2007 Bowman's Best Baseball Forum

According to BaseballCardPedia:

NOTE: Card #45 (on the provisional checklist as John Maine) does not exist.

...and we were about to delete this card from our checklist last week since BCP has been pretty much accurate (even with being open to public edits) and the card was nowhere to be found online ... then suddenly scans for the card appeared five days ago and it was added to a collection!



I reached out to the user and they told me they have the card and these are scans of it, so as of now it looks like the card DOES exist and production was halted on it for some reason.

So even though many of us use BCP as a resource and it has helped a ton, just another reminder to research and confirm things as much as you can when making updates.

I have found many errors in BCP, just us, it's a crowd-sourced tool, and is there fore subject to errors. Heck, Beckett is a company that gets its money from providing price guides of checklisted cards, and they are wrong quite a bit too. This is why I've become very big on visual verification. :)

I'm the user with this card. I really hadn't thought much of it since I acquired it (I TC Mets primarily and got this on COMC). But I hadn't ever seen it for sale before or after. I did, however, find it a little bit odd that it wasn't listed in the checklist for this set and only suggested adding it when I was logging my collection into the site.

I think this card was not supposed to have been released. If you look at the autograph on the card (or on the sticker), as compared to other John Maine AU cards (I have an '07 Topps highlights AU in my collection as well), it's not the same autograph. I don't know if this means that they stuck the wrong autograph on these cards, or Topps ran out of Maine autograph stickers or whatever. But it appears that this card must have been pulled because the wrong autograph is on it.

It does beg a couple of questions, though:

1) Whose autograph is it, actually?

2) How did I end up with one (and, to be honest, it didn't take me long to find this)?

Autograph looks like Erik Bedard.

That's not John Maine's autograph but Bounty hit on it.

Possibly they screwed up all the AU stickers on his cards and didn't release the card and some were backdoored out of Topps.