Card Identification Forum

I post once before regarding a Merrick Mint card for identification but I will try it again.  I thought I had the identification and submitted an IR but more information was needed for evaluation.

I bought this Merrick Mint item from eBay. It has the same kind of layout and lettering as the 2005 Merick Mint except the front card image background is white instead of green.  The coin itself that comes with the card looks exactly like the 2005 coins for Merrick Mint. It does not appear to be a promo card since there are many white colored front image cards for sale on eBay’s & comc’s website. I think I read somewhere on the web that different regions of the USA distributed different items and looks based on what cards are popular in each region. If you look on the back image of this card directly above the UPC code, it says “TM@2005 Family of Babe Ruth and the Babe Ruth League, Inc. by CMG Worldwide”. Hence I would assume that means it was issued in 2005 unless 2005 was the year it was confounded. Comc has the white background cards categorized under “2007 Merrick Mint Colorized Quarter Collection- [Base}” so maybe I’m overthinking and that’s the answer. But Johnny Damon played for the Red Sox from 2002-2005 & the Yankees from 2006-2009 so then why does the card feature the Red Sox and not the Yankees if it’s a 2007 card? So I keep going back with the exact identification. So if someone can decipher my info into an exact conclusion for its id, that would be great.  I posted a blue background Merrick Mint before which got lost in the shuffle since my feet were very distracting so no picture of my feet in these images I presented 

I gave up trying to nail these down exactly because they released the cards and coins in a variety of ways over a period of years. I initially thought that each player had a coin and a card, but I found a bunch of coins without cards. Here is what I have so far.

http://www.supercollectorcatalog.com/2005-07-merrick-mint-colorized-quarters-and-cards.html

The 2005 copyright refers to just the Babe Ruth coin and when it was originally copyrighted.  They could have been available for many years after 2005.

Well since no clear consensus can be made as to the exact identification or year for this card, might I use Tim’s suggestion and info since he’s highly intelligent & seems like the most knowledgeable for this brand that we go with his data for the checklist(s) & label the set 2005-2007 Merrick Mint & have the green background set on file be the main set while the white background and blue background cards listed as paralllel sets.  I’m more than happy to make the white and blue checklists, if needed.  

If you make the parallel sets, please only add the players known to exist.

Will do.