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Any team can win any game on any day.
Sports trading cards may be big business now, but playing cards are an older form, and by no means underrepresented in the legions of sports souvenirs. And in some sense, playing cards are a most appropriate form of memorabilia, sharing many of the virtues, and vices, of the sports themselves. The truism that led off this issue is no less true of cards than of sports, with the shifting fortunes of random numbers often at least as important as skill in the game. And while trading cards may mirror the back-office wrangling of salary negotiations and player trades, in the end, the play of the game is all that that matters. Many decks are little more than this, the ranks of the very best players of a sport for a given year.