This is why the myth persists, and some are still manufacturing these to sell on eBay. People want to believe they are real. The ink didn’t run out. These blue Topps cards are honest damage or dishonest alteration. Yellow to white and blue to green should raise immediate flags on a Topps card, just as red to orange on a T card should but often doesn’t.

The irony of this is that my head is right next to Darren's on my own wall.....within a few weeks of each other, we both had picked up these historic 71 WL cards from the same source. After getting my 71s and thinking back to all of Ben's sun tests on cards, I tried it on a 71 myself....

As Darren's collectorisms list grows seemingly daily, I may have missed it, but I am quite sure there should be a term for this scenario if there is not already.

Sunny Strays comes to mind. But I don’t have the pizzazz that Darren has with these creations.

103. Rays of Might
Asking whether a card is a ‘missing ink’ variation or just a card affected by overexposure to sunlight.

See also: Sunblather - trying to convince someone that an obviously sun-bleached card is a rare, missing ink variation.

See also: Fraudosynthesis - leaving a card out in the sun for a long time, and then attempting to convert the inevitable color fading into the energy of big-time dollar signs by calling it a ‘missing ink’ variation.

See also: Sunspurn - not buying the bogus story being sold to you about a 'missing ink' card.

Missing the "I" in the "1961 BATTING LEADERS" line.

This recurring back obscuration can be found in varying degrees in size.

I am not ready to see the light (pun intended) of salvation!...that Baylor is soooo dark.

I just can't accept that cheap Topps printers never ran out of yellow....even with all the stuff we've seen in this thread...never no yellow? Whoever sold yellow ink to Topps (always stocked up)...lived in a big house on a hill.

Butch...leave that Stroud in the sun!

Ed



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Oh, I wasn't responding to you, just to Larry who wondered if I have 'Collectorisms' for these types of things.

Please look at this from a different perspective. By your reasoning that some aloof worker allowed the yellow run to happen with no yellow ink, then there should be multiple other cards from this sheet that would normally have either green or yellow letters but due to the missing yellow would then have either blue lettering or white lettering instead.

In my 40+ years of collecting, I have not come across, either personally or seen through forums such as this, other cards from this sheet missing their yellow run. Not to say they have not been out there for years, and just not uncovered. However, logic would dictate that sometime over the past 51 years some astute collector would have pointed these yellow-less cards out to the rest of the hobby...as far as I know, they have not.

Bottom line is if the Baker is legit, there should be other yellow-less cards out there.

Now, watch in the next month or so, they'll be a plethora of yellow-less 71s pop out of the woodwork (after 51 years of not being discovered).

Why are the vast majority of alleged 'missing color' cards the colors that just happen to easily fade to the color the card has present instead? Why is it almost always yellow to white, green to blue on Topps, red to orange on T cards?

Reason gives us the answer.

Ed, No way dude! :D