Ted, do you really think they stopped printing the cards with PB backs, or just because it was Polar Bear only, that is why there are only about 500 of each card? I don't think they stopped them, I think that is just how many are left. I don't think you would be able to pick out a bunch of common players and find more than 500 Polar Bear cards for all of them.
I think there is approx 500 of them left because they were no-name players, not worth a nickel the first 50 years they existed and only made with one back. There are 250 subjects with Polar Bear backs, meaning if they were pulled, and accounting for Hall of Famers being more likely to be saved, therefor more plentiful, you think there are about 250,000 Polar Bear cards out there(1,000 of each)? I think you could say 500x250 and get 125,000 shows that they probably weren't taken out of the PB run at any point because I highly doubt there are more than even 50k PB backs in existence today
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