1989 topps baseball cards errors

1. - Forum Collectors Corner | #780 Error on color/align. - Change Log - Checklist But usually, these kinds of cards are outliers. Both appear to be cut properly just a mix up. Now, 30 years later, and you can still get a 1990 Topps Frank Thomas rookie for $5.00 or less. Any suggestions?? All team names in Red, have a Orange etc. @LJJR76 It sounds like a mix of a blank back and a double-print on the front. Gallery | New cards or old, both have multiple steps involved. I have a dave lapoint and a Richard Dotson card half cut cards i believe they are 1988 or 1989 cards. Uncovering the Best of the 1980's and 1990's Sports Card Errors, Variations and Oddities, 1989 Topps Baseball Errors & Variations: OngoingChecklist, 1989 Topps Tony Oliva Blacked Out Copyright, 1991 Topps Baseball Errors & Variations: OngoingChecklist, 1990-91 Pro Set Hockey Errors & Variations: OngoingChecklist. Famous Error Cards Thomas, Frank 1990 Topps Mantle, Mickey 1969 Topps Littlefield, John 1982 Fleer All Known Cards, 1990 Topps Black Ink Errors (Detail) VIEW ERROR CARD LINKS Popular Sets 1952 Topps 1969 Topps 1981 Fleer 1982 Topps Blackless 1988 Topps 1989 Fleer 1990 Topps Black Ink Errors (Detail) VIEW ALL ERROR CARDS I have a 09-10 Upper Deck Kobe Bryant card where it is Kobe picture on front and his stats and everything on the back. A complete puzzled together set of affected cards has been compiled and the entire sheet is not struck by this variation, only 4 columns have the errant lines throughout. Any idea what the value would be cant find it anywhere. In attempt to cover, prob 6 variations to this card, Front is off Cut, Back showing Willie Wilson Name, not Joe Carter, 1 Normal Shirt & 1 w Yellow Dot on right chest, 1 COR black topps logo, 1 ERR yellow shadow logo, 1 ERR white shadow logo, 1 Topps Color print & 1 w more O Pee Chee color print, 1 Blue Name Banner & 1 Purple Name Banner, ERR white area behind left foot & COR no white triangle behind left foot, Face Airbrushed / Edited almost Solid Black, Yellow Smudge over right shoulder, Not Airbrushed out, 1 COR Topps Color Story box & 1 ERR back is 1 Solid Color, 1 Topps Color Back & 1 O Pee Chee color print, 1 Topps summary color box & 1 O Pee Chee Color, #455 is Steve Carlton and should be Shawn Hillegas, a 7, Nice Deep 2 printing tracks on top, both front and back. - Sell Sheets / Ads Rating: 7.2 (181 votes) Refresh your browser window to try again. He is the author of, Student to Founder: Secrets to creating a student organization in college and starting a business after graduation. Thanks! It was not a trend as some others are. I have three 1993 Upper Deck cards that are miscut. I have seen people pushing error cards on eBay, usually overinflating the value based on rarity. OK Guys Stop it..Now I am going to have to rip my rack case while watching the Flyers on TV tonight. I cut a couple of them out by hand but the rest were destroyed in a basement flood. Thoughts as far as value? Its probably best to keep expectations on the modest side. Pricing | Is this common for this company? (LogOut/ Rating: 7.2 (181 votes) Comments | Three cards isnt enough to determine a trend. Forum | Im think this Jordan I have is possibly a 1/1 and the other few are 1/1s also . I love baseball, and collecting cards just as I enjoy collecting coins. Far too many were printed, theyre littered with quasi-errors and print issues, and rare chase cards are numbered in the thousands. Its raining, I'm bored and I recently picked up board member Donavan Ryan's "Baseball Card Variations". I have a batch of these with ink smudges and likely a Topps employees fingerprints embedded in the ink. However, the majority of those that are widely recognized in the hobby come from things like spelling mistakes and wrong photos oops moments that happen before a card heads off to the printer. I think all cards that have the Black , have a Gray variation. Have you seen the 2002 fleer platinum Gary Sheffield where he is in a dodgers uniform and its a braves card? Please enter the verification code that you received on your email. 1 is of normal size and unflawed. Should I look into getting it graded? - Errors / Variations One is a 1994 Richard Dent card that says he played for the San Francisco 49ers but the picture and stats are from the Chicago Bears. I finally stumbled across one in a $1 bin at a show. Thanks, Bryland! In some instances where subtle variations are found between different copies of the same card, the uncommon variation is often found exclusively in factory sets. Great condition. Interesting to know how that sustains itself when when works through much larger quantities as I am sure it is case dependent as my cards were from varied sources. One other thing that i did stumble onto was that #244 Jim Acker on the back seemed to have a recurring print flaw where the solid black line below the IM in JIM was smeared. ******Blank fronts and wrong back/fronts for this set are extremely common, more so than most Topps issues, however, blank backs are fairly scarce and hardly ever show up for sale. I have a 1986 mj Fleer premier rookie card but premier is spelled with an e on the end. Texas i cam sell my baseball cards. $88,478. A truly impossible to pull card. Soon