Would be way too easy to counterfeit as well. Looks kind of like the ones you can buy through Topps...heck, I had 30 of MY rookie card made when I bowled in the PBA.....thought it was cool at the time.
Those are cards that you could get made up by Big League Chew back then. That was bubblegum packaged to look like chewing tobacco. The company was owned or partially owned by Jim Bouton.
I had some cards made back in the day as business cards, but I think I only have one left and I haven't seen it in a while.
"In 198I Bouton came up with the idea of making professional quality baseball cards that would make anyone a star, using a photo and information supplied by the customer. The business combined short-run color printing with custom typesetting to make small quantities that people could afford. At a cost of only $30 for a set of fifty, the high quality cards were very reasonable. Too reasonable, in fact. The only one making money was the printer. So Bouton sold his company to the printer and licensed the name. You can still get the cards - at a slightly higher price. See below for how to order. Big League Cards 2835 Springboro Rd. W Dayton, OH 45439
Call 1-800-999-9454 Fax 937-294-8896
Click here to order personalized Big League Cards"
There is a set that only one card from has surfaced and I have only seen one copy ever sell. It is made by the same manufacture and was probably someone who had the card made like the information that vols1 posted.
It has been a wrestling card mystery for some time and I think this is a very plausible explanation.
<< <i>So he's a nobody who probably had a card made of himself? >>
Kevin Von Erich was a huge wrestling star. More likely a fan. The information states the customer just needed to submit a photo and information for them to make a card(s).
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
Lots of Big League Cards were not made in 1985 yet all of them says 1985 on the back.........
BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
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I had some cards made back in the day as business cards, but I think I only have one left and I haven't seen it in a while.
Big League Cards
2835 Springboro Rd. W
Dayton, OH 45439
Call 1-800-999-9454 Fax 937-294-8896
Click here to order personalized Big League Cards"
https://kennerstartinglineup.blogspot.com/
I wonder if that information solves the mystery of this card.
<< <i>I've had this card all these years in a plastic sleeve, perfect condition >>
CDsNuts, 1/9/15
<< <i>What's a kevin Von Erich? >>
There is a set that only one card from has surfaced and I have only seen one copy ever sell. It is made by the same manufacture and was probably someone who had the card made like the information that vols1 posted.
It has been a wrestling card mystery for some time and I think this is a very plausible explanation.
<< <i>So he's a nobody who probably had a card made of himself? >>
Kevin Von Erich was a huge wrestling star. More likely a fan. The information states the customer just needed to submit a photo and information for them to make a card(s).
Kevin Von Erich wiki
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable