1989 Fleer #381 Randy Johnson Marlboro Error Cards

07/31/2025

This blue box variation sold for $500 recently!

03/25/2024

Added a 2nd blue box to the collection! These cards are as rare as they come from 80’s!

08/24/2023

03/09/2021

I was thinking about opening a box of 1989 Fleer soon. Should I live stream it here?

10/14/2020

There has been some recent discussions on the Marlboro errors on the Blowout and Net54 forums. You can follow along or join in on the conversation with the following links.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=263992

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1411627

1989 Fleer Randy Johnson Quest BASEBALL

03/04/2020

What appears to be another version of “The Clear” variation just sold recently. This would only be the 2nd known example of this card to my knowledge. Oddly enough, the other clear version was submitted together with this card to PSA, as they are sequentially numbered. Did one of you win the auction? I would love to see a good scan of the card. It appears to have a light green or blue tinting around the letters in Marlboro. What do you think?

01/08/2019

Having a great conversation here on the Marlboro errors. Some new ideas, some nice images of the clear version and more.

Forum for the discussion of primarily baseball cards that were issued in 1980 and later.

01/01/2019

30 years ago today Fleer released their 1989 baseball product. Card #381 had multiple variations of the Marlboro ad being covered and some of those variations also contained what I believe to be a separate printing obstruction error as well. It appears that a rectangular shaped object(card stock?) obstructed part of the printing process and left a footprint that is located between his head and the word pitcher and runs parallel to the blue line. The rectangular discoloration almost appears to have some overspray around it perimeter. The printing error is on pretty large percentage of cards that have green tinting and not on any of the cards with red tinting. Here we are 30 years later and this is another strange feature to the errors that I’ve never seen discussed. We have about 800 scans of the cards done so I hope to be updating my Flickr page soon with all the images and also discuss some more details of the Marlboro variations.