2001 MLL (Lacrosse) Inaugural Season Set

Currently owned: 0/36

As some of you may know, there is a professional lacrosse league known as MLL. It's currently in its 11th year of existence, which is pretty impressive given that A) it only has 6 teams and B) only 3 of those 6 teams are leftover from the inaugural season. Kudos to them for sticking (unintended pun I swear) around despite limited fanfare!

Anyways, when the league started in 2001, they produced a card line to hype the teams/players.

(Sample Back and Front)

My brothers and I were pretty into lacrosse in 2001, so we bought a fair amount of these cards and probably had a complete set at some point. Fast forward 10 years and it turns out that these cards are really, REALLY rare. A guy reached out to me in 2021 with his website which agrees with me that there are only 36 cards in the set, and he says there may be only 300 set TOTAL!  Before his site, info on this set was basically nonexistent.

So here we have a set with little known about it, and a blogger to the rescue. It's my hope, from here on out, that this post becomes the #2 (Now that there's the better site linked above) information source regarding the 2001 MLL Inaugural Set. It likely won't garner a whole lot of page views, but it might help a few people out, and mostly it'll make me happy to figure this set out!

So here are the cards that I'm currently aware of in the set, listed by team. A question mark (?) next to the player's name indicates that I'm not sure if he's a part of the set or not.  I used to own almost all of these cards but I sold or traded them all away, so currently my cupboard is bare.  But if you know more than me about these cards (including where to buy them) or would like to learn more about them, feel free to contact me!

The list of cards:

Baltimore Bayhawks

Dan Denihan

Greg Cattrano

Josh Sims

Mark Millon

Rob Doerr

Tom Marechek

Boston Cannons

Billy Daye

Dan Radebaugh

Doug Knight

Mike Battista

Michael Watson

Ryan Curtis

Bridgeport Barrage

Brian Silcott

Blake Miller

Jamie Hanford

Mario Lopez

Matt Pannetta

Roy Colsey

Long Island Lizards

A.J. Haugen

Casey Powell

Gary Gait

John Gagliardi

Sal Locascio

Vinnie Sombretto

New Jersey Pride

Christian Cook

Jay Jalbert

Jesse Hubbard

Jon Hess

Steve Koudelka

Tom Ryan

Rochester Rattlers

Brian Dougherty

Jake Bergey

John Grant Jr.

Ric Beardsley

Ryan Powell

Tim Soudan