Sports Card Magazine (SCM) #79 was published in January of 2010. It contained ten baseball cards that used the design for the 2010 BBM Rookie Edition set but they weren't promo cards for the set. They were essentially "bonus" cards for the set and were numbered 115 to 124 so they were just after the 114 cards of the set.
I've been trying to get all ten of these cards for a number of years now and the last four or five that I needed were in the box Ryan sent me recently. It's taken me about that long to finally realize that these ten cards are the first half of a two-part celebration on SCM's part of the 20th anniversary of BBM making baseball cards. Let me show the cards first and then I'll explain:
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| SCM #134/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #115 |
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| SCM #135/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #116 |
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| SCM #136/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #117 |
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| SCM #137/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #118 |
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| SCM #138/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #119 |
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| SCM #139/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #120 |
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| SCM #140/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #121 |
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| SCM #141/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #122 |
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| SCM #142/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #123 |
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| SCM #143/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #124 |
It wasn't obvious until I had seen all the cards but each card features a rookie from each year from 2001 to 2010. The following issue of SCM - #80, published in March, 2010 - included another ten cards. Each card reused the photo of a rookie card from 1991 to 2000 but used the 2010 BBM 1st Version design.
It's been a long week so I may not be clear in explaining this. SCM #79 has 2010 BBM Rookie Edition-style cards of one rookie from each season from 2001 to 2010. SCM #80 has 2010 BBM 1st Version-style cards of one rookie from each season from 1991 to 2000. In other words, over the two issues of the magazine, BBM issued cards of a rookie from each year that they had published baseball cards. I don't have either of the issues in question but I'm pretty sure this was to celebrate BBM's 20th Anniversary doing cards.
Sports Card Magazine did two more batches of cards in 2010 to continue the 20th Anniversary celebration. Issue #81 in May contained cards of five 2010 rookies using the 1991 BBM format while issue #83 in September had three double-sided "Great Central" photo variant cards from the BBM 20th Anniversary set.
I feel I should mention that the Yusei Kikuchi card above is almost identical to his card in the 2010 Rookie Edition set. The differences are the card number (the original card is #067), the background color of the photo on the front (the original is blue) and the photo on the back of the card (the original has a photo of the Lions' entire draft class while this card repeats the front photo).
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