on February 28th, 2010 by Ryan aka Orioles Magic
Things are coming together pretty well for the Spring Training Contest. If you haven’t already entered, please do. If you enter and are a follower of the blog or link to my contest on your blog, you can win any of these HOF autographs. As a reminder…
Continue reading about Spring Training Contest Update »
Tags:
contest
Posted in Baseball Cards
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by admin
2009-10 Ultimate Collection Basketball is scheduled to release on 18 May and will cost about $85 per box. Each box contains four cards. Collectors can expect to get one autograph per box. The set includes 60 base cards and 20 Ultimate Rookie Signatures redemption cards. Get the best prices on 2009-10 Ultimate Collection Basketball boxes [...]
Continue reading about 2009-10 Ultimate Collection Basketball Card Preview »
Posted in sports card forum
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by zman40
#244 Shane HeamsHere is a card that was sent to me by Paul, of Paul’s Random Stuff. It is always cool when a package arrives from Paul. While Paul wants an autograph from every single Mets player, he is also like me in the fact that he will take an aut…
Continue reading about 2000 Just, Shane Heams »
Tags:
00s,
Just,
minors,
P,
PRS,
tigers,
Whitecaps
Posted in Auto Cards
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Send Me A Maddux, Receive An Autograph!!!
The name says it all. Allow me to provide more detail…
I need 5 more cards to complete my Greg Maddux player collection. I can easily scoop these up on a number of baseball card marketplace-type websites, but I want this to be a bit more fun than that.
So, here [...]
Continue reading about Send Me A Maddux, Receive An Autograph!!! »
Posted in 30 Year Old Cardboard
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by Bo
I came across an unintentionally funny baseball bard card selling site today called “Curiosities Items”. Does the girl with the 1995 Bazooka cards in her shirt catch your attention?Check out these low, low prices! A 1988 Donruss Bill Ripken for just …
Continue reading about Best baseball card deals evar! »
Posted in Baseball Cards
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by Ryan Cracknell
After a three-week hiatus, Super Sunday is back, not that anyone’s been asking for it. Super Sunday highlights oversized gems from the hobby. Okay, it’s about oversized cards and such, not all of which are gems.A couple decades ago, if you didn’t want …
Continue reading about Super Sunday: Mail-Order Brides »
Tags:
History,
Non-sport,
Panarizon,
Story of America,
Super Sunday
Posted in Trader Cracks Card Blog
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by steveisjewish
Here we go – I have not seen many other bloggers go on record with this, but I will again – HAIL UPPER DECK! While in the scans something is lost when looking at the cards in bunches (Hey, you expect me to pay to put up more photos? who am I Night ow…
Continue reading about 2010 Upper Deck Box Break Pack 1 »
Tags:
2010 Upper Deck
Posted in Easy Life
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by unclemoe
Why Mickey Mantle? When I decided to number these custom cards I knew right away that card # 7 had to belong to Mickey Mantle.Mickey’s had hundreds if not thousands of new baseball cards released over the past few years. I think this might have somewha…
Continue reading about Custom: Mickey Mantle »
Posted in Baseball Cards
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by ManOfSteal
As I mentioned a few days ago, Rickey Henderson arrived at the A’s Spring Training facility, and immediately jumped into action. Here’s a link to the story by MLB.com writer Jane Lee, the text of which is reproduced below. I’ve also included a few pictures by the SF Chronicle’s Brant Ward, as well as a short video by the A’s MLB.com new beat writer, Jane Lee.Henderson shares wisdom with A’sHall
Continue reading about Rickey Puts on a Base Stealing Clinic »
Tags:
appearances,
spring training
Posted in Rickey Henderson
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by Tracy Hackler
Posted in Beckett Blog
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
1981 Donruss Dale Murphy
This is the first card of Dale Murphy that I have picked up since choosing him as a new focal point of my player collections.
And away we go…
The card comes from Donruss’ premier issue in 1981. Overall, the cards lacks originality, but I do like the rather large space they left for a big picture. [...]
Continue reading about 1981 Donruss Dale Murphy »
Posted in 30 Year Old Cardboard
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by gcrl
not what you’re thinking – there are no markdowns on gladware here – and it’s not really an insert, but rather a few random cards from the awesomely fantastic 1990 target dodger set. this set was an sga in 1990, and it features over 1000 car…
Continue reading about sunday target insert »
Tags:
1990 target,
Dodgers,
griner,
labine,
phelps,
robins,
thomasson,
wright
Posted in Garvey Cey Russell Lopes
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by Howard Bagby
I have mentioned before that I have been to three concerts in my life, the last one in 1977. For the next three weeks I will embed one video from each of the performers. Harry Chapin is one of my favorite singers. He did not get much radio play other t…
Continue reading about Bananas. »
Tags:
my life,
video
Posted in Baseball Cards
Comments Off
on February 28th, 2010 by Grand Cards
Autographs of foreign players are cool. See?
That’s cool. Instead of scribbly, illgible signatures of Americans, foreign players offer us a chance to get our scribbly, illegible signature fix in a way that makes us feel worldly and cultured. They’re neat.
But are they so neat, that this card pictured above should be selling for $42 with more than two days to go? At some point, the subject of the card needs to be taken into consideration, no? This is Fu-Te Ni, left-handed relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. That will likely remain his role for eternity. He is a good pitcher, who I’ve come to like a lot, but do you think if he signed his name in english that this card would break $10? $5?
Of course, maybe I’m completely misreading the market for Ni. After all, this is the same player who had an autographed “Pride of the Nation” card from the same set sell for over $350 as mentioned in the Gallery post (Ed- and $366 and $390!). But I can’t help but wonder whether people paying such a tidy sum for his signature will be disappointed once they realize that the card is, in fact, of Fu-Te Ni and not somebody awesome.
–Update– paulsrandomstuff makes an excellent point in the comments, suggesting that country pride may be playing a role. Given the few Taiwanese baseball players that have made the leap to MLB and Ni’s relative success in his rookie season. That certainly helps explain the very high cost for the “Pride of the Nation” card, in particular. In light of that, let me extend my apologies to the Taiwanese collectors who are enhancing their enjoyment of the hobby by collecting cards of Mr. Ni. After all, if the card has value to you that’s the only thing that matters.
Continue reading about This Isn’t Sadaharu Oh We’re Talking About »
Tags:
2009,
Fu-Te Ni,
UD Signature Stars
Posted in Baseball Cards
Comments Off
