2005 Hero Decks Boston Red Sox Baseball Heroes Playing Cards (1st Edition) Baseball Forum

If there is a collector who has these Hero Boston Red Sox sets, would you please be specific and list exactly what is the difference between each set since they all look very similar in appearance and it's hard to determine which set a card belongs to. The comment about the different texture between the 2005 & 2006 set doesn't make no sense because if I have only one of the cards, how do I know which set it belongs to.  What's the exact texture of each one?  

I brought this issue to someones attention regarding the Detroit Tigers set that has 3 release dates with many card appearing in all 3 sets with only a handful of cards that were changed out from issue to issue. The reply I got was they would remain listed as separate sets on TCDB even though there was no way to differentiate some of the cards. I thought they should be a single set with variations for the cards that were changed from issue to issue. I am not aware of a texture difference and do not see how this could be represented in images.

Just my 2 cents on Hero Decks in general.

  I own 2 sets of each of the Boston card decks, and only 1 of the decks is opened. Going by the release notes, it appears to be the 2005 deck. The set has Tom Yawkey and is TEXTURED ( little divots on the card ), the inside flap has 2005 copyright. The front of the box says: BOSTON, then has cards of Damon, Williams, and Boggs below that, with Baseball Heroes Playing Cards below the 3 players. 
  The other decks (that are unopened) must be the SMOOTH surfaced playing cards, that would have been issued in 2006. I own a smooth surface Lefty Grove playing card (so I know they exist). The box is also different: The front of the box says: Hero Decks Presents, then below that: Boston, then the cards of Damon, Williams, and Boggs below that, with Baseball Heroes Playing Cards below the 3 players.
  Does that help?

2005 Boston deck:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/373587375253?hash=item56fb8af495:g:LSUAAOSwCl5gpx6r

2006 Boston deck:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/124957665801?hash=item1d180eaa09:g:PBMAAOSwLmlhIagq

The Packaging images are wrong for the 2005 set (deck), as it shows the 2006 deck, the 2006 deck looks to be the 2007 deck, and the 2007 deck (i am guessing this one) is probably the 2009 deck, and then I didn't look at any other sets (exhausted), what a mess.

I just broke open one of the SMOOTH sets to solve this mystery. The copyright on the box says 2005, and there is a Yawkey, Damon (Present), Mueller (Present). It appears both SMOOTH and TEXTURED Decks were made in 2005. THE PACKAGING IMAGES ARE CORRECT. 

Yeah. It's a mess. I'm trying to get my hands on all of the sets so I can fix all errors.  Feel free to help out and submit inaccuracies thru an IR since posting errors here isn't seen by everyone.