1989 Topps Baseball Forum

Someone pointed out to me on some Lou Brocks there's a red line on his sleeve. Is this considered an error or printing flaw?

Looks like ink from something on the plate, like a hair or thread.

Weird, my card has the red line on it too.  It is definately isn't part of his jersey.  

Many, many of these undocumented, unlistable variations in my collection. I am preparing a list to post for the Master Set crowd.

fwiw, imho it's likely a printing error. I've seen a lot of those lines/threads on other cards and they are usually not listed as errors, such as this 1969 Topps #93 Joe Foy (left card has a rather long thin blue line on the left side of his jersey, right card has no such line) and the 1969 Topps #333 Ivan Murell (left card has no lines near jersey buttons, right card shows 2 thin black lines near jersey buttons):

Both versions can usually be found on COMC, ebay and other places.

With that card there are actually 3 variations. Not listed on TCDB because they do not meet the ctiteria. The 3rd one has that red line partially covered up. It seems that Topps would do a rather poor touch up/correction in cases like this but also make a complete correction, creating the 3 variations.