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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, December 09, 2008Billy Ripken Obscenity Bat: He Finally Talks 20 Years Later
One of the great mysteries of our time is finally revealed. Now that Deep Throat and “F—- Face” are out of the way, it’s time to find out about JFK. Gamingboy
Posted: December 09, 2008 at 03:32 PM | 52 comment(s)
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1. Shooty would run in but these bone spurs hurt!I didn't think he was scum. He went up a few notches in my estimation. I can't believe he feels ashamed of this 20 years later. It's one of the top 10 baseball card moments of all time, right up there with Oscar Gamble's 'Fro and Gary Pettis pulling a fast one on Topps.
I'm not familiar with the Pettis card of which you speak. Story? And more importantly, photo?
The 1985 Topps card of Pettis features Pettis' little brother instead of Gary Pettis himself.
That was always pretty clear to anyone who ever saw the immortal F-Face card. It was as obvious an enhancement as Groucho's moustache.
Ed Delahanty, Amelia Earhart, Judge Crater, D. B. Cooper and Jimmy Hoffa say hi.
Bullsh!t. If they could say hi we wouldn't be wondering about them.
Adam West was D.B. Cooper.
So that's the reason he was nicknamed "The Worm".
My innocence is lost. Next thing you know Jimmy Page will be saying it wasn't him playing all the great leads on Who and Kinks classics.
If you listen closely to the beginning of The Beatles' "Back in the USSR" you will hear that it is Jimmy Page flying the plane.
JFK? Deep Throat and #### Face are a clear call to Bill Clinton.
I didn't know about Gary's trick. Just awesome.
I thought we all agreed that this was Garvey.
Not quite. Garvey, just 13 at the time, slept with Marilyn Monroe and, naturally, got her pregnant. This put JFK in a violent rage (and led to Monroe's suicide) and he was planning to have Garvey killed. Tommy LaSorda, already scouting Garvey because we all know he has a great eye for young talent*, got wind of this plan and called up some of his Mafia friends and put out a hit on JFK.
Jim Ray Hart was the triggerman -- it's always the guys with 3 names after all.
* don't forget, he decided to sign Wilton over Vlad.
1972 Topps. He gives the finger.
That's debatable.
I doubt they enhanced the picture in any way to more clearly show the obscenity, but there must have been some attempt to capitalize on it through making like four different corrected versions of the card. There was one with whiteout, one with a black box over the writing, one with it scribbled out, etc. Maybe one of those I mentioned didn't actually exist, but the point remains. What was the point of that?
What, exactly, would be wrong with writing "B. Ripken" on it, instead?
It's one they used from @1988 - 1990. It looked like an "E", much like the Indians "I" looks like a "J". That uniform was both boring and ugly.
Given how many uniform changes the Sox have had over the years, it's amazing that they haven't really made any major changes in the last 18 years.
It's apparently an Angels bat boy.
I enlarged the Rodman card and it appears to be a shadow. There's another similar Rodman card and that one is not what it appears to be either.
For a real view of something like that...search for a 1987 Winston Nascar poster. (few on ebay) Check out what the Foldgers guy put on the shoulder in front of him ! lol
Aurelio Rodriguez - batboy was pictured on the card
"making like four different corrected versions"- Theres more than 12 !!
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I dunno, look for yourself, and think how many times you've ever seen a well used bat with writing that clearly defined on the knob. It's as if they'd auto-contrasted it in photoshop or something. I can't believe that the writing stood out nearly that well in real life.
I think it's debatable whether that bat qualifies as well-used. According to Ripken, it was part of a batch of bad bats that he decided to use in BP. The portion of the barrel over his shoulder that is visible doesn't look very worn either.
Looking at the card did remind me of one more thing about that set. The slightly diagonal orange lines at the top and bottom of the picture. In many instances, the wrong color was put on a card. An A's player would have red instead of green, for instance. My friends and I got all caught up in those. I'm not sure if we imagined they were valuable error cards or if there was any short term buzz in the marketplace as well.
Wow. I saw a game at Comiskey in 1980 and I don't remember that logo.
Same thing happened with Juan Gonzalez's Donruss rookie card. 1990, I think. I had both versions. I guess it's cooler when it's Hank Aaron though.
Wrong brother, Walt. Lasorda was linked with the RFK assassination.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/28159667?__source=RSS*blog*&par=RSS
And again in 1967!
See for yourself: 1966 and 1967
Yes.
Near the end of the season, the team phased in the gothic logo and pinstripes they use to this day, but Thomas and Alex Fernandez got in a few games with the old uniforms after they were called up in August.
I always thought that the uniforms used from 1987 to 1990 were part of an elaborate plot by Jerry Reinsdorf to repel fans and make it easier for the team to leave town. But if a year of Hawk Harrelson as GM couldn't shake the fans, nothing could.
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