Card Number: M-1 (Trading Card Database)
Team: Kansas City Royals
April 22, 2014: Kansas City Royals mascot Slugger during the MLB American League game between the Minnesota Twins and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by William Purnell/Icon Sportswire/Corbis via Getty Images)This photo actual took me quit a bit to find. And by that, I mean a few whole extra minutes. As you may have noticed from the caption, the mascot's name is spelled without the two extra R's at the end. A few fruitless 'Sluggerrr" searches made the lightbulb go off. Plus, I had to go all the way back to 2014 to find this one!
Photo Date: April 22, 2014
Photographer: William Purnell/Icon Sportswire (Website) I couldn't find a website for Purnell so that link goes to Sportswire.
The mascots have been appearing as an insert in Opening Day since 2010. Not every team has a mascot and not every team with a mascot gets a card. Weird, I know. I assume it is some kind of licensing issue. And even weirder, in the past, not every mascot had it's name on the card. Again, must be some legal reason.
As you can see by the cards below, Sluggerrr has appeared in every incarnation of the insert set thus far, but this is the first year he got to use his own name!
In the 2007 Opening Day set, mascots were included as part of the regular base set. Note the standard spelling of "Slugger" on this card.
nice to see topps getting the name of the mascot on the card this year!
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