Yeah, as I wrote, the time was brief. As you know, news traveled differently in 1989. Going into that weekend you mention, there were almost certainly some dealers who did not know.
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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
I don't think there was ANY time when few people knew it was an error.
It was pretty instantaneous. I was set up at a 3 day Mall show when the bomb dropped about this card, and they were selling for $100 right out of the pack. I sold a few myself for that price. People didn't even know if it was going to be pulled from circulation or corrected yet...but they were banking as if it was.
It was pulling other cards up with it to. Griffey Jr. was already hot and the 2nd year Jefferies card and Mattingly card were pretty popular to.
Bottom fell out pretty quickly on these though. Even when they started correcting the FF card, people lost interest I believe, almost as soon as the inaugural Upper Deck issue came out a little while later that year.
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