Card Identification Forum

If you left the other one out in the driveway for a couple of months, it would look the same way. I don't suggest doing that, no need to ruin a good card. But that is absolutely sun and water damage. The top right corner down to about D in Wade isn't as badly faded, it must have had something in front of it for a while. 

There's also a little bubbled wrinkle just below the Topps logo on the back that screams water damage to me. 

Lifelong collector here with 2+ million collection.  This is absolutly not an error card but a moisture damaged card.

I'm no expert but I almost wonder besides the water if it is fading from the sun? It looks like some well played with cards that I may have left out in the rain a time or two when I was a kid.

You see we would play wiffle ball and set out cards for our lineup. As easily distracted boys I would leave them outside from time to time. Summer sun and rain are hard on cardboard.

WOW! I always thought my 1984 Willie McGee TOPPS was damaged when it was left in my pocket and my mom washed it with my jeans. Now I find out years later it was actually a valuable error card?

I know most ERRs/VARs cards, been collecting for decades>>>

AND THIS ISN"T ONE OF THEM

However, I will be starting a running forum post series informing & educating Members on ERRs/VARs.

Favorite color the Sun loves to eat at.. RED

Actually, no, Bob won't be starting a running forum post series. It has been requested that he not do that here, and that his web site would be the ideal place for him to display these non-TCDB-listable printing flaws and ink/color level oddities. These are not errors or variations in the sense that the hobby has come to recognize, and TCDB does not recognize them either. If it was to inform and educate about ERR/VARs as defined here, it would be okay, but this is for those not recognized here. It will not be hosted here after all.