Since this has been my New Year message board project.....I'll kick off a couple of ideas to get this rolling. 
I like black and white pictures for the front of cards and I think it allows for a lot of possibilities with card design and player selection.  So….I am providing a couple of examples from some British golf sets for the front of card format designs.  
The first example would have a place for some additional wording on the front and the players name could be on the bottom 
27jones.jpg
The second style is even a bit cleaner and would just have the players name at the bottom of the card 
millhoff.jpg
What ideas do you have?