Baseball cards yes, but scammer cards? That's apparently the idea behind trading card company Topps' latest set of cards, scheduled for release this summer, called the "World's Biggest hoaxes, Hoodwinks and Bamboozles."To be honest, it's a subset of cards, and it will include:
- Bernie Madoff
- Charles Ponzi (who invented the scam Madoff used)
- The Runaway Bride
- Idaho (what?)
- The Turk
- Enron
- Anna Anderson
- Ferdinand Waldo Demara
- San Serriffe
- D.B. Cooper
- Spaghetti Trees
- Victor Lustig
- The War of the Worlds
- George Parker
- The Bathtub Hoax
- The Cottingley Fairies
- James Reavis
- The Piltdown Man
- The Cardiff Giant
- Cold Fusion
The Topps 2009 Allen & Ginter release will include cards of some 260 baseball players along with cards of historic figures and "world champions" from realms outside baseball. This year's product, though, will also nod to Madoff's financial chicanery as part of a group of cards featuring the "world's biggest hoaxes, hoodwinks and bamboozles." Among the other do-badders in the subset are Charles Ponzi, The Runaway Bride, and Enron.If you're looking to burn one of these, it'll take some luck: the odds of finding a Madoff is one in 12 packs.
"These cards feature 20 perpetrators of some of the most notorious pranks, dubious claims, and outright frauds of the last 2 centuries," boasts a Topps sell-sheet for the collection.
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This year's product, though, will also nod to Madoff's financial chicanery as part of a group of cards featuring the "world's biggest hoaxes, hoodwinks and bamboozles.
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