Question For Player Collectors - Draft Day Marks

[TMLFan3]

Hi,

Question for player collectors!

If your player has a Draft Day Marks card, do you consider one letter of the player's last name as completing your obligation for that card or do you collect every letter/the whole last name and consider that complete?

 

[Drunken Monkey]

Hi,

Question for player collectors!

If your player has a Draft Day Marks card, do you consider one letter of the player's last name as completing your obligation for that card or do you collect every letter/the whole last name and consider that complete?

That really depends on the collector, but for me personally ...

 

[MR.M's Cards]

for me each letter is its own card ie there are 35 R's 35 Y's 35 A's and 35 N's all with their own print run of 35 SO I consider each letter to be its own card out of 35. I could see it the other way since the 4 cards all have the same card number with in the set.

If there are only one of each letter for example the print run is /4 then one card total works for me

 

[Drunken Monkey]

for me each letter is its own card ie there are 35 R's 35 Y's 35 A's and 35 N's all with their own print run of 35 SO I consider each letter to be its own card out of 35. I could see it the other way since the 4 cards all have the same card number with in the set.

If there are only one of each letter for example the print run is /4 then one card total works for me

What makes this complicated for me is that there are 2 O's and 2 R's in Cournoyer's name and I have confirmed that each has a print run of 5 in the 2020-21 SP Game Used Lettermen set (so there are 10 O's and 10 R's but each are #/5) but unless I get the duplicate letters with the same number out of 5, I can't really be sure I'm getting one from each print run (ie, both O's could be from the same set of 5 instead of one from each) ... but that's just me over-analyzing everything!

 

[MR.M's Cards]

What makes this complicated for me is that there are 2 O's and 2 R's in Cournoyer's name and I have confirmed that each has a print run of 5 in the 2020-21 SP Game Used Lettermen set (so there are 10 O's and 10 R's but each are #/5) but unless I get the duplicate letters with the same number out of 5, I can't really be sure I'm getting one from each print run (ie, both O's could be from the same set of 5 instead of one from each) ... but that's just me over-analyzing everything!

Good point, never looked at it that way. I did the draft days for Joey Hishon years back and just grabbed the first two H's I could get (at the right price). I no longer have the cards but if I did, and read your point above, it would give me reason to think, and in the end I would probably be cursing you lol (joking)

 

[Drunken Monkey]

Good point, never looked at it that way. I did the draft days for Joey Hishon years back and just grabbed the first two H's I could get (at the right price). I no longer have the cards but if I did, and read your point above, it would give me reason to think, and in the end I would probably be cursing you lol (joking)

Imagine if you were a Vasilevskiy collector with the double V's, S's, and I's (let alone just the sheer number of letters in his name). There's actually a Vasy Draft Day Marks full name set on ebay right now: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/225841122822. For him, I would probably say one letter is enough

 

[junyab]

To me, they're like printing plates. I want to get the set.

 

[sdpdesign]

It was so much easier when they did “by the letter” set…if a name was 8 letters long, each was 1/8, 2/8, 3/8,…etc, but if layed out numerically, would not make the name, but full by letter arrangement would. This was a bettter collection and a great chase in SPGU back in the day.
Nicknames were the start of the draftday mark trend. Too bad there wasn’t a guy’s nickname of “BANANA”. The production run of the auto’d manufacturer letter would have definitely been identified and described.
Lol