Has anyone heard of The Cal Ripken F U card??

[kmac32]

Used to have this card. It is Billy Ripken. If I ever get all of my stuff unpacked, will post a scan. Believe it said f@ck face.

[CardTarget]

[zljones]

Fleer employees got fired over this back in 1989. The President of the company was so upset that he stepped down after this card came out.

[slidekellyslide]

Hard to believe there is someone in this hobby that has never heard of or seen this card. I must have had a million of them...I chased down all the variations of it I could get my hands on too.

Funny. I had 100 lot of them once. Couldn't get a $1 a piece for them. Sold them all for about $65 I think.

[jdmeltz]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me this was the card that started the "chase card" trend that continues to this day.
I think the card companies saw the excitement this card created and figured they could boost sales by creating "rare" cards.
Today opening a pack of cards is just legal gambling.

[Ronnie73]

Originally Posted by jdmeltz

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me this was the card that started the "chase card" trend that continues to this day.
I think the card companies saw the excitement this card created and figured they could boost sales by creating "rare" cards.
Today opening a pack of cards is just legal gambling.

There were a few "chase cards" in 1989. The Ripken was one of them but the Upper Deck Dale Murphy Reverse Negative was also very popular and with Upper Decks first issue cards with fancy holograms on them and the Griffey rookies. It was fun while it lasted. Now its just a waste of time and money to chase anything new.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Hard to believe there is someone in this hobby that has never heard of or seen this card.

+1
I thought the exact same thing when I saw the post.