Another fairly no-name minor leaguer's baseball card was released by the Topps Trading Card Company. They made a big oops by mistakely producing a limited quantity of the rookie card. Supposely only 100 are in circulation. The Royals' prospect, Alex Gordon is stunned that his first year card is selling for over a thousand dollars. Last week it sold for $7,500 on Ebay!
The "goof up" by Topps on this now hard sought after trading card is strange. It's kind of funny too because if the Gordon rookie card was issued at the normal production run it wouldn't be worth squat since he plays for the Royals (The club is improving, but they still have a long ways to go from not sucking). Far being from me to judge Topps on such an extraordinary error, although I have never been impressed with their products. Their sets are too big and overpriced in my view while their so called "best inserts" are normally low valued and too scarce and expensive to obtain (autograph odds 1:590 packs, WARNING: May contain pure, worthless crap).
Card collectors can enjoy the moment with this new hobby rarity while young Alex Gordon relishes the recognition and prestige he's getting from this publicity until he's forgotten and tossed to the side like yesterday's garbage. The minor leaguer claims he wishes to request his card from Topps and put it in a frame. Well, he should since that will be the only pride and honor he'll receive while wearing a Royals' uniform. Sorry, Royals but everyone knows it true. If anything fans and collectors can be happy with this experience after obtaining a piece of history that they normally wouldn't care about.
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