Ante Up for Autism Charity Event

If anyone happens to be in Arizona for Spring Training, or just lives nearby, Rickey will be playing in the Ante Up for Autism charity event tonight, which is being hosted by Dave Stewart and Matt Kemp.Tickets for the event are sold out, but general admission tickets are still available at the door.

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As I mentioned a few days ago, Rickey Henderson arrived at the A’s Spring Training facility, and immediately jumped into action. Here’s a link to the story by MLB.com writer Jane Lee, the text of which is reproduced below. I’ve also included a few pictures by the SF Chronicle’s Brant Ward, as well as a short video by the A’s MLB.com new beat writer, Jane Lee.Henderson shares wisdom with A’sHall

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I’ve been way behind the times regarding Facebook, as I finally joined a little over a month ago. But, I have always thought it would be a good way to expand the scope of the blog, and come into contact with even more Rickey Henderson fans.Plus, due to the easy to update photo albums, I can post a lot more pictures than I can on the blog. So, I decided to create a “fan” page for the site. I’ve

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Thanks to the Wax Wombat and I Don’t Know, I am very close to finishing off series 1 of the 2010 Topps set, which is pretty good considering I decided to complete the set less than two weeks ago.WW and IDK brought my set wants to 16 cards, if you …

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Back in January of last year the A’s hired Rickey to work in a “goodwill” role for the ballclub, and it was intentionally vague at the time what that actually meant. He had his first real chance to work with the club back in October, when he went to the A’s instructional league, especially to work with #1 draft pick Jemile Weeks.The Contra Costa Times has just announced that Rickey will be

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You never know when a new trade is going to pop up, but it’s always exciting when it does! Although I missed out on all of the cards from approximately 2002-2007, Ryan did not, and lucky for me, he also gathered quite a few duplicates, which I was fortunate enough to help him unload.I had a couple of cards that he was interested in, and coupled with a little extra cash, the following 12 cards

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One of the more frequent questions I’m asked by readers is how they can find an “authentic” Rickey Henderson jersey. You can always find numerous jerseys for sale on eBay, but most of these are manufactured second hand, and are not direct from the manufacturers.Other than Rickey’s yellow throwback A’s jersey that was released during Hall of Fame Weekend, and can still be purchased here for

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I just got an e-mail from John, a fan of the blog, who recently started a new site of his own, Oakland A’s Collectibles.Being as the sites only been around for a few days, he’s already got some interested stuff up there. Plus, how can you not support a guy who promotes Rickey Henderson as his favorite player!Although my collection is almost all Rickey-based, I do have a few random A’s items as

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Sorry about the lack of posts lately, life has been getting in the way of the blog. Plus, within two days of each other last week, both my printer and scanner decided to stop working. A new one is on the way, but it’s taking longer than expected.These were some of the last scans that I made before the thing decided to blow up. Some of them are pretty random, but I’m excited about every one of

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When the 2010 Topps SP’s started popping up, I didn’t really think twice about a Rickey being included in the set. Since he was just included as an SP in 2009 Topps U&H, I didn’t hold out much hope of him being included once again. Luckily, I was proved wrong!Unlike the Yankees card from U&H, the 2010 SP has Rickey playing with the A’s in the early 80’s. I can’t wait to add one of these to the

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I was able to sneak off to Target at lunch today, and grabbed a few packs of the newly released 2010 Topps. I was hoping to snag a Rickey or too, but I would have no such luck. But, I figured someone out there has pulled one (or will in the near future). All of the 2010 Topps below are for trade for 2010 Rickey’s, or any other Rickey that I need for that matter.This is the A’s Franchise History

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This is the last of the cards that I got in the trade which I featured in my previous post, but I figured it deserved a post of its own.As anyone that follows this blogs already knows, I’m a big fan of oddball cards, as well as weird regional sets. It used to be that anywhere you went (Kaybee, Toys ‘R Us, Woolworth’s, etc.) you’d find their own set of baseball cards. These have definitely gone by

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Pack 21: Paul Molitor, Amos Otis, Manny Trillo, Bob Horner, Rich Dauer0/5 New!Pack 22: Al Bumbry, Scott MacGregor, Larry Parrish, Nolan Ryan, Sixto Lezcano0/5 New!Pack 23: Ben Oglivie, Willie Randolph, Ron LeFlore, Carl Yastrzemski, Bo Diaz 0/5 New!Wha…

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Pack 16: Andre Dawson, Rod Carew, Dan Ford, Hosken Powell, Dale Murphy0/5 New!Stickey Says: Stickey is truly blessed to not end up in a pack of doubles.Pack 17: NL All-Star Dave Concepcion, Steve Carlton, Larry Gura, Mickey Rivers, Chet Lemon1/5 New!St…

