on the back it's 1964 -65 All Stars stats. It's either a 73-74 or a 74-75 but I'm almost positive it's NOT the only error card of the All Stars from this set. I also have an Orr All-Star that is the same thing exactly , from the same set/year........JRS - and yes I'm the guy who worked at O-Pee-Chee in the 1970s....!
I thought the 1979 Bump Wills would make the list, but I guess both variations are fairly common. Great point that an error needs to be desired by collectors. I see people get excited about uncovering errors all the time (often uncorrected ones) get excited they have a big-money card. If nobody cares about it, there’s no added value.
I was in college during the Billy Ripken and lived through the hype. It was crazy... that's all anyone wanted. When it first came out, it was selling for $60 (an unheard of price at that time for a card).
The true Randy Johnson error is extremely rare the marlboro ad is CLEARLY visible and CLEARY legible. It has nearly as many correction attempts as the Ripkin FF card. I've seen some PSA copies selling that say marlboro ad on scoreboard but are not the original error.
The only sort of error card I recall for a sport other than baseball is the 1989 pro set William Perry which was pulled & another player took his place. I'm not sure if it has much value today.
The Ripken card is the only sports card to ever make the evening news. I remember hearing the media frenzy, then going out the next day looking for boxes. I found a few cello boxes at independent liquor stores in the San Fernando Valley that had the error card. I flipped them to a local card store a few days later for $20 or $25 each. That had to have been at least $20 million dollars in free advertising for Fleer. Its a wonder one of the companies doesnt create an offensive card that is quickly pulled off the shelves sort of like the Beatles "Butcher" LP cover.
Man the 1990 Donruss set was loaded with errors...I remember I thought it was so awesome because I pulled the Juan Gonzalez reverse negative, I treated that card like it was high dollar for a long time, none of my friends could convince me to trade it haha
Ironic this came out today. I listed 2 of my error cards on EBay this past week. The John Smoltz (Tom Glavine photo) and the Juan Gonzalez reverse negative. Good video as always!!
Corrected error in 2019 topps now Pete alonso. The error card says 2020 rookie of the year and that was corrected to 2019 rookie of the year. One of the few modern corrected errors that I know about.
I got a giant box of cards in pages from CardsOne many XMAS's ago. A complete 1989 Fleer set was there incl. the Billy Ripken F card! I built a master 1987 Topps set and missing only one error aside from wrong back or blank cards which I have a few of.
Great Video. I was wondering thought because these kind of cards weren't mentioned but what about miscut, and blank front/back cards? Because I don't know if either they are worth anything or not. I would imagine better players are but I've had a Aikman blank card on my store for awhile and no movement. But my father was able to sell a Juan Gonzalez Negative but with a blank back for $70. Also with miscut cards must be rare and expensive because I saw a 1952 Jackie Robinson miscut sold for 10x a normal version because the miscut had part of the 1952 Mantle. Just wondering if you could do a follow up talking about these kinds of cards and their value.
I had the John Littlefield corrected version when I was a kid, eight years old. I remember being so bummed out when i saw how much the error was worth in Beckett. I still have the corrected one, but I've never picked up the error card.
I've been collecting since the late '70's and been to hundreds of card shows and shops over the years and I've never seen the Littlefield error in person..pretty tough card.
Do you know anything about a junior seau error from 1996 pinnacle set. One of his cards is In color and glossy and the other is partly in black and white. And has no gloss finish. Card number 165. Thier is also a Terance Mathis card number 161 in black and white. Same score pinnacle set.
The 'error market' makes me cringe. Number of people fishing out there. It's really ugly. Great video mah collector investor dealer in that order dude!
The 1969 Topps #653 Aurelio Rodriguez card is not technically an error card because there is no corrected version. However, there is an error as the photograph is of the Angels bat boy, and not Rodriguez. I always have heard that he pulled a fast one on the Topps photographer.
I wonder if that was connected to the player boycott of Topps photographers at the time. Maybe Aurelio didn't want to be photographed by Topps and slipped the batboy in his place. I wonder how that batboy's life played out, he'd be in his 60's now.
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I pulled the Randy Johnson error as a kid. Sure wish I still had it. I got back into the hobby last year and you are by far my favorite channel Chris. Thanks for all the great content!
The Billy Ripken F*** Face was my first experience with error cards. Hands down the coolest error card in baseball history.
