Happy belated Father’s Day! I am visiting my parents in Pittsburgh and had a chance to sit down with my dad and go through a small sampling of his Barry Bonds Error card collection.
As a Bonds supercollector for 35 years, my Dad Jeff would occasionally come across strange cards that had some kind of factory defect or mistake on them. These error cards include wrong fronts / backs, blank fronts / backs, no name on front / back, missing gold foil, missing serial number, mis-cuts, wrong relics, and many others. As these types of cards were never intentionally made, these cards are not separate issues with their own entries on TCDB. Most collectors might view them as interesting curiosities; a novelty, but nothing serious enough to merit collecting or adding to a wantlist.
My Dad isn’t “most collectors”.
He went ahead and scooped them up as he encountered them all the way back to the late 80s, early 90s. As of today, he has amassed 500 different Barry Bonds error cards - a 4” thick binder full of exclusively Barry Bonds error cards. While the time needed to go through and discuss every error card would be prohibitive, my Dad picked out a selection of some of his favorites to showcase in this video here today. Many of the cards seen in this video should not exist. With some of the cards, it’s not clear what they are, how many were made, or what the history behind the card is.
Enjoy seeing some absolute craziness that is rare beyond compare!
Also, if there’s a request, I wouldn’t mind doing a follow up video where I could page through the entirety of this binder page by page and at least briefly show each card. My Dad leaves copious notes about each card, explaining why it’s an error. In many cases, the error is quite subtle and not at all obvious, so this is a great boon. Let me know if you the viewers would enjoy a video like that.
Enjoy the strangest collection of Barry Bonds error cards ever assembled!