Card Identification Forum

I have the following Olerud card from 2002 Playoff Piece of the Game - Materials subset. 

Note the "Sample" stamped on the back.

Does anyone have any information on this card or this sample set?

I have seen one other Sample for sale: https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/2002/Playoff_Piece_of_the_Game_-_Materials_-_Sample/POG-81/Tim_Hudson/5423567

I know that during this time that Donruss/Leaf/Playoff had lots of Sample cards distributed via Beckett.

Is this something that should be a Related set for 2002 Playoff Piece of the Game?

Could there have been gold stamped versions of these Samples?

That's interesting... I don't have this card on my master checklist, and I've never heard of this "Sample" version. It does look like the same font as the regular Donruss/Leaf/Playoff cards that were inserted in Becketts at the time, but I don't recall there being relic cards inserted. If it is indeed a Beckett Sample, then there might be jersey and bat versions out there, as well as gold foil versions too.

Hopefully soneone else has info.

I’ve seen a bunch and owned a few Brewers sample relic cards over the years from that time frame of DLP but don’t recall specifics about origins but never thought those came from Beckett, seem more like the “executive” samples or something. There’s a bunch from Prestige, Prime Cuts, Absolute, etc ‘02-‘05 range