Great lecture, Professor Sewall. A related lecture that you might want to prepare would cover short prints, alternate versions (I'm thinking of the 62T green-tint variations), withdrawn or unauthorized cards (54B Ted Williams, 59F Ted Williams "Ted Signs for 59"), etc.
The Ripken FF frenzy was something else in 89. My dad asked if I knew any stores that were selling em and there was a drug store that had cellos earlier in the day. Luckily he got em before someone else did. Pulled 3 out of a box and a half and gave me and my brother each one. Within a month my dad was the only one who still had his
I have a psa 9 of billy ripken with the scribbled out in white. I love error cards, it's like finding hidden treasures
Great video, as usual. I would categorize the Uribe card in the "scammer" category. Another scam card is the 1990 Topps Ken Griffey Jr "bloody scar". I was at a show in Montreal and I said to the dealer, "They all have bloody scars." His response: "Yeah, but this one is bloodier."
Ur channel and ur work deserve more subs.
This channel is awesome
My buddy had the Frank Thomas NNOF when we were kids. His parents bought him all kinds of expensive baseball cards. He had Ruth's and Mantles. Roger Maris. Clemente. I was so overwhelmed he had those. His dad kept them in a safe for him. When we got about 17 or 18 he got into drugs really bad and got into the safe and pawned and sold all of the cards. It still breaks my heart to this day.
Great video as always, wasn't aware of the King/Sain mixups. If you need any more material for closing: "Don't run with scissors" "Cover your face when you sneeze" "Only you can prevent forest fires" "Wear a helmet when you bike" "Don't take candy from strangers" and finally, "Always walk when you are near the pool"
I remember very well the error card craze of the 1980s. One of the most famous hockey card errors (which was never corrected) is the 1974-75 Topps and O-Pee-Chee Jacques Lemaire card. Lemaire played his entire career for the Montreal Canadiens, but was inexplicably shown as a member of the Buffalo Sabres on his 1974-75 card. Topps even airbrushed a Sabres uniform onto his photo. Us little kids back then all wondered how a mistake like that could happen.
Great video, but I thought 1977 Star Wars C-3PO Golden Rod error would have made the list for sure! You even threw in “May the Force be with You.
Ha! I should have included that one!
I remember as a kid chasing the 1990 UD Big Ben McDonald RC with the Orioles Logo on the front when it should have had the Star Rookie Logo.
Compounded by the fact that Ben McDonald was a sought after rookie card in 1990. He had a nice career but didn't fulfill collector expectations for sure.
1989 Upper Deck Dale Murphy Reverse Negative was the holy grail when I was 12 years old. The card shop close to my house had one under the glass for $150 that I used to drool over daily.
I found recently in my bunch of wax, the 91 Topps Whiten hand over border variation. I didn’t remember having it. Made my day.
Thank you for this! Have a 90 upper deck uribe *error birth date card. Took to 3 store fronts that didn’t give time of day to explain like you did saying they don’t look at old cards. Sounds like my card is a common base. Thanks again
So hard to get back to this after such long time, loved baseball cards growing up
Great vlog the Frank Thomas no name topps rookie seems to have risen to the cream of the crop in card error land. Would be funny to have a master set of the billy ripken errors
the Padres pitcher card (John Little) looks the same as the Eric Snow card, who also was a Padres pitcher with identical pitching stance.
I remember the 1982 Topps Pascual Perez error card was a big thing back in the day. Thanks for putting this together.
Ah I forgot about that one!
I go for master sets, but when I set about to assembled the variations/errors, I had to make a rule that I was only looking to acquire design variations - i.e. where the cards went to print, an error was detected, there was a redesign of some sort, and then the new version went to print. Obvious examples are the 1974 Washington variations, the 1979 Bump Wills Blue Jays, and many others. I stay away from printing flaws where the process caused the variation - this would include the Pancho Herrera card shown here, but also the NNOF Thomas, and others. If you go down that rabbit hole, there's no end in sight.
As always, wonderful content. The Joe Doyle T206 error card, Indicating that Slow Joe was a member of the NL NY Giants may be the rarest of T206 cards. In 2016 a psa 2 went for $190k. Not sure if more recent sales. Definitely a case of an unremarkable player making someone very happy.
Great video! There is a Paul Gillis Bloody Nose from 1990 Pro Set Hockey that carries some value. Also, 1990 Pro Set Football has some pretty interesting errors.
