A Derek Jeter baseball card was mistakenly printed showing Mickey Mantle and President George W. Bush cheering the Captain on from the background according to the New York Daily News.
“Somewhere in between the final proofing and its printing, someone at our company – and we won’t name names – thought it would be funny to put in Bush and Mantle,” said Clay Luraschi, a spokesman for Topps.
When the cards were proofread, Luraschi said, “We couldn’t do anything but laugh.
“Okay, it’s in the set and it’s funny,” Luraschi conceded. “It’s caused quite a stir.”
The wide variety of baseball cards I collected as a kid has been in storage for years, but this story reminds me of how I loved cards like this. Error cards are unique and valuable. Those cards stood out from all the others. A lot of kids are going to treasure that card for a long time.
