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'''Bip:''' To pull multiple copies of the same card from a single pack. Term was coined by | [[Image:bip.jpg|right|frame|Multiple copies of a 1997 Circa Bip Roberts]] | ||
'''Bip:''' To pull multiple copies of the same card from a single pack. Term was coined by a poster to the cardblog A Pack A Day, who pulled ten copies of [http://apackaday.blogspot.com/2008/06/repack-box-remorse-volume-2-stealth.html Bip Roberts' 1994 Upper Deck card from a 2008 Upper Deck Baseball retail box.] It has since been made famous by cardblogger [http://thorzul.blogspot.com/2010/01/assignment-reach-out-and-bip-someone.html Bill "Thorzul" Boehm.] | |||
Bipping has evolved into a highly-elaborate, but good-natured, prank where a collector mails multiple copies of the same undesirable card (usually, but not necessarily cards of Bip Roberts) to a fellow collector. | Bipping has evolved into a highly-elaborate, but good-natured, prank where a collector mails multiple copies of the same undesirable card (usually, but not necessarily cards of Bip Roberts) to a fellow collector. | ||
[[Category: Hobby Definitions]] | [[Category: Hobby Definitions]] | ||
Latest revision as of 15:01, 19 February 2010
Bip: To pull multiple copies of the same card from a single pack. Term was coined by a poster to the cardblog A Pack A Day, who pulled ten copies of Bip Roberts' 1994 Upper Deck card from a 2008 Upper Deck Baseball retail box. It has since been made famous by cardblogger Bill "Thorzul" Boehm.
Bipping has evolved into a highly-elaborate, but good-natured, prank where a collector mails multiple copies of the same undesirable card (usually, but not necessarily cards of Bip Roberts) to a fellow collector.