1. The Unexpected Discovery of Ripken’s Error Card
In the world of baseball card collecting, few cards have gained as much notoriety as Billy Ripken’s error card. The card, issued in the 1989 Fleer baseball card set, depicts Ripken at bat, but it was a phrase scribbled on the knob of his bat, not the player himself, that made the card infamous. This was not discovered until a young…