Great video. Hard to believe at one time, error card received more attention from collectors then rookie cards. I can remember being at a card show in 1981 when the Fleer baseball set first came out and chasing down the errors was running like wildfire through the hotel lobby.
Those Fleer and Donruss ones were crazy!
i remember reading about an error box of 1981 Fleer selling at the 1981 Philly Show (which still exists) for an unheard of $62!
I paid $5 for an 81 Fleer Phillies Triple Threat no number. The most I ever paid for a card up to that point.
The ones that I distinctly remember from the Beckett price guides of my youth were the Bump Wills and Pascual Perez errors. I doctored my own Perez corrected version to look like the error, and had it for about 35 years until I gave it to my buddy Chris this past Xmas. 🤣
Why isn't more made of the T-206 ShaRPe/ShaPPe error cards? Not only is the spelling wrong, (apparently due to a printing error where the bottom part of the R is missing, leaving a tiny dot at the bottom) the pictures of both Shappe/Sharpe is actually that of Harry Hinchman (Toledo). Can't recall offhand who is actually in the Hinchman photo. I enjoyed this vid and maybe you could shed some light on this "Triple Play" of errors... or 3 Strikes? Keep up the good work.
The Billy Ripken are my favorite, I have a few of them, I remember those coming out when I was a kid.
The 89 fleer Ripken had a saw cut version where they ran the sheets through a saw into the bat knob.
Love the details you give in your videos, Thank you for sharing. I also want to point out that nobody mentions that there are many variations on the Billy Ripken card. Most people know the regular and black box, you will hear some talk about the scribble and white out but you noted that there are several other varieties. Nobody talks about those. I was dealing when this came out and had at least 7 different varieties in my hand at one time. Most of the others are scribble varieties. The other comment is on the Frank Thomas. That card is so rare. I was always buying and opening the first of all the products and I never even saw this card in person at the time. We knew about it and were hunting for it and still never saw it. Thanks again for the great video.
I went off the rails trying to piece together variations in the 68 Topps set. Spelling errors, color variations, wide mesh versus narrow mesh backgrounds, centering on pictures, etc... It was fun but took an incredibly long time.
Only error card(s) I ever got were the Nolan Ryan diamond kings and standard card with the backs switched (or the fronts depending on your perspective)
Hey Playboy 👋 I bought 300 rookie Barry Bonds cards for $500 just while he was going through his legal woes. It had 2 pages of the Opening Day Johnny Ray. Right now I have 4 of them left. When the 89 Fleer 1st made it here to Nevada. I bought 26 packs and pulled 17 FF and sold 1 to Smokey's Baseball Card Shop for $75 They were easily pulling $125-$175. Eventually I wound up having 40 of the FF. I now have all of the corrected versions saw cut is one that you forgot. I have 4 complete sets of the graded O was contemplating grading them all and selling the error and correcteds there's also hole punched. I have the Littlefield autographed and 2 unopened sets. I had a binder that was all errors and corrected it had 100 pages but only 60- 62 were full both sides. Next weekend I am going to put together another 45 hot 🔥 Packs and yours will be one of those Packs.
Great video. I always wanted the FFace and Reg Nev cards as a kid. As an adult, I own several. Hahaha. Thanks for the memories.
- Awesome, Loved this!!! It brought me back to the early dayz of collecting. 🤘😎
81 fleer and donruss .errors galore.81 fleer greg nettles … c nettles..remmember running around philly with my neighbor hitting every ben franklin woolworth and pharmacies looking for error boxs. Good times
Another content masterpiece! Give your research department the rest of the day off!
Your channel is hands down the best 💥
About the Randy Johnson Marlboro issue, I have a maybe 1992 Joe Carter Community Heroes card and the background includes prominent and plain billboards for both Marlboro and a beer company. I dont understand why there was an issue with the Randy Johnson card in '89 and no one cared about the same thing in subsequent cards. Any insight?
I feel like the 2006 Alex Gordon was a pretty big omission. Other than that, I really like the 1990 Donruss John Smoltz with photo of Tom Glavine. As a Braves fan, it's really cool how two future hall of famers and cornerstones of one of the best teams ever got mixed up that way. A real oasis within the desert wasteland of the junk wax era, and surprisingly affordable.
I remember the 1980s sports card boom. It took til 2020 for it to come back. The shops are starting to pop up again everywhere.
