Daniel Nava’s beard becomes a Topps Allen & Ginter baseball card
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
A beard is in a baseball card.
At least one collector ripping into boxes of 2014 Topps Allen & Ginter, which officially arrives on Wednesday has found a hair-razing card.
It’s a Daniel Nava Oddity Relic — and its game-used item inside is strands of hair from his playoff beard. It’s the only Oddity Relic listed on the Topps checklist released on Monday (click here to open a copy) and it’s limited to just 25 serial-numbered copies.
The card sits at $71 after nine bids on eBay.
How much do you think it will sell for? Do you have any other thoughts?
Tell us in the comments below.
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Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Sports Card Monthly magazines. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
Wow, this card has gone crazy. I pulled the card in this picture today at a local Target. Since then, the response has been amazing and overwhelming. Thanks for posting my pull, Beckett!
Disgusting! Maybe I’d wants the beard hair of Abraham Lincoln on a card, but why in the world would anyone want the Sweaty, Scruffy, Shavings of a BoSox player in their collection. Ewwwwww! (No offense to Daniel Nava intended … It really would be the same reaction to anyone else, with the except of President Lincoln :) )
That’s very cool concept but it’s just not right. No body parts on cards, not even if it’s just hair. Save it for the baby books. There’s a line and that would be crossing it.
i wish i pulled it, so i could sell it. no interest. hope they don’t find out later it was {we all know where this was headed — Editor}
Maybe that beard hair has been to the World Series, but …
once again ‘we’ (i.e. Topps) have crossed the line.
There IS a limit to what we collect, and again we’ve defined it (I do believe).
I have the same card. Pulled it from a box that I bought at Target in Fresno, CA. Mine is numbers 7/25. I think it’s cool. It’s something that most collectors probably can’t get since there’s so few cards out there.