First up, and the main reason, is that you change your name when you get married. So our first clue card, showed Morgan Brian, who, on her marriage in 2017, became Morgan Gautrat. However cards of her were a bit slow to follow suit, and the first one to feature her under her married name was Parkside`s "NWSL Premier Edition" in 2021.
Not all women change their name on their wedding, especially if they are well known by their maiden name and think it may dent their popularity. Legally, women have had to assume their husband's surname since the 9th century, but it was hit and miss in rural areas, and only really became enforced in the sixteenth century. Though actually it is no longer the law that you have to change your surname on marriage, only your prefix, of Miss, to either Ms. or Mrs.
"Sports Illustrated" is a magazine which was first published on August the 16th 1954, and which diversified into also producing a children`s edition, called "Sports Illustrated for Kids" in January 1989.
Both magazines have featured and issued cards - starting right at the outset, for the first and second issues of the adult version each came with sheets of cards, printed front and back, to be detached and cut out, giving fifty four cards in all. Strangely, whilst forty-four of these are identical to those issued by Topps in the same year, twelve of the cards, showing players from the New York Yankees, were in black and white. This is said to have been simply because those players were not featured in the Topps set, but I think it is more likely that Topps had the licence to show baseball players on cards and anyone else doing that would have been against the rules. However that has led to conflict ever since with many collectors refusing to even look at the black and white ones because they were not proper baseball cards, whilst being happy enough to collect the coloured ones, which, technically were not proper baseball cards either.
As far as the cards issued with "Sports Illustrated for Kids", they are now sought after by adults, simply because they often featured sportsmen and women who were just beginning their career, like our card. Some of these faded away, but others became worldwide stars, including the golfer Tiger Woods, whose "Rookie" card was printed as one of a sheet of nine cards in December 1996. And those nine cards were the standard format, three rows of three cards, starting top left with Lisa Leslie (basketball), Jerry Stackhouse (basketball), and Curtis Martin (American football), moving down to Michael Finlet (basketball), Tiger Woods (as the middle card), and Martina Hingis (tennis), with the bottom row being Ed Jovanovski (ice hockey), Chen Lu (figure skating) and Doug Flutie (American football)
Our sheet was the same format, starting top left with Evan Longoria (baseball) Britney Reese (long jump), and Julius Randle (basketball). moving down to Morgan Brian (soccer), Kevin Love (basketball), Demaryius Thomas (American Football), with the bottom row being Josh Harding (ice hockey), Luis Suarez (soccer) and Carlos Rodon (baseball).