Look Out For a Topps Rudy Giuliani/Red Sox Card

For those of you that still collect baseball cards (are there any left), be on the lookout for a joke card from Topps. The card manufacturer of our childhood, Topps is sneaking in a card with the former mayor and Yankees fan as a member of the Red Sox. You ask, "'But that's just nuts! He's a Yankees fan through and through! Why would Topps do such a thing?'" Well, because Rudy said in October that he was actually rooting for the Red Sox in the World Series.

The AP reports that about 1 in 70 packs of Topps cards will have a picture of Giuliani celebrating on the field with the Red Sox after their 2007 World Series win over the Colorado Rockies. The former mayor is shown celebrating with his fist in the air behind the Red Sox team celebrating on the field.

Topps didn't consult the former contender for the GOP Presidential nomination and Giuliani didn't return the AP's calls for a comment. It's not the first time Topps has magically placed people into cards. Just last year, the company put President Bush and Mickey Mantle in a card with Derek Jeter at Yankee Stadium.

While both cards may be funny, it comes as a desperate attempt by Topps to boost card sales to us.

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By tien mao in News on February 6, 2008 4:45 PM

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Tim N.

You're right, Tien, it is lame, especially since no one on the card is really all that relevant.

Tim N.

You're right, Tien, it is lame, especially since no one on the card is really all that relevant.

JRod5417

I want that card only because a) it's funny and b) it subversively encapsulates Rudy's failed presidential bid. You can't claim to be a lifelong Yankee and then turn around to support the Sox. Go Yankees!!!

MFer

That's Rudy doing the "We Stomp You Out".

Politburo

"Hillary rooted for the Cubs."

This one at least makes some sense, since Hillary grew up outside Chicago.

Rudy has no excuse.

newsyspice

Yankees Suck.

Toby von Meistersinger

Historically, Topps has a tradition of airbrushing players into new uniforms. Sometimes they do a n absurdly horrible, yet funny job. Some of the cards from the 70s are really bad.

Baseball cards were killed by the whole absurd collector market and died when they stopped putting the cards in wax packages with brittle pink gum.

Quenepa

This is hilarious.

He did say he was rooting for Boston and is quite the hypocrite or politician - whichever side you want to look at.

Hillary rooted for the Cubs.

I would also laugh if they made a card with Hillary cheering with the Cubs when they won the Series (ahem)

It's funny and I will go out to get it lol

ChampionOfTheSun

If you don't think this is funny, you probably don't have a sense of humor.

matthew gannon

If I buy Topps cards in 2008, I'll have garlic handy. Sox Nation doesn't want Rudy on our cahds.

Snoopy

Are they including a stick of that wafer hard gum in the pack? You know the same kind that rotted a whole generation of American youth's teeth back in the old days.

MaiaW

I'm not a Rudy fan at all, but I think this is pretty lame. What kid is gonna want that card? Not Yankees fans. Not Red Sox fans. Maybe collectors, but I just don't see the appeal.

Murray Hillster

While both cards may be funny, it comes as a desperate attempt by Topps to boost card sales to us.

Those aren't mutually exclusive.

westernqueensland

Excellent! I want to see him dressed up as a sailor Interdicting Haitian Boat People (economic migrants from the Duvalier regime) at sea while letting Cubans in (political fugees). Perhaps he can have a "Mission Accomplished" banner in one talon.