Posted By:
Bob LemkeThe "white shirt" Berdoo Griffey is an unauthorized, unlicensed, fantasy card designed and sold strictly for the collector market, trading on the design of the legitimate team-issue.
Ed Broder was a U.S. Army lifer who knocked around Hawaii and the West Coast in the hobby scene beginning in the 1960s. He's as nice a guy as you'd want to meet, and enjoyed producing "collector's issue" cards as far back as the faux-1950s "PCL Popcorn Cards". By the mid-1980s, his son Rob took over the family business and created tons of unlicensed cards in all sports, often of a quality equal to or better than Topps, etc. He applied for MLB licensing in the late 1980s or early 1990s, and produced some semi-legit prototype cards, but never got the license.
"broder" has, as pointed out since joined the hobby lexicon as a generic name for unlicensed fantasy cards.