Box Busters Preview Gallery: 2009 Topps Platinum Football

If 2009 Topps Platinum truly is the venerable cardmaker’s final football release for a while, it’s nice to know that the granddaddy’s swansong product provides a respectful departure befitting an icon with 55 consecutive years of football trading cards under its belt.

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1966 Topps Baseball:1, 9, 30, 50, 70, 72, 110, 160, 215, 216, 219, 224, 276, 285-293, 295, 298-300, 303, 305-308, 311-313, 315-318, 320, 321, 323, 325-328, 330, 331, 336-338, 341, 342, 345-348, 351-358, 361, 362, 365, 368-371, 373-382, 384-386, 388-393…

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It’s the start of a new year, so I thought I would survey my collection of vintage cards (click to enlarge): (updated 3/9/2010)The yellow areas are my “wheelhouse”. My 1st period of collecting began in May 1967 and stopped after the 1972 football seaso…

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Say, wait a minute! The Indians didn’t wear pinstripes in the 1960s, did they? Why, no! No they didn’t! Those are Yankee pinstripes, as Bud was traded to Cleveland on November 27, 1964. This is the veteran’s last baseball card, as the Tribe released hi…

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After more than doubling the number of cards in a pack from 7 to 15 in 1985 (and making the stickers much harder to find by cutting the stickers from 3 to 1), in 1986 Fleer returned to offering 7 cards and 3 stickers in each pack of NFL Team Action (no…

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SA*GE president Tom Geideman on Thursday released to Beckett Media several preliminary images of 2010 SA*GE HIT Low Series Football, the company’s first product of the year that includes crisp photography and an overall design that’s striking in its clean simplicity.

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I take collation pretty seriously, mostly because I enjoy knowing what I’m going to get once I know the top card (or sticker, as the case may be). For this box, if Tom Seaver was first out of the pack, your four others would be in this order: Jerry Rem…

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We’ve got several contests going right now 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 (1-29) Contest No. 7 — A 2009 Topps Tribute David Wright autographed dual game-used card (only 99 exist)

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-29) Contest No. 6 — A 12-pack lot of 2010 Topps baseball hobby packs

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-29) Contest No. 5 — A Knowshon Moreno 2009 Playoff National Treasures Colossal Autograph Jersey card (only 50 exist)

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The team logos look sharp if you don’t mind very large, slanty logos, which we don’t, because we like the happy retro Mets style. Whether you like this feature thus may be influenced by team preference. The foil is very, well, foily. But it’s…

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-29) Contest No. 4 — A 12-pack lot of 2010 Topps baseball hobby packs

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-29) Contest No. 3 — A 2009 Topps Tribute Dustin Pedroia autographed game-used bat card (only 75 exist)

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-29) Contest No. 2 — A 12-pack lot of 2010 Topps baseball cards hobby packs

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FREE STUFF FRIDAY (1-29) Contest No. 1 — 2010 Wheels Element Jimmie Johnson Flagship Performers race-used flag card (Only 20 exist)

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As a rule, it’s a good idea not to have three batters in the batter’s box at once, unless they are trained professionals with power ’staches. Otherwise, this could be as dangerous as driving a new Toyota.

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The new blog header was making me feel groovy, so I wanted to make a groovy new card. I have done the 3D cards before, but not the 1980 set…PRP LOST – #54 Pierre ChangI kinda dig my “Kel-LOST” logo. It will zoom if you click on it (Bip-Free.)Design B…

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With the acqusition of this card, I have completed my Eddie Murray player collection.
For this set, the goal was very clear – Collect every major brand release from Eddie’s first stint with the Orioles.  The years covered are 1978 through 1989 and the set is comprised of 42 different cards.
Here is a look at the full collection:

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Ok, it’s show and tell time. My third grader has been following along with this blog periodically. Typically, he likes to see what player and/or team we are currently on, sometimes offering suggestions, more often asking questions.For Christmas, he rec…

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I came across these cool NFL cards when I went to the flea market this last Saturday. I try to make it a point to check out the flea market whenever I can.Anyway, I picked up four “packs” of different sets of cards. They were cheap enough so I was just…

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Yes, I realize that Felix’s deal was finalized over a week ago, but I had to wait (it only took about 14 days) until I received this card to use the word “inks” in the title for this post (I was legally obligated by the MLBPA). I never used the phrase …

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Islanders Phenom and Hobby Powerhouse John Tavares easily held onto the top spot in spite of being passed by the Av’s Matt Duchene in rookie scoring. The 3rd overall pick in the 09′ Draft will probably never pass Tavares in the RCR (Rookie Cardboard Rankings), but he did jump 2 spots this week to #4. If Duchene continues [...]

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