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

[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.

[tbob]

When Fleer and Donruss issued their first sets in 1981, long before 1989, they made a ton of errors, many corrected, and that was what started the "chase card" pehenomenon, not the Ripken card.

[tiger8mush]

Originally Posted by Ronnie73

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 ...

I also remember the Gary Sheffield 1989 Upper Deck rookie where the "SS" poition designation was upside down and was considered a rare error card. haha

[timzcardz]

Here is the site that is dedicated to the card and its many variations . . . .


http://www.billripken.com/

[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.