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Posted By: Scott Elkins

To everyone - especially in a catalog as large as Mastro's. I think what Jay was trying to point out is that the error of stating the Thorpe is mostly found with Sporting News backs is a "Hobby Error". This might lead people to bid more on the Thorpe simply b/c they think the F&B back is rare - going by the misrepresentation in the description. It really sounds like whoever wrote the description for Mastro doesn't have enough Hobby experience to know that the Thorpe cannot be found with a Sporting News back. Either that, or the person was trying to mislead bidders into thinking the card was rarer than it actually is (personally, I believe the writer simply did not know).

We all expect grammatical errors, but Hobby errors (especially one like this one - an easy one) should not be in a major auction catalog - it makes the auction house look less knowledgeable!