by BretMan » September 6th, 2011, 12:13 am
That is too strange!
When I was a kid, I first got the "collecting bug" with coins, then moved on to comic books. It isn't unheard of for a comic book to have been accidently produced with two covers. Being mass-produced on high speed presses, it's understandable how two sheets of paper might stick together before being stapled to the rest of the book.
Double-cover comics do bring a slight premium. And an unusual standard has evolved to handle grading these oddities. A grade is assigned to the better of the two covers (usually the inner one that's been protected from wear). Even if the outer cover is beat up, a book could still get a higher grade based on the condition of the inner cover.
But how the heck does this happen to a baseball glove, where each one is hand-made? It seems like it would be pretty obvious to someone making a glove that something was amiss! You would almost think that this had to be intentional.