An oddball "card" if ever there was one

 It is strange to me what the Trading Card Database considers a baseball card sometimes. I think of something that is, on average, 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Some are bigger, some are smaller. 

One thing I love about the TCDb is that items are always being added as they are, for lack of a better word, discovered. I do not know about you, but I am always finding out about product(s) that existed in my heyday of my first collecting phase as a kid in the 1980s that I had no clue about. And the best part about collecting now as a borderline old fogey is that sometimes I can just go out and get it. 

This is exactly what happened with I saw the 1988 Good Ideas Baseball Super Star Action Pop-Ups set. Now, the Db considers this a trading card. But it most emphatically is not a trading card. The set includes the following:

Don Mattingly batting, Don Mattingly fielding, Gary Carter catching, Dave Winfield, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Jack Clark, Keith Hernandez, and Gary Carter batting. So there is some weird stuff going on there being predominantly Yankees and Mets, with Jack Clark of the Cardinals thrown in for weird measure. 

But I was interested in the Darryl Strawberry one and found it on ebay for a whopping $1.27 and nearly 7 times the amount in shipping. Which is fair as it is rather large.

Here is a scan of the "card" and the base.

And here is a photograph of the card in the holder!

Now what I do not understand is why this is clearly Darryl Strawberry and he is in his Mets uniform but the base/platform has a New York Yankees top hat logo (a superb logo, but the way). The packaging was rather dirty but I put it down to age and dust and what not as there really was not evident evidence of tampering with the package. But it has to have been because I have seen another Strawberry out there with a Mets sticker; as well as the Gooden and Hernandez. So, very strange. Maybe I have an "error" card! The Strawberry part is clearly creased, but that is ok: I am much older than this thing and am very creased, too. But the Darryl Strawberry New York Mets sticker did look a little, um, wrinkled? So it is clearly a case of tampering... The MLB logo had lost its adhesiveness but I got it on for the photo. 

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