after its mid-February release, many collectors attempting to build 2006 Topps Series I sets were asking the same question - "Where the hell is. He has been interviewed on Good Day New Mexico and in Albuquerque The Magazine. The 1998 Ultra Peyton Manning Rookie card and Ryan Leaf Rookie cards. Inside the border is a thin colored line and then the [] Anyone into cards, im no where close. Can you point me in the right direction? He hit for average, had a little bit of power and could steal bases all day long. Color being the issue. Almost looks like a L, 1 Normal Gray Name and Logo & 1 Dark Charcoal color, 1 Normal Print & 1 Faded Print & "pitcher" half gone, 1 Noral Yellow Banner & 1 Deep Dark Yellow Banners, 1 Normal Card & 1 w Black square inside a Blue Circle next to face, ERR Home Sarasota FL & COR Home Syosset NY, Front is Normal, Back is mis printed / off set, Circle printed i top left corner of stat box, 1 w E* F* next to copyright & 1 w just F* next to copyright, Different Color Red Print in Name & Stat Box, Different color Red print in Name & Stat Box, 1 w White Circle in Yellow under number & 1 Cor / Air Brushed out, 1 Normal Gary Print & 1 Dark Gray / Charcoal Print, Black Box over Marlboro sign, not completely Blacked out, COR, Doug Jones on Front and Bio Stat on back & ERR: Rich Gossage on Front and Jones Bio Stat on Back, Different Color printing in Name and Stat box, 1 Normal Gray card & 1 Dark Gray / Charcoal Print card, 1 with Inc "." Keep an eye out for this bugger. - Comments Any idea what the value would be? Some blank-sided cards are a result of print quirks, particularly from several years ago. Ive searched online and found nothing. Ive came across 2 I have a Jared Pinkney XR card with Eno Benjamins auto, and now a Jake Fromm Phoenix Card with Jacob Easons Auto. As something along the lines of 1 out of 7 when looking at Mike Harkey and Steve Searcy had the larger image on front as i went through the cards I acquired a few years back. Fast shipping. I did find a Jack Howell error that is not on this list yet. Both cards are ungraded but in mint condition. Change). I have 5 1970 Topps football cards where the backs of the cards also printed on the front. It depends on the card. - Rookies Topps 1988. I noticed the same thing I have never seen a mark over the E but do have versions with a mark over the N. i have almost 200 Sheffield RCs. 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Packaging | Its hard to say what sports card printing errors are worth. The foil is of Patrick Roy. Auction Price Totals. from my stack, there doesnt seem to be much scarcity to any of the variations. Kevin Garnett Rookie seems important but based on your article it may not have much value. Find the Ed Hearn with streak across his face. Thanks for any input! This version is more common than the error. I just bought a 1996 topps rookie kobe card and while trying to evaluate its good condition (planned to have it graded at first), i noticed the foil label on both topps and kobe bryant too low than where they should be. Card backs feature two-toned pink blocks with black type and borders. Mistakes happen even when it comes to printing sports cards. @Deb Im sorry but Im not clear on what youre looking for help with exactly. Sports card printing errors usually show up in a few different forms. I actually have 2 days cards I am curious about. Is that not an error card? Nobody sets out to mess up, but it doesnt always work out that way. This is the rarest version. MNT- NMMT, Mark McGwire Rookie 1988 Topps #580 Oakland Athletics All Star RC(ERROR CARD WT). The front also has in white lettering Traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Rating: 7.3 (47 votes) Click here to Rate. The front was a position players, but the back had games, IP, W, L , ERA, etc. The story here is obviously the Alex Gordon errors. Contributors | Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods. Even at the time of its release, 89 Topps fell behind rival card sets. Keep an eye out for this bugger. Some of these cards can be found with appropriate centering on the reverse. Ive seen a white blob over the N in American, but never either E in League. Normally, its just a little off, barely visible to the naked eye. Severely miscut cards were more common in the past. Is this a rare card. Here is the latest installment in thePSA Blog series called Diamonds in the Junk, where we crack some junk wax, review the results, relate them to the hobby today and have fun along the way. Random stuff, baseball and football, which will undoubtedly become the inspiration for several more posts. Don't be fooled by the listing as several claim to be the variation card, the true error is extremely noticeable once your eye becomes aware of it. The final version of the card included in all factory sets had the knob of the bat covered with a black box. He is basically cut in half, with Frank Viola (#127) underneath him, and an unknown Twins pitcher above him. - Checklist @Stephen Sounds like a missing foil, which are mentioned in the article. VAR: Smaller gap between hat and Future Stars header. Shortcuts: Most Expensive , Cheapest , List by Card # I have a T207 John Kling with Recruit Cigar printed in PA in 1912. About half (25) are