1980 Topps Greg Pryor No Name and his not so blue friends

[TTOMAE8833]

Lerrin LaGrow wow. That is a name I haven't heard in a long, long time...

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

I have a 1978 Topps Lerrin LaGrow that is missing the P in the baseball. I had hoped that it was a very rare variation, but since another one has never showed up I have grudgingly accepted that it was almost certainly erased by someone years ago, but they did a terrific job doing it.

[Cliff Bowman]

Thanks to a fellow board member I now have all five possible 1980 Topps missing name cards, these were players with blue names on the top row of the A* and B* sheets. It was Mike Squires that I was missing. A recurring print flaw caused the cards on the top row of the A* and B* sheets to not have blue ink printed on the tops of the cards. Unlike the similar print flaw of red names and aqua green names that left a yellow name when the red ink or blue ink was missing, the cards with blue names left nothing when the blue ink was missing. Of the 20 possible missing blue ink cards (I don't think Palmer or Lowenstein are possible), I don't have examples of Sanderson, Sanguillen, Nolan, Garland, Ellis, Soderholm, or Ellis. It's possible some of those don't exist because the flaw would have to go deep into the card.

[ALR-bishop]

The Pryor has other issues as well