on October 21st, 2009 by houstoncollector
So, I haven’t been posting for a while. One might ask why. More likely, it goes unnoticed, but I’ll explain anyway.
To be honest, most of the sets in 2009 have left me bored. I haven’t bought anything in a card store in over four months, other than a group break of 2009 [...]
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on October 2nd, 2009 by houstoncollector
If you’ve been reading this for a while, you know that I’m not a huge fan of the hit-per-pack phenomenon, simply because it’s nothing but a huge gamble, where you spend $20 or more to get one item, which is likely a single-color swatch of material, normally white, that you’d throw on eBay for $1 [...]
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on October 1st, 2009 by houstoncollector
As most of you know, I’m a player collector, concentrating on Houston Texans and Houston Astros. I also haven’t been buying much in the way of cards, even though I love busting. I decided this week to do a bit of celebrating, and spent about the same as a mid-range box of cards, and got [...]
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on October 1st, 2009 by houstoncollector
I want to preface this by stating that I have not purchased this product, and likely will not. This is based on watching a number of box breaks, and looking at the product on eBay and elsewhere.
Boxes of this are selling online for $140-170, while packs can be found for around $45 or so, and [...]
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on September 30th, 2009 by houstoncollector
Thanks to the folks at Topps, today we have the first reveal of 2010 Topps Baseball, courtesy of the following image:
Personally, I think this design looks very nice, and I commend the folks at Topps for putting together a base card that actually looks good. If the set makeup and the photography holds up, this [...]
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on September 29th, 2009 by houstoncollector
Let’s look at this card, why don’t we:
On the face of it, it’s a very nice card. It’s got a solid autograph, if stickered, of an elite player, and a swatch. This is all well and good until you realize that this card is numbered 4/10. 4/10 and the best Donruss could do was a [...]
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on September 29th, 2009 by houstoncollector
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I can come to no other conclusion than this: Buying singles of a product right after it launches is tantamount to insanity. At launch, it’s very much a seller’s market, where you can sell even the most mediocre cards for huge values, both because [...]
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on September 3rd, 2009 by houstoncollector
Apparently there’s been so furor over ‘professional’ media (meaning print media, presumably) and bloggers, with the assumption that bloggers aren’t professional, for whatever reason. I was going to rebut on the blog in question, but as he isn’t reading that thread anymore, probably because he got attacked in the comments, I’ll take it here.
As [...]
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on August 31st, 2009 by houstoncollector
Thanks to Upper Deck’s Facebook page, I have some images for the upcoming 2009 Upper Deck Ultimate Football.
Now, I’ve never purchased anything other than singles from this product, and that’ll never change, but man, I’d love this Earl Campbell autograph they’re showing. This product will likely launch late this year or early 2010, if the [...]
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on August 30th, 2009 by houstoncollector
As some of you may or may not have noticed, things have been rather slow here at Houston Collector. I have two videos set to load up to Vimeo, but that’s really it at the moment. I’ve gone from two 2,000 hit months to about 1200 hits this month. So what happened?
Honestly, I’m becoming very [...]
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on August 24th, 2009 by houstoncollector
Well, we knew it wouldn’t take long. Upper Deck has announced that they have Favre in a Vikings uniform (more or less) for the upcoming 2009 SPx football set. From the look of it, the card is actually numbered to be part of the 2009 Upper Deck football set, but is short-printed and included with [...]
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on August 24th, 2009 by houstoncollector
More news from Topps, today. First, we have word that rookie redemption #6 has been announced for 2009 Topps Finest: Kyle Blanks from the San Diego Padres. I’m less certain about the impact of this player, as he’s only batting .247 for the year so far, but maybe there’s more to him than we’ve seen [...]
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on August 20th, 2009 by houstoncollector
I’ve fallen behind on this, however, Topps has announced cards #6 and 7 in this series, with #6 being Neftali Perez and #7 being Mat Latos. That leaves #8 through #10 to be announced in the future. Following are images of both of the cards, and redemptions are seeded 1 per box of 2009 Topps [...]
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on August 20th, 2009 by houstoncollector
So, after my last post involving the issues facing our card collecting today, and the industry in general, I put an email out to all of the card companies, including Beckett, requesting comments or responses from all of them. Not surprisingly, I only received an initial response from Upper Deck and Razor, and after some back [...]
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on August 7th, 2009 by houstoncollector
As many of us have guessed, even with Topps securing an exclusive contract with MLB, Upper Deck still had the MLBPA contract for the next few years, which led us to believe that Upper Deck would continue to make baseball cards, albeit without the team names or logos.
It turns out we were right. Going [...]
