The cards feature Bri Ellis, Sam Landry and Sierra Sacco as the rookie headliners for the first official set.
Sport collectors can now collect Athletes Unlimited Softball League trading cards.
The cards feature rookies Bri Ellis, Sam Landry and Sierra Sacco as the headliners for the first ever official set. Each card costs $8.99 and has rare variations, including some with the players’ autographs.
They’re only available for purchase until Saturday, June 14 at 4:30 p.m. ET.
It comes after the Major League Baseball announced it’s investing in Athletes Unlimited to support its softball league that debuted last week. It’s the first comprehensive partnership with a professional women’s sports circuit.
Support includes marketing the AUSL and its athletes during MLB’s All-Star Game and throughout the postseason along with broadcasts on the MLB Network and streams on MLB.TV.
Why were these three picked? Well, Ellis has been coined the “Barry Bonds of Softball,” Sacco belted the first home run in league history, and Landry was the No. 1 overall pick in the AUSL inaugural draft, according to the MLB.
The set also includes special parallel cards, autographs and a card with Jessica Mendoza, Jennie Finch and Natasha Watley with former Miami Marlins general manager and MLB senior vice president Kim Ng.
The AUSL started a four-team league June 7 with the Bandits and Talons opening with a three-game series in Rosemont, Illinois, and the Blaze and Volts a three-game set at Wichita, Kansas. The four teams will play 24 games each, touring to 12 cities, and the top two teams will compete in the best-of-three AUSL Championship from July 26-28 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A 21-game AUSL All-Star Cup will follow in August.
A traditional city-based league will start in 2026, when the AUSL plans to expand to six teams, according to AU co-founder Jon Patricof.
MLB already supports several women’s softball and baseball initiatives, including a partnership with USA Softball and operation of the MLB Develops girls baseball pipeline. It is not involved with the Women’s Professional Baseball League, which plans to launch in 2026 as the first pro baseball league for women since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League — of “A League of Their Own” fame — folded in 1954.
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