1989 Bill Billy Ripken #616 F Face Error Card Lot: ORIGINAL & DOUBLE DIE SAWCUT

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1989 Bill Billy Ripken #616 F Face Error Card Lot: ORIGINAL & DOUBLE DIE SAWCUT:
$47.59

Up for your consideration are two (2) of the Famous and Highly Collectable 1989 Fleer #616 Bill Ripken SAWCUT Error Cards in Excellent Condition that include:

 Left Slot - The Original F Face Error Card, SAWCUT, in all it\'s Explicative Glory!

Right Slot - The Rare DOUBLE DIE SAWCUT Card! (One of the Rarest of the SawCut Versions)

 Sawcut cards were Fleer\'s attempt to destroy all the Bill Ripken Obscenity Cards by order of Major League Baseball except some made it into public circulation afterward.

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 MORE INFORMATION:

In an article written in 2008, Darren Rovell, a CNBC Sports Business Reporter wrote:

\"Had Billy Ripken not received a shipment of less than ideal Louisville Slugger R161 models that year...

 Had Billy Ripken not decided to use one of those bats for batting practice that year...

 Had Billy Ripken not elected to mark that bat in a unique way that year...

Had the photographer, taking the picture for his Fleer baseball card, not asked him to pose for a shot in between batting practice with that bat...

 Had the folks at Fleer caught what was written on the bat...

 it\'s extremely unlikely that we\'d be talking about the 20th anniversary of any moment in the baseball career of Billy Ripken.

 After all, the son of Cal Sr., once his manager, and the brother of Cal Jr., his teammate, was known more for his glove in a 12-year Major League Baseball career than for his bat. His batting average was .247 and he knocked in a total of 220 RBI.

But in January of 1989, Billy Ripken, scheduled to be a five cent common in the 1989 Fleer set, ignited the hobby already entering its prime with the debut of the very first Upper Deck set. Packs of Fleer hit hobby stores right after New Year\'s and, within two weeks, everyone had to have their hands on card No. 616, Billy Ripken.

It was the bat that he designated to use only in batting practice. It was the bat that had \"F--K FACE\" written on the knob, the obscenity in its full four-letter glory.

What ensued was absolute chaos and—as the \"error\" card\'s price rose to nearly $500—there were some amazing stories.

A kid, who happened to be a fan of Ripken, had purchased a huge lot of No. 616\'s from a dealer for $50. When the curse was found, the new worth of the cards was closer to $20,000.

There was the story of one kid who sued another kid for convincing him to sell his Billy Ripken for $1, without knowing the curse was on the bat.

And the tale of the Geraldo show entitled \"Men who write bad things in public places,\" when an audience member claimed it was he who wrote the obscenity on Ripken\'s bat (Rovell, CNBC Sports Online,2008)\".

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