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   I am working on a real fixer-upper, i.e. 2000 Royal Rookies Baseball.

   Nineteen of the 40 base cards (and over half of the inserts) have some sort of error.  None of these were ever corrected, as this was a draft set that obvoiusly got slapped together and pushed out the door.  Every card also exists as a parallel or autographed version, so all formats will carry the same faults.

   Here's a sampling of the errors I've found...

Typos: pitching stat headings of "su" & "lg" instead of "sv" (saves) & "cg" (complete games); numerical stats "in the ballpark" (avg. of ".252", should be .249; SB of "26", actually 20)

Reverse negative photos: either just on back, or both front & back (airbrushing can try to hide it, but the evidence is there)

Incorrect data: a different player's stats; missing (blank) stat entries

Misspellings: single/double letter mix-ups; wrong vowels; extra/missing letters

   I would think that the last category is the most offensive, especially if it involves the player's name.  Even the company's own information on their mail-in offer card is a UER - "Send to... Witchita, KS".

   I will ignore the minor, grammatical errors like: incorrect use of apostrophes, verb tenses, capitalization, or punctuation.

   I'm also working on the three other Royal Rookies sets.  Not quite as egregious as this one, but still with their share of faults.

So, how far should I go with "Note"-ing (and Note2-ing) all of these UERs?

That is totally up to you as to how far you want to go to have the entries completely "correct" on here. Royal Rookies was a complete mess of a brand and 2000 is the only year that I have any of their cards. I only acquired them from a re-pack box I bought many, many years ago. I personally consider them as the Broder of the 2000's, but without the top names of the era. I think that, generally, a UER is for messed-up stats or wrong picture cards. As for the "Notes", Note1 should only be UER and Note2 should tell what the error is on the card.

And don't forget Note2 only has so much space to type!! LOL Sounds like you could use 1000 spaces and not the 100 or so allowed. =)

There are a couple of draft pick/minor leaguer sets from 2000 that are riddled with errors and mistakes (UERs). The 2000 Team Best Rookies set was another one where the write ups on the reverse didn't match the player listed on the card. It was a mess too.

Anyway, with this set, I think a fair way of marking UERs would be to note any name misspellings, different player's stats on the card (or bio info), and the reversed negs - especially since they used the same photo front and back, and reversed the backs in the ones I saw. The column headers seem to be a problem throughout, so that info could very well be "trivia" for the set. Same as the "close proximity stats" that they used. A BA of .253 vs. .256 is relatively insignificant. If they put .552 vs. .252, then you have something. The whole thing is just sloppy!

A new UER question, just tagging to an old thread.

I recently posted the scans for Upper Deck's "Firefly: The Verse" set.  While scanning and cropping, I had time to read all the card backs & spotted an error.  Card #134 says "...his main objection is still River" - should be "objective".  Obviously it passed their spell-check, but it is wrong in context ...funny, but still wrong.

Not a big deal, but I notice mistakes like that.  Is it worthy of the "UER" note?

-Kurt

p.s. if someone has base card #13, that's the only one I'm missing!

Sounds like 2000 Royal Rookies would qualify as JUNK!!!

(I'm going to bed now)

I think it should be documented. Most people don't seem to care about text errors. My favorite is Panini thinking Charlotte, North Carolina is in the NBA's Western Conference in 14-15 Prizm. 

They were in the west early on, but not anywhere near 2014

Charlotte Hornets/Bobcats have never been West. I suspect Panini got confused by the Hornets name, which when they moved to new Orleans were West. That was the year they renamed the Bobcats the Hornets. 

Not exactly Billy. Yes, the Charlotte Hornets moved to New Orleans and became the New Orleans Hornets. But the current Charlotte Hornets were a new team several years later and were called the Charlotte Bobcats. After a few more years, Charlotte was allowed to re-take the Hornets name and the New Orleans team changed to the Pelicans.

The owner of the original Charlotte Hornets took the team to N.O. and later Michael Jordan and some investors started the new Charlotte Bobcats. They fought the NBA for years to get the Hornets name back and finally succeeded a few years ago.