Funny Baseball Card Thread

[pwaldo]

Just from some quick research, he's a retired pitcher turned author and it appears that the moose is one of his characters called The Garfoose

Thanks for the help

[stlcardinalsfan]

Thanks for the help

his wife and him work with autistic and special kids and has a music therapy type place for them.....really nice guy.
http://groovygarfoose.com/about-gg/

really an outstanding person imo

[pwaldo]

This card almost seems photoshopped to me unless Dustin Moseley is that great of a jumper....probably more of an optical illusion but I still don't see why a pitcher would be jumping that high near an opposing player.

[pwaldo]

From the 1992 Bowman set:

[pwaldo]

[stlcardinalsfan]

those old bowman and topps draft pick cards always make me laugh, theres a couple in 1992 topps like that

[pwaldo]

Randy Bass of the Premium Malts with a huge inflatable beer can

[Deckard7]

Both of these cards have facsimile autographs and NOT real autographs. Yet professional graders at Beckett with magnifying glasses gave the autographs a grade of a 10.

The Pujols card looks like it was printed in blue ink, and I thought only genuine autos use colored inks to distinguish them from the facsimiles. I'm probably wrong about that though.

[pwaldo]

The Pujols card looks like it was printed in blue ink, and I thought only genuine autos use colored inks to distinguish them from the facsimiles. I'm probably wrong about that though.

Card is a reprint of the 2001 Bowman Chrome so it should be blue since that's what they signed with in 2001. But the card is missing the inch by inch box that says Topps authentic autograph which is on the legit 2001 cards and missing on the 2011 card because it is just a reprint. Also they didn't even have an Xfractor parallel of the Pujols in 2001 and the back would show the real year of 2011 copyright.

[Deckard7]

Card is a reprint of the 2001 Bowman Chrome so it should be blue since that's what they signed with in 2001. But the card is missing the inch by inch box that says Topps authentic autograph which is on the legit 2001 cards and missing on the 2011 card because it is just a reprint. Also they didn't even have an Xfractor parallel of the Pujols in 2001 and the back would show the real year of 2011 copyright.

OK, thanks for the clarification.

That's the first example I've seen of a grading company screwing up that badly. The worst I'd seen before was a wrong label.