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Trevor Cahill was 21 years old when he joined the A’s starting rotation in 2009. He had a rough year when you look at his stats, but he was improving there towards the end of 2009. He skipped AAA all together, but was kinda rushed because the A’s didn’…

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Go ahead you high-end pack gamblers and golden-ticket treasure seekers . . . rejoice. It’s time. Upper Deck on Thursday evening finally has released product information and drool-inducing images of 2009 Exquisite Collection Football, the forthcoming new installment of the most expensive product in football card history.

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The 2010 U.S. Army All-American Bowl has come and gone with the arrival of Tim Tebow’s first football card and plenty of autographs signed.

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The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday ran a story comparing the investment performance of 30 key trading cards during the last five years to the five-year performance of the 30 companies that currently comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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This may be the only card I’ve seen where Topps eliminated all commentary and kept the player’s minor-league stats. Howie’s rookie card was in 1965. After 1966, we don’t see him on another card until 1970.Reed was signed by the Kansas City Athletics a…

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The generous John H. of Old School Breaks sent us, nearly a year ago (in February 2009) a packet of wonderful cards AND a redemption for an autograph from one of our favorite nice-guy players, Jeff Francis. Specifically, it was a redemption for a …

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We’re launching 10 contests tonight because we want Free Stuff Friday to be more than just a one-day event for our readers (but we ain’t changing the name). We know you guys can’t get enough of our weekly contests, so we’re running them all weekend.

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-15) Contest No. 10 — A Brandon Rush Exquisite Collection autographed patch Rookie Card

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-15) Contest No. 9 — A 2003 Upper Deck Artistic Impressions hockey PROMO complete set (cards found one per Beckett magazine)

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-15) Contest No. 8 — A Stephen Strasburg Upper Deck USA Baseball card

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-15) Contest No. 7 — A NFL rookie QB lot (Matt Stafford Panini NFL Draft promo & Mark Sanchez Topps Mayo RC)

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-15) Contest No. 6 — A Jay Bruce 2009 Topps Tribute autographed game-used bat card (only 75 exist)

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-15) Contest No. 5 — A 2009 Playoff Contenders Nate Davis autographed Rookie Ticket card

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-15) Contest No. 4 — A 2009 Topps WWE card lot (Arn Anderson autograph, Santino Marella event-used shirt)

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-15) Contest No. 3 — A three-card lot of TRISTAR Prospects Plus autograph cards (only 25 copies exist of two of them)

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-15) Contest No. 2 — A 2009 Topps Tribute Gold Reggie Jackson game-used bat card (only 25 exist)

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-15) Contest No. 1 — Ten NASCAR driver hero cards (various drivers, years courtesy of Chris Olds’ way-too-big stash of them)

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Amazingly just 1 week after being elected to the Hall of Fame, Andre Dawson returned home and went right back to taking care of his fan mail.
I got these cards in my mailbox last night after work, and even through Andre has always been great about promptly signing stuff for me, he really impressed me [...]

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Through a purchase that I made on eBay, I recently came into contact with another Rickey collector who’d been out of the hobby for a little while. We’ve since had a few nice Rickey-related conversations, as it’s always fun discussing random errors and variations that only a die hard collector would really enjoy. In the first trade that we completed (another one is in the mail, while more will

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Okay, the Mets seemed a little caught off guard by Carlos Beltran’s decision to have arthroscopic surgery and not be available to, you know, play baseball, for at least twelve weeks–he’ll be out most of April. The New York Post, which by the way,…

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