Gr8 video and content Chris.. Love this one depicting all the major error cards.. Stay safe all..👍💕🔥⚾🤗🤙
Ahh, the intentional error era , 89 ripken kicked it off. The 90 donruss Nolan Ryan diamond king reverse back , was a hot item for awhile Luckily, manufacturers quickly realized that Chase cards were much more fun! I was not aware of the Randy Johnson. Thanks Chris !
The 1981 Fleer Graig Nettles (spelled "C"raig on the back) was truly the first one that brought attention to errors. Some collectibles magazines had classified ads for the card asking as much as $35 for this card.
Fleer was just starting to get back into the hobby in 1981 (along with Donruss in their inaugural year), and tried to drum up more sales by printing these less printed "error" cards. It certainly worked in their favor, too.
I've got the '90 Donruss DK Ryan No Number error card. Wasn't aware of the reverse version
Fun video. One of my favorites is the 1969 Topps Aurelio Rodriguez. Nothing quite like being mistaken for the batboy. Be well.
Being a collector for SOOOO long, I turn to error, misprints and other 'unique' variations of cards to keep the hobby fresh for me. I have some that I know for a fact are "1-Offs" and they will stay with me until......it's time to sell for survival.
Great historical analysis! Had to subscribe
Welcome to the channel!
I have the Littlefield error and a bunch of early 80's errors. I bought sets back in 97 and alot were in binders and in the back pages was every error in every set. Awesome bonus score.
Another fun throwback video. The 1990 ProSet hockey was full of errors as well. Something like 47 errors in the set. The highest value in these was the 246a Paul Gillis Bloody nose card lol
Actually, every card in series 1 of a player who had played more than 4 NHL seasons prior to 1990-91 is an error card because the totals for the statistics include only the 4 seasons shown on the back of the card instead of the player's career totals. They fixed that mistake for series 2.
@@montrealsports29 lol true enough. I think they corrected around 47... What a quality set lol
@@chrisjones6289 I actually really like that set. It has a lot of stuff you don't see almost anywhere else, like referee and linesmen cards, coach cards and team logo cards. Plus, it's one of the biggest hockey sets ever made, with 705 cards.
Great stuff! You forgot about Bump
Wills error card!
The Bump card was a popular one back then as well as the 81 Fleer C Nettles card.
It is an overlooked one,cool you brought that up!!!
One of my favorite errors besides the Bill Ripken is the 1990 Upper Deck Mike Witt black box. At one time this was a very rare error that sold for over 1k. After a 820 count box of them was discovered it is more reasonably priced now. At the National last year, I had Mike Witt himself sign one of my copies and spoke with him about it. I was surprised he did not have a copy of his own error card, so I gave him my other one. Very nice guy and great collector experience for me.
More interesting is why the box in the first place,and whether any without the box exist.Apparently the checklist card with Witt as #702 is even more rare than the actual card.
I asked Mike the reason for the black box, and he had no clue. I have heard of the checklist. I believe the black box on those 2 cards was intended for preventing them from getting into packs. Card 702 was replaced with the triple threats from the Expos. Mike Witt was released as card # 548 in his Angels uniform after being traded.
Same thing about 800 count Griffey’s coming out the back door of Upper Deck in Yorba Linda in 1989. Wonder why it was tough to get. Frank and Sons card show was “blowing” them out!!!!!
@@ryangill9909 Rumor is that Witt had a "grey sweatpant"episode.The photo looked like he was a bit overexcited.Instead of substituting a different photo,as UD had done in the past,they changed the whole card.The picture probably wasn't that revealing,they just needed a spot for the triple threats prcture.You've got the trade backwards#548 is !st series,and shows him as an Angel,before his trade to NY in May.The photo on 702 shows him in Yankees gear.I thought it was a Spring training uni,but obviously the timings off,so it's not.But 548 was definitely released before the season began,and before the Trade.Really would like to see a copy without the box.
@@bobegan2121 There were no ethics to card companies.If you had the money,and connections,UD would sell 1000-count boxes of each player directly to you,as long as you took equal amounts of each player.So you'd get 800 1000-ct boxes of each player in the set,perfect for making team sets.Or blowing out the stars and dumping the rest in the trash.Score did the same thing with their 1989 football.I was at a show that Barry Sanders and Troy Aikman were signing at,and they were handing out their rookie cards from 800 count boxes for free to so attendees could get them signed.They were also selling wax boxes that they guaranteed had 2 rookies per pack.Lot of strange stuff going on in the early 90's.
