on March 10th, 2010 by handcollated
Why is this one of my favorite cards? Well, surely by now you have seen the other Topps team cards that pepper the Series 1 checklist. The most popular of these is card #1 of Prince Fielder and the Brewers. Other teams have the usual home plate celebration conglomeration demonstrated here by my beloved [...]
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on March 9th, 2010 by handcollated
I’m throwing it in when it comes to 2010 Topps. Not giving it up altogether mind you, but throwing in the towel when it comes to purchasing a Series 1 hobby or jumbo box. There’s too many other things I’m looking forward to this year and just not enough money to throw at them all. [...]
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on March 7th, 2010 by handcollated
So apparently the revolution has begun. Thorzul and Chris at Stale Gum have started the campaign to mail Ethan Orlinksy (the guy who works for the MLBP and who stated that the real winner of the Upper Deck/MLBP agreement are the fans who no longer have to wonder if a card is officially licensed without [...]
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on March 6th, 2010 by handcollated
The Upper Deck blog has a post entitled, “Will Innovation Be Lost?” It’s a question Upper Deck is asking in the face of their recent settlement with the MLBP, and I’ll have more on it later today (I hope). But this part made me chuckle:
Upper Deck’s debut baseball release also introduced the industry’s first-ever anti-counterfeit hologram [...]
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on March 5th, 2010 by handcollated
Found this while I was searching through those unsorted boxes:
You can see the creasing at the top, there’s some on his left shoulder, and there’s one on the neck of the guy behind the net. I thought nothing of it until I found this later:
Those creases are pretty evident.
I wonder what made me do that [...]
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on March 1st, 2010 by handcollated
If you’ve sent me a trade request since my return to blogging, I’m sorry I haven’t followed up with you yet. But I do have a decent excuse, aside from the usual lack of time and energy. Over the course of the past few years, I’ve been employing what I like to call [...]
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on February 24th, 2010 by handcollated
Okay, before all the Dodgers fans start hating my mother, she didn’t actually throw this card out. But to an eight year old kid with limited financial resources, she did something far, far worse.
Since 1981 Donruss was so damage prone, and 1981 Fleer did little for me at the time, I decided to spend my [...]
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on February 21st, 2010 by handcollated
Just because Upper Deck and I aren’t getting along right now doesn’t mean I won’t update you on things they do. And I must give them credit where credit is due – they’ve embraced this social networking thing so much better than Topps has at this point. I couldn’t even find a Topps [...]
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on February 17th, 2010 by handcollated
If this were my first year of Allen and Ginter, I’d be oooing and awwing at this card. It should make at least one group of collectors happy for the smiling Wright and the somewhat dinged or rounded corners. However, this would be my third year of A&G, so I see it and think, ‘Yep, [...]
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on February 15th, 2010 by handcollated
For you impatient lot, the topps million giveaway is finally live.
The best card I’ve seen go so far is a 1987 Mike Schmidt (they have a little tracker on the side). Awe. Some.
Good luck!
*update* …and the server’s no longer responding just two minutes later, at least for me.
*updated again*. Perhaps it’s my [...]
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on February 12th, 2010 by handcollated
Quick, can you name the first five inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame? I couldn’t. I managed Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, but those two were pretty easy. I completely blanked on the two pitchers that went in alongside them, and the only reason I knew the fifth will be made apparent later. Feel free to [...]
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on February 10th, 2010 by handcollated
How about crap like this:
With the releases of its first baseball card set of the New Year, the Upper Deck Company is excited to announce a unique “variation card” promotion that should send collectors clamoring for both hobby and retail packs of 2010 Upper Deck Series One Baseball. A total of 25 of the 600-card [...]
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on February 6th, 2010 by handcollated
Positive. I’m going to try to stay positive today.
My 10 month old daughter has decided she doesn’t want to sleep soundly anymore. It’s possibly tooth related (her third), but whatever the reason it keeps us up at night (ed – My wife took her to the urgent care, and it’s bronchitis and pneumonia! That exclamation [...]
