What is the origin of Barry Bonds Open.Day ERR?

[Kzoo]

Originally Posted by Mark17

I was a full time dealer back then and remember breaking 600 sets of those things. I found one Bonds error in 600 sets. But here's the thing - the set also had the regular variation too, and the regular one was in the proper sequence (sorting these sets was easy - they were always in the same order.)

So, my assumption was that it was intentional, and every so often one was added to a factory set just to create hype and spur sales - which it did.

John...........According to Mark in a post above, just because the first box of the case didn't have the error, that didn't mean the next 14 boxes were going to be the same way. I went off his experience and gave it a shot.

[callou2131]

I remember 1989 with the Upper deck Murphy Error and riken FF error being on absolute fire. The next year 1990, and you cant convince me otherwise, Donruss and fleer intentionally made as many errors as possible to boost their wax sales. 1 remember donruss had The nolan Ryan errors, every all star card had at least 1 error, Juan Gonzalez reverse neg (ala Murphy) they had line throughs etc. it was nuts. Score had the bill spiers error of his birth year being 66 instead of 1966, the sandberg error, fleer had a bunch most notability the ripken 332 error, Upper deck had the Big rookie that year Ben Mcdonald. Cant convince me that they werent intentional.

[hockeyhockey]

new to the forum, just wanted to confirm - this bonds error card is only found in opening day sets? don't want to waste some $ on a wax box assuming that's true. thanks!

[swarmee]

It's a Donruss Opening Day card; both the Error and Corrected versions can only be found in the boxed set.

[Mark17]

If anybody cracks more of these sets and does find an error, I really hope they will check to see if the regular Bonds and/or Ray are in that set too. That would solve the mystery.

After all the discussions, I'll bet it was actually a Johnny Ray error card with the wrong name. It would be great to get that confirmed one way or the other.

[philliesphan]

My recollection in opening a case of these in the early 1990s is that the "corrected" cases had both the Barry Bonds (correct picture) and Johnny Ray card-

[Extra Innings]

Originally Posted by philliesphan

My recollection in opening a case of these in the early 1990s is that the "corrected" cases had both the Barry Bonds (correct picture) and Johnny Ray card-

I read a couple of brief mentions about the card from the early 90s and it stated that it was an 'early correction' and very rare. Print numbers must have been low on this one, but what is considered a low number?

[hockeyhockey]

anyone selling one of these? been looking around for a while.


i saw this listing today, but seems incredibly sketchy:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1987-Barry-...sAAOSw42NfqDxh

the obvious 0 feedback aside, seller also offering up a NNOF thomas and other crazy raw rookie cards in sales.