on February 16th, 2010 by admin
2010 Upper Deck Draft Edition Football is scheduled to release in April. Each box will contain 16 packs with 10 cards per pack. 2010 Draft Edition Football will be the first product featuring Upper Deck’s CLC Exclusive license. Collectors can expect five autographs, four numbered parallels and one over-sized Draft Edition Magazine Box Topper per [...]
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on February 16th, 2010 by tastelikedirt
Can you still get a Value Deck at McDonalds?The value deck (third deck behind home) is open this year and the A’s website even tells you this is the “best value”. That’s where my opening day tickets are for.Value DeckNew in 2010, the Value Deck provide…
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on February 16th, 2010 by JD's Daddy
Pack # 23Colby Rasmus (horizontal + shades) +10LL Seaver and Halladay (horizontal) +5Jason Kubel (shades) + 5Jeff Baker (shades) +5Mike CameronTexas RangersJohnny Bench CYMTOEvan Longoria ToppstownBrian McCannRod BarajasPack 23 total = +25 Pack # 24Dan…
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on February 16th, 2010 by admin
2010 Upper Deck Sweet Spot Football is scheduled to release in June and will debut in the first ever NCAA Sweet Spot Football. Each hobby box will contain eight packs with six cards per pack. Collectors can expect one Sweet Spot Signature or Sweet Swatch per pack or six autographs or Memorabilia cards per box. [...]
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on February 16th, 2010 by gcrl
the great sports name hall of fame, that is!this guy doesn’t have a hall of fame name, but his nickname is pretty good – it’s a 1994 topps gold cory ‘corndog’ snyderfollowed by a 1993 pacific ramon martinezel es un lanzador. bueno.a nice dou…
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on February 16th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
2000 Fleer – “Club 3,000″ – Steve Carlton
Date of entry into “Club 3,000″ – April 29, 1981
The Story – At home in Veteran’s Stadium, it took Steve Carlton just 134 minutes to dominate and beat the Montreal Expos. In front of 30,142 die-hard Phillies fans, Steve Carlton joined the 3,000 Strikeouts Club. On the day, [...]
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on February 16th, 2010 by Howard Bagby
Before I get to the desk, I was going to talk about my favorite comic book, Fables, today. I decided I want to have plenty of visuals for it so I will do it tomorrow. Tuesday mornings are always busy for me. I go to Dalton, Georgia to pick up my comic …
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on February 16th, 2010 by zman40
#735 Steve FarrHere is the first of two Steve Farr Yankee cards that I will be posting today. This one is on his ’92 Donruss card. This set looks pretty bland by today’s standards, but I was a big fan of it in 1992. It was the first Donruss set that wa…
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on February 16th, 2010 by Chris Harris
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on February 16th, 2010 by Tracy Hackler
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on February 16th, 2010 by JD's Daddy
Everything has been updated in the sidebar to reflect current entry standings based on medal winnings. I think most of the kinks of the operation are worked out at this point and it should be smooth sailing from here on forward. Not too many surprise…
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on February 16th, 2010 by T.S.
There’s little doubt that Major League Baseball as currently configured
is a phenomenal enterprise, with billions of dollars at stake and a global reach that
couldn’t have been imagined just a half century ago.
(Roy Campanella original artwork by Andy Jurinko.)
But I’m here to tell you as swell as it all is, much is lost when something
gets as big as MLB now is, and much is lost when that size and global reach reflect
an emphasis of business over sport that’s as onerous as it is unavoidable.
I am not suggesting that economic questions didn’t have their own relative
importance in the years, for example, immediately following the end of World War II,
but noting only that the economic questions didn’t overwhelm the daily dialog as they
do now.
When Walter O’Malley decided to break millions of hearts in Brooklyn
and move the Dodgers to the West Coast after the 1957 season, obviously money was
at the center of the equation. Not survival money, just maximizing money, as in the
Dodgers wouldn’t have been doomed by staying in Brooklyn, they simply wouldn’t have
maximized their profitability.
While much of conventional historical thought emphasizes all the woes
connected with an aging Ebbets Field in 1957 and the drawbacks connected with inner-city
ballparks, the reality is that O’Malley was still making good money at the time he
decided to head west: the Dodgers’ payroll was essentially covered before the first
pitch was thrown on opening day, thanks to the growing importance of fledgling television
and radio broadcast revenues.
So I understand that the good old days weren’t nearly as rosy as we like
to imagine, but that doesn’t change the reality that the dialog that engulfed the
game – most especially the Hot Stove League variety – didn’t center so thoroughly
on salaries, revenues, labor woes, etc., to the extent that it does now.
It does little good to bemoan all the changes, but it certainly doesn’t
hurt to remember that it wasn’t always this way. Before the expansion of television
in cable and later the myriad elements of the Internet boom, Hot Stove League talk
used to be largely marshaled by newspapers and pulp magazines that helped pique interest
in the sport over the long winter months.
