Smooth as silk

A common refrain among collectors is that there hasn’t been enough innovation from the card companies in recent years.  While the 1990s saw the introduction of refractors, relic cards, and certified autographs to the collecting world, we’ve seen very little that’s really unique in the past decade.  It seems that every new card product features [...]

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I’ve been way behind the times regarding Facebook, as I finally joined a little over a month ago. But, I have always thought it would be a good way to expand the scope of the blog, and come into contact with even more Rickey Henderson fans.Plus, due to the easy to update photo albums, I can post a lot more pictures than I can on the blog. So, I decided to create a “fan” page for the site. I’ve

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In 1989 Topps brought some interesting things to market. Double Headers All-Stars.Heads Up! Test Issue. Sticker Cards. Stickers. Gallery of Champions ingots. And Coins.This set was made up of 60 pieces sold in packs of three coins each. An album …

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Heres another update post! Were here in a foot of snow in ny, and its 11:48 PM and Im listneing to country music. I know its very random, Im just proud of the fact that Im probably the only person in the NY metro area that has Johnny Cash and Hank Williams on their playlists! [...]

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We have reached the end of our quarter box journey. I’ve saved the best for last: Allen & Ginter mini inserts. I found three National Heroes and two Hoaxers Bamboozlers and All -Around Bullshitters cards. I knew I had at least a couple of these, bu…

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I cannot remember when I got so much use out of my cable tv. With all that is turning the sports world, I have not time for writing this blog. NBC, MSNBC, USA, CNBC, Fox Soccer Channel, GOLTV and ESPN … and now Fox Soccer Plus is introduced this week…

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When I first saw the preview for Ultimate a few months ago, I was extremely underwhelmed outside of the Ultimate Patch cards. It just looked boring and not very exciting after a baseball product that blew everyone away. Although the box busting side of…

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In anticipation of my 2nd annual junket to Florida for Spring Training, I wanted to share a card that was added to my 1967 Topps Autographed Baseball card collection during the 1st trip in 2009. It is Reggie Smith on the 1967 Boston Red Sox Rookie Star…

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No. Not this one. This will actually be an Olympic free post. I think.The actual reason for my rejoicing is I found another card shop within 2 hours driving distance.Most of you remember my anxiety a few weeks back when I found out my favourite cardsho…

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Who is this player?Kip Young, swingman, Detroit TigersWith Sparky Anderson at the helm for his first full season in 1980, Kip Young was not in the Detroit Tigers’ plans. He was sold to the Seattle Mariners in November 1979 and made the club coming out …

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The Raptors mascot is getting kind of popular with his craziness.Click here to see him eat a cheerleader.

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David Kohler, the owner of SCP Auctions, recently showed off his impressive collection of Los Angeles Lakers memorabilia to NBA.com’s Craig Sager.

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These 1,000,000 Card Giveaway cards keep getting better and better! I bought three packs today at Target in a failed search for new Heritage and ended up pulling two Giveaway cards. It should have taken me 12 packs to do that so the Card Gods were sm…

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I apologize for the lack of real content lately, but the state of the third floor just isn’t conducive to doing much of anything.  I’m up here right now for a little while, but I don’t plan on staying for long.  I’ve been told that th…

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Hey guys, Drew back here, I went to a party today (somehow, we have about 2 feet of snow over here), and it was pretty fun. I made one more custom before I left, for a TTM I’m gonna send really soon, maybe next week sometime, to this guy:After emailing…

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Upper Deck has started unveiling its 2009 Goodwin Champions Entomology Cards that include an actual dead insect embedded into a sports card that is ultimately a shadowbox for the insect.

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One of my major goals for this year is to complete the run of Topps Hockey sets from 1980-81 through 1990-91 (there were no Topps sets in 82-83 or 83-84), which includes scanning in every card and organizing them nicely in binders. The 80′s Topps hocke…

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According to T.R. Sullivan the Rangers are bringing in some former players as guest instructors. Ruben Sierra, shown here on a terribly off-kilter 1990 Starline card, is one of them. Others include Rusty Greer, Jeff Russell, Mickey Tettleton, Pete O’Br…

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Have you ever seen a cheesier airbrush job on an Orioles card than this paint-by-numbers treatment of reserve outfielder Mike Anderson? Sure, the dude only hit .094 in 32 at-bats in Charm City, but he still deserved better. As long as they were making …

