Name the single stupidest thing you have ever seen in a card set

[Ty Hope]

Could be a certain design, theme, pic used, technology, pairing, etc.

What takes the cake for DUMB in the card world.

Add pics if you have them!

 

[rebelpawn]

Besides the rip girls?
I think sets with 1 million different parallels that you can't tell apart are pretty damn dumb.

 

[Austin]

Topps Letterman football, with the autographed sticker over the letter patch.

 

[Ty Hope]

Good call on that Letterman set. Man that was BAD!

I also really hate how Topps destroyed the term "white whale" with triple threads.

 

[TBTwinsFan]

Dead Bugs.

Open some sports cards, find a redemption for a dead bug.

Yay...

 

[Ty Hope]

Dead Bugs.

Open some sports cards, find a redemption for a dead bug.

Yay...

I used to agree with this one until I got one in hand. They are surprisingly cool looking and great conversation pieces. I do think they should have been in a non-sports product though instead of Goodwin.

 

[notjomommasclint]

Those Mickey Mantle cards with suit pieces and tie pieces that were in topps factory sets a few years ago.

 

[CatdaddysCards]

Purple refractors of the non-/10 variety. Redonkulous.

 

[MOFNY]

Game used field dirt...

 

[Ty Hope]

manufactured patches also deserve a spot on the list.

 

[WoundedDuck]

Scout autos

 

[FrostyCollects]

1997 Best Bets Preview cards...take a look at this design:

http://www.checkoutmycards.com/Cards/Baseball/1997/Best_Bets_Preview/7/Corey_Erickson/2142311

Beautiful color scheme, eh?

 

[Greg Cleveland]

Marlon Byrd autographs.

 

[WNP22]

Scout autos

Exactly what I came on here to say.

 

[BBCgalaxee]

Awesomeness

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

 

[archiebunkerjr]

Poley Walnuts

 

[TBTwinsFan]

manufactured patches also deserve a spot on the list.

When they are in hobby and considered "hits."

If they are an extra in a blaster box, I'm cool with that.

 

[Mighty Bombjack]

Exactly what I came on here to say.

Scout autos were a bad enough idea, but I can at least fathom a hardcore player collector going after the scout of his player (and getting it for 99 cents).

The "Bowman Scout" auto, now that was a horrible, horrible conception. That is just some scrubby dude in a cubicle who reads Baseball America. And that dude didn't even sign the stickers. Who the hell brought the idea to the table? And who the hell didn't shoot it down as a ludicrous waste of time and resources?

 

[Mighty Bombjack]

This To me was a brilliant idea, as it laid bare an essential truth of what sports cards has become.