Sportscaster Series #22 Variations That I Have Found

 Note - not many interesting variations in this set/deck.

I have all of the blank, A and B print runs in this deck.

22-23 Cycling World Records.  The first print run (blank) has been updated with new records in the A print run.  It is updated again in the B print run.

22-15 Vasaloppett.  The blank print run has records up to 1977.  The A print run adds 1978 and the B print run adds 1979.

22-13 Oxford and Cambridge.  The blank print run has records up to 1977.  The A print run adds 1978 and the B print run adds 1979.  This seems to be common in the Sportscaster set.

22-03  Women Champions.  The blank print run has winners up to 1977.  The A print run adds 1978 and the B print run adds 1979.

22-01 Sam Snead.  From the first print run (blank) to the A print run, the caption changed and the Awards and Records section has been updated.  I forgot to get a picture of these ones.

Sportscaster Checklists on the Trading Card Database

 It looks like someone added most/all of the checklists on the Trading Card Database for these cards.  It includes the following - 

USA / North American version

UK version

French version

Finnish version

Swedish version

German version (series 103 only)

None are listed for the Belgian set or the Dutch set, which I don't think exists.

I look forward to checking these out so that I can see which cards I need that have track and field athletes.  I especially want to see if any athletes from Chariots of Fire are listed in the UK set without being in the USA version.

Rosemont, IL Card Show Today

 I spent lots of time looking around the show today for Sportscaster cards.  I saw one stack of basketball cards and that was it.  Their prices were out of my range so I moved on.  Has anyone been finding Sportscaster cards anywhere?

My First COMC Order, A New Project and Another Coaching Season Begins

 I found some track and field cards that I wanted on COMC.com.  I didn't check prices guides or anything like that since I only buy affordable cards.  I've been involved in running since the 1970s but I don't know much about the card sets, prices, availability, etc.  I've mostly focused on baseball cards, Sportscaster cards, Kellogg's cards and Starting Lineup figures and cards.

Here is what I picked up.  I will assume they are from the set that was mentioned on COMC.com since I have no other knowledge and no reason to doubt them. 

A few cards depicting persons from the movie Chariots of Fire, which focused on the 1924 Olympics.  I saw the movie soon after it was released on one of the coldest days in Chicago history.  Why is that memorable?  As a student, we walked to the train and spent far too long waiting for it.  

That was a first date that didn't lead to many more.  She wanted to go see a religious movie and I wanted to see a running movie.  She's probably a millionaire banker and I am the one teaching at a Catholic school.  

This Lord Burghley card is from the 1926 Lambert & Butler Who's Who in Sport.  He didn't approve the use of his name in the movie so there is a character in the movie called Lord Lindsay who has many similarities to Burghley.  

This Charles Paddock card is from the 1932 Bulgaria Sports Photos set.  He medaled in the 200

The next two cards are from the 1936 Gallagher Sporting Personalities set.  

Harold Abrahams was one of the featured competitors in the movie.  His coach uttered one of my favorite coaching lines that I cannot use - "you can't put in what God's left out."  Once a runner asked me if she could be an Olympian and before she could finish the sentence I said no.  To this day, when I see her she jokingly says that I crushed her Olympic dream.  She probably should have tried to be the best runner on her own team first.

I loved the scene of Abraham's quad run at Cambridge with Lord Lindsay.  This was deemed to be fictional.  I read that Burghley was the first one to actually complete that run before the last strike of the clock.  

The Roger Bannister card below is from the 1969 Brooke Bond Famous People set.  It looks like it almost could have been a Sugar Daddy card.  I remember getting Sugar Daddy cards, but they somehow didn't survive.  Most of my odd-sized cards didn't survive for some reason.  

The Sebastian Coe sticker is from a 1986 Panini set.  I just wanted to add a card of Coe.  

I look forward to more purchases from this site.  I think I will try to find cards of Athletics medalists that are older than my Sportscaster cards.  Maybe I will start with those medalists who weren't included in the Sportscaster set.  Has anyone done something like this?  Will I find lots of medalists who have no cards?

Saw Just One Sportscaster Card at a Show on Sunday...

 ...and I couldn't afford it.  

It was so unfortunate that I didn't even want to take a picture for the blog.  

I'm sure the dealer would have given me a fair price, but the Magic Johnson won't be finding its way into my collection at the current prices.  So, probably never.

I did pick up more Track and Field Sportscaster cards from ebay this week because I just can't get enough of them.  Lots of high numbers too.  Since I started this challenge with my original collection and then track and field cards,  I now have all of the North American version of track and field cards.

Sportscaster Series #21 Variations That I Have Found - More Points Than Wilt?

Moving forward with another look at Sportscaster card variations.  I have all of the 72 cards in this series between three different printings - blank, "A", "B".  I have a few (7) from printing "C".  So, I suspect that there will be a few variations of statistics at least.  I have an unopened pack of series 21C but I am not willing to open that to see about any variations.

21-01 Alpine Skiing - Olympic Downhill.  No changes until the "C" printing which actually updates the back with the 1980 Olympic results.  That certainly gives an idea of when this printing was completed.

21-02 Auto Racing - Karting in Europe.  The "A' and "B" print run are the same but they have updated results compared to the first printing.

21-07 -No variations--. Boxing - Archie Moore.  I just thought it was interesting that his date of birth is listed as 1913 or 1916.

                            OOPS -- I forgot to get a picture of this one.  

21-13 Cycling - Tour of Lombardy.  The "B" printing shows updated results.

21-14 -No variations-- Once in a while something makes me read more about a particular card.  This was one.  It states that he holds the NCAA record with 113 points in a game.  Now, I've got to read about this.  The text says he scored 116 for Rio Grande College, which is in Ohio and not Texas.  He averaged 50.1 points a game.  

I'm glad I read this.  Clarence Francis and his Rio team caused the NCAA to change their rules.  The NCAA declared that a record would only count if it was against a four-year, academic degree-granting institution.  The Rio team played a lot of schools that didn't meet those requirements.  After the rule change he scored 113 points in a game that did count as the record.

There have been seven 100+-point games in NCAA history and he has two of them.  

21-17 Volleyball - Dictionary / Glossary.  The first printing has a title on the front and back called Dictionary.  That was changed in printings "A" and "B" to Glossary.  The icons on the front also differ in the first printing.

21-19 Boxing - The World Heavyweight Title.  The "A" and "B" printing add text about Ali losing to Leon Spinks and later claiming the title again.

OOPS -- I forgot to take a picture of this one.  

21-21 Weightlifting - The Records.  The "A" and "B" prints include records updates with different as-of dates.

Wide World of Sports (WWS) in the 1970s allowed us to see other sports even with cable and without the internet.  Winter weekends could include skiing, indoor track, weightlifting, the Globetrotters, etc.  The Superstars competition was fun to watch too but I don't know if it was on WWS.

Alexiev was the weightlifting star.  He was paid every time he set a world record so he'd try to set them by the smallest possible amount so he'd collect more bonuses.  

21-22 Auto Racing - Monaco GP.  The first printing has 1977 results.  "A" adds 1978 results and "B" adds 1979 results.

21-23 Nordic Skiing - Odd Martinsen.  The "A" and "B" printings have added some results from 1976-77.

21-24 Beyond Gymnastics - The Horizontal (high) Bar.  The only difference is on the front actually.  The first printing has the two overlapping icons seen on the top right above another icon.  That is changed for the other printings to just one icon atop another.