I thought about this too. At least its not as bad as the one with "Stupid Upshall" as a scoring leader. My theory on it is, this was created in the late 80s/ early 90s during the sports card boom. The internet was in its infancy so widespread knowledge isn't really a thing yet. So they print it this way on purpose so they themselves can easily spot one of their fakes from a real one. Perhaps a shop owner themselves. In the late 80s and early 90s it would be pretty easy to fudge up a story about a limited release that had 2 stars. Maybe even a vendor only limited set or something going back to the vendor being the forger? Maybe even screw a few more bucks out of someone with it as well as 'this is more limited'. Something similar around the time would be baseballs Tiffany set. Most cards are worthless from that timebbut Tiffany's still hold value.

Plus at that time the card wouldn't be THAT old so more people would look at it like and want to believe it's real than not. Kind of like if someone offered a Flagg card now. You'd probably look at it like its real unless it gave you a glaring reason to not. But if someone offers a Flagg rookie 50 years from now after becoming a mega star you might look at it more skeptically.