After 12 seasons away, the Brewers brought police cards back for the current generation. Last year's set is damn near impossible for me to find--I didn't see any of them at a Milwaukee card show a couple of weeks ago (and yes, that's another story).
This season, the team went a different direction by all appearances. Instead of giving out a full team set, it looks like this year that the team is only giving out 6 cards:
The Brewers kicked this year's giveaway off like they always did--with a stadium giveway of the cards at Miller Park. Rather than just giving the cards away in cellophane packages, however, the team went all out this year--harkening back to the days of our youth with actual wax packs like those below.
These cards are pretty expensive on eBay right now, but I think they will come down in price over time. This is because the team has printed more than just the ones given out at the park to distribute to various police departments across the state to give out.
They only gave 1000 packs to each department, but unlike past years, these cards are not carrying designations for the individual departments. They all look the same--just like the ones you see here.
And, another reason that the cards will go down is that the giveaways have proven very popular--so popular, in fact, that the team printed MORE packs to distribute to 20 different police departments across the state--1,000 went to Wausau, from one news report.
So, perhaps I should have waited for this year's set price to come down, but I couldn't do it after getting shut out on last year's cards so far. I bought two packs and opened one at a price that felt just a bit extortionate.
The things we do for the cards that are cool.
