Oh great. another A-Rod Mets error card. Is this one of those super short prints that just got lost in the flood of gimmicks last year? I'm not even sure what card set it's from. It looks like a Yankees team set of some sort but I thought the blister pack sets were only 15 cards each. I did a little Googling and found a super special Yankee box set with 55 cards in it. There's NYY20 Alex Rodriguez right there in the checklist too. I looked up the card number and found you can buy it on Amazon for $3.79.
Hey, that's not the same card! What gives? Time to do more research. Let's go to the best resource on the planet for overpriced trading cards - eBay. One search and I found one for sale. $49 bucks to get A-Rod on the Mets. Free shipping too! The fans in Queens can only dream... But this card number is NYY44. Ok, I still don't know what's going on. Back to eBay search. This time I found an entire set for the low, low price of $19.99, plus the seller was kind enough to scan whe whole thing.NYY20 is here, top row middle card. Looks like the one on Amazon.
NYY44 is here, bottom row middle card. Aha! New York Mets! So it may be an error, but unless this dealer got lucky it's not especially rare. Since Topps states they don't do second runs to fix things like this (which is stupid, but that's a rant for another post) I'll wager that every single set has the Mets error. $49 for the card, or $19.99 for the set. Hmmmm... I believe a call of shenanigans is in order.
So that's that mystery solved, but what about the scan I was sent? It's got the wrong back. I can't tell from the scans if it's the same screw-down in both pictures. It could be the front from one card and the back from the other. Unless I had the thing in hand there's no way to tell. This whole thing could be Michael Eisner playing a trick on me in order to get me to post Topps cards on the site again. Don't laugh, the e-mail is from a guy who calls himself Mickey®. If this is Eisner screwing with me I'm gonna be ticked off. I know it ain't Keith Olbermann because he has an anti-Obama picture as his avatar. So the options are:
a) legit wrong back error card (not wrong team as that's probably a UER) worth one... MILLION dollars!
b) someone put both card NYY44 and NYY20 in a screwdown as a joke
c) Michael Eisner is messing with my mind because I refuse to finish my Series 2 box break
d) dayf has been staring at baseball cards too long and needs to go take a nap
Has anyone seen anything like this? Let me know in the comments if you have. I'm going to go have a lie down in the meantime.
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Saw your post. Good Post. Funny but kinda annoyed as you think I've faked it.
I will take the card out of the holder tonight and video it so you can see it is the same card front and back.
What you found out is exactly what I found out that there are others but NOT the same card number. I donno...
I'm at work now and will video it tonight.
And not really anti Obama...just anti higher taxes. If he gets in I'll be buying a lot less cards!
Take care,
Mick
Check on Beckett from last year. I cannot remember the exact date but there were about 5 or 7 cards (different players) were they did this. Messed up team names or added foil logo were there should be none, etc. I will take my SCDs on the road this week if you can't find them I might.
it is in the limited edition tops 2007 baseball card yankees premium team set blister box. This set is made for the mets and redsox as well. Some boxes had the Arod mis up with the mets name. More common than you think. Joba rookie is also in the box. Now if you get an arod card with the boston name at the bottom than that is a keeper. TK
Yeah but is it NYY20 or NYY44? This is the first NYY20 I've seen...
Ok, so at first I thought it was a joke, with the "Mr. April" thing - but then i saw it for real. Wow...
http://www.amazon.com/2007-Topps-Yankees-Baseball-Rodriguez/dp/B000WSRCUG/ref=pd_bxgy_sg_img_b
Nah, I still say it'a fake.
I too have that card. I bought it on ebay around the time when Arod's contract was up. The title said, "do they know something we don't know?" I laughed and thought it was a scam, but the price was so low that I HAD to buy it. It's REAL all right. Mine has the NYY44 number on the back...
NYY44 it's a real card. 2006 batting record on the back + 2007 achievements. limited edition 2007 premium team 55 card yankees team set.
I have the same card but mine has a different back side
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