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Tony Gwynn finished his career with a .338 lifetime batting average. It is the highest batting average in Major League Baseball since World War II. Over a legendary 20-year career, he struck out just 434 times in 10,232 plate appearances. Gwynn dominated elite pitchers, facing 18 Hall of Fame pitchers but batting an incredible .331…

There were certainly plenty of those in 1989 Fleer Baseball. The set will always be remembered for Billy Ripken’s infamous error card, one of the most recognizable mistakes in hobby history. Ripken was pictured holding a bat with an obscenity written on the knob, creating a card that immediately became impossible for collectors to ignore