Dammit, Cerrone: Inaccuracies like this one give bloggers a bad name

Matt Cerrone put up an image of the back of a Wally Backman Topps card at MetsBlog.com today, referring to it as his “1991 Topps card.”

But clearly, the photographed card is a 1991 Topps Traded card, from the set Topps put out later in the season to reflect players on new teams and rookies.

The dead giveaway is that it’s card number 3T (the t is for traded). Also, if I recall correctly, the backs of the cards in the Traded sets were always lighter than those in the regular edition. It was the color of the card that actually made me bother looking at the number to see if it was indeed Traded — a solid indication of how pathetic I am.

Anyway, in clicking around to make sure I wasn’t making a similarly egregious error in reporting Cerrone’s mistake, I found this, also from the 1991 Topps Traded set:

3 thoughts on “Dammit, Cerrone: Inaccuracies like this one give bloggers a bad name

  1. I await with eager anticipation for Matt to post Wally’s wedding photos, a detailed description of what Wally ate for dinner last night, and the results of Wally’s most recent prostate exam. If you’re over fifty, get your prostate checked!

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