Courtesy of Keith Reifsnyder who posted this on Facebook, this 2008 Willie Bloomquist card is weird enough with a total of twenty-three 11s in the second column.
But look closely at the 51 and you’ll see that he should actually have twenty-four. He has a 51-9-1. It’s an odd place for a second column 1 and Bloomquist didn’t hit any homers anyway. I think the printers missed a ‘1’.
How many ones?
Despite the missing numero uno, I’ll wager that Willie Bloomquist’s 2008 card has the record for the most ‘1’s on an APBA card. He has a total of 83 (yes, I counted them). It helps that he is 5’11” and was born on 11-27, by the way. Ironic, that for all his ones on his APBA card, he didn’t hit a homerun for that year.
As someone commented on Facebook, the 25-11-11 is something fun to look at, too.
thanks Keith!
I about 99% sure that I read APBA officially issued a correction of 51-9-11.