Players with Multiple Rev Neg Cards

The following is a list of athletes that have had more than one reverse negative error in their trading card list. With the exception of Jim Otto (and only because the same scan is used for two different of his cards), I have only seen baseball players. You'll notice that there are a conspicuous numbers of Yankees in this list. For some reason, that backwards "N" in the "NY" on the cap was hard to catch employees in quality control...

Gene Woodling: 1954 Bowman #209 and 1962 Post Cereal Canadian #71

Ray Schalk: 1921 W516-2-2 #7 (also misspelled Shalk) and 1921 W521 #15

Ted Simmons: 1971 LPIU Team Postcard #NNO (not pictured) and 1972 St. Louis Cardinals Team Issue (pictured above, also has a corrected version). Price guides and Trading Card Database list the 1971 card, but I have yet to see a scan of it.

Marv Throneberry: 1979 TCMA Baseball History 50's #173A (corrected version exists) and 1990 Swell Baseball Greats #77 UER

Dennis Sherow: 1980 TCMA Memphis Chicks #18 UER and 1982 TCMA Minor League #994 UER. Both are unlisted. The way that you can tell the 1980 card (pictured on left) is a rev neg is because if you compare it to other Memphis Chicks players in the set, the logo at the top of the shirt has the stripes pointing to the right instead of the left. Most closeup pics are nearly impossible to tell if they are reversed, but the smallest detail can provide you a clue if you look close enough.

Don Mattingly: 1987 Star Don Mattingly "Yankee Hitman" #NNO UER, 1989 Star Platinum Don Mattingly #49 "1985 AL MVP" UER (card in scan is the one in the bottom left corner), and 1995 Fleer #76 UER. The Star cards are both unlisted. Donny Baseball was a lefty and he is either fielding or hitting righty in these cards. Mattingly is also one of just two players I have seen that have at least three reverse negatives.

Mike Schmidt: 1988 Star Mattingly/Schmidt #1 Baseball's Best Promo UER (also unlisted) and 2002 Topps Finest Moments Autographs UER. In the Star card, only the Schmidt pic is reversed; the Mattingly pic is correct.

Cecil Fielder; 1989 Score #120 UER Back Photo, and 1990 Sports Cards, Inc. Superstars #9. Yes, the 1990 card is not officially licensed card, but it still counts to me.

Kirby Puckett: 1990 Star Platinum #40 and #43, both UER's and unlisted. Notice the two T's and backwards 4 on the left side of Puckett's shirt; also, he batted right-handed. This is the only case I have seen where a single player has two different reverse negatives in the same set. Star Co. really just didn't give a shit. You'll see more in a later post.

Cal Ripken Jr: 1992 Fleer Ultra Award Winners #21A, 1992 Star Stellar #48 UER (also unlisted), and 1994 Investor's Focus Gold Card #NNO UER. The other guy with 3 rev negs. In the last two Cal is a lefty, where he was a righty in reality. Also, in the Star Platinum card, the Rawlings logo on the glove is backwards.

Tom Glavine: 1992 Pepsi Canada #5A (corrected version exists, neither is really more rare than the other) and 1992 Players Choice (don't know the number of this card). Glavine is actually a lefty, the "A" on the cap is pointing to the left in the Players Choice card (it's airbrushed out in the Pepsi Canada card), and on both cards you can just make out the backwards E and 7 on the left hand side of the back of his jersey.

Jim Otto: 1988 Swell Greats #95 and 1989 Swell Football Greats #108 (both UER and unlisted). Both cards use the same picture, and were manufactured by Swell, who obviously decided to use the same scan for the 1989 card as the 1988 card. It is difficult to tell because Otto's jersey number, 00, looks the same both ways and there is not enough detail on Plunkett's jersey to be helpful. However, I found the following pic in Google Images to confirm my suspicions:

This is the official pic used by the NFL on the Pro Football Hall of Fame website (http://www.profootballhof.com/hall/story.aspx?story_id=2558) and is obviously the same pic as the one on the cards, but facing the other way.

Next time will feature a short post on unlisted cards in major manufacturer sets, and then we will delve into the wild and lawless world of 80's and early 90's minor league cards....

Common Basketball and Hockey Reverses

I've been pretty busy over the last month so haven't had time for the next installment until now. The following six cards are all marked in price guides and it's generally common knowledge that they are reversed. There are other errors that are rare or have not been cataloged, however, and I will get to those in a later post.

1978-79 Topps #60 Rick Barry UER

1987-88 Fleer #6 Thurl Bailey UER. I remember how thrilled I was when I discovered this error by looking at an actual copy of the card when I was younger, not knowing it had already been discovered and marked as such in Beckett.

1987-88 Fleer #41 Mike Gminski UER. Backwards "g" at the end of the back of his shirt, when the correct version would be a normal "g" at the beginning of the shirt.

1990-91 Pro Set #134 Shawn Chambers (back picture). The CCM on the helmet is reversed.

        

1990-91 Score #259A Dean Evason (reverse negative on pic on left)

1990-91 7th Inning Sketch #353 Todd Bojcun

There are obviously not as many reverses in these sports as in baseball or football (or soccer, actually), but as mentioned before there are a few out there that are unlisted or a little more obscure. But for the next post, I will be covering athletes who have had more than one reverse negative in their sports card history....