in friday's post i showed a card from the 2021 topps x sports illustrated set, a collaboration between topps and sports illustrated not seen since the early 2000's when fleer and si produced some fantastic cards together. the main difference between the two collabs is that the topps release only used covers.
in addition to that billy martin card, i had acquired the dodger team set which consists of duke snider
that mookie card is fantastic and i will never forget his game 6 home run that sealed the 2020 world series for the dodgers. if i had a vote, i would have voted for mookie as the mvp of the series.
anyway, this was a fun set that i had hoped to see continue in 2022. there are so many baseball covers that could have been turned in to cards, but i guess maybe the sales were too low for topps to keep it going. the snider was the second card in the set, and has a print run of 4,386. that pales in comparison to the first card in the set - mike trout - which had a print run of over 17,000 cards. they were released at the same time (there were two cards per week available online) so i assume some bought the snider as part of a package deal. the other dodgers' print runs are 1,113 for lasorda, 1,495 for kershaw, and 2,590 for betts. the lowest print run of the set looks to be a carlton fisk card at 949 copies sold.
in a tangentially appropriate way, here's a 1995 sports illustrated for kids eric karros card
that entered my collection last spring thanks to a coworker of mine.
now if i could just find that 1990 rick monday card from the padres magazine...
I'm not a big fan of magazine covers on cards. I can remember as a kid seeing packs for the Starlog set, buying two packs, then being extremely disappointed to find that the cards were just old covers of the magazine.
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