The Nationals aren’t the only Washingtonians who get their faces on trading cards.
The Topps company has just released a set of cards designed to look like slim-style Allen & Ginter cards from the 1880s. The current set includes baseball players, historic figures and 20 world champions from various fields.
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One of those champions is Washington resident Michael Aponte, the inaugural World Series of Blackjack champion and formerly a member of the famous MIT blackjack team, which devised a card-counting system and won millions of dollars at casinos around the world.
As a side note, the story of Aponte and his team will the subject of the movie “21,” slated for a 2008 theatrical release.
Aponte is the first-ever blackjack player featured on a Topps trading card.
“I never thought a blackjack player would be featured” on a Topps card, he said in a release.
His fellow card honorees include Bruce Lee, Mia Hamm, Danica Patrick and John Wooden.