Card Identification Forum

Anyone know if this card is, should or could be in the database?

Definitely SHOULD be.  Apparently, according to Beckett, these cards were issued one per year (that isn't certain IMO) by the Cardinals & Fox Sports starting in 1998 (https://www.beckett.com/baseball/1998-03/1998-09-cardinals-fox-sports/).  They list it as 1998-2009, but Molina's card is after that since the back cites his 2010 Gold Glove.  I'd guess this card is from 2011 (why else would they mention his 3rd straight Gold Glove when he went on to win 8 straight).  Beckett only lists 5 cards in the series (not including Molina), and I'm no baseball expert, so I'll let others handle creating the set and digging up a checklist, but I think it definitely belongs here, probably as a "Team Issue"...

There are a few up for sale on COMC.

https://www.comc.com/Cards,so,=1998-Now+Fox+Sports+Net+Midwest+St%7B46%7D+Louis+Cardinals+-+~5bBase~5d,ot,i100

Yes, I would agree it's from 2011, since the Cardinals won the 2011 World Series and there is no mention of that on the back.  If it were 2012 or later, the bio would be completely different, and he would have his neck tattoos in the picture (he got those in the offseason between 2010 and 2011).   It's also the seventeenth card in the series, so they can't be issued exactly one per year if they started in 1998.  There would be at least one year with multiple cards.

Hmm, shows how much I know, I have the Pujols card and didn't realized they were numbered.  I never looked for a checklist so I didn't know how to add it on here so I just kept it aside in case a checklist was ever made.  I've always assumed the Pujols card is from 2002 since it had 2001 bio on there and if the McGwire came out in 1998, that would match one per year, since his card notes the fifth in a series.  If a checklist is added that I think would leave only one other Pujols card I have not catalogged on here.

I hope you guys can figure it out and find a CL to add on here. All I know is that I want it!