Two of my favorites, 2010 Topps Series 1 edition (with poll!)

So here’s the deal. I picked out twelve of my favorite Topps cards from this year (that I own) that I haven’t seen all over blogdom, and as I sorted them I noticed that they seemed to… line up. There were two cards that depicted sliding, two cards of great plays, two great [...]

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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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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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See it here.
Apparently there are others, too.
*sigh*

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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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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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 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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I can guess what Night Owl is thinking.
“Handcollated, we haven’t traded cards in months.”
And he’s right, we haven’t.  But some time last year I sent him a few 1988 Score cards to get them out of my closet start his set, and just as I went on hiatus last year a package arrived with this:

Having [...]

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I realize now I missed out on a clever post name for yesterday’s discovered cards, so I’m using it here instead and calling this post part two.
These must have come in a trade from someone, because it’s too much of a coincidence for me to have all these ‘83 Topps cards that I just happen [...]

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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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The Beckett Blog has announced Upper Deck’s latest gimmick to take in as much money as they can so they can pay it to MLB later.  It’s a second wave of series 1 cards with even more base cards than before!
The Wave 2 release will include 50 additional cards in the set, Nos. 601-650, along with [...]

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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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I’m still comprising my budget for the year, but here’s five reasons that Allen & Ginter will end up on my buy list based on the sell sheets I’ve seen (Thanks JayBee!)
1.  Lords of Olympus insert set – Zeus, Hera, Eros, and 22 of their Greek mythology friends on cardboard?  How can you go wrong?  I’m [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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First, and most importantly, the codes are not scratch offs.  The code is there for you and the eBay seller you think you want to buy these cards from to see.  I know it can be hard to believe, but not all people are honest, so it’s possible that, if you are shopping for these [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Finalement !

Twenty years after buying a cheap-o box at a card show in Evansville, Indiana, I can finally cross 90/91 Upper Deck hockey off my list.  Well the low series, anyway.  For all that it’s worth, I’m still waiting for someone to hand me the high series just so they can get rid of it.  [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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A:
For those that need a hint: (link)
And for those that got it already: (link)

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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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