9. Upper Deck produced baseball cards that included players with “porn-star-sounding” names using serial numbers ending in ’69’
I mean, nothing really ever can top Billy Ripken’s “F*ckface” baseball card, but Upper Deck sure did try. The popular baseball card company — intentionally or not — quietly gave some of Major League Baseball’s most “porn-sounding names” the final two digits of “69.” Whether it was Dick Schofield at #269, Heathcliff Slocumb at #569, or Dickie Thon at #769, urban legends have someone inside the production line within the card company throwing out these “wink wink” random names.
Needless the say, the company never admitted to the inside joke but, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher John Wehner (pronounced “Waner”) sitting at No. 469 is a little suspicious. Then again, it was the early 1990s, when the general public still had a sophomoric and less-sensitive sense of humor. Perhaps it was coincidence, but — as a child of the early 1990s — I was fully aware of the joke (or appearance of a joke).
