Gothamist: Leiter Hangs It Up

your sister's gay boyfriend

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:44:55 -0500

And that's actually John Cusack on the baseball card.

Joe Checkler

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:49:27 -0500

one more thing: he is not Jewish.

Joe Checkler

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:44:06 -0500

It's not "Tom's River" it's Toms River.

saltydog

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:04:04 -0500

That's why I loved that card (should have clarified.) It was up there with my Billy Ripken F@#$ Face card from Fleer, and a Gary Sheffield Upper Deck card with the wrong position on it. As a 12 year old dork I got a bick kick out of error cards!

tien

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:00:30 -0500

ha. in a way, that makes the image choice even better!

sp

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:55:17 -0500

THANK GOD HE'S GONE!!!!!!!!!

gabe

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:46:33 -0500

First Jewish President - you heard it here first - Leiter runs and wins for the Republicans on a "back to basics" finance and secturity platform in 2012. Stay tuned.

honksandsirens

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:33:22 -0500

That's not Al Leiter! This baseball card came out in 1988, and Topps printed the wrong person on the card. Here is a side-by-side comparison of the real card and this error card. This exceprt is from a story in USA Today: An error involving Mets pitcher Al Leiter was the result of misinterpreted handwriting on a glove. Leiter's rookie card in 1988 carried a picture of fellow left-hander Steve George. "My first year in a big-league camp, I wore number 56. He had SG on his glove and the people at Topps mistook SG for 56," Leiter says. Topps corrected the error and the new card shot up in value. But like many cards of that era, with high production runs, the value has plummeted. "It think it got as high as 12 bucks. It's down to a quarter now," says Leiter. "Like the stock market."

Vin

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:29:48 -0500

The picture on the card is actually of Mark Leiter, Al's brother. Topps came out with another corrected card after the mistake was caught.

tien

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:56:34 -0500

so long ago!! he looks like a baby.

saltydog

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:54:16 -0500

Yeah - I still have that baseball card. It was one of my favorites!

Ben

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:42:56 -0500

great oldschool topps image....