I enjoyed this episode of error cards. Thanks for the info
Another great video for the archives... 1) Barry Bonds' face looks so slender on that Opening Day card. How come? 2) There's a master lesson in scarcity for ya. Back in the day, 3 cards from the 80's are worth +$100. Today, the only one that still is is the only common among them (Littlefield) 3) Per the Big Unit card, they blot out the cigarette ad, but coke is okay for kids?
Bump Wills 1981 wrong team was my first error card, still my favorite!
That card was from 1979, not 1981.
In the 1980's it seemed like Chris said, the companies started intentionally producing errors. I remember there was great demand for the boxes of the early printings since it was assumed these would have errors.
A long time needed site. TY.🐎🌻✌️
A subject that is interesting to me are errors and variations that were discovered much later. I think the Randy Johnson fits in to that category but I think there are others in 1989 or 1990 Pro Set football.
That Magee card was featured last week on an episode of NCIS. It (a PSA graded copy) was a piece of evidence linking a murder suspect to a robbery years earlier.
Great list...but you forgot the Mark Whiten error...it sells for a decent amount
In a 1999 Upper Deck Century legends hockey box I pulled a weird card that was blank on the backside (except for the diamond hologram). The front had an imprint of the face of Jeff Gordon with the number 23 “Ken Dryden” on the front that had 4 color separation running vertical to it. The story is that Dryden refused the company to use his likeness being he was ranked with other goaltenders ahead of him. All these card were supposed to be pulled but a few got out. I sold it (regrettably) shortly afterwards for $250. By the way, Upper Deck offered a free box of cards in trade for the card.
The Bonds from opening day...my neighbor had that in his commons, I distinctly remember pointing it out that they screwed up and there's no way thats Bonds. From there....it was lost forever.
Awesome video! I've been waiting for you to do this subject, and you did not disappoint. I really like your comparison of error cards in the late '80s to rare insert cards of today. Thanks Chris!
I have some Coca Cola Nolan Ryan cards.
could you please tell me about Coca Cola cards of Nolan Ryan l never heard of that one! Thanks
Cal himself I had heard pulled the bat prank on brother Billy for that 89 Fleer photo shoot. Variations now obviously have overtaken errors in the hobby. Thanks Chris for the history lesson.
Billy actually says he did it on his own in the interview I saw on mlb channel, though he could have been covering for him who knows.
1981 was interesting as Donruss and Fleer broke through the Topps monopoly in the business. Of course Fleer had several printing issues and I believe Donruss had over 100 of them. Also Donruss had 18-card packs that had terrible collation. I opened a pack that contained 15 John Tudor's and 3 Pete Rose. The big error at the time though was the "C" Nettles (correctly spelled "Graig" Nettles."
I first experienced these with 81D, 81F, lots of variations,it was all the rage then!
Cool video as always Chris, thanks again!
The Frank Thomas card was actually a printer's malfunction or error(as opposed to a graphics or setup error)... There are a couple of sites that go into it in detail... The FT card was the most pronounced of what is referred to as the 'blackless' errors of the 1990 Topps set... about one dozen cards adjacent to FT on that sheet were affected... likely happened for a very limited time producing a very limited number of errors... since 1990 Topps is so cheap to pick up I chased these for a little while but eventually gave up...
I've read that the errors may only be in early cello packs. Lots of "lore" out there about about the best way to find the card. Everyone agrees the odds of finding one are insanely small.
@@TheRmm1976 Agreed... much of the lore is old and from the time that little info was available... I believe the 'forensic' breakthrough on this came 15 years or so later, so who knows...
i have a Mike Macfarlane from that set that has no back printed on it. cardboard colored back, presumably the original unprinted color. i can find no mention of this error card online except one guy selling the exact opposite error of the same card - it has the back, but the front has no front printed on it, just the white original unprinted on background. i am tempted to drop the 8 bucks for it (mostly shipping) just to have them both.
@@georgial6398 Blank backs are a niche within the hobby sort of like severely miscut cards... Blank backs are probably rarer but even still I wouldn't expect a common from the junkwax era to ever have much, if any value, so I would only buy if you really want it for your pc...