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Through a purchase that I made on eBay, I recently came into contact with another Rickey collector who’d been out of the hobby for a little while. We’ve since had a few nice Rickey-related conversations, as it’s always fun discussing random errors and variations that only a die hard collector would really enjoy. In the first trade that we completed (another one is in the mail, while more will

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I had this post all ready for last week, but I forgot to actually post it for one reason or another. When 2009 Triple Threads was released a few months ago, I initially set my sites on acquiring one of each of the three different variations. But, luckily for me, I’ve exceeded even my wildest expectations.Following the sales of Triple Threads on eBay, I noticed that the same bidder was winning a

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The first Rickey card produced by Razor (at least the first that I know of) surfaced on eBay, and sold for over $300!The card is part of Razor 2009 Sports Icons Auto Update set, the complete checklist of which can be found here.Razor is currently not the biggest player in the card market, but they are at least still making cards, which is more than can be said about a lot of other companies. All

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I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, with a special Happy Birthday to Rickey Henderson as well. Now that 2009 is finally over, it’s been a long year, but one that I’ll never forgot. As a Rickey fan, getting to see him inducted into the Hall of Fame, as well as seeing his number retired by the A’s, we’re both once in a lifetime opportunities, and I’m glad that I was able to take

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I was going through my list of posts, and realized that for some reason this one was still saved as a draft, and had never been posted. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything from my Cooperstown trip, so I figured now was as good a time as any.On the night before the induction ceremony, all of the Hall of Famers in attendance arrived at the Hall of Fame via little red trolley to attend a

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Ever since I posted the checklist of Rickey cards included in 2009 Topps Update & Highlights, I’ve been religiously checking Target for the release of the “cereal” boxes. Rickey was to have a base Legends Chrome card in both the Target and Wal-Mart sets, as well a a Refractor and a Gold Refractor.Since it’s been about two months since the set was released, and not a single card from those sets

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I’ve been to a couple of the large Tri-Star shows in San Francisco over the past couple of years, but I can’t remember the last time I went to a smaller local card show. It was probably around 2002 or so, when the local mall used to hold a show every year. I’ve seen a couple of ads for the shows at the local Holiday Inn (I believe they occur twice a year), but I’ve never managed to make it out

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I wrote a post a few months ago when the initial checklists for 2010 Topps were released. I recently checked into the set again, and found that a few more details had been released. Along with the odds of actually pulling the cards, here’s what else I was able to find out. Unofortunately, there haven’t been any pictures of the Rickey cards released, so this will be a fairly text heavy post.–

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I finally was able to acquire a couple of the Legends of the Game parallels that are available only in Target and Wal-Mart retail packs.I believe this is the “base” version of the Target card, but I’m really not sure. There’s also a “gold” version, and although this card does have a gold border (as compared to the greenish border on the Legends found in the regular packs), it may or may not be

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As a Rickey Henderson fan, you can’t help but be a fan of Lou Brock as well. I actually got to interact with him a little bit during the Hall of Fame Golf Tournament this past summer, and he was a lot of fun!That being said, I was a little sad when I read last week that there was going to be an entire auction filled with his memorabilia. I hope that he’s selling these off in the hopes that others

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Now that Triple Threads has been live for a few weeks now, most of the different card variations have surfaced on eBay at one time or another. There is a total of 18 “different” Rickey cards included in the set, and other than 2 of the 3 #1/1’s, the other 16 cards have all been accounted for, all of which are included in the slideshow below.Here’s the “official” checklist of the Rickey cards

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I’m going to change pace a little bit, with a non-Rickey (but still sports) focused post. I’m currently enrolled in an MBA program, and am thinking about focusing on Marketing or Operations Management. I got an e-mail last week from the marketing department at the school, about an event at Arco Arena with the head of marketing for Maloof Entertainment (the Sacramento Kings and Monarchs).

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In the mail this weekend I received my first 2009 Rickey Topps Triple Threads, one of the first new cards of Rickey that has been released in many years.It seems that there are probably 6 different parallels to three different base cards, judging by the auctions that have surfaced, so I’ll be chasing these for quite some time.Rickey has card with the “SB KING” notation, as well as “MAN OF STEAL”

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Based on the events of the past week, it’s pretty clear that Rickey has once again signed an agreement with Topps to have his cards included in their myriad of sets. As of earlier this year, Rickey did not have an agreement with either Topps, Upper Deck, or Donruss, but that’s obviously changed.Although it’s not scheduled to be released until tomorrow, 2009 Triple Threads started to hit eBay last

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