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This explains a lot of whats been going on recently with the whole
ASI, Brad Wells, card company fiasco..
Second, for the large majority of game-used cards, the process of setting a checklist and creating a card happens BEFORE the purchasing of the game-used material, and the purchasers of that material are given a tight budget and a short time frame. I personally don’t collect game-used jerseys, but I can easily imagine that finding authentic items of a specific player are not easy to find on short notice. Further, we were certainly more concerned with the player than the team, as the cost of using a player’s likeness was fixed, but we all know that it would be much more cost efficient to buy, say, a jersey that Wade Boggs wore with the Devil Rays than one he wore with the Red Sox.