@@kenrogers1948 yes. i don't think it's worth anything bc he's a regular player. but for me it is a highly valued card bc of the extreme rarity. i have opened many many many packs of topps cards over the years, and many of that set. handled many of those cards. have encountered such an error once.
Actually did not realize the randy Johnson error and consider myself very knowledgeable. Great videos as always!!
I have a PC Card that is an error, possibly 1 of 1. 1996 Skybox Premium New Editions Allen Iverson 1:36 packs rookie insert. Missing gold foil (name and skybox premium logo). I can’t find any record of it or others online. I believe SGC gave it an A since they have no record of it. Don’t believe it has much extra value since it’s not known to exist! Funny how error cards work. I’ll definitely be hanging on to that one.
Do u have a video of topps vs topps traded vs. Topps Tiffany? Thanks
I havent made that video but its a good idea...
The 91 score Sandberg is a double E, partial UER. The position error and technically the 89 highlight is supposed to be white border. all other 89 highlights are white border. I think the color border mistake led to the position being left out. Great Video. love the error cards. The industry was being shown the short print side of the business.
great video! so i have a large collection from my childhood that i recently found in my moms house after she had passed away. i was really ocd with my collection only keeping the ones that where in mint condition and placing them in one touch cases never to be taken out again. do you recommend any buyers that are trustworthy for me to sell them to? i don’t have any card shops near me and not sure who to trust on the internet. any suggestions would be appreciated thanx buddy.
52 topps also has campos black star and house yellow tiger errors as part of the master set
The 89 Randy Johnson, did an error come out on the 89 fleer glossy with the blue back. Not sure about that one. Plus the 90 topps frank Thomas , did Tiffanys 90 have a no name Thomas?
Interesting Episode, Thanks Chris.
I think the coolest thing about the Frank Thomas NNOF is that there are other cards on the sheet that are also missing blank ink, but no other card managed to have a missing name. Something got stuck on the printer that prevented black ink from being applied. Some cards are missing a piece of border etc. Not very many sheets were printed before they realized what was happening. I think it was just cello boxes that were impacted and I think even then they were only shipped to a specific part of the country (New England maybe?) At some point people will also start looking for the other cards that are missing black ink and realize they are just as rare.
The 1974 Topps "Washington National" errors were definitely more desired before cards got popular in the 1980's. Topps anticipated a Padres move to Washington Dc that didn't happen because McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc bought the team and kept them in San Diego. Still a nice variation with a great story.
That's the one I remember the most with about 15 players having both Washington and San Diego cards. The McCovey on Washington is the most valuable and gets in the $250 range for a PSA 8
Somewhere out there is a Dave Winfield card with Washington Nat’l Lg on it. It was strange because it was in the middle of the series and there were additional Washington the series after that
Probably just outside your top 10 is the 1957 Topps Gene Baker (Bakep) error card. More of a print defect if you ask me, but still considered an error card. Nice vid - used to crave error cards back in the early 90's.
The billy ripkin by far is my favorite. Great story about how it happened too. I read topps tried to destroy some sheets of the ripkin card by cutting them. Apparently, a few employees took some of the half cut sheets and sold them. I recall seeing some for sale on eBay a few years ago.
Yes,except it was,of course,fleer,not topps.The cards have a vertical cut running from the bottom edge up through the bat knob.The funniest ones were where the cut is on the left side of the card,missing the offending words.Of course you could take the "black box" cards,and with an x-acto knife re-create the "error",so they quickly had no added value.
Error card - Hockey - O-Pee-Chee- Card #135 -1973-74 NHL West All - Star Flyers Bobby Clarke on the front......and on the back it's 1964 -65 All Stars stats. It's either a 73-74 or a 74-75 but I'm almost positive it's NOT the only error card of the All Stars from this set. I also have an Orr All-Star that is the same thing exactly , from the same set/year........JRS - and yes I'm the guy who worked at O-Pee-Chee in the 1970s....!
I thought the 1979 Bump Wills would make the list, but I guess both variations are fairly common. Great point that an error needs to be desired by collectors. I see people get excited about uncovering errors all the time (often uncorrected ones) get excited they have a big-money card. If nobody cares about it, there’s no added value.
I have a Honus Wagner T206 error where he has glasses and a mustache. True story!
I was in college during the Billy Ripken and lived through the hype. It was crazy... that's all anyone wanted. When it first came out, it was selling for $60 (an unheard of price at that time for a card).
