Chesty Morganna For President

The Upper Deck trading card company caused the biggest stir from the industry in decades when they produced a Hillary Clinton insert card that featured the Senator, former First Lady and Democratic Presidental hopeful in a very precaious pose. A very busty Mrs Clinton is pictured with short-shorts laying one on ballplayer in high socks and pullover jersey.

The caricature series called Presidential Predictors is a insert subset found in random UD packs. The presidential hopefuls are mirrored with baseball player’s bios. John McCain, who spent time in a North Vietnamese POW camp has his political career compared to Ted Williams’ baseball career which was twice interrupted by his service as a fighter pilot in WW2 and Korea. The geniuses at Upper Deck mirrored Mrs. Clinton career to the Kissing Bandit – Chesty Morganna – who would run on the field and enmbrace baseball players with her 60-24-39 figure to much fanfare in the 1970s and 1980s. I heard a rumour that the Upper Deck board of governors pushed through the Morganna card despite several recounts and questioned ballots over the original baseball equivalent of a Mrs Clinton card — Marge Schott – Yikes.

It is amazing this card even made it to the press. It is in immensly bad taste. The caricature doesn’t even really resemble Mrs. Clinton. She looks terribly unattractive. The card was pulled from further prints soon after release. Like the Upper Deck company some contributors to MUD.com are low class as seen in the gratuitous reprint of the questionable card.

The publicity could be good for the industry. The short print Clinton cards are fetching between $500-$1000 on eBay. A combination of bad taste, short print runs and a competitive race for the Democratic nomination should see baseball fans start “Ripping and Pulling” this summer.

Just to note, in the photos below The Ryan Express did not give Chesty the same reception when she charged the mound as when Robin Ventura did in the early 1990s.