on February 4th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 4th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 4th, 2010 by admin
2010 Upper Deck Goudey Baseball is scheduled to release on 26 March and will cost about $80 per hobby box. Each box will have 18 packs with eight cards per pack. Collectors can expect one memorabilia and one autographed card per box. The base 2010 Goudy Baseball set will feature 200 cards. Also, expect one [...]
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on February 4th, 2010 by White Sox Cards
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on February 4th, 2010 by Bud (First Day Issue)
Instead of waiting for the increasingly hideous looking National Chicle Baseball to be released, I thought I would get a box of cards from when men were men and more importantly, when Babe Ruth was not wearing a Braves uniform. 2002 Topps Gallery (6 ca…
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on February 4th, 2010 by Dinged Corners
It started innocently enough. It was a gray, slushy day, and we were happy to see a package from the wildly generous and ever upbeat Troll. Sweet! Right? Well, never take anything for granted in this world, people. This is probably what made us complac…
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on February 4th, 2010 by Mario A.
Author: Mario Alejandro
It looks like I picked a perfect time to walk away from blogging about the sports cards industry. In my short time away, Upper Deck was sued by Konami for an unforgivable act, released the final 2009 products with logos in full view, and were sued by Major League Properties just days after [...]
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on February 4th, 2010 by No Brainer Bargains
If the Super Bowl has become a ritual in America’s culture, so has the preparations we make to see it on television each year.
In the media, we’re already hearing about ads that are too controversial or are supposed to have the most buzz. The Who will perform during halftime. People are planning how they’ll see the game and how they’ll be entertaining at home.
The coolest preparation I’ve ever heard of for the Super Bowl came from an ebay buyer. More than 2 years ago, I sold a single-pack hobby box to a guy. When I shipped the box to him, I said in my email I wished him good luck in whatever he pulls.
To my surprise, he replied to my email. He told me throughout the year he buys packs and boxes of football cards and waits until the Super Bowl to open them, one at a time, throughout the game.
While the Super Bowl hype builds around us, etopps is offering its customers 25 chances to snag a coveted Troy Aikman Allen & Ginter Super Bowl autographed card tomorrow at 3PM EST for a mere $79.99.
Since Aikman is a recent Hall-of-Famer and lauded by fans of “American’s Team,” it will not be a surprise if this offering sells out within a minute or two after it becomes available.
Considering the 2007 IPOs of this set have all gone up in price and supply has dried up (the last in-port Aikman was listed a month ago, btw), there’s an especially high demand for this, autographed or not.
And the autograph is a nice one. It’s not “TA” with his jersey number and it’s not squeezed on the card or smudged. It’s done well if the scan that I placed in this post is any indication of what 25 lucky so-and-so’s will be getting by mail.
Kudos first of all goes to etopps for offering this treat and the timing couldn’t be better for Dallas, Super Bowl, Aikman, football or etopps autograph collecting fans.
I don’t see this card having a problem selling on the secondary market if any of the 25 decide to sell it. Allen & Ginter cards are known for baseball so for regular cardboard collecting auto buyers, this could be a worthwhile investment.
A couple of things I saw on ebay. His auto holds more value when the card has something added to it whether it’s a swatch of his jersey or there’s another auto on the card. Both sell well on ebay. If I had a price, I would guess the auto could easily sell for $200 on ebay but I’ve been wrong plenty of times and I hate predicting.
Good luck if want to buy the card tomorrow. There will be plenty of unlucky etoppers tomorrow at 3:05pm. Hopefully you won’t be one of them.
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on February 4th, 2010 by steveisjewish
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on February 4th, 2010 by zman40
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on February 4th, 2010 by Newspaperman
I arrived home Wednesday evening to a surprise: a Through The Mail success from 1998 American League Rookie of the Year Ben Grieve. Growing up in the Bay Area, I remember the few good seasons Grieve had with the Oakland Athletics. For a good while it appeared that Grieve was going to be a solid [...]
