Sorting Completed from All Sportscaster Decks - Packs - Sets

I decided to focus on sorting and then later go back and check for variations.

The number I don't have isn't bad considering I made no effort to purchase anything but sportscaster lots and sportscaster track lots.  The only card I paid for at a show was Babe Didrikson Zaharias.  Of course getting the last three cards will probably be a challenge - Bird, Johnson and Gretzky.

Here are the number of cards that I am missing from each range of sets.

01 - 09           0 cards

10 - 19           0 cards

20 - 29           2 cards   (Dave Kingman; Walter Payton)

30 - 39           1 card     (32-01 Baseball 3,000-Hit Club - Roberto Clemente pictured)

40 - 49           0 cards

50 - 59         13 cards

60 - 69         21 cards

70 - 79         39 cards

80 - 88         41 cards

101-103       13 cards

Total          130 cards

Time to get back to looking for variations on the front and backs of these cards.

I Found Out More About Phil Ford - Artis Gilmore Sportscaster Error Cards

As I continued to sort the cards I found out that the Artis Gilmore and Four Corner Offense cards have the wrong pictures in some of the print runs.

I can't imagine Artis was involved in many four corner offense schemes.  After he left Jacksonville, they became the first team to average 100 points in a season the next year.  No slow-down offense for them.

Card #36-08 is Artis Gilmore's card.  There are no changes on the back that I can see in the blank print run or in print run "A".  The blank print run and some of the "A" print runs have the Phil Ford photo that I showed yesterday.  Oddly, I also have a print run "A" which properly shows Gilmore in his Chicago Bulls uniform.

I don't have any of this card from print run "B".  I will assume that it is Gilmore.


Card #36-12 is the Four-Corner Offense card.  The blank print run and some of the "A" print runs have the Artis Gilmore photo.  I also have a print run "A" which properly shows Ford on the front.

Both "A" cards give photo credit to Focus on Sports.

The "B" print run card shows Ford but the photo credit changes to Focus on Sports Jerry Wachter.
 

Ford is mentioned on the bottom of the Four Corner Offense card

Who Else is on the Sportscaster Card? - Post #004

Whose Sportscaster card is this?

Or Maybe Who Isn't on This Sportscaster Card?

I'm going to guess that the North Carolina guard shown here is Phil Ford.  Since I asked whose card this is you can probably guess that it isn't Phil Ford's or whoever is pictured here.  That leaves the defender. 

I wonder what the player thought when seeing this card.  Not only is the defender not pictured, I don't think that the player named on the card is even this defender.  The full card is shown below.

Does the defender play for Wake Forest?  Does anyone have a better idea?

I found a few pictures of Jacksonville's uniforms and they don't look like the one shown above.  The stripes are quite different.  Also the guy doesn't seem talk enough to be Gilmore.  

Artis Gilmore last played collegiately in 1970 and Phil Ford began at UNC in 1974.   I didn't find Jacksonville playing against UNC in either of the two years that Gilmore played basketball for the Dolphins.  

Here is the back of the card.  It leads me to believe that Gilmore is the defender.  Is he?  This is card #36-08.  

Maybe I am totally wrong about all of this.  Let me know if this is the case.

More Sorting Complete - Sets 50 - 59

I got through these ten sets.  I have at least one version of each card in sets 50 - 55.  Here is what I am missing in the next four sets.

Set 56 - Marvin Webster (#11), Football's Longest Passes (#18)

Set 57 - Willie Lanier (#01), Dave Winfield (#02)

Set 58 - all eight ballparks - Shea (#01), Busch (#02), Fenway (#05), Memorial (#12), Yankee (#14), Candlestick (#18), Veteran's (#21), Dodger (#23)

Set 59 - Frank Robinson, Manager (#20)

Does anyone want to trade me for these?  If not, at least having this on the blog makes it easy for me to track my want list without being tied to a device or cloud service.

This Sportscaster card has nothing to do with my post today.  I just like the picture and the players depicted - Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller.

