on September 30th, 2008 by Motherscratcher
I don’t care if it rains or freezes long as I got my plastic Jesussittin’ on the dashboard of my car.Comes in colors pink and pleasant. Glows in the dark ’cause it’s iridescent.Take it with you when you travel far.Get yourself a sweet Madonna dressed …
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on September 30th, 2008 by Billy Suter
I found this puppy at Walmart today. This is the first thing I’ve bought that has a guaranteed game-used card in it. [EDIT: It's actually the second thing. I forgot Topps started putting GU cards in boxes of '08 Series 2.] I know most of them aren’t wo…
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on September 30th, 2008 by Laurens
Award winners [National and American League]NL Cy Young - CC Sabathia; Brandon Webb probably deserves much consideration, with Tim Lincecum probably having a better overall season in the National League. On the other hand, Sabathia handed the Milwaukee…
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on September 30th, 2008 by Steve
It’s
a dilemma every collector constantly faces. Since money is limited for most of us,
you either have to sell a bunch of stuff or stop spending for a while. It’s probably
a combination of both.
I’ve been waiting in the wings for about six months. Waiting for the economy to get
a little worse and find some deals on collectibles that I want. I’m not sure if my
recent buying spree is a result of these great deals I’ve been waiting for or simply
because I found some things I couldn’t pass up.
It started a couple months ago when I bought two game-used bats from Mastro Auctions.
Then I bought a Muhammad Ali single-signed ball from Iconic Memorabilia. Then a James
Stewart single-signed ball from Bricol. Then a Richard Nixon single-signed ball from
Memory Lane. And that doesn’t take into account the smaller items I’ve bought on eBay,
like a 1996 U.S. Amateur complete ticket book set.
I’ve
wanted a Yaz bat since I started collecting game-used bats five years ago. The Ali
signature was just too nice to pass up and the Stewart ball was a natural fit since
It’s a Wonderful Life is one of my all-time favorite movies.
I purchased the Nixon ball because I’m trying, like many others, to get a single-signed
ball from every recent president. For now, I’m starting with Nixon and going forward
with the possibility of filling backwards once I get the first goal completed.
The ticket book set fits nicely with my Tiger collection. I had the Sunday ticket
from this set, but you don’t see many complete books around so I couldn’t pass it
up. I wish I could find one from 1994 or 1995. I’ve got all of his Masters and British
Open badges from years he won, and am still working toward the complete run of PGA
Championship and U.S. Open badges.
Now I just have to figure out what to sell so I can start saving up for the big run
of Nov. and Dec. auctions.
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on September 30th, 2008 by Ben Henry
I’ve noticed lately that as they age, the one really noticeable place people gain weight is in the face. Even athletes, whose job it is to stay in impeccable shape. Just look at Tony Perez’s Super Veterans card in 1983 Topps; he almost looks like two d…
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on September 30th, 2008 by Dan
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on September 29th, 2008 by Ben Henry
You know, I want to be excited by this. It looks like they even got Marvin from Pulp Fiction. You know, the guy they accidently shoot and have to call Harvey Keitel to mop up the blood. Well, I don’t see a credit for Back on Topps on his imdb.com page,…
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on September 29th, 2008 by Dan
DATA: 2006 BowmanACQUIRED: From my homeboy Brad over at Cincy Reds CardsPING: Probably one of Joey’s first cards among the big manufacturers. Not a bad one, either. The photo features him playing in the 2006 All-Star Futures game in Pittsburgh where he…
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on September 29th, 2008 by NPB Card Guy
The Carp played their last regular season game at Hiroshima Municipal Stadium (Hiroshima Shimin Kyujo) on Sunday against the Swallows (they could possibly play there again if they win the Central League Climax Series and play in the Nippon Series). Th…
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on September 29th, 2008 by No Brainer Bargains
I admit the requirement to list an etopps in-hand on Wigix is unusual to say the least even though it is being done on Amazon. I’m sure this is reflected in the poll. Even though more people signed up with the website than voted, Wigix may not be for everyone and that’s fine.
Just keep in mind to form a template of a card you want to list before you can start selling it.
On Wednesday I’ll post about another online secondary market that (hopefully) will require less work to list cards.