It got a lot of mainstream (non-hobby) press, probably brought a lot of people into the hobby.
The true Randy Johnson error is extremely rare the marlboro ad is CLEARLY visible and CLEARY legible. It has nearly as many correction attempts as the Ripkin FF card. I've seen some PSA copies selling that say marlboro ad on scoreboard but are not the original error.
The only sort of error card I recall for a sport other than baseball is the 1989 pro set William Perry which was pulled & another player took his place. I'm not sure if it has much value today.
The Ripken card is the only sports card to ever make the evening news. I remember hearing the media
frenzy, then going out the next day looking for boxes. I found a few cello boxes at independent liquor stores
in the San Fernando Valley that had the error card. I flipped them to a local card store a few days later for $20 or $25 each.
That had to have been at least $20 million dollars in free advertising for Fleer. Its a wonder one of the
companies doesnt create an offensive card that is quickly pulled off the shelves sort of like the Beatles "Butcher" LP cover.
Man the 1990 Donruss set was loaded with errors...I remember I thought it was so awesome because I pulled the Juan Gonzalez reverse negative, I treated that card like it was high dollar for a long time, none of my friends could convince me to trade it haha
Looked up the Thomas nnof on eBay and I saw a bunch that had his name on them but say "partial blackless," I was not aware of those
Great overview. Thanks!
Do you have any information on the 2009-10 Upper Deck basketball errors with the wrong names on the front of cards?
I am not familiar with them
Ironic this came out today. I listed 2 of my error cards on EBay this past week. The John Smoltz (Tom Glavine photo) and the Juan Gonzalez reverse negative. Good video as always!!
I always wanted the Barry Bonds error card but I actually do have the Billy Ripken F** F** error in a PSA 10 I purchased about 5 years ago......
Corrected error in 2019 topps now Pete alonso. The error card says 2020 rookie of the year and that was corrected to 2019 rookie of the year. One of the few modern corrected errors that I know about.
I got a giant box of cards in pages from CardsOne many XMAS's ago. A complete 1989 Fleer set was there incl. the Billy Ripken F card! I built a master 1987 Topps set and missing only one error aside from wrong back or blank cards which I have a few of.
1990 Pro set hockey had a ton of errors. I have about 5 error cards from that set.
I'm blown away that Fleer or Donruss doing a run missing a period or reversing an image is worth anything to anyone tbh..
Great Video. I was wondering thought because these kind of cards weren't mentioned but what about miscut, and blank front/back cards? Because I don't know if either they are worth anything or not. I would imagine better players are but I've had a Aikman blank card on my store for awhile and no movement. But my father was able to sell a Juan Gonzalez Negative but with a blank back for $70. Also with miscut cards must be rare and expensive because I saw a 1952 Jackie Robinson miscut sold for 10x a normal version because the miscut had part of the 1952 Mantle. Just wondering if you could do a follow up talking about these kinds of cards and their value.
I had the John Littlefield corrected version when I was a kid, eight years old. I remember being so bummed out when i saw how much the error was worth in Beckett. I still have the corrected one, but I've never picked up the error card.
I've been collecting since the late '70's and been to hundreds of card shows and shops over the years and I've never seen the Littlefield error in person..pretty tough card.
Do you know anything about a junior seau error from 1996 pinnacle set. One of his cards is In color and glossy and the other is partly in black and white. And has no gloss finish. Card number 165. Thier is also a Terance Mathis card number 161 in black and white. Same score pinnacle set.
I am not familiar with that card
The black and white cards are the Field Force parallel of the base set
I have the 1991 George Brett that doesn't have the image on the front, only the printed back.
The 'error market' makes me cringe. Number of people fishing out there. It's really ugly. Great video mah collector investor dealer in that order dude!
Which region were the NNOF's distributed in? If I remember correctly, it the cases that held these were in the mid-west or east? Just curios.
Good question, I am not sure
The 1969 Topps #653 Aurelio Rodriguez card is not technically an error card because there is no corrected version. However, there is an error as the photograph is of the Angels bat boy, and not Rodriguez. I always have heard that he pulled a fast one on the Topps photographer.
I wonder if that was connected to the player boycott of Topps photographers at the time. Maybe Aurelio didn't want to be photographed by Topps and slipped the batboy in his place. I wonder how that batboy's life played out, he'd be in his 60's now.
What about the Alex Gordon Topps rookie