Once all sets are sorted I will continue looking for any variations from these sets.

Baseball Hall of Fame or Sonia Lannaman - Why The Switch?

Sorting my Sportscaster cards continues.  For most lower-numbered track and field cards I have 5-10 since I've purchased numerous lots of track and field Sportscasters.  It surprised me to find only one Sonia Lannaman.  I quickly checked the back to see if it was from the UK series (13 064) instead of the North American set (003 05).  Nope it is 003 05.

When sorting I got 10-06 from print "A" as the Baseball Hall of Fame.  In print "B" it is Sonia Lannaman.  Why did the Hall of Fame get bumped?

I don't have the blank print run of either card but I do have the blank print run from the UK series and it is the Baseball Hall of Fame.  I expected it to be Sonia since she ran for Great Britain.  Does anyone have anything to add about this one?

The numbers on the back seem to get smaller each year for me but I did check to see that it isn't 10-05 (Tobogganing), 10-08 (Bill Tilden) or 10-09 (Mario Andretti).

Father-Son Bonding Gave Me This Post Idea - Sportscaster Bobsledding

It hasn't snowed here in four days but we had about 4-6 inches of snow at that time.  With the clear skies and decent temperatures (30s) all of the side streets near me are free of snow and ice.  That's why I was so surprised to see a car off the road yesterday on a side street with a speed limit of 25 mph.

My son and I stopped.  I was not sure what type of person would be behind the wheel since the tire tracks showed that this car somehow when about 20 feet off the road when there was no snow, ice or every turns in the road nearby.

A couple was in front and there was probably their high school/college daughter in the back of this big SUV.  It looked like the kind of vehicle that could just drive out of this amount of snow.  When I asked if we could help push them out they seemed a bit confused.  It turns out they were from southern California so (a) they didn't know what I was talking about with pushing and (b) it was a long story how they ended up in the snow.  I believed them about being from California when the two females asked if they should get out of the car before we push it.

It took about three seconds for us to get the car out and I thought nothing of it.  I'd done that so many times as a child and many times one day when I was in four feet of snow in Colorado.  What I didn't realize until my son and I chatted later was that he had (a) never done that before and (b) had never seen anyone push a car out of snow before.

He is a track star so maybe he could switch to bobsledding like Herschel Walker.  Oh, wait he runs distance so I doubt he'd have the power they'd want.  Who would have thought that my son and I were talking about bobsledding today without watching Cool Runnings?

I didn't see a card picturing the athletes pushing off at the start of the run.  It appears as though there isn't one showing that.  Too bad.  

Who Else is on the Sportscaster Card? - Post #003

Sportscaster card 87-01 has the title "Olympic 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 Meters".  The sub title on the back is "A Race to Glory".  Somehow they chose not to include a picture of any of those races in the Olympics.

It was a lot easier to track down the competitors in the first few cards that I reviewed.  Why?  The back mentioned either the race contested or the competitors.  The race shown here is (a) not an Olympic race and (b) the useless caption title is "All-out in a distance run".

The photographer is Paul Sutton Duomo.  They have an archive but it doesn't seem to help.

Luckily, I recognize the race leader, Jim Stinzi.  He was an assistant coach for my team one year in college.  He also was the collegiate coach for one of my high schoolers.

He didn't graduate from college until 1981 which means he was still a collegiate runner.  So, this race was probably a USATF/AAU Championship meet around 1978 - 1979.

It is also noticeable that Stinzi isn't wearing a race number.  He must have been the rabbit.  That is a normal thing for a star college runner to do.

USA Track and Field lists event winners from National Championships.  Does anyone know where complete results can be found?

I recognize the Athletic Attic runner, the Wisconsin Track Club guy (Donakowski?) and #753 whose sponsor is quite small on his singlet.  On further inspection, that logo looks like it might just be a Frank Shorter sportswear logo.

I did poorly on this one.  I will try to see if one of his former runners can get Coach Stinzi to share more about this picture.