SPs are in retail too as far as I know, and no, none of the base cards are short-printed. You might have just gotten bum collation, which happens. Between us (over the last 5 months) we have gotten 12 blister boxes and one hobby box (from 4 different sources). That's like 1140 cards. The base set is only 300 cards. I'm at 230/300 with the base set with 3 and 4 doubles of way too many cards. That's kinda crazy. One of my brothers says buy the hobby boxes from now on, but I will not spend $120 for a box of 24 packs with 8 cards in each pack ( I get the blisters: 8 packs, 10 cards per= 80 cards for $20). On a good side note I've gotten 6 of the 10 Farrell cards and my brother got a BLACK PRINTING PLATE for Catfish Hunter, 1 of 1. My brother didn't know what it was. He says" Shit, I got a damaged card or something. The inks all smeared." Ha!