Minor Leagues: 80s-90s Star Co.

Star Company had a lot of reverse negative errors in both major and minor league baseball cards (though none in their basketball cards, strangely) but this post will only cover the minor league ones. The majors rev negs will be in a later post.

I admittedly have not seen every single card produced by Star Co. so there may be many more out there than the ones I know about, but that's part of the fun of digging for error cards!

1989 Star Knoxville Blue Jays #8 Shawn Jeter (UER, unlisted). Probably not your favorite Jeter card, but it is mine!

1989 Star New Britain Red Sox #8 Josias Manzanillo (UER, unlisted). Logo on wrong side of shirt with socks facing wrong way, NB on the hat is backwards.

1990 Star Gastonia Rangers #24 Joey Wardlow (UER, unlisted). Couldn't find a scan online, so I took a pic of my own copy. The Rangers is backwards on the jersey and, you can't tell from this pic but there's a backwards "EK" written on the knob of the bat. Would have been funnier if there was a backwards "fuck face" like the Billy Ripken card.

1990 Star Lakeland Tigers #21 Robert Reimink (UER, unlisted). Backwards L on wrong side of the jersey.

1990 Star Miami Miracle I #12 Dennis Kidd (UER, unlisted). For some reason, Miami Miracle had two star sets in this year, and each one had a rev neg. Kidd is a right hander and the Miller Beer sign in the background is reversed.

1990 Star Miami Miracle II #11 Anthony Kelley (card on left, the one on the right is the correct version from the I set) (UER, unlisted).

There are more major league rev negs that I have found, but I will get to those once I'm done with the minor league posts. Next up is early 90s Classic.....

Minor Leagues: 90s ProCards

Here's part 2 of the ProCards reverse negative extravaganza. This one features errors from the 1990s...

1990 CMC/ProCards #767 Michael Wilkins, #768 John Kiely, and  #837A Mike Lumley (all unlisted). Somehow they got three of the London Tigers players in this unwieldy set reversed, which you can tell by the reversed L's on the hats and the rest of the backwards lettering on the Lumley. The Lumley also features a corrected version, but with a completely different photo. I'm not sure if the other ones have corrected photos.

The other reverse in the '90 set is Willie Ansley, card #810 (UER, unlisted). I initially learned about this on another baseball card blog a couple of years ago but I don't remember which one.

1991 ProCards Minor League #2060 Glenn Murray (UER, unlisted). The 1991 set, like the others by this manufacturer, is ridiculously large. I have only found one reverse in it, however, and it is this Glenn Murray featuring a backwards "Expos" on the back of his shirt, a reversed R on the hat, and a reversed "Franklin" on the batting glove.

1992 Fleer/ProCards #36 Greg Kobza (UER, unlisted). There are four in this 1992 set, which despite being co-manufactured by Fleer, not seem to improve too much more in the quality control department. I don't really blame them though--these sets are stupendously large and it must have been hard to keep tabs on all of these cards when most of the players are obscure and you don't really know what information to look for.

1992 Fleer/ProCards #1552 David Dark (UER, unlisted). One of my favorite types of images is reversed lettering on outfield warning track signs. The closeness to the signs in this pic really makes the error stand out, especially with the Pepsi sign.

1992 Fleer/Procards #3155 Richard Perez (UER, unlisted). Logo on wrong side of shirt, hat logo pointing the wrong way, and the hint of a backwards K-Mart logo on the sign above his shoulder.

1992 Fleer/ProCards #3228 Mike Jewell (UER, unlisted). Flipped Indians logo on the hat and backwards R on the glove.

1993 Fleer/ProCards #4079 Mathew Reese (UER, unlisted). The numbers and lettering on his uniform are noticeably reversed, but the obvious thing is the 384 sign in the background.

That's it for the ProCards (that I have found at least). There are many more minor league reverse negatives though, especially in Star Company and Classic sets, and I will cover them in the next couple of posts...