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always seemed to me that this was a ruse meant to push slow selling fleer product and to date i don t think anyone has been able to find evidence of anything offensive or legible on his bat knob reading this in a copy of gilkeson s baseball card errors variations book continued on excellently by mike cady around 2005 i was very surprised to see it mentioned as i thought i was really special for having discovered the coverup in fact i remember gathering copies of this card at that time and finding what seemed like variance in the colors editing pattern which only fueled my interested in the card as a die hard e v documentarian i quickly discovered via old hobby magazine letter columns that collectors were on these discoveries immediately the pre internet days meant a lot of mail correspondence and word of mouth especially in the niche area of error cards which by late 1990 had started to come down from their peak popularity in the years prior by the middle of the 1990 card season many collectors started to move away from the hot error card of the week especially after seeing how many of the companies major errors that year affected superstar players and top prospects it is unsurprising to me that cunningham s card didn t get more attention outside of chicago he wasn t among the big prospects within that year s draft picks subset and score had been full of relatively boring variations that year with hot products like leaf coming in late in the season drawing interest away from solidly designed but less than collectible sets like score it is of little doubt to me that collectors stopped poring over the back of their commons let s take a closer look at cunningham s bat interesting yes do you see anything definitely gets the brain trying to see something what i am seeing is what appears to be a rectangular swatch of multi color coverup that sits just above but separate from some black markings possible lettering at the bottom edge of the knob looking at it closely like this i realize that it is very familar very similar in shape to the famous ripken bat knob corrections i m wondering whether or not these colors could be separated or pulled apart layer by layer to reveal anything this is out of my skill set but maybe someone reading can attempt it now that i have your interest the goal of this entry is to find some solid info on this card it is truly amazing what the big collectors of the 1989 fleer ripkens have managed to obtain from former fleer people even through this decade so here are the important questions for this card and figuring out what s under that editing was an unedited card produced and packed out i doubt it but stranger things have happened in junk era variations it cannot be ruled out entirely even if i believe it is highly unlikely to turn up if not packed out was an unedited card produced in proof form this is highly likely since the closing of donruss playoff fleer skybox etc the hobby has seen an untold amount strange and unusual proofs and test issue pieces from these companies strangely enough there has been far less aftermarket backdoored score pieces in the market were the words image on the knob anything offensive or was it possibly just score being extra careful with their 1990 set if that 1990 fleer raffy had the hobby seeing something then i wouldn t be surprised if score wished to avoid any potential problems can the edited area of the card be examined better with today s tech anyone interested in giving it a try i recall getting the large black box on back of the famous 1990 upper deck mike witt card to become somewhat translucent with the aid of a strong light source and the application of a blacklight who would have overseen the coverup of anything offensive on the cards names people does anyone have connections to former score higher ups any hobby investigators with a talent for finding old employees where are the photo negatives proofs for the card i won t hold my breath here i strongly doubt anyone rescued this stuff upon the dissolution of the company but you never know there is a precedent for score issuing early versions of cards on wrong back sheets or sheets rescued from dumpsters like the 1990 91 alexander mogilny defected variant i ve searched periodically and have yet to find any uncut 1990 score wrong back sheets maybe someone reading has them does earl remember anything about the card i would seriously doubt it unless whatever was covered up by score was something truly remarkable i cannot imagine trying to recall something i wrote or drew on a piece of paper when i was 19 this baseball america article ca 2019 catches up with him earl if this makes it way to you any info you could share about that photo that day the bat anything would be greatly appreciated a cubs and cunningham fan dug into this a bit on his site a great read and hopefully they were able to get a lead on score photography folks of that time if anyone reading this finds this to be as intriguing as i do and wants to help reveal this mystery please feel free to comment here or reach out via email jacksoncoupage yahoo com if i m being honest i truly hope that one day i can see what was covered up by score and while finding out that a vulgarity or some controversial symbol quickly covered up by score s proofers would be interesting i would love it most of all if it turns out that earl had simply drawn a horse or mickey mouse or some such harmless nonsense update well it looks like we have some very cool news recently a comment posted by notessc appears to shed some light on the bat knob mystery i found this blog looking for an earl cunmingham baseball card from my memory the card may not exist however we can solve this mystery earl coaches my buddy s son so i shared this question with him earl wrote his childhood nickname kid hell on the knob he earned the name hitting so many home runs in little league amazing i still have a few questions but for now a big thank you to lee and earl for taking the time checking out this bit of hobby fun update 2 a seemingly solid white bat knob version exists the collector who pulled this card claims it came from a rack pack i ve opened tons of all packaging types and all my earls were the standard edit version this copy in psa graded and did not receive any notation on the slab to differentiate it from the standard version score s history of whiting out areas is strong the 7 in 778 wins on the 1989 score clemens the infamous paul gibson card which went through three different whiteout applications and the 1990 score milt cuyler 9 in 998 games all immediately come to mind update 3 here is a fairly recent pickup of the cunningham card graded a cgc 9 that features a noticeably different edit to the bat knob this card still shows the square edit shape but does not feature the same multi color treatment over the kid hell words i have been asleep at the wheel lately as i missed out on a lot of 200 copies for just 10 that was picked up by a fellow e v collector but i m excited to see if the lot yields any surprises tags 1989 fleer bill ripken 1989 fleer bill ripken bat knob 1989 fleer bill ripken fuck face error 1989 score paul gibson 1989 score paul gibson crotch grab 1990 pacific jim nettles asshole 1990 score bat obscenity 1990 score earl cunningham 1990 score earl cunningham bat knob 1990 score errors comments 5 comments categories 1990 baseball junk wax mystery confirm or debunk 1987 topps davey lopes rb 4 