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That’s right, 4 new Kurts added to the collection. 2009 Topps Unique Red Parallel 2010 Topps Gold Border 2010 Upper Deck Supreme – I actually now have 2 of these. I got the first one on ebay, since I had pretty much decided after 4 packs or so, not to …

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With this card, all 20 teams are now represented on all 3 of my baseball card blogs. This would be Nelson’s last card until 1969.Mel Nelson was signed by the Cardinals in 1954, and except for a 2-game stint with the Cardinals in September 1960, he spen…

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Drafted out of Long Beach State in the 20th round by the Rangers in 1985, Steve Lankard made it to AAA Oklahoma City by 1989.In a feature story that July, Lankard told the Los Angeles Times about life in the minor leagues, and, the ultimate goal of mak…

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This weekend may be the busiest two days of the entire work year, and the next three weekends won’t be any picnic either.That means I don’t have time for anything clever or thought-provoking today. All I can offer is a simple trade post.I know. Th…

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Yesterday I was so excited by my new purchase of cigarette cards that I mistakenly said they were my oldest cards. I completely forgot about my small cache of baseball cards. So here’s the cream of the crop, a T-205 Christy Mathewson from 1911. Sorr…

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As of February 26th the following are stats covering the last 7 days on ebay for etopps in-hands:

Highest Single Card Sale: 1952 Mickey Mantle reprint, $84
Highest Mult-Card Sale: 2009 T-206 Tribute Set, $199
Highest Graded Sale: 2003 LeBron James, BGS 9.5, $40
Highest Non-Graded Autograph Sale: Willie May Classic Baseball, $177.77
Highest Graded Autograph Sale: None

Other best sellers:

* 2009 WBC Japan Patch Card
* 2003 LeBron James
* 2007 Kevin Durant
* 2001 Albert Pujols

In-hand listing (not including graded or autographed) that received most bids that sold well: 2001 Albert Pujols, 21 bids

Listings with false print-runs included in title: 0
Number of sellers listing false print-runs: 0

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Join Beckett Football’s Tracy Hackler and Dan Hitt as they rip into a pair of 2009 Ultimate Collection football packs from Upper Deck in this red-hot edition of Box Busters recorded just minutes ago.

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Panini America was announced the official short print checklist for 2010 Playoff Contenders Basketball.
“Unlike football, where there were more than 100 rookies in the autographed Rookie Ticket insert, there are just 35 rookie players in Contenders Basketball,” said Panini Basketball Brand Manager David Porter. “But even with a considerably smaller rookie checklist, some of the [...]

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Last year I set out with a collecting goal of getting to 200 unique cards for 1996. I needed about 50 cards to accomplish the goal. Along the way I made a series of posts of all the different 1996 cards that I owned. I never did complete that series be…

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Here is the final card for the other “F. Robinson” (#404).Floyd Robinson was a starting outfielder for the White Sox in the early-to-mid 1960s. He’s also a cousin of Tommie Reynolds (an outfielder for the Athletics and Mets in the mid-1960s).Robinson …

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Mike Schmidt 2005 Upper Deck Classic Materials Game Used Jersey Card
A game-used jersey card of Mike Schmidt – YES!!!
The colors of this card look great.  The border color is an almost perfect match for the Phillies’ batting helmet that Schmidt is wearing in this photo.  And even though the swatch of jersey used on this [...]

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Yeah, I’m almost a day late with this… give me a break, I’ve been busy. Onwards and upwards!The team shot The world’s best womens goaltender. The Gold Medal winning goalie from 2006, a backup this year, played in 1 game.The Gold Medal winning goalie …

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Moving right along – Having now really spent time with this set I have to say I am really happy with it – Although you may not have seen all of the different inserts, other than the Ruth series – I think Topps nailed it with this set – beats the shit o…

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if you had told me when i was a kid that i would be sending some 1956 and 1957 topps cards to a retired brooklyn dodger in the mail, i would have replied ‘i own 1956 and 1957 topps cards!?!?!?!’  well, i do (although not too many) and i did send a…

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Continuing with the second half of the 2009 UD Combo blasterPack 6A fun pack with some nice photos and some good players. Poor Scott Hairston traded back to the Padres after being moved to Oakland. Talk about bad luck, for being destined to the worst…

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