When A Bat Is Also A Cork

It is always fun to see the 2000 Pacific Invincible Many Ramirez corked bat card show up for sale. I don’t remember the last time it sold, but I remember it has shown up around $2,000 the last couple of times. It came up for auction again two weeks ago with a BIN of $2,000 when the auction ended without selling the seller relisted it but at $5,000, because everyone knows that when something does not sell you increase the price to draw in the buyers. As cool as the card is I would never pay this amount for a quirky relic card that includes a piece of cork out of a batting practice bat (What a Pacific rep once claimed).

Cork It!

So Manny Ramirez’s Pacific Invincible corked bat card has shown up on eBay again, this time with a $5,000 BIN/BO price. I remember when this card first showed up in 2000 and I thought it was insane going for like $500, shows how wrong I was on that one. This card is a legend, even if it is for the wrong reason, and it makes a bigger splash each time it appears.

 

I came across this Reggie Jackson Sweet Spot corked bat card for a $660 BIN price. I don’t remember hearing about this card before, is it something that I just missed, is it just showing up now or is it just a complete fake?

Even more questions come from a receipt that the seller included in the auction, there is a receipt from (or to) a wood shop dated March 2001 describing the card. Does this mean that the card was bought/sold in 2001 or does it mean that the wood shop made the corked piece that someone fraudulently inserted in to the card after it was pulled from a pack?

Does anyone know anything about this Reggie Jackson card?