Another great source of aquatic, and indeed all animal, cards relate to sports, especially to teams, whose logos often feature them. Here we have the dolphin, for the Miami Dolphins, and you can also find many American football, baseball, and hockey teams with animal names or nicknames - but British teams also often have nicknames that involve animals, and a great place to start looking is Ogden`s "A.F.C. Nicknames" (which was also issued by Hignett). You will also sometimes find cards of sports mascots, which is another theme to pursue.
So here we have Skylar John Thompson, who started out with the Kansas State Wildcats and then joined the Miami Dolphins. See what I mean? However he now plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers, since January of this year. And he was born in 1997, which makes me feel a bit of a dinosaur.
This is yet another of those lengthy modern sets where if we are being honest, few people can collect them all - you only really "win" if you concentrate on collecting cards of one particular person, so you are restricted to buying one or two cards out of each set. Saying which, our man`s first card appeared in 2021, and he is already cited as being on almost six hundred cards.
In this set, the base set is four hundred cards long, but there are an unbelievable one hundred and thirty eight extra insert sets, and sixteen parallel sets, which you can wander through courtesy of the Trading Card Database/D22.