Sportscaster Card from Japan - Nadia Comaneci in Deck 10

I read that the North American version of Sportscaster cards were printed in Italy and Japan for the first seven series (decks) only.  My cards follow that pattern except for one.  I have a Nadia Comaneci (10-03) from Italy and Japan.   The ones from Japan are from the blank print run.

I've been trying to only focus on back variations so far but for this card I need to consider the front as well.

Here is what I have.  Can anyone provide more information on this?

I have two versions from the blank print run.  One is from Japan and one is from Italy.  Both have an icon on the front that lists gymnastics as an indoor and outdoor sport.   FYI - I didn't know what that icon meant until I looked it up today.

I have two different versions of the print run 'A' card.  Both are from Italy.  There are updated statistics from 1977.

These cards only differ on the front.  Notice that the icons to the left of the gymnastic icon have changed.  The top icon designates gymnastics as being an indoor sport.  The lower one listed it as indoor and outdoor.  

Even if the Japanese printing of this card is a promo card or something I find it odd that the print run 'A' card has variations on the front.  Will there be others within a print run that have changes?  Does anyone know more about this before I plow through all of my cards?

UPDATE - I forgot that I have a 'B' print run card too. 

This card has additional results from 1978 and 1979. 

The 'B' print run also has gymnastics listed as an indoor sport based on the icon on the front.  Do print runs 'C' or 'D' exist for series 10?

Foreign Sportscaster Cards

I've not gotten around to sorting these cards since I haven't even finished the North American Sportscaster cards.  Here is what I have.

The picture above shows my Sportscaster cards from Germany (left), Belgium (middle) and Sweden (right). 

The second picture shows my Sportscaster cards from France (front, left), the UK (front, rigtht) and Finland (box in back).

I still have no checklists for these cards.  I could probably only start a checklist for the set from Finland since I have a lot of them.

I don't have any from Italy or the Netherlands.  Does anyone have any of these?  Does anyone even know the numbering system used in the Dutch set?

Sportscaster Checklist is Getting Closer to Being Done

Maybe I can finish it over the holiday break from school.  I am just about done sorting the Sportscaster cards that I added to my collection over the past few months.  Most of them were from the first ten series so I probably don't need many variations in that stack.

I need exactly 100 cards now, not counting variations.  I am chasing the variations but I am focused on getting these 100 cards, or at least 97 of them.  I don't know if I will ever get the Gretzky, Bird or Magic Johnson and that is okay.

I updated a list of the 25 lowest numbers that I need to complete this set.  It can be seen on the right side of this blog.

I am still looking for checklists for the foreign sets since I have a decent number from about five different countries.  Does anyone have information on that?

Sportscaster Series #16 Variations That I Have Found

I've got a few more piles of cards to sort, but I need to continue listing variations that I've found. 

Here is what I found for the 24 cards in Series #16 so far.   It looks like the first print run has no letter.  I've only found those from Italy.   In addition, I am finding print run "A" and print run "B".  So I'm working on getting all three versions for Series #16.

Is there a first print run from Japan?  I read yesterday that only the first seven decks were printed in both Japan and Italy.  It was also mentioned that only decks 1 - 7 were printed in Japan.  My data confirms that.

I have every card from print run 'A' and 'B'.  I am missing eight cards from the first print run.

Here are the back variations I've seen.  I have yet to check for variations on the front of the cards.

16-10  Track and Field History - Guy Drut - 'A' is formatted differently than the blank version
16-11  Albert Zweifel - The Awards and Records are updated in 'B'

Rosemont, IL Card Show

I went to the show at Rosemont yesterday.  It was great to have time to look through everything on display.  I stayed for over 2 1/2 hours and I saw a total of two Sportscaster cards.  The Johnny Bench was $5.00 so I didn't even bother to look at the card that was beneath it. 

Quite a disappointment since I haven't really been to shows or flea markets this year.