* * *
Once again there are delivery delays for in-hands. This time it is 2008 Baseball:
Due to production issues beyond our control, etopps is experiencing delays on delivery of the following cards:
2008 Baseball
Jimmy Rollins 2008
Carlos Quentin 2008
Clayton Kershaw 2008
Seth Smith 2008
Joe Saunders 2008
Tim Lincecum 2008
Alexei Ramirez 2008
Armando Galarraga 2008
Cole Hamels 2008
Carlos Gonzalez 2008
Charlie Morton 2008
Cliff Lee 2008
Max Ramirez 2008
Brandon Jones 2008
Jair Jurrjens 2008
Brett Gardner 2008
Chris Davis 2008
C.C. Sabathia 2008
Chris Volstad 2008
Steve Pearce 2008
Jeff Samardzija 2008
Taylor Teagarden 2008
Clayton Richard 2008
Manny Ramirez 2008
Ivan Rodriguez 2008
Jason Bay 2008
Gio Gonzalez 2008
Mark Teixeira 2008
Cliff Pennington 2008
Daniel Murphy 2008
Greg Maddux 2008
Adam Dunn 2008
Daric Barton 2008
We expect to have these cards available for delivery on Monday, October 20th. Please continue to check eTopps Updates for additional information.
Sincerely,
etopps Team
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Etopps surprised its community by offering not one but two Brett Favre autographs, 25 of the 2006 and 25 of the 2007. Both cards at $149.99 each. Along with this Favre will be offered during this week’s IPO in a Jet uniform.
Only caveat to Favre’s autograph offering is he’s now a Jet. I always have qualms about how sellable an autograph is if the player goes to another team (I brought this up when I reviewed Josh Hamilton earlier this year after being traded from the Reds to the Rangers in the off-season.) But if the player is good enough or great enough (like Favre), I don’t think there’s much to worry about.
I’d be worried more about getting one when they become available at 3pm EST on Thursday (10/2).
So beyond etopps-land, is this worth getting? After doing my usual search on ebay, here’s what I found: for 2006 and 2007 autos of Favre, most of what I’ve seen on ebay are stickers on cards and are nearing the price that etopps is asking. With the combined demand for Favre’s auto, his first etopps auto and the fact that the signature will be on the card with his jersey number, it’s a safe bet that both of these will do well on the secondary market.
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Cal Ripken Jr. will be signing at the
If you live in NJ or the general area, bring your Cal Ripken etopps in-hand with you to Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ at the home of the Yogi Berra Museum. Cal will be signing autographs at the museum on Tuesday, November 11th from 1-3pm. He will only be signing 500 items. What’s cool is pre-orders are encouraged and accepted: 973-655-2378.
I highly recommend the museum. It’s loaded with Yankee history and rare memorabilia. Last year I pre-ordered Don Mattingly signing his book on hitting. When I went to the museum to pick up the book, I got a chance to see Yogi Berra.
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on September 29th, 2008 by Steve
Sorry for the lapse in blogging, but my wife and I decided to travel to Costa
Rica for our 10-year anniversary. We always like to get outside the mainstream tourist
areas so we found these cool bungalows on the Southeast side of the country near Puerto
Viejo. They were roughly five hours of jungle, rainforests and mountains away from
San Jose (the capital city with a major airport). My excuse for not blogging is that
we had no television, computer, clock or telephones where we were.
Besides the fact that Delta delayed us in Atlanta for a night, then lost our luggage
so we had to wear the same clothes for four days, shower with handsoap and try to
wash our clothes in the sink every night, everything went well. We repelled through
the jungle, spent plenty of time on the beach, got some great exercise riding bikes
and hiking around and ate a lot of very good food.
After three nights in the remote bungalows, we spent the final night in the middle
of San Jose at one of the more historic hotels in the city (Gran Hotel). Of course
there were no flight delays coming back when it really didn’t matter if we got delayed
or not, but the trip was fun and relaxing.
What happened while I was away? I’m still putting the pieces together. I did get back
in time to watch the Brewers win the wild card. I know the U.S. won the Ryder Cup
(thanks to spending Sunday night in Atlanta). I’ll fill in the missing pieces through
the next few days.
