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Baseball Card News This Week – February 26th, 2010

Scott — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:30:39 +0000

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 [...]

Baseball Card News This Week – February 19, 2010

Scott — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:58:02 +0000

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. [...]

Baseball Card News This Week – February 12, 2010

Scott — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:10:56 +0000

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 [...]

Baseball Card News This Week – February 5, 2010

Scott — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:48:40 +0000

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 [...]

Baseball Card News This Week – January 29, 2010

Scott — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:48:14 +0000

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 [...]

2009 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection Baseball

Scott — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:49:46 +0000

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 [...]

Baseball Card News This Week – January 22, 2010

Scott — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:04:46 +0000

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 [...]

Baseball Card News This Week – January 15, 2010

Scott — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:01:01 +0000

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 [...]

What I’m Reading: 27 Quotes, Knee Surgery

Scott — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:49:20 +0000

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 [...]

2009 Bowman Sterling Baseball Topps Video

Scott — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:59:25 +0000

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!