[djohn]

In 1992 Pro Set was trying to get into the baseball card market. They already had football, hockey, and racing cards, as well as doing some soccer and golf cards, and were trying to grow. However since they didn't have a license someone at the company decided to make a Garbage Pail Kids (GPK) style set of cards, while using similar names to major league players of the time. The product was called Flopps (a pun on Topps) and they produced a 5 card promo set which included likenesses of Ken Griffey Jr, Lance Parrish, Rickey Henderson, Barry Bonds, and Wade Boggs. Of course they didn't use the exact players names, instead they took a page from GPK and spoofed the names as well. So the players names used were actually Ken Groovy Jr, Lance Perishable, Stickey Henderson, Barry Bones, and Wade Bugs. The set was going to be 66 cards (55 base cards, 10 scratch & sniff and 1 special card of "Bogus Wagner", i.e. Honus Wagner) and had some other great names like "Cal Ripped One" and "Mark DisGrace". However MLBPA stepped in and did not approve, so ProSet stopped the manufacturing process. Thus only the promo cards exist as being readily available, however there are rumors of some other cards that slipped out, and more that surfaced after ProSet closed down. In fact most people have never actually seen anything other than the promo cards. So today I am going to share one that is definitely rare. That is the 1992 Flopps card of Dave Parker (or should I say Dave Porker), which also happened to be one of the scratch and sniff versions. I am going to guess that the scratch and sniff section was meant to smell like peanuts, due to the picture and notation on the back about working for peanuts.



Before it's asked I will answer the next question...yes Nolan Ryan (or should I say Nolan Cryin) was intended to be in the set, but I have never seen one on the secondary market. I have to assume Jose Canseco was in the set as well, since he was a big name player at the time, but I am not 100% certain and have never seen a Flopps card of him.