Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Sportscaster Cards are a Challenge for Player and Team Collectors

The Sportscaster cards are great with their large photos and interesting stories on the back.  They can be quite a challenge for set collectors because of the way that checklists are created.

The card pictured below is listed as "Basketball Lingo".  Some checklists might also refer to Pete Maravich since he is the focus of the photo.  None would probably mention the New Orleans Jazz or the Washington Bullets.  The Jazz moved to Utah in 1979 while this set was still in production but the picture is from a prior season while the team was in New Orleans.



How does one get around that?  The site http://sportscastercards.com/ can show you a picture of the cards from each set.

The oddity of the checklist has proven less of a challenge for me since I want to get the entire set, but it was a challenge early on when I wanted to get every track and field card.  The Beyond Sports subset leaves no mention as to what sport is being depicted.

2 comments:

  1. I had that set as a kid. (Or one of the sets, if there were more than one.) I had that card, I remember that. I also had the jai alai card (which the editors of the series spelled with at least one apostrophe, and maybe two).

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  2. I had that set as a kid. (Or one of the sets, if there were more than one.) I had that card, I remember that. I also had the jai alai card (which the editors of the series spelled with at least one apostrophe, and maybe two).

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