Looking Back: 1991 Topps Stadium Club Baseball

Topps’ answer to the new, slick-look 1989 Upper Deck baseball card product came two years later as 1991 Stadium Club. The first “premiere” set from Topps, 1991 Stadium Club also… Read more »

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Perhaps never has one individual card anchored a set more than Upper Deck’s inaugural foray into the sports card business in 1989. Everybody knows the card. Everybody has seen one…. Read more »

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One of the most wonderful things about being a sports fan is the undying loyalty that exists. Everybody has their favorites and everyone wants to believe that their favorite teams… Read more »

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Along with collecting sports cards and memorabilia, I also have an extensive collection of pro wrestling biographies. I’m not much of a wrestling fan any longer, actually, ever since the… Read more »

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For my previous “Looking Back” segments, I selected a few baseball card sets that were appealing to me, for different reasons. This column details my thoughts on what I consider… Read more »

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Just got this email from a newly unemployed Upper Decker, a PR employee who worked for the company for 14 years. The layoffs came just about a month after the… Read more »

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Collecting the first of something can often be productive, if not financially rewarding down the line as an investment. The 1981 Fleer and Donruss baseball card sets were glaring exceptions… Read more »

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Kansas City Royals fans should catch Eric Hosmer while they can. Meanwhile, the New York Yankees are just biding their time, waiting for Hosmer to become eligible for arbitration and/or… Read more »

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I talk a lot about eBay because I get the majority of my single cards from the popular auction website. I wasn’t quite what one would consider a charter member… Read more »

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There’s little question that 1970 was Sam McDowell’s finest year in the majors. That year, the Cleveland southpaw reached the 20-win plateau for the first and only time in his… Read more »

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With the launch of Series 2 of the 2011 Topps Baseball set, I thought I would go back and review Series 1. Series 1 was a challenge for subset collectors…. Read more »

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When Boston Red Sox slugger Ken “The Hawk” Harrelson, who led the American League in RBIs in 1968, was traded to the lowly Cleveland Indians during the second week of… Read more »

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For my second “Looking Back” segment, I thought I would take a peek at the 1977 Topps Baseball set, because that was the first year I began collecting baseball cards…. Read more »

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My collection of action figures is nearly as impressive as my collection of cards. Among them are dozens of McFarlane figures, along with Starting Lineups, the smaller, plastic figures that… Read more »

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For my first “Looking Back” column, I thought I would take a peek at my most desired set of all time: the 1964 Topps baseball set. What makes this my… Read more »

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Nobody was more stunned and surprised than LaRue Martin himself when the Portland Trailblazers selected him as the NBA’s overall top draft pick in 1972. Though not a particularly highly-touted… Read more »

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When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I did away with childish… Read more »

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My first foray into the world of autograph collecting didn’t go so well. I was at what was then known as Baseball City, FL, just south of Orlando, for a… Read more »

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So you aren’t excited enough by watching thrilling, white knuckle 0-0 draws between the Chicago Fire and Sporting Kansas City?  You need some additional reason to want to collect Major… Read more »

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I still kick myself when I think back to my youth in San Bernardino, CA, when a rookie phenom named Ken Griffey, Jr. would routinely stop and sign autographs after… Read more »

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The Pittsburgh Pirates had high hopes for Steve Blass, a young right-hander with pinpoint accuracy, when they signed him straight out of high school in 1960. Blass pitched in the… Read more »

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For those of you still worried about a lack of pro-football in 2011, you can stop worrying.  That’s right… the Canadian Football League kicks off their season I know very… Read more »

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The obvious next question begs, I suppose, what are my favorite cards that I have in my collection? Some answers are obvious: I have rookie cards of my all-time favorite… Read more »

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On Wednesday I got an email from Upper Deck’s Public Relations Manager informing me that the company was moving offices and would be without phone and Internet service for about… Read more »

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Pete Maravich, the most prolific scorer in college basketball history, could really put on a show. In three seasons at LSU, “Pistol Pete” scored 3,667 points, averaging 43.8, 44.2 and… Read more »

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My first column explained who I am and why I’m here. Of course, I’m here for the same reason you are – we love collecting cards. I mentioned that the… Read more »

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We older folk are always reminiscing about how the old times were so good, while youngsters roll their eyes, wondering how we ever got along without computers, video games or… Read more »

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Known as the “Gravedigger,” former Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Richie Hebner had a remarkable major-league career spanning eighteen seasons from 1968 until 1985, when he retired as a pinch-hitter for… Read more »

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After winning 49 of 55 games at Jacksonville University, resulting in two NCAA appearances — including the 1970 national championship game against UCLA — Artis Gilmore was drafted by the… Read more »

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The Boston Bruins are champions of the hockey world once again! For the first time in 39 years, the Bruins are hoisting Lord Stanley’s Cup in celebration of their exciting,… Read more »

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PRESS RELEASE FROM UPPER DECK: With the 2011 professional baseball season entering its third month of play, the Upper Deck Company is excited to release its first baseball-themed trading card… Read more »

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Mario is back? Well, sort of…

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The man, the icon, the Ric Flair of the blogging world…“Woooooo!” Mario Alejandro of Wax Heaven fame is back to take his title of best blog out there, back!! The man is back with a new blog called The Wax Morgue and if its anything like the old school Wax Heaven, his rise to the top of the card blog [...]

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Ladies And Gentlemen, He Is Back!!! If you have been around the sports card hobby and blogosphere for the last few years, you have been effected by Mario and his Wax Heaven.  Hell, he is probably responsible for the start-up … Continue reading →

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Author: Austin Cassidy Cracking open 3 random packs of Aspire football cards from 2006 that I recently picked up…

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