on June 3rd, 2009 by Jeremy
Eric Young Jr. has gotten off to a red hot start in the month of June with seven hits over his last two games. Pacing the league with 31 SB, Young has shown that he is a quite capable candidate to hit atop Colorado’s order as soon as the Rockies are ready to give him [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by zman40
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on June 3rd, 2009 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
1975 Topps Dave Winfield
This card eluded me for quite some time. When I began my quest to collect all of Dave Winfield’s cards from his rookies season of 1974 through 1989, I immediately sought his cards from the 1970’s as I figured that they would cost me the most money. I paid just $6.50 for this [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by Mario A.
Last month, against all common sense I posted a leaked memo regarding Upper Deck & Razor. In 48 hours, the site received over 10,000 visits and was linked on several different high-traffic card related message boards and other blogs.
I didn’t post it to increase traffic or to start trouble with either company, as I have [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by T.S.
My colleague, managing editor Tom Bartsch, wrote a column in the June
19 issue of SCD recounting a story about a baby boomer whose mother threw out
his baseball cards. I can hear you already, saying that such a revelation is hardly
news, and you would be right. But that isn’t the end of the story.
Turns out, when the man got into his 40s and his son started collecting,
he noticed something as the house filled up with baseball cards. His son was buying
a lot of the same cards that he had once owned. When Grandma realized how much her
grandson enjoyed the collecting and how much her son was involved in the hobby as
well, she started feeling guilty about having thrown out the cards years ago.
And so she asked her son what the original collection might have been
worth, with Editor Bartsch speculating that there may have even been a bit of accounting
for inflation. And mom volunteered to pony up $3,000 ostensibly to clear her conscience
for having done what mothers did all across America.
I was relieved that there was no hint of a way to identify anyone involved
in this, leaving me free to point out the obvious: this is sooo wrong on sooo many
levels. Even conceding the possibility that the collector fiercely resisted and that
mom insisted, the notion of a mother paying for this particular “transgression” is
nothing short of appalling.
Though I wouldn’t typically bother to invoke this argument, you could
suggest that without moms everywhere tossing the cards out, the very hobby resurgence
that you saw in the late 1970s and early 1980s might never have happened. Moms were
merely performing their vital role in the grand cosmic scheme of things and to have
done otherwise might have upset the space/time continuum and created one of those
black holes in the universe.
But mostly it’s just silly because the responsibility for holding on
to valued material of any description should reside with the person who values the
material. You don’t even have to be a mature adult to understand the concept, since
I was able at age 18 to politely tell my mother, “I am leaving to join the U.S. Navy
(technically, she already knew that part) and I would like you to leave the baseball
cards untouched in my absence.”
I could have added, but didn’t, that while I understand that these are
supposedly childish things, I would nonetheless like to hang onto them into adulthood,
either for the reason of passing them along to offspring who might be interested in
the hobby or merely for purposes of potential monetary appreciation.
And lo and behold, there they were, four years later, unmolested and
intact. I’ve been tempted to get a T-shirt made that says, “I asked my mother not
to throw away my baseball cards, and by golly, she didn’t!”
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on June 3rd, 2009 by Newspaperman
I’m kind of going into 2009 Bowman a bit blindly. I’ve not read a bunch of reviews, but given the fact that box prices are already under $60 at Dave & Adam’s, I’m guessing this product features a list of lackluster prospects. If I’m wrong, someone tell me.
Anyhow, that didn’t stop me from buying a [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by Chris Harris
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on June 3rd, 2009 by Captain Canuck
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on June 3rd, 2009 by Steve
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Well, I knew all this would come out at some point because too many people have known about it. I did not want to be the one to initially report this story because it [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by Tracy Hackler
Mum on the product since March, hockey manufacturer In The Game released the first images and additional details this morning on a unique product that has more than just a little grooviness to it.
ITG’s 1972 — The Year in Hockey offers what looks to be a splendidly nostalgic stroll down memory lane and is sure to have hockey diehards fondly recalling upstart [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by No Brainer Bargains
Kudos goes to etopps for offering autographs every other week to make it easier for etopps members’ wallets. I presented the dilemma of offering high-end autographs vs. low-end autographs at the beginning of the baseball season in light of our economy and the road etopps has chosen seems to be working. IPOs are selling out and so are the autographs so far. As stated in a previous post, the other shoe may drop later in the season, after the all-star break, when wallets are exhausted.
This Thursday, 200 2008 Masterson autos are being offered at $29.99 each and you can buy a maximum of 3 per account.
So is this reasonable? As of this writing, there are only 14 active listings and a bunch of ebay store offerings. Most of the 14 listings are auctions, and so are the completed auctions. $29.99 is about what they’re selling for at the close of auctions on average with sticker autos going for $10-$15 on average. For a relief pitching prospect, not bad.
Add another $10 to its value for the etopps “halo effect” (COA, on-the-card auto) and at least another $5 the fact that it’s a Red Sox and a rookie card.
I would stop here but there’s something else to consider. Trade rumors are flying around already. Big Pappi is falling apart. What if Masterson is on another team by the time you get this autograph in the mail?
Something to think about.
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on June 3rd, 2009 by rosschrisman2003
Last night I watched Antonio Bastardo get his first win in his ML debut for the Phillies. This morning I thought I would do an eBay search for his cards, and too my surprise Bastardo barely has any at all. The only card I could find was one from a Reading Phillies team set. Being [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by Pheebs888
By Karine Hains, Editor-In-Chief
The world being what it is, there will always be dishonest people around looking for new ways to make a quick buck. Unfortunately, this is also true in the hobby world and collectors must beware. In the past, I have written an article about fake patches being sold on eBay but it [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by chemgod
I ended up trading the Doc Ellis autograph I put up over the weekend. Let’s see if there are any takers on this one? Since I am now trying to enter the world of patch cards, I am going to start trading autographed and game used cards for patch cards. So round up your patch [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
The only person to win the batting title in his first two major league seasons was Tony Oliva of the Twins. In the 1964 season, he hit .324; in 1965, he hit .321.
** factoid corutesy of ‘Armchair Reader - Grand Slam Baseball’
My take – This is an amazing feat, by a relatively underrated player. Of all [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by Scott
1) Don’t put your baseball cards in a nine-sleeve page back-to-back, so you can fit more cards (18 rather than 9) in a sleeve.What are the reasons for this? Well first, you won’t be able to view the backs of the cards without taking them out. You might need to view the backs of the [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by steveisjewish
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on June 3rd, 2009 by Dan
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on June 3rd, 2009 by chemgod
Name: Jason Jennings
Position: Pitcher
Team: Rangers
Set it’s from: 2005 Donruss Prime Patches
Serial Number: 26/53
How obtained: eBay auction
Why this Card?: I have been a Jason Jennings fan since he won the Rookie of the Year award in 2002. Even though he hasn’t been as successful as that rookie campaign, I have always followed him. I [...]
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on June 3rd, 2009 by Newspaperman
In these times of economic uncertainty, a card collector has to find his kicks any way possible. For some of us, that means bargains, not high-dollar gambles. It’s not often that you find bargains at Big Box stores, but recently there have been a few older Blasters that have returned to shelves with nice 50 [...]
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