Interestingly, there are a couple of errors I've now seen repeated in the set. Of course, there's card #3 of Victor Silverio which is actually a photo of Miguel Batista, but there is also at least one consistent wrong-back error with Jose Lima on front and Raul Mondesi on the back. In this box, I actually got the Diamond Star version of that same misprint! I think there's at least one more wrong-back, which may also be Mondesi/Lima, but I'll have to double check. I also encountered one Diamond Star with what appears to be a sort of inverse version of the Lime Rock logo with the gold in the exact opposite of how it was normally applied to the card. I'll get a scan up later.
In any case, expect to see my stock of these cards replenished on Sportlots this evening.
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Ok, make that 0 for 5! (but I picked up three more of those Lima/Mondesi errors and even another Diamond Star of the same error! AAARRRHHHHH!!)
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The way these packs are collated, from the bottom, there is a base card, the offer card (there are offers for magazine subscriptions for Inside Sports, Card Collector's Price Guide, Sports Card Trader and Baseball Digest or the a 1994 Raiderettes calendar) and then the Diamond Star insert. Just to add insult to injury, every so often, that last card (the one I see first as I rip open the foil pack from the seam on the back) is a base card of Bernie Brito. Mocking me. Because you KNOW, if I get a base card of Brito, I won't be getting a Diamond Star of Brito in the same pack. These Lime Rock monsters were diabolical.
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Found yet another misprint....a Diamond Star with no gold foil at all. The impression of the logo is clearly visible where it was stamped, there's just no foil over it. Halfway through box 6. Still no Golden Bernie.
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Well, as it turns out, there are two version of the box:
However, all the packs and cards are still the same.
But, as is my curse, box #7 refused to yield the much sought after Bernie Brito Diamond Star. In the next week or so, if all goes well, I should have another 5 boxes arriving. The adventure continues!
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OK, so does this mean that every card #142 has a Jose Lima front but a Raul Mondesi back? I've been wondering for years if there was one with a Mondesi front and back.
ReplyDeleteNow that you mention it, I looked back and found that I didn't get a single copy of the corrected #142 card in these three boxes. After reading your comment, I re-counted, and I've actually now opened SEVEN of these boxes. 6 from the Carolina Cards & Racing Collectibles and one other that I got from a different selller. I'm guessing the only correct Mondesi I got was from that one odd box (it sold on Sportlots over a year ago). I'll see if I can find where I got that box and try to track down where I might get another from the same batch.
ReplyDeleteIt seems now that the two rarest cards from this set are that corrected #142, with Mondesi on both sides, and the #79 Diamond Star of Bernie Brito.
Incidentally, the one other error I've found was one with Domingo Michel (#120)on front and Jose Bautista (#99) on back, slightly off center. Got two of those.