About the trading cards
We make them for the joy of it, and then we give them away. We do not sell them. If you get one, we hope you enjoy having it as much as we enjoyed making it.
We make no promises about when we will make them or who will get them. When we announce the release of a trading card we will drop one in the mail to some (but not all) subscribers to the Green Bag. Because we mail the cards, there is a chance that some will not reach the intended recipients, a distressing prospect. We do not intend to increase the likelihood of such unfortunate events by including on our trading-card mailing lists those subscribers who do not keep us posted on address changes (besides, we resent paying postage-due charges for the benefit of people who are perfectly capable of emailing editors@greenbag.org to let us know when they move). We also arbitrarily and capriciously give trading cards to some folks who are not subscribers (mostly law school public interest groups that auction such things at their annual fundraisers). So, there is no way to lock-in a Green Bag trading card. If you want to buy one, your best bets are law school public interest charity auctions and eBay.
Supreme Court Sluggers
"Supreme Court Sluggers" trading cards are supposed to be useful and entertaining. Useful by (a) presenting interesting information about the work of the members of the Supreme Court of the United States, and (b) serving as a reason for us to gather (and then share) the raw data behind those presentations so that others may build on our work. Entertaining by providing another small, amusing-but-respectful link between the world of law and the world of sport.
For a description of our approach to the statistics on the back of the Sluggers cards, please click here.
We hope to include Thought Bubble Gum with at least some Sluggers cards.
Supreme Court Sluggers OT2009
• John G. Roberts, Jr. (2009) • card • annotation • statistics • spreadsheets