Baseball Card News This Week – February 26th, 2010

If you’ve sent out a baseball card to a major league team for a player to sign and haven’t received it back in a short time, don’t despair. As you’ll see, one collector received his autograph request through the mail after waiting quite a long time. How about 15 years after his originial request?
I’d guess [...]

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Mr. Cal Ripken speaks about the Million Card Giveaway and collecting baseball cards as a young Orioles fan.
A  1914 Federal League baseball card of Guy Zinn is being sold online. Zinn is said to be the first batter ever at Fenway Park and played with Babe Ruth on the team he represents on this Baltimore baseball card. [...]

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One of the leading sports card companies continued to battle on multiple fronts.
One lucky collector pulled a sweet dual auto card that even a Boston Red Sox fan would turn their nose up at.
A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card, graded PSA 7, sold for a whopping $26,200 online, on February 8.
Topps announced a new CEO [...]

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Jim Caple of ESPN wrote an interesting article about baseball cards recently. He speaks about the joy brought by the ancipation of opening a pack of baseball cards. This is really what it’s all about, isn’t it?
Talk about anticipation of opening a pack………two awesome cut signatures cards were pulled in the same store on the [...]

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2009 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection and 2010 Topps Series 1 were both released this past week.
Up for release this coming week is 2010 Upper Deck Series 1 (without the MLB license, but with the MLBPA license), and 2009 Just Minors Mystery Balls (technically not a card product).
It was announced that a baseball card shop owner from [...]

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2009 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection baseball is slated to become available from Upper Deck on January 26th, 2010. This will be one of Upper Deck’s last MLB licensed (remember, they still have an MLBPA license), high-end baseball products. You get one pack per box, with four cards per pack in each hobby box. In each [...]

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He was referred to in the #1 bestseller, Moneyball, as the Greek God of walks.  But he’s not Greek.  (A convenient moniker though for a guy who knows when to swing the bat, and who’s last name does sound like it might be Greek.)  In fact, Kevin Youkilis is Jewish and has been named the Jewish [...]

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2009 (yeah, I know, it’s 2010 isn’t it?) Bowman Sterling became available for collectors on January 13th. (By the way – this isn’t the last of the 2009 baseball card products yet to come out!)
A 1-of-1 2009 Topps Tribute Roy Campanella cut autograph card sold for $1,000 online.

There’s been quite a bit of buzz about an [...]

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Bleacher Report listed their top 27 Yankee quotes. You’ll notice the numbered quotes align with the player’s uniform number. The number 3 quote, from who else but Babe Ruth, the greatest to ever wear number 3, is my favorite.
Matthew Cerrone writes on Mets Blog about the surprise of Carlos Beltran’s recent knee surgery. Looks [...]

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If you haven’t seen the 2009 Bowman Sterling Baseball product yet, check out this video from Topps. The Yu Darvish relic card is sweet. The dude in the yellow shirt is the best in this video!

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The Wall Street Journal reports on baseball cards, or sports cards to be exact, as an investment. Did you know they kept a Sports Card Industrial Average (like the Dow Jones Industrial Average), that is put together by Beckett?  They do, and it has done quite well.  Still think that sports cards can’t be treated [...]

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2009 Bowman Sterling Baseball will be released today by Topps.  Good luck to all you fortunate (read: “loaded”) collectors who can afford a hobby box.  They’re currently selling on eBay for about $235. Must be nice. This thing is loaded with rookie and prospect autographs in every box, so enjoy it. I won’t be (read: “can’t afford [...]

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I don’t live close to a hobby shop. If I did, I would buy my cards there, if the prices were reasonable and I liked the owner or manager of the shop. I would also probably have a lot less money if I lived close to a hobby shop.
So where do I [...]

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The youngest player to reach 500 career home runs will have their 500th home run ball put up for auction this year.  In a post at Tuff Stuff it’s said that the fan who caught the ball hit by A-Rod has consigned it to SCP Auctions for their internet auction closing on February 4th.
This ball [...]

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In baseball terminology, do you know what a “Gopher Ball” is?  How about a “pea”?  A “yakker”?  These are all terms defined on the MLB.com site in their official baseball lingo. 
There are some easily recognizable baseball terms on that page, like “whiff” or “sweet spot”, but there are few more obscure ones like those mentioned [...]

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Checking out some of the throwback “tribute” cards on White Sox Cards. I gotta say, the 1981 Topps Jerry Owens is mighty cool. Nice work Steve.
Learned from MLB Trade Rumors that Khalil Greene has signed with the Texas Rangers. Greene, who came up as a shortstop with the Padres will be a [...]

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Looks like Topps will be applying it’s successful National Chicle football brand to it’s (now MLB exclusive) baseball card brand.  On the Beckett Blog, Chris Olds wrote about the 2010 National Chicle baseball card set which Topps will release later this year.  
Looks like this release will have all on-card autographs, which is a big [...]

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We’ll see our first baseball card release of 2010 in late January, when Topps releases it’s Series 1 Baseball, currently slated for January 27, 2010. 
As Topps stands alone on top of the baseball card heap as the “only official baseball card of Major League Baseball”, it’s initial offering to baseball card collectors is much anticipated.  [...]

