Bill is Backward
June 6th, 2009 | Published in error cards | 1 Comment
A while back, a visitor to the Vintage Football Card Gallery emailed to say that Bill Wade’s photo on his 1960 Topps card is reversed. I hadn’t noticed, but it appears he was right. In his words:
1. He is gripping the football strings with the fingers of his left hand – but Wade threw right-handed. …….. and 2. the top of Wade’s Ram jersey number, 9, is ‘flipped’.
If you compare this card to the rest of Wade’s cards, it’s easy to see that the image is backward.
Wade played thirteen years with the Rams and Bears, from 1954 to 1966. His rookie card is actually from his college days: a 1951 Topps Magic card printed while he was still at Vanderbilt.
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August 4th, 2009 at 7:25 PM (#)
[...] In a post last month I showed that the image on Bill Wade’s 1960 Topps card is reversed. Looking at my Beckett’s catalog this week, I found that the image on Doug Atkins’s 1960 Topps card is reversed as well. It’s not obvious when you look at that card by itself, but it is when you put it alongside his 1961 Fleer card. It’s funny how you can look at a card a hundred times and not notice an error like this. [...]