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Old 07-16-2022, 01:49 PM
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Congrats Ben!

Billy will be famous forever, but not for his field and batting prowess. My wife got me a signed FF very many years ago. That is as far as I went chasing the many variations.

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Cool, post a pic of it. Did he do his best to cover up the FF? I know he did that on several. I have a P4 Diamond Willy Dipken he personalized to me.
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I will do that but it will be a couple of months before I can get to it. We are packing to move and a great deal of my 'stuff' is boxed!

I'll be sure to get you a picture later this year.

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I will do that but it will be a couple of months before I can get to it. We are packing to move and a great deal of my 'stuff' is boxed!

I'll be sure to get you a picture later this year.

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Hope you have a easy smooth move.

Here is my only Bill Ripken auto. I can't remember what awesome forum member went out of their way and got this for me but I really appreciated it.
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Cool, post a pic of it. Did he do his best to cover up the FF? I know he did that on several. I have a P4 Diamond Willy Dipken he personalized to me.
Ben,

I am unpacking things and came across the signed 89F Billy Ripken.
He did not quite cover up the bat handle but did come close.
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I am unpacking things and came across the signed 89F Billy Ripken.
He did not quite cover up the bat handle but did come close.
Very cool, thanks for posting it.

Weirdly Billy did a signing recently and signed the FF version for the low price of $75 each. Usually he won't sign it.
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http://1989fleerripken.blogspot.com/...vered.html?m=1

Im only seeing this now. Seems like a huge development for this card.

Forgive me if this collector is a regular here and Im late to the party.
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Im only seeing this now. Seems like a huge development for this card.

Forgive me if this collector is a regular here and Im late to the party.
Depends on how you look at it. To me it is just a large find of counterfeit cards. It is a very cool find but it doesn't change what the card is. Just my opinion on this "Mystery" card. I am not a expert but did recently stay at a Holiday Inn Express for multiple nights.
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Depends on how you look at it. To me it is just a large find of counterfeit cards. It is a very cool find but it doesn't change what the card is. Just my opinion on this "Mystery" card. I am not a expert but did recently stay at a Holiday Inn Express for multiple nights.
I remember seeing Donovan (or maybe Jon) first mention this card many years back and my initial thought was that it had to be a counterfeit (cashing in on the FF craze, likely in 1989), but whoever it was who first broke news of it really made a compelling case for it being some oddity produced by/for Fleer.

Is the general consensus now that these are, in fact, fakes?
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I remember seeing Donovan (or maybe Jon) first mention this card many years back and my initial thought was that it had to be a counterfeit (cashing in on the FF craze, likely in 1989), but whoever it was who first broke news of it really made a compelling case for it being some oddity produced by/for Fleer.

Is the general consensus now that these are, in fact, fakes?
I have heard some very compelling stories but it doesn't change that they are extremely obvious fakes IMO.

There are so many differences in ways that make no sense in printing that Fleer would have never done this for any reason.
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