with 1985 copyright 15 apr this variation has been listed in dick gilkeson s e v guides since the late 1980s and i have chased it since the early 2000s without luck over the years i ve flipped over 1000s of copies of this card in my search and found that while it is prone to a number of printing issues in the copyright text none have shown a definitive 1985 date pictured common correctly printed version with 1987 copyright on back lets take a look at the factors that go into determining whether this card exists or not to begin here is cause to doubt that it exists the most pressing reason is that nobody seems to own a copy not the big variation collectors or the topps master set builders not a single copy listed as such has turned up for sale in the 25 years that i have monitoring the card this is hard to ignore and usually means the card doesn t exist looking at you 1988 score marvell wynne but as some major recent discoveries have proven that doesn t always prove nonexistence much of the info gilkeson and the hobby publications he wrote columns for received came via xeroxed images from readers alerting them of possible new variations as new products rolled out this 1985 date variation may be a simple misreading of a printing flaw in the copyright created by the mask effect of the xerox we have no idea if this is what led to inclusion or if mr gilkeson received physical copies of the card as i mentioned earlier several unusual dates can be found in the copyright line due to printing glitches 1957 and 198 for two recurring examples why i think it may exist continuing from the above those two known printing glitches have a sort of logic to them as they fit within the shapes of the numbers 1 9 8 and 7 whereas a 7 cannot easily be turned into a 5 that would be a pretty major warping of it and require an assist from a stray blotch of ink to end up anywhere near the shape of a 5 also lets consider that another area of this card s copyright is frequently found with printing issues the prtd in usa type is often found warped incomplete or askew this hints to me that the plates could have went through some modification to fix these issues it is entirely possible as shown in other junk era variations that an attempt to fix a misprinting card created a different adjacent problem perhaps this card can even be found without portions of the date or the rest of the copyright but the main reason that i keep a light on in hopes for this card turning up is that there already exists a sort of precedent for topps jumbling 1985 and 1987 some collectors may already be familiar with the fact that topps issued 1987 factory sets in 1985 topps copyright marked boxes this is tenuous evidence but not entirely ignorable lastly mr gilkeson has a very impressive record given the limited and arguably crude by today s standards ways of collecting info on variations as it pertains to what turned out to exist vs what has since been debunked there are few examples of a card he documented in his guides turning out to be false by any means counterfeit simple print flaw fish eye or just nonexistent the potential for the card to technically exist is also out there as it may have been created as a proof corrected before production and never seeing insertion in to packs there is a very good chance that all of this speculation is for nothing but that wouldn t be entirely true i get a lot out of these deeper looks into these sets it s some of the only real fun left in the hobby for me so if you have any info on this variation or better yet can provide a scan showing it exists i d love to update this to show it with credit if desired after all these years i d love to own one but if they are in fact out there they are incredibly rare as always let me know what you find tags 1987 topps 1985 copyright 1987 topps dave lopes 1987 topps davey lopes 1985 copyright 1987 topps davey lopes variation 1987 topps error cards 1987 topps errors variations dick gilkson error variation guide topps comments 3 comments categories 1987 baseball cards you ve never seen confirm or debunk rumored rarities unlisted oddities quick look 1993 classic gold best barry bonds wrong photo error 6 dec a very under the radar error card coming from a nearly forgotten junk era product this card has echoes of bonds infamous 1987 donruss opening day error with again another player presumably jeff cook shown on his card in the earliest part of the print run not once not twice but tree times over classic used the wrong player on this card to date just a handful of them have turned up had this been a topps fleer or ud product this would likely remain one of the more sought after variations from the 1990s tags 1993 barry bonds error 1993 classic barry bonds error 1993 classic barry bonds wrong photo 1993 classic best gold error card 1993 classic error card 1993 classic gold error 1993 error 1993 junk wax error barry bonds error cards comments leave a comment categories 1993 baseball quick looks withdrawn wonders quick looks 1991 score dean dingman helmet variations 24 nov 1991 score is not what i would call a loaded set for the variation collector but i do believe that there are a few more surprises to be uncovered still the problem is that it is an extremely unpopular set from a weak collecting year produced by a defunct brand this typically results in reduced enthusiasm for research and analyzation but recently a major variation was discovered featuring a rookie subset player dean dingman the early version issued shows jarrod bunch in the background wearing a michigan wolverines helmet complete with yellow stripes this was edited by score with a crude airbrushing correction to the helmet turning it solid navy blue apparently corrected quickly as i have seen just a few copies of the error compared to nearly a hundred copies of the correction it is interesting to note that 1990 and early 1991 series one score cards were not prohibited from showing players in their college uniforms something must have happened bewteen the production of the two series and i m curious to know what it was tags 1991 football errors 1991 score dean dingman airbrush 1991 score dean dingman error 1991 score error cards 1991 score errors variations 1991 score variation michigan wolverines comments 3 comments categories 1991 football quick looks unlisted oddities quick look 1991 upper deck donnie hill variations 22 nov donnie hill s 1991 ud card can be found in a few different versions the toughest version has his card showing his position printed twice on front this is not an off registration issue as the black ink is correctly aligned and printed everywhere else on the card the second version shows his position if printed high up in the base and his slightly more common versions the correct versions shows his position either high up or low down in the base it is worth noting that aside from a handful of cards in the 1991 set most players do not have wandering positions due to print alignment issues ud was pretty good that year brian downing s card is the most well known to suffer from this issue hill is the only known to show his position printed twice on front tags 1991 error card 1991 error cards 1991 upper deck error 1991 upper deck unlisted variations 1991 upper deck variation comments 1 comment categories 1991 baseball quick looks unlisted oddities older entries categories 00s variations 1977 baseball 1985 baseball 1986 baseball 1987 baseball 1988 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