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on February 4th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on February 4th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
1989 Upper Deck Darryl Strawberry
The premier of Upper Deck in 1989 gave us some great new photography to enjoy. Their images were superior in comparison to what the other brands were releasing at the time. And while I am a sucker for a full-body action photo, I find this card to be one of the few ‘close-ups’ that [...]
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on February 4th, 2010 by T.S.
The arrival of Super Bowl Weekend got me to thinking about the
most important NFL game I ever attended, the 1970 NFC Championship Game at Kezar Stadium
in San Francisco.
I’ve never been to a Super Bowl, but I can’t say that represents any
kind of significant void. I’ve never been too interested in doing stuff just so I
could say I’ve done it, and I suspect that all the corporate hoopla and then the silliness
that envelops the game would simply annoy me if I were actually in attendance.
But that 1970 NFL Championship Game was all business, and coincidentally
turned out to be the 49ers last game at that quaint facility located at the southeast
corner of Golden Gate Park. Drat, but the 49ers lost it, messing up my plans to party
in a city that had just won a major professional title. I’d missed the 1969 World
Series entirely when my Mets startled the whole nation; I’d been in the Philippines
for the whole year and then some. I wasn’t technically old enough to drink (20), but
a sailor in good standing could usually manage well enough on Market Street in that
regard.
So here was my chance and yet John Brodie & Co. came up a touchdown
short. The only reason I’d even gotten tickets was somebody donated them and somehow
I wound up being picked – along with a handful of others – out of the 3,500 sailors
on the U.S.S. Midway to go to the game. I am pretty sure I didn’t do anything special
to get the tickets; they must have been just randomly distributed to various divisions
on the ship.
I do recall that Kezar was a fun if unimposing facility, which I suppose
explains why the 49ers were departing in favor of Candlestick Park.
And I got a kick out of seeing the park prominently featured in the 1971
Clint Eastwood blockbuster “Dirty Harry.” That movie was fun because there were lots
of location shots of San Fran places that I had frequented, including the weenie stand
outside the bank where Harry Callahan was wolfing down a hot dog just as the bank
robbers emerged.
In the years following the 49ers exit, the facility gained a good deal
of notoriety as an outdoor concert venue, hardly surprising given its close proximity
to the Haight-Ashbury District.
And so names like Led Zeppelin, The Doobie Brothers, Jefferson Starship,
Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead, The New Riders of the Purple Sage, Carlos Santana, Waylon
Jennings, and Neil Young were added to the Kezar legend.
The facility was also used for a number of other pro sports, most notably
soccer, but it was also the home field – if that’s what they call it – for the San
Francisco Freedom of the Pro Cricket League.
Jolly good.
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on February 4th, 2010 by White Sox Cards
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on February 4th, 2010 by Chris Harris
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on February 4th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
For those collectors who enjoy Topps National Chicle Football, you may have noticed that The Topps Vault started to sell the original paintings provided to them by the artists for the cards. Donruss/Playoff use to do the same thing with their Gridiron Kings product awhile back. Topps paid a flat fee for all the original [...]
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on February 4th, 2010 by Tom
Donne Wall was drafted by Houston in 1989. In 1995 he was the MVP for the Tucson Torros.After a few years in the minors he played his first big league game on September 2, 1995. He eventually played for the Padres, Mets, and Angels before retiring in…
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on February 4th, 2010 by Joey
During the Christmas shopping season my wife came in with some treats for me from the local Dollar Tree. I am one of the lucky guys that has a wife that will buy some baseball cards for me now and again. When you are a grown man some wives would not buy you a pack [...]
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on February 4th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
In the early days of baseball, runners could be called out by hitting them with the ball!
**factoid courtesy of ‘Armchair Reader – Grand Slam Baseball’
My take – ‘OUCH!!!!’
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on February 4th, 2010 by Spiff
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on February 4th, 2010 by Rod
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