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on September 29th, 2008 by Laurens
Sometimes you feel you are in your own world - I went to a sports card shop, looking for some minor league product.You always have your usual Major League cards, but sometimes you are looking for something a little different - I was looking for the ‘ma…
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on September 28th, 2008 by tastelikedirt
Jack Hannahan had the tuff job of replacing multi gold glove winner Eric Chavez at third base this season. I think Hannahan did a great job defensively. He alos seemed to be a real aggresive player. I remember being at a game where Jack slid in HARD to…
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on September 28th, 2008 by shanediaz82
Another choke job of epic proportion for the Mets this year. There’s no way to sugar coat it, it’s got to feel pretty awful to be a Mets fan right now. An unfortunate way to say goodbye to Shea Stadium.On the other hand, you’ve got to hand it to Mil…
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on September 28th, 2008 by mmosley
“A Tale of Two Mets Seasons”It was the worst of seasonsIT WAS THE WORST OF SEASONS!My Mets did it to me again this year. I still love ‘em though. I’ll probably do a 2008 retrospective later in the year (When Sportscenter is filled with nothing but foot…
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on September 28th, 2008 by tastelikedirt
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on September 28th, 2008 by Ben Henry
Looking for quality, independent writing about baseball cards and card collecting? You’re in the right place. I felt it was time for a layout revamp. This template’s a little ugly, but it gets the job done. Three columns should work, and yes, I’ll be a…
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on September 27th, 2008 by shanediaz82
The 1960 Topps Bill Mazeroski that I was surprised to find in my mailbox recently has gotten me thinking about finding a home for some cards that others would probably appreciate more than I do.To start things off, here’s a Paul Konerko bat card that I…
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on September 27th, 2008 by ManOfSteal
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a “collectibles” post, and a new acquisition prompted me to put this one together. These posts tend to take a lot longer to write than others, but they are always my favorite!Over the years there have been quite a few c…
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on September 26th, 2008 by Fleerfan
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on September 26th, 2008 by mmosley
Two weeks ago, I took a trip to the big city to bid farewell to the home ballparks of my Mets and that other team in New York. Here we are, sans my brother (he took the picture and is prohibited from appearing here until he contributes to this blog), a…
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on September 26th, 2008 by tastelikedirt
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on September 26th, 2008 by capewood
This post was inspired by a recent post over on Dinged Corners. The debate going on over there is about the statements about authenticity that the card manufacturers put on the back of their relic cards. I have bought a number of relic cards over the p…
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on September 26th, 2008 by Ben Henry
Back in 2003, the popular rumor in Boston was that the Red Sox, White Sox, and Rangers were going to put together a three-team trade that would send Manny Ramirez to Texas, Nomar Garciaparra to Chicago, and Magglio Ordonez and Alex Rodriguez to Boston….
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on September 25th, 2008 by --David
In 1993, the Ted Williams Card Company produced a set of rather unique items. Anyone remember “pogs?” Pogs were the thing to have and collect in the early 90’s, a throwback to the milk caps kids played with the 50’s or 60’s or whenever it was that “Wii…
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on September 25th, 2008 by Bart McClaughry
I know this is not a baseball card but this is in memory of my father in-law James Skocy that passed away Tuesday.He is on the Right.For the first time in almost three years, the Skocy brothers. Pfc. Richard L. Skocy 22, and Corp. James A. Skocy b…
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on September 25th, 2008 by Uglee Card
Player: Jeff MontgomeryCard: 1991 Topps #371Errors: Player is lodged, jammed, trapped and caught squarely in the 1980s. Player is wearing Kansas City Royals apparel without the express written consent of Major League Baseball. Player - hands at the re…
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on September 25th, 2008 by shanediaz82
1960 Topps - #55 - Bill MazeroskiI’ve chosen this card as September’s card of the month for a few reasons. First of all, 1960 Topps is my favorite set from the decade. What’s not to love about this set? Horizontal cards, color and black and white phot…
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on September 25th, 2008 by statsmaniac
It seems most anyone who follows a sport or collects anything related to sports, a question that will eventually surface is “Do you have any autographs?” or some related variation. That leads me to the subject of this blog….Why do we get autographs, and why are we impressed by them?
Autographs mean different things to different [...]
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on September 25th, 2008 by dayf
Who is this? Rockies pitcher Josh Newman.What is this? An autograph card from 2008 UDX, card number JN.Where’d I get it? Out of a retail pack.How much did it cost? $1.99.Why is this so special? I have no idea how I’m pulling all these autos out of reta…
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