Friday, January 7, 2022

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.



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