The 2001 set was absolutely epic. Print run of 100+ for Jackie Robinson and Walter Johnson among others.
I honestly don't know what they were thinking at the time. I believe they bought some large collections of signed checks, but didn't seem to consider making sure that they maintained the inventory for years to come. The quality of the cuts was pretty consistently worse after the first year (meaning, the quality ink and paper) and the print runs for major players was a small fraction of what you had in 2001.
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