Cardbord Connection: The Truth Behind the Pacific Manny Ramirez Corked Bat Card

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The show’s first guest was Jeff Morris, the former Vice President of Marketing with Pacific Trading Cards. He started with the company amid the fallout of the Ramirez card. While he wasn’t directly involved with the incident, he did have intimate knowledge of the situation. About 27 minutes into the episode, Morris shed some light on the story behind the card. And, according to him, it wasn’t a desperate ploy by the trading card manufacturer.

...Morris continued, “[W]e got a call from [Pacific’s Dallas-based card manufacturer] saying, ‘You’re not going to believe this. There’s cork in the bat that we cut up and some of it got onto a card.’ We were very adamant…[telling them to] make sure that does not get onto a card. It was just like a nightmare. And sure enough, there were a couple of them that got out.”

...One of the Pacific Manny Ramirez corked bat cards is currently listed on eBay. The asking price? $5,000.

But what about the second bat that the photographer acquired? According to Morris, Pacific CEO, Mike Cramer kept it. As the company approached its final days, Cramer’s curiosity got the best of him.

“He’d gone down to the airport and put it through the x-ray machine,” said Morris,  “and sure enough, it was corked too.”

Manny Ramirez a cheater? Who would have known?