Sticking With The Original

A few months ago when I heard that Donruss/Playoff was planning to produce more relic cards of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson I wasn’t sure what would happen to the price of his first relic card from 2001 Upper Deck SP Legendary Cuts.  Simple economics dictate that when quantity increases, cost diminishes.  But in the case of [...]

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Topps has announced that New England Patriot’s WR Wes Welker has been selected as the final autograph subject for the 2008 etopps Football Card Set. A total of 50 etopps cards will be signed by Welker. Wes Welker has only appeared on one etopps card to date - card #30 from the 2007 etopps [...]

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Donruss has released a flurry of never-before-seen images of cards from their upcoming release of 2008 Playoff Contenders Football. 2008 Playoff Contenders Football, Donruss’ final football card release of the 2008 NFL Season, has already been released in select markets and is scheduled for nationwide release on Wednesday (January 7th).

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Topps has announced the latest set of 2008 etopps football cards to be released via the etopps website. This week’s (1/5/09) releases are as follows:

2008 Etopps Colt Brennan Rookie Card
Washington Redskins
QBCard ID #: 53
Price: $7.00
Max Issue Qty: 699
On Sale Until: 1/12/09 3:00 AM EST

2008 Etopps John David Booty Rookie Card
Minnesota Vikings
QBCard ID [...]

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Razor has released the full autograph checklist for their recently released 2008 Razor Cut Signature Encore Edition trading card product.  Razor Encore Edition features cut signatures from over 1,000 athletes, entertainers, celebrities, and historical icons. Some of the big names featured in the product include Abraham Lincoln, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Elvis Presley, and [...]

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Bernice Gallego, 72, and her husband, Al Gallego, 80, have been in the business of selling collectibles since 1974.  Their Fresno, CA antique store, Collectique, has been the staging area for their collectibles business for almost as long.
Bernice Gallego sat down one day this summer, as she does pretty much every day, and began listing [...]

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Police in Rutland, VT have charged two twin brothers for allegedly breaking into a nearby home and stealing over $2,000 worth of sports memorabilia and an Ibanez SRX guitar valued at more then $500.
The 18 year old duo, Brandon & Cameron Lackey, are residents of Wallingford, VT.  The crime for which the brothers are being [...]

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One firefighter was seriously hurt and three others suffered minor injuries after a brick wall collapsed on them while they were in the process of fighting a raging three alarm fire that had engulfed a local sports card shop.
An official with the New York City Fire Department told reporters that the fire had started just [...]

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Following their embarrassing 44 - 6 loss at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys disappointing 2008 season came to a screeching end. In addition to kissing their Super Bowl  hopes goodbye, the end of the 2008 seasons marked the end of an era for Cowboys fans and players who bid [...]

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Release Date: 12/31/08 (Currently Available in Select Cities)
Hits Per Box: 18
Box Configuration: 4 Boxes / Case, 6 Packs / Box, 5 Cards / Pack

Product Review

Straight Talk: Bowman Sterling’s latest installment isn’t much of a departure from the 2007 and 2006 sets. In fact, not much about the set has changed at [...]

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Topps has announced the latest set of 2008 etopps football cards to be released via the etopps website. This week’s (12/29/08) releases are as follows:

2008 Atlanta Falcons Team Card
Card ID #: 47
Price: $4.00
Max Issue Qty: 699
On Sale Until: 1/3/09 3:00 AM EST

2008 Minnesota Vikings Team Card
Card ID #: 51
Price: $4.00
Max Issue Qty: [...]

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Police in Schaumburg, Illinois allege that a local 20 year old man stole the Christmas presents from under his family’s tree.  Investigators believe the crime took place Christmas Morning.
David Olson Jr. was formally charged on Friday with residential burglary as a result of his Grinch-like criminal endeavor the day before. He was arrested Christmas Day [...]

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A California Court has denied a request from Konami to temporarily ban Upper Deck from selling and shipping Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Product. The ruling essentially removes the possibility that Upper Deck will be restricted from marketing, selling, distributing and providing game support for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game within the United States.
Halfway across the world, [...]

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2008 Bowman Sterling Baseball
Prospect Checklist
BSP-AA    Adrian Alaniz
BSP-AB    Andrew Brackman
BSP-AC    Alex Cobb
BSP-AJ    Austin Jackson
BSP-AM    Aaron Mathews
BSP-AR    Aneury Rodriguez
BSP-BB    Bubba Bell
BSP-BC    Brett Cecil
BSP-BH    Brandon Hicks
BSP-BS    Braeden Schlehuber
BSP-BW    Brandon Waring
BSP-CI    Cale Iorg
BSP-CJ    Chris Johnson
BSP-CV    Chris Valaika
BSP-DC    Daniel Cortes
BSP-DD    Danny Duffy
BSP-EB    Engel Beltre
BSP-EK    Edward Kunz
BSP-FS    Fautino de los Santos
BSP-GP    Gerardo Parra
BSP-GT    Graham Taylor
BSP-JB    Jonathan Bachanov
BSP-JC    Jhoulys Chacin
BSP-JJ    Jon Jay
BSP-JLC    [...]

