From the vault of the sublime, a friend recently e-mailed me a story (hat tip Joel) about how the Topps Company plans to release a set of trading cards depicting the “world’s biggest hoaxes, hoodwinks and bamboozles” (see Topps to Issue Cards with Swindlers). According to Fortune:

This year’s product will…nod to Madoff’s financial chicanery as part of a group of cards featuring the “world’s biggest hoaxes, hoodwinks and bamboozles.” Among the other do-badders in the subset are Charles Ponzi, The Runaway Bride, and Enron.

“These cards feature 20 perpetrators of some of the most notorious pranks, dubious claims, and outright frauds of the last 2 centuries,” boasts a Topps sell-sheet for the collection.

Apparently the “gimmicky” cards depicting the deplorable will be inserted into packs of baseball cards.

Upon hearing the news, I confess I chuckled at first. I’m always game for a good laugh. But then reality set in: The cards would be much funnier, and certainly less crass, had the victims of these “hoaxes, hoodwinks and bamboozles” not lost so much money.

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