Nestor Aparicio

Did you have that special Billy Ripken baseball card?

Nestor Aparicio

Baltimore Positive is the vision and the creative extension of four decades of sharing the love of local sports for this Dundalk native and University of Baltimore grad, who began his career as a sportswriter and music critic at The News American and The Baltimore Sun in the mid-1980s. Launched radio career in December 1991 with Kenny Albert after covering the AHL Skipjacks. Bought WNST-AM 1570 in July 1998, created WNST.net in 2007 and began diversifying conversations on radio, podcast and social media as Baltimore Positive in 2016. nes@baltimorepositive.com

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If you’re already smiling, you probably did have that 1989 Fleer “special” Billy Ripken baseball card with the special knob of the bat.

I was a MAJOR baseball card collector, trader and dealer as a kid. I still think baseball cards from one’s childhood are the greatest asset any grown man can obtain. The error cards and the rookie cards are always a lot of fun.

But there was only one Ripken “error” card. So was it an “error”? Billy Ripken came clean with cnbc’s Darren Rovell. Now you know the rest of the story…