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Boxes of 2008 Playoff Prime Cuts IV Baseball began arriving in a number of hobby stores on Christmas Eve and have now made their way to the majority of dealers nationwide.  Here is one of the first legitimate box breaks of Prime Cuts IV to hit Youtube, courtesy of TheBackstop.net:

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Below you find the full product checklist for 2008 Upper Deck Sweet Spot Baseball, which was released earlier this week. This comprehensive set checklist includes every single insert set that the product has to offer:

2008 Upper Deck Sweet Spot Baseball
Base Set Checklist (1-100)

Card #
Athlete
Team

1
Aaron Harang
Reds

2
Aaron Rowand
Giants

3
Adam Dunn
Reds

4
Albert Pujols
Cardinals

5
Alex Gordon
Royals

6
Alex Rios
Blue [...]

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Hundreds of thousands of sports cards line the halls of Duffy and Lee Burnett’s home in suburban Houston. Their home has become a giant warehouse from which the couple operate a massive sports card donation initiative. Their goal? To spread sports card collecting cheer to underprivileged children.
Many of the sports cards will go in to [...]

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Mike DeRose of Chandler, AZ took the art of the box break video to a new level Wednesday Night when he published a box break video on Youtube in which he proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Julia Carvell, by hiding an engagement ring in a box of 2008 Ultimate Collection Baseball that they were opening [...]

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This video features a special 3 box preview of 2008 Ultimate Baseball, along with an ending unlike any other box break video that is currently in circulation.

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Back in March Upper Deck announced a sports card pack wrapper redemption program through its network of “Certified Diamond Dealer” hobby shops.  Upper Deck has supplied these shops with special 20th Anniversary packs and singles cards that will ultimately create an 80 card set.
The multi sport set will feature a mix of stars from the [...]

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Upper Deck has announced the production of an extremely limited edition sports memorabilia product which features autographs from 3 of the most legendary names in sports history - Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Muhammad Ali.  Upper Deck created the triple signed montage, which is aptly named “Legends of Sport”,  using a combination of premium archival [...]

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The London Telegraph reported Monday that a cassette containing a song recording made by a drunk John Lennon was sold over the weekend for more then $35,000.  The item was sold at a Memorabilia Auction in Los Angeles.
The cassette, which has never been publicly aired, features Lennon singing the 1957 Lloyd Price track Just Because. [...]

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Judge Jackie Glass, the same judge who recently sentenced O.J. Simpson to 9 - 33 years in prison, has ordered the immediate sale all of the footballs, pictures and other memorabilia that was collected as evidence during Simpson’s Las Vegas Trial.  Simpson’s memorabilia will be shipped to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office where it [...]

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Building on the successful debut of the online Star Wars Galaxies™ Trading Card Game, LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment have officially launched the game’s first expansion: Squadrons Over Corellia. This set marks the debut of digital starship cards, allowing players to dominate their opponents from space by supporting ground units, moving units from quest to [...]

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This year’s release of 2008 Topps Football paid special tribute to 11 heroes by giving them their very own insert set. Not a single one of the subjects featured in the set make their living on the football field, nor have they starred in a multi million dollar Hollywood production, or created a platinum music [...]

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Donruss has released yet another batch of new pictures from 2008 Playoff Prime Cuts IV Baseball.  The pictures showcase cards from both of Prime Cuts IV’s cut signature insert sets (Souvenir Stadium Cuts and Souvenir Cuts), as well as a number of cards from the product’s Memorabilia Combo Inserts.  For more information, check out our [...]

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A plethora of Hall of Famers from Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb, to Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio headline the list of baseball legends whose cut autographs will appear in the soon to be released 2008 Playoff Prime Cuts IV Set.  Prime Cuts IV, scheduled for nationwide release on Wednesday (12/24), [...]

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Topps has announced the latest set of 2008 etopps football cards to be released via the etopps website. This week’s (12/22/08) releases are as follows:

2008 Carolina Panthers Team Card
Card ID #: 46
Price: $4.00
Max Issue Qty: 749
On Sale Until: 12/29/08 3:00 AM EST

2008 Indianapolis Colts Team Card
Card ID #: 45
Price: $4.00
Max Issue Qty: [...]

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2008 Donruss Elite Extra Edition Baseball >>> Base Set Checklist

Card Number
Player Name
Player Team

# 1
Aaron Cunningham
Oakland A’s

# 2
Aaron Pribanic
Seattle Mariners

# 3
Aaron Shafer
Chicago Cubs

# 4
Adam Mills
Boston Red Sox

# 5
Adam Moore
Seattle Mariners

# 6
Beamer Weems
San Diego Padres

# 7
Beau Mills
Cleveland Indians

# 8
Blake Tekotte
San Diego Padres

# 9
Bobby Lanigan
Minnesota Twins

# 10
Brad Hand
Florida Marlins

# 11
Brandon Crawford
San Francisco Giants

# 12
Brandon Waring
Cincinnati [...]

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Just Minors announced late Thursday Afternoon that they have formed a strategic partnership with fellow Baseball Card Manufacturer, Razor Entertainment.

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2008 Playoff Prime Cuts IV Baseball will mark the first time since 2005 that Lou Gehrig and Jackie Robinson game used memorabilia  / patch cards will appear in a Donruss trading card product.  More than 400 swatches were taken from a game used Lou Gehrig jersey for the product.  Another 400 swatches were  taken from [...]

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Due to popular demand, here is the set checklist for 2008 Popcardz:
Base Set
1) Jessica Biel
2) Selma Blair
3) Eva Mendes
4) Scarlett Johansson
5) Rachel Bison
6) Nick Cannon
7) Jared Leto
8 ) John Geder
9) Rosario Dawson
10) Michelle Rodriguez
11) Chris Evans
12) Giovanni Ribisi
13) Emma Robert
14) Molly Sims
15) Dwayne Johson “The Rock”
16) Anton Yelchin
17) Jessica Alba
18) Mandy Moore
19) Lily Collins
20) Amber [...]

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