Hillary’s Upper Deck Card is Selling for Nearly $4,000

Hillary’s Presidential Upper Deck card went from run of the mill to limited edition in a hurry, and now it is selling on eBay for close to $4,000. Why? First off, it’s because it is so funny, or depending who you are, offensive:

“We wanted this set to be light and humorous and chronicle presidential history,” explained Terry Melia, Upper Deck’s public relations manager. “We married each candidate to a character or moment in baseball history.”

The cards (sprinkled through the regular baseball card set at a ratio of one per every eight packs) feature a caricature of each presidential candidate in a baseball role. Mitt Romney, for example, is seen as Carlton Fisk, waving his famous home run just past the foul pole in the 1975 World Series.

“The others were all male,” Melia said. “Hillary, being the only female in the lineup, we were reaching for comparisons to make.”

Well, they could’ve made her one of the professional women ballplayers honored in the movie, “A League of Their Own.”

Instead they made her Morganna, “The Kissing Bandit.”

Hillary Clinton Baseball card

Nice.

The second reason it’s worth so much is that the crew pulled most of the cards out of the run:

The production line in Carlsbad, Calif., was immediately shut down.

“We went down onto the production floor and were literally pulling them manually out of the hoppers,” Melia said.

But some cards had already been shipped. Melia wouldn’t divulge a number but says “98 percent” of the Hillary cards were withdrawn.

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