It started out as a playful idea when Upper Deck decided to do Presidential Predictors in the its recently released 2008 Upper Deck Series I Baseball product. Barack Obama was in there. John McCain was in there. John Edwards was in there. And Hillary Clinton.

McCain was in a Ted Williams pose, linking the two celebrated war heroes. Obama was patterned after Jermaine Dye. Edwards was patterned after Moonlight Graham with both being healthcare advocates. But what to do with Hillary? Well, remember that Morgana The Kissing Bandit? While it seemed like a good idea (and still does to me), Upper Deck pulled the Clinton cards before the product hit fearing they might be casting Clinton in a negative manner. Amazingly enough, some have reached the secondary market (not to be confused with Topps' Alex Gordon accidents in 2006 Topps Baseball or Topps' Jeter/Bush/Mantle in 2007 Topps Baseball). How many? Good question. Maybe 50. Maybe 500. Maybe 5,000.

The first wave of them has hit eBay and they are selling very high. One sold for $1,500 on Feb. 12. Two more are ending today and are up to $1,625 and $1,025. My guess is that these will settle quite a bit in the next month, much like any other "wasn't supposed to be released" card seems to do.