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02-21-2015, 05:00 PM
Anyone else notice the typo on 2015 Abreu First Home Run?
Opened a couple of 2015 Topps Series One blasters today and got the Abreu First Home Run card. As I read the back though, something did not seem right. It states, "On April 8, 2004, Jose went deep...." Looks like the proof-readers missed on this one.
The front with 2014
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The back with 2004
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02-22-2015, 06:37 AM
RE: Anyone else notice the typo on 2015 Abreu First Home Run?
(02-21-2015, 05:00 PM)anhaga68 Wrote: Opened a couple of 2015 Topps Series One blasters today and got the Abreu First Home Run card. As I read the back though, something did not seem right. It states, "On April 8, 2004, Jose went deep...." Looks like the proof-readers missed on this one.
Wow! That's pretty sloppy of them. Hopefully they correct it and the error card becomes a rarity
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02-22-2015, 06:58 AM
RE: Anyone else notice the typo on 2015 Abreu First Home Run?
I had to read it twice before I noticed it LOL
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02-22-2015, 09:14 AM
RE: Anyone else notice the typo on 2015 Abreu First Home Run?
Sloppy? No. One way to make cards "rare" is to make intentional mistakes and then "correct" them. I'm guessing the proofreaders at Topps can actually read, of course. If it is a true mistake, maybe they should cut back on all their darn sets and subsets and subsubsets so they can keep track of the product they're putting out. It's 2015. Nothing gets by unintentionally. Talk to anyone in the printing business. This is also how you can get a card numbered to 25 and it's so off-center it won't grade higher than a 5. They made 25 cards. The only way they would not all be centered exactly the same is if something was done to intentionally make some worth more than others.
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02-22-2015, 11:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-22-2015, 11:34 AM by chevy man 22.)
RE: Anyone else notice the typo on 2015 Abreu First Home Run?
Yeah but when was the last time Topps actually bothered to correct an error ? The No Name Frank Thomas is the last one I can remember. And even then I believe that was just a printing error where a sheet or two just missed that step in the process.
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