And about the most significant salary discussion I can remember from
those days was when Sandy and Don held out before the 1966 season. Ironically, we
have O’Malley to thank for that one, too.
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on February 16th, 2010 by admin
2010 Topps Series 2 Baseball is schedule to release on 27 May and will cost about $60 per hobby box or $90 per HTA Jumbo box. Each hobby box will contain 36 packs with 10 cards per pack. Each HTA Jumbo box will contain ten packs per box or 50 cards per pack. There are [...]
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on February 16th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
‘Same Card, Different Paths’ – Card #42
1964 Topps - Card #146 – AKA – ‘The Tommy John Rookie Card’
Tommy John – John, the winningest pitcher in baseball history to not be inducted in the Hall of Fame, finished his 26-year career with 288 wins. A 4-time All-star, and a Top 8 finisher for the Cy Young award 4 times [...]
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on February 16th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
Today throughout many parts of the world its Fasnacht Day. For those people that aren’t familiar with what a Fasnacht is, its basically a fatty doughnut. People are suppose to use all the fat in their kitchen before the start of Lent. Its a big tradition in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Switzerland, and Germany.
I know, I know. [...]
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on February 16th, 2010 by Tuff Stuff
Congratulations to Michael Molinaro who scored a 9 last week to Beat the
Blogger’s total of 6 and beat the field to win this week’s Beat the Blogger contest.
Last week’s results are below.
This week’s matchups will be posted later today so make sure you get your picks posted before
the start of the first game on Saturday.
Copy and paste our link and send it to your friends on Facebook, Twitter and
anywhere else so they can be a part of the action and we can boost our total list
of contestants, http://blog.tuffstuff.com/7thinning/
With the number of weekly participants slipping a bit the last few weeks I’m making
a call to action to all of our regulars to do some recruiting. While more people
means more work for the Blogger and more people for the Blogger to go up against,
I welcome the challenge and offer this challenge to you: If each player can recruit
10 new players and we can boost the total to 200 or more, I’ll triple the weekly prize.
So spread the word about the contest to all your co-workers, family and friends
and meet that goal and boost the prize.
Copy and paste our link and send it to your friends so they can be a part of the action, http://blog.tuffstuff.com/7thinning/
This week’s winners are posted below so check to see how you fared against
the field.
While I enjoy giving prizes to several people vs. having just one weekly winner, from
this point forward contestants will be asked to provide a tie-breaker on the week’s
last game so we narrow our winner down to one. Contestants will now b
e
asked to predict the total score from the last game on the list and the closest to
the actual score will be deemed the winner). I’ll also require contestants
to post their e-mail address with their picks so I can track down the winners
easier.
For those unfamiliar with the Beat the Blogger contest, the idea is simple.
The Blogger posts 10 matchups each week and then selects his choices for the winners
of those matchups. Contestants enter the Beat the Blogger contest by clicking on
the “Comment” section below the post with the matchups and then select their
own 10 winners. You can also designate one of your picks as a “Doubler” and
you will receive an extra point if you’re correct so don’t forget to designate your
“Doubler” pick and increase your chances of winning. If you Beat The Blogger’s
total and post the high score for the week, you win. The regular weekly
prize is an authentic signed 8-by-10 color photo of stars such as LaDainian
Tomlinson, Drew Brees, Marshall Faulk, Santonio Holmes, Gale Sayers, Catfish
Hunter and many more. From time to time, the Blogger will sweeten the pot for
the weekly contest so look for special prize packages.
This week’s matchups with Blogger’s picks in parenthesis
Saturday & Sunday, Feb. 13-14
NCAA Basketball
Tennessee at Kentucky (Kentucky)
Louisville at Syracuse (Louisville)
Ohio State at Illinois (Ohio State)
NBA All-Star Game
East or West (East)
More points: Kevin Durant or LeBron James (James)
NHL
Ottawa at Detroit (Detroit)
New Jersey at Carolina (Carolina)
Philadelphia at Montreal (Philadelphia)
Atlanta at Chicago (Chicago)
Colorado at Los Angeles (LA)
Tiebreaker: Total points in NBA All-Star game (280)
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on February 16th, 2010 by Tracy Hackler
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on February 16th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
Before the summer last year, I wrote a post about how sports card manufacturers should make more cards about the industry’s history. A few months later TRISTAR released Obak that contained a card of The Dukes, who came up with the idea to place cardboard inserts inside packs of their tobacco. This year in 2010 [...]
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on February 16th, 2010 by AdamE
I have wanted this card ever since I first saw a scan of it and Cobb and Hallady was nice enough to send it to me. I also got a bunch of other great cards in the package.Some parallels. Most peopl hate parallels. I however kind of lik…
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