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Jose Bautista's epic bat flip will be immortalized on a Topps baseball card

By Mike Bertha

Back in October, Jose Bautista came as close as humanly possible to stopping the Earth's rotation with an emphatic bat flip that punctuated a Blue Jays comeback in Game 5 of the ALDS:

That footage is the most-watched Vine in @MLB history ... and now it's an integral part of your baseball card collection, because the moment has realized its destiny as a card in the new Topps set:

You're not going to want to put that thing in your bike spokes or flip it into a bucket -- you're going to want to hoard as many copies of it as you possibly can so that you can wallpaper your bedroom with them.

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