can someone explain this?

[J.O.]

the cards and most auctions say 2000

says copyright 2000

yet Upper deck says 2001 on their site
http://sports.upperdeck.com/Baseball/ca ... 1&sid=7862

same card. can someone explain this? is it 00 or 01? are these buybacks?

 

[MallCopKJ]

I have always wondered the same thing about cards from the 00-02 era. For some reason this happened with most of the cards from that time in that the copyright date on the card would be a year behind the product you were opening. I would imagine its because the brand was copyrighted in 2000 but they didnt make/release the product untill 2001. Im fairly certain thats a 2001 card.

 

[smapdi]

That set came out in either late 2000 or early 2001, but it's a year 2001 set. I just checked an old Beckett, cover date Feb '01, which would have come out I think in January, and the set isn't listed. The copyright date on a card isn't the best for determining set year, especially in that era when there were 50+ sets coming from each company and year X sets were still being released months after sets from year X+1 had appeared. That is merely when the set was copyrighted, not necessarily when released.

 

[Philip J. Fry]

I fondly remember in the '90s that Topps would have 1998 Series 1 for sale around Thanksgiving 1997.