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1) 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth, #144, Graded PSA 7  - Sold for $21,100 on December 30th, 2009
2) 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, #311, Graded PSA 7 – Sold for $12,500 on December 30th, 2009
3) 1909 T206 Sherry Magie (Magee) Error, Graded SGC 20 – Sold for $11,500 on January 1, 2010
4) 1933 Sport Kings Babe Ruth, #2, [...]

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Congratulations to “The Hawk” on his nomination into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Wasn’t really expecting this, but I’m certainly glad to see him get in. He was an exciting player to watch with lots of pop at the plate. Funny how it takes some time for certain players (Jim Rice) to get nominated. Saw [...]

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Blue Heaven writes about the reintro of Topps Tribute cards in 2010 (not to mention one former Dodger’s sweet swing). I’m guessing this reintroduction will be popular with baseball card collectors.
Goose Joak is recalling the 1988 Score baseball card set with a tribute. Cool set if you ask me. And I didn’t know about the [...]

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Okay, so there’s already been a lot of talk about the newest nominees for induction into Cooperstown in 2010.  Two of the most talked about nominees are Roberto Alomar and Barry Larkin.  It seems that according to most baseball writers, there is only one shoe-in for induction.  However, in this writer’s humble opinion, there should [...]

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It’s the end of the year 2009, not to mention the end of a decade, so it’s time to do the “best of” thing again.  Seeing how my fellow collectors view the best baseball card products of the year is actually very interesting.  Many of the “best of the year” stuff is boring, but not [...]

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Although Topps will be the exclusive MLB sports card of 2010, they don’t have exclusive rights to the MLBPA. Didn’t stop them from signing an exclusive agreement with one of the phenoms of this generation.
Going along with the spirit of the season, a hobby shop in NJ (not too far from my home town), is [...]

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Topps T-206 100th anniversary commemorative edition is set to drop in late November of this year.  This is certain to be one of the most sought after Topps baseball card sets of the year.  After all, who isn’t a fan of the original T-206 cards? 
In each one of these T-206 hobby boxes, you’ll find 20 [...]

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Topps and Upper Deck have settled their baseball card dispute and lawsuit. It was successfully resolved through mediation.
It was reported that the Little League World Series Champs, from Chula Vista, CA, are getting their own Upper Deck baseball cards. Very cool.
A rare Jim Thorpe baseball card is going to be auctioned off by Hunt Auctions [...]

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2009 Topps Tribute is set to drop on 11/11 for card collectors to start busting. Each hobby box will contain 6 packs per box with 5 cards per pack. Not a lot of cards per box, but here’s what you’re going to get in those 30 cards.
3 relic cards
3 autographed relic cards
6 parallel cards numbered [...]

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Upper Deck recently revealed it’s plans for a 2010 baseball card set with it’s 2010 Upper Deck Exquisite release information. These Upper Deck baseball cards will feature a 100 card base set limited to only 75 copies.
Buster Posey, the young San Francisco Giants catcher, was named the Topps Minor League Player of the Year for [...]

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Tuff Stuff wants you to tell them the biggest problem facing the sports card collecting hobby.
Topps gave us a first look at their 2010 Series 1 baseball card release.
A 1954 Ted Williams baseball card, purchased for $5,500, was stolen from a motel in upstate New York.
Upper Deck announced free baseball cards with it’s “National Packtime” day [...]

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Topps has released initial baseball card images for their 2010 Series 1 release. Initial pics are pretty sweet. Check em out here.

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Another position stacked with Hall of Famers, all with their own share of stupendous baseball cards.   Some of the players enshrined in Cooperstown who were considered here are Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Roberto Clemente, Reggie Jackson and King Kelly.
 In the end, it was the most famous, and best, baseball player ever.  Babe Ruth.  Which card?  [...]

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Thought you might be interested in that headline.  Upper Deck, although it may have lost it’s contract with MLB, still retains it’s contract with the MLBPA.  And they will capitalize on that existing contract when they release baseball cards next year, and promote them via a free baseball card pack giveaway, entitled “National Packtime” day [...]

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If you haven’t been following the news, there is a lot of talk in the baseball world right now about the “new” Babe Ruth home video uncovered and acquired by MLB productions.
 There has been much speculation about the date of the game played and many experts have weighed in on how best to figure out [...]

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Wow, is this position loaded with Hall of Famers or what?  Ty Cobb, Willie Mays, Tris Speaker, Mickey Mantle, Joe D., Duke Snider, Billy Hamilton, and Kirby Puckett are several of the names enshrined in Cooperstown. 
You look at those names, and if you were picking the best center fielder of all-time, you could easily select [...]

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1991 was right around the start of a lull in baseball card collecting, at least for me.  Ramon Martinez was just heating up right around 1991 though. 
At the age of 21, Ramon Martinez, Pedro Martinez’ brother, started 15 games, striking out 89 batters in 98.2 innings with a 3.19 ERA.  Ramon would show what he [...]

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