printed upside down on the back. But, to get a NNOF Frank, you're likely needing to shell out thousand of dollars. I was going through my collection of cards, and I think I found an error variation regarding the 92-93 Michael Jordan In Your Face card. I have a 1992 Ken Griffey, Jr error card. 1986 Darrell Porter, 2 Donruss Print Err Variations #290, #B20962 After reading this I just searched through a container I have of of the 343 cards and have 23 of the cards with the error in mint condition. The picture is totally of center, and you can see at the top where at one time was Connected via perforated lines to another card. This article addresses why its tricky to gauge a value on misprints. I have some 1989 Donuss printed on front of card on back the cards according to on the internet are they are 1988 leaf which is printed on back. Ryan, Thanks for a great article. I have the Tony Oliva error on Ebay right now at $5 with pics, I have 25000 loose 89 topps cards that i recently organized and went thru each card with 2 friends on average of 25-30 copies of each card and picked out a constant variation on almost every card. In mint condition. Is this the Best Centered Example of a 1960 Topps Warren Spahn? Ha! 1989 Upper Deck Dale Murphy #357 I have already reviewed 1988 Topps for this series, and after this latest effort, I do not look forward to 1990. The green smudge in the bottom of the baseball on the back is a common print defect in several cards in the 1961 set, but for some reason PSA has elected to grade it as a variation and list it in their mastery registry checklist as such. Happy Holidays. None of it is particularly exciting and, certainly, nothing is valuable, but the little quirks can be fun to track down and I found a handful of them in this box. Back in 1989, Philadelphia-based baseball card company Fleer produced one of the most notorious modern-day errors in history when it released the rookie card of Baltimore Oriole Bill Ripken (brother of superstar Cal) holding a baseball bat, with the words "Fuck Face" scrawled across the bat knob in black ink. Heres another error from the late 1980s thats very easy to miss. Im not sure who I can ask for verification. I also noticed a gold stamp Hes back March 19, 1995. - Inserts and Related Sets Ungraded & graded values for all '89 Topps Baseball Cards. Hopefully others out there will post some info on it. Granted its his 6th year card so not expecting it to allow me to retire. Middle: This version represents the first pass of corrections. There are a fair amount of error cards and print variations in this set, something that I tracked while I opened packs. Being a rookie of a Hall of Famer, you might find someone who is will to pay a premium. Today, centering is better overall but issues still happen. Are they worth anything. As for the dark team and name banner error, I found both in an equal ratio. Somehow, they can get skipped. I only discovered the existence of one of these variations a couple years back, at which point I had already put in over 25 years of collecting experience. Pinnacle #1 from 1993. I have a 93 Skybox Shaq with #155 missing on the back. Id like to sell it but have no clue where to start. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Base Cards: Options . Sometimes you find a card that looks perfectly normal on one side but when you flip it over, theres nothing there. 4. National Sports Collectors Convention Venue and Date Tracker, How to Access eBay Completed Sold Listings, The Differences Between Prototypes, Proofs, Promos, Previews, and Samples, How to Properly Crack Open a Graded Card Case | Ep. - Card Rankings Today I review 1989 Topps baseball cards. Ive read your comments, obviously, you dont want quirky questions, which mine probably was. Packaging | @william There is a section in this article under the headline What Are Sports Card Printing Errors Worth? that explains why it can be tough to gauge. - Videos Thanks for reading. I have this card, and I would need to re-check to see if any of the 3 errors you list are on mine, but mine has a particular error.it came out of the pack seeming to have gotten caught in the rollers on the printing machine. If the sheet is off or mixed up, weird things can happen. I have 10 Topps cards that are blank on the back. Is the best idea to get it graded which would note the error? In this version, Garys chin is higher up in the photo and the top of his hat touches the e in Future Star, which is placed higher up on the card. I have a2005 prestige with tom brady on the front but the back is Kellen Winslow jr. I figured there were more. Total Cards: 132. - Contributors Read our, sells blank back sets for a lot of their current sets through the Topps Vault on eBay, BeckettAuthentication Services Announces Major European Partnership withShowmasters. @Robert What kind of info are you looking for? I ended up getting a weird card which I assume is a defect. However I have Three Wax Pack Wrappers that have errors. If you buy a blaster, most of the base might be messed up. I have looked around a little and can see nothing reported on this error anywhere. The various letter sheet codes on the backs of 1989s and other modern cards are true variations, rather than printing errors.