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on August 3rd, 2009 by houstoncollector
I’ve been very hopeful, so far. Now for the first time, I think we’re going wrong.
Hurry up and tell me, this is just a dream. Oh could we start again, please?
I think you’ve made your point now. You’ve even gone a bit too far to get the message home.
Before it gets too [...]
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on July 31st, 2009 by houstoncollector
While I don’t follow basketball much, and don’t collect the cards, I know some of you guys do, and since Upper Deck has been excellent about keeping me up to date with things, and I was offline for a week or two as well. With the National on-going, Upper Deck has announced that 2009/10 Upper [...]
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on July 31st, 2009 by houstoncollector
While I can’t be there, Upper Deck is, and has been taking pictures. These are all available from their Facebook page, but I figured I’d highlight some of the best ones. If you guys aren’t following the companies on Facebook, you’re really missing out, as both Panini and Upper Deck maintain strong presences there.
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on July 30th, 2009 by houstoncollector
I find myself in possession of a large number of cards, both base, RC and inserts, and I’m looking to unload them in blocks of 50 to 100 cards each for Astros that I need for my collection. Take a look at what is in my collection on the right, there, and tell me what [...]
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on July 30th, 2009 by houstoncollector
Today marks the beginning of the National Sports Collectors Convention, or simply, “The National”. Every major dealer, distributer, and card company is going to be there, and it’s generally accepted as being the biggest event for any card collector. Unfortunately, I’m unable to attend, as are many of our readers and fellow bloggers. Most companies [...]
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on July 6th, 2009 by houstoncollector
While I don’t follow basketball at all (other than to see how the Rockets are doing), and don’t collect the cards, I know that some of you guys do, so here’s a first look at 2009 Prestige Basketball.
The base set consists of 250 total cards, with 100 of those being rookies, presumably seeded at [...]
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on July 2nd, 2009 by houstoncollector
More news from Upper Deck today, this time with huge news for baseball card collectors of all types, as Upper Deck has announecd that they have retained their license from the MLBPA to make baseball cards. So now we know that Upper Deck will continue to make baseball cards, but there’s no word about their license [...]
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on July 2nd, 2009 by houstoncollector
You thought the teaser image was nice? Well, the folks at Upper Deck have come through with the information on Upper Deck Black Football: The regular set consists of 90 normal cards and autographed rookie cards. Inserts include: Film Slide PETG Autographs (Varied #), Veteran/Legend Lustrous PETG Patch Auto (Varied #), Biography Signatures (Varied #), Dual Manufactured [...]
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on July 2nd, 2009 by houstoncollector
The folks at Panini America have let us know via their Facebook page that 2009 Donruss Classics is now live. While I haven’t yet had the opportunity or the funds to go out and buy a couple of packs, I have seen some of the cards. I’m not entirely sure I like the base [...]
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on July 2nd, 2009 by houstoncollector
Although I’ve already done a preview of 2009 SP Authentic baseball, today, the folks at Upper Deck have put some new card images up on their Facebook page, and I want to pass the love on to you!
While I like how the player images pop from the card, with the faded background, I’m less [...]
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on July 2nd, 2009 by houstoncollector
We have no idea on the pricing, although we can expect around $150-200 per 2-card pack (or is it 1-card pack?) and no idea on the release date, although I’d expect October/November. However, thanks to the guys at Upper Deck and their Facebook page, here’s the first image of 2009 Upper Deck Black [...]
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on June 15th, 2009 by houstoncollector
More product information today, as we have our preview of 2009 Donruss Certified Football, which is dropping the ‘Leaf’ name for the second product in a row. This may be a trend, and makes me wonder if we’ll see 2009 Donruss Limited later?
At any rate, 2009 Donruss Certified comes out on October 14, 2009 and [...]
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on June 15th, 2009 by houstoncollector
The folks at Topps have announced the newest Red Hot Redemption in their series of 10: Gordan Beckham, third baseman for the Chicago White Sox. What they’ve also announced is that one out of every ten redemptions will be for an autographed version of the card, not the regular redemption. This is [...]
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on June 14th, 2009 by houstoncollector
I’m looking at the sales sheet and checklist for 2009 Upper Deck SPx Football, and thought I’d give a preview of the goodies here. What we’re looking at this year is the standard 90 card base checklist with an additional 129 rookie cards to make 229 cards in total. Unlike the 2009 baseball product, [...]
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on June 12th, 2009 by houstoncollector
While we had our preview of the product up last week, but today we have more information from Topps on this product, which is due out the week of August 17th, 2009.
BASE CARDS (225)
Veterans (200 subjects)
Rookies (25 subjects) sequentially numbered to 199.
PARALLEL CARDS
Perforated Parallel [...]
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