Report from Ben N. from South Dakota: This card is 100% counterfeit and not even a real good one, better than most but not top quality. It just blows my mind that PSA graded one real, it just shows all they want is money and do not give a s*** about anything else. First I will tell you how it was made. This card was made in a print shop using a real printing press. The card was designed using a photo shop program with the photo of Bill copied and pasted into place. Now the signs that it is fake. 1) Grey dot bars are different because they need to go past the edges of card so you do not see white edges like test run cards and that is the pattern available in there print shop program. 2) Orioles Logo on front is also just pasted using photo shop pics. available from program. 3) The photo of Bill is larger than on a normal card. This is done so there is no white edge around photo from copying and pasting. Printing Dies do not magically change size for one card version. That and the fact real Fleer printing dies are the size of a whole sheet not one card. The ones you by on ebay are cut from full size dies just like cards are cut from full sheets. 4) The coloring on entire front of card is not consistent with known real cards. Using a magnifying loop look at the orange stripes at top and bottom of photo on front on the Mystery card they are put on backwards, but in the right pattern on the rest of orange/red on the card. This means that a different program was used to separate the colors when making the printing plates for mystery card and there is no way this happened at Fleer. 5) Ink is of a different higher quality. I never done the black light ink test because I do not have one. 6) Card stock is not even close in thickness. Real 1989 Fleer card stock is thicker. The card stock(smoother) is why the black print looks to be sharper and of better quality on entire card. 7) 95% of the back is just copied and pasted from a real card. The copyright line and Printed in USA are different because they had to use the grey dot patten lines from the photo shop program again to not get the fake looking white line on top or bottom of the card. 8) Yellow on back covering stats has a different print pattern also from color separation program. 9) I almost forgot the photo itself actually made one of my print friends LOL when he seen it. The photo itself is copied from a real card and you can tell because it is of a lower quality. If it was a real Fleer card they would have used the original like they used on every other card/die and there would be no difference in photo quality. Every time a photo is copied it looses some quality. If you take a Mystery card and a real card and put then side by side and scan and print them on a home printer the photo quality difference will stick out even more. There are many more things but I am just doing this from memory and lets be real if this was a rookie Cal Ripken with all these obvious counterfeit signs would anyone think it is real? Bill Ripken collectors are very serious and dedicated people but are always looking for that rare version and the only reason I can think of that it is even entertained as real. Again how the hell does PSA grade one of these? I only traded for one so I could see one in person and get my own opinion. My friend that works in a print shop and does the same kind of work(not counterfeiting cards) says it would take 2-3 hours from start to finish to make these cards from scratch and would be very easy. -------------- My friend that works in a small print shop that has 20+ years of experience did give the high quality commercial photo printer as a printing option but says you need a 200X scope to see the print dots from them. My cheap top lighted scope is only 60-100X. I also have 90 Fleer Canadian cards and the paper is similar at best, front is close but texture on back is way different. I also do not think the person did it for money. I think they just chose a card they thought was cool and made a few for fun and then sold them. This is a test I did not do because I do not have a black light. Black light is one of the tricks used by authenticators of vintage autographs. The newer the ink/paper the more it will glow under a black light because of additives to make it more eye appealing. This method can help you can date ink and paper. Most fakes stick out because they were made using home printers and the print dots can be seen even without magnification if you know what to look for. Plus they are printed on the wrong paper stock. The card edges also give them away because of using a home paper cutter. Trust me when I say this is a "homemade fake" and not even a good one. By "homemade fake" I do not mean made in someone's home because it was made in a commercial printing facility. It is way too nice to be made in someone's home and maybe the reason some are having problems calling if counterfeit.