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on February 3rd, 2010 by handcollated
I’ve been trying to write about you and your newly released 2010 Upper Deck set for the last two days. Every time I start to write something, it ends up sounding pompous and preachy, and I tell myself to get down off that horse and start all over again. The nest thing I know, I’m [...]
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on February 1st, 2010 by handcollated
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on January 30th, 2010 by handcollated
Three of the four pie in the puss Yankee cards have sold in the $100-$130 range on eBay. Does anyone see these novelty cards sustaining this value long term?
Also, does anyone else wish that Felix Pie was a member of the Yankees last year and included in the set? How about Rangers’ prospect Marcus Lemon? [...]
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on January 29th, 2010 by handcollated
JayBee has been all over the 2010 Topps Series 1 shortprints, and announced last night that there are even more Yankees with pie on their face, including some series 2 cards that are being pre-released. What’s the point of that? What is Topps scheming to take the place of those unannounced short prints in series [...]
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on January 27th, 2010 by handcollated
As I mentioned before, I picked up four packs of the new stuff from the local Target. The pictures this year are a lot safer than last year, and mostly full body in action shots. The design itself is a lot less intrusive than I thought it would be and lets you focus on the [...]
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on January 27th, 2010 by handcollated
I headed over to my local box store today to check out their collection of 2010 Topps. As I made my way to the card section, I started shaking a bit and my hands got tingly. They knew what was coming. I haven’t personally bought cards in months, and that itch would finally be scratched.
I [...]
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on January 26th, 2010 by handcollated
It’s a math joke, folks. Get it?
My kids bought me some loose packs for Christmas since I had hinted I’d be interested in the set. I realize the mad rush for T206 has mostly come and gone, and we should all be blogging on “The Only One’s!” first exclusive release. More on that later, I [...]
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on January 25th, 2010 by handcollated
Sidney Crosby.
Watching my first NHL game in weeks until my son wakes up, Chris Conner has the Penguins up by a goal early with a smart wrist shot, and all the announcers want to talk about is Crosby. *yawn*
I’m sure Brett Farve is in this category for NFL fans.
Oh, and everyone on [...]
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on January 24th, 2010 by handcollated
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on January 20th, 2010 by handcollated
I’ve finally got my morning chores done (it’s 2:00 pm here now), so I thought what a better way to take a break then by posting the last group of ‘94 Fleer cards I meant to do so many months ago. While I was sorting through the set and putting together my wantlists, I began [...]
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on January 20th, 2010 by handcollated
Thanks to this…
I went here…
Where I read this:
I had this dream just the other night. Man, does it suck.
What does this have to do with baseball cards? The same thing most of my college years did. Absolutely nothing. But don’t you feel you know me a little better now?
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on January 19th, 2010 by handcollated
I’ll admit I’ve been out of the loop lately, but I did think the other day that the new Topps cards should be out soon, and when my wife asked me if I wanted anything from Target earlier today I almost asked her to pick me up some new baseball cards. Then I realized it’s [...]
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on January 18th, 2010 by handcollated
Four posts and three and a half months ago I posted my ‘94 Fleer box break, and someone requested some Brewers from the set in the comments. I think I had the cards scanned within the week, and they’ve sat in a folder since then waiting to be called on. Well, it’s their big day.
The [...]
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on November 23rd, 2009 by handcollated
Not the cards, but an update on the blog itself.
It’s been almost two months since my last post, an ode to the band and the player known as Devo. Then, like them, I went on a hiatus to pursue other interests. It’s mostly been family related, and studies show that kids develop better when their [...]
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on October 1st, 2009 by handcollated
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on September 30th, 2009 by handcollated
I know this is silly, really, but after seeing the Pujols card from 2010 Topps on Mario’s site (and can we please get other players on preview cards? I feel like I see that guy every time a new set design is released), I really thought, ‘Man, I miss Upper Deck.’
Not because the design [...]
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