Typos I can live with, but there is absolutely no place for factual errors. They come about because of incompetent writing and editing, and a general lack of caring to get it right. And right now it seems that Topps is just that, incompetent and uncaring.
How else can you explain this, from Andre Dawson's Power Alley card in 2016 Gypsy Queen...
This is not some obscure fact. This is not a typo. Its pretty basic baseball knowledge.
How does someone that is hired to write information on baseball cards not know which side of town the two Chicago teams are on?
How does someone that is hired to edit information on baseball cards not know which side of town the two Chicago teams are on?
Will there ever be a stop to the incompetence??
My guess, working in the print and news industry, is that with the gross amount of items Topps is pumping out, and companies downsizing on a routine basis, that composing and production staffs are smaller, and deadlines are more daunting. It doesn't make an excuse for a South Sider notation on a Cubs card, but I have been there before with information that everyone goes "Well, duh!" in the room, then somehow it appears completely wrong in the printed copy.
ReplyDeleteBut, when you are a flagship company with the holding rights to dozens products that are being consumed on an international basis, someone better be looking that stuff over. And then someone else looks it over.
Back in the 80s, that Dawson card would have a corrected version put out in a second shipment to select New York hobby dealers and the Dawson ERR/COR versions would be crazy popular!!!
"And right now it seems that Topps is just that, incompetent and uncaring."
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the world without competition from Fleer, Donruss, and Upper Deck!
Heck, I'd be happy with Score or Sportflics as long as they got their basic facts right.
DeleteLooks like an opportunity for our friend, Brian, 30 Year old Cardboard. He could send a copy to Andre and have him cross of "South", write in North and initial it. I've never been happy with the exclusive deals. I still think Upper Deck makes better cards.
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