Same card number

LarkinCollector · February 23, 2015 2:49AM

I've found quite a few in my Larkin collection where he gets the same card number in different (and in some cases back-to-back) years of the same set:

1987 RC & 1988 Donruss #492
1998 & 2000 Stadium Club #30
2001 & 2002 Donruss Classics #43 (same number also used in 2001 for Donruss Signature Series, Leaf Certified Materials, Studio)
2000 & 2002 Topps #85
2000 & 2001 Upper Deck #85

or different card companies using the same card number in the same year:

1992 Score & Stadium Club #100
2000 Skybox EX & Pacific Omega #36

This isn't even counting all the times his uni # has been used as a card number. Anyone else run into this in their player collections?

DanBessette · February 23, 2015 2:50AM

Off the top of my head, Yaz is card #280 in consecutive Topps issues: 1974 & 75. Now I'm gone searching for more. I think there are some Cappelletti ones too.

E2A: Gino: 64 & 65 Topps #5. In fact, although they're a mix of Fleer & Topps, check out the card numbers for a 6 year run of his basic cards: 3, 5, 5, 5, 4, 3

None more for Yaz that I found

Dboneesq · February 23, 2015 2:57AM

You will probably find that in some Topps sets from the 50s and 60s as well, as they often gave the STARS the "key" numbers in the set, ie. 100, 150, 200, 250, etc ...

Edited to add: It happened a few times with MANTLE - #150 in 1958 & 1967; #200 in 1962 & 1963; #350 in 1960 and 1965.

LarkinCollector · February 23, 2015 3:19AM

<< <i>You will probably find that in some Topps sets from the 50s and 60s as well, as they often gave the STARS the "key" numbers in the set, ie. 100, 150, 200, 250, etc ...

Edited to add: It happened a few times with MANTLE - #150 in 1958 & 1967; #200 in 1962 & 1963; #350 in 1960 and 1965. >>

I was guessing that to be the case w/the key number assignments, I recall some Rose cards as well.

rcmb3220 · February 23, 2015 3:51AM

Not quite the same thing but from 1980-84 Topps card #666 were either team or individual Detroit Tigers cards. Someone at Topps must have hated them.

CSUrunandstun · February 23, 2015 4:29AM

Johnny Unitas is card #1 many times,,,,

seebelow · February 23, 2015 4:43AM

I know that with the starsand key numbers. But any idea or examples why Larkin or anyone else for that matter is associated with a particular number other than his uniform number?

OckhamsRazor · February 23, 2015 5:05AM

FYI, Jeter has 219 cards with the number 2 and 123 cards where he is the #1 card in a set.

LarkinCollector · February 23, 2015 5:15AM

<< <i>I know that with the stars and key numbers. But any idea or examples why Larkin or anyone else for that matter is associated with a particular number other than his uniform number? >>

No idea, I just found it odd how many 'coincidences' there were. It's probably just a random curiosity, much like how they determine what card numbers are on a given sheet.

LarkinCollector · February 23, 2015 5:17AM

<< <i>Not quite the same thing but from 1980-84 Topps card #666 were either team or individual Detroit Tigers cards. Someone at Topps must have hated them. >>

Definitely an oddity, Score did it to Larkin for his 1991 All-Star card.

MiniDuff · February 23, 2015 7:31AM

They also gave mantle the 1962 MVP card #200 in the 75 set. Nice symmetry there.

Same card number

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