12.17
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Upper Deck released information and images for its 2009 SPx set, which will arrive in March.
Each 18-pack box will include four memorabilia cards and one Rookie Signature or Jersey Autograph.
The product also includes three patch cards per case numbered to 99 or less as well as a Joe DiMaggio career highlights set with cards numbered to 999.
The basic set is 100 cards and, like last year, there will be seven rookie autograph redemption cards.
Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
12.16
There are a handful of baseball movies that truly stick with fans — Bull Durham with its loggygaggers, fungus-covered shower shoes and even a quadraphonic Blaupunkt is one of them.
It’s the movie where ground balls are more democratic, where we find out what a journeyman catcher truly believes in and we get a look inside the Church of Baseball. By most movie critics, and a large number of baseball players, it’s considered one of the top baseball movies ever made — if not the best sports movie of all time.
All this wasn’t lost on one man — Abel Sanchez – who had an idea a year ago while touring the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. It was a simple concept, one he said he figured had been done before — work with Louisville Slugger to make replica baseball bats for some of baseball’s biggest stars of the big screen.
They hadn’t — and that’s how Reel Bats was born.
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12.15
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Upper Deck released images of 10 cards from its upcoming Legends set of autographs that will be included in 2008 Ultimate Collection, which hits hobby shops in February.
The autographs update the 1997 Legends set, which is a landmark set for autographed football cards. The 2008 versions will all be signed on-card — no stickers — and pick up where the 1997 set left off numbering-wise. Throw in a stout lineup of familar Hall of Famers (and a few others) and this is a recipe for cards that will be in demand.
The Legends cards will be found one per case.
“Collectors have been waiting for us to resurrect this set for some time,” said Brandon Miller, Upper Deck brand manager for football. “It was important enough to us that if we did it, we did it by providing collectors with the players who were not available on the initial checklist. Well, we’ve accomplished just that so football fans should be thrilled to add these cards to their set.”
Ultimate Collection is scheduled to arrive in hobby shops on Feb. 11.
Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
12.15
Fresh in from Topps this morning are a few more images from its upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship card set that will arrive in hobby shops next month.
Each 16-pack hobby box includes three autographed cards, three Relic cards 20 parallel cards and eight additional insert cards. The 100-card base set includes 90 UFC competitors shown in their debut matches as well as 10 UFC Personalities — including UFC president Dana White and Octagon Girls such as Arianny Celeste. Also included will be instant-win cards for UFC tickets.
Each pack also will contain a parallel card — available in gold, black (serial-numbered to 888 or less) or Red (1/1).
The full tentative checklist is after the jump.
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12.14
Upper Deck has announced the lineup for its 2008 Timelines Cuts set, a baseball only cut signature insert in 2008 Upper Deck Timelines baseball. There are several Hall of Famers included — and a few guys who don’t have many cuts available.
The full checklist is after the jump (along with more images).
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12.13
Imagine opening a pack of Donruss Sports Legends and discovering you have a Joe Montana card numbered out of 10. You flip it over to see an autograph of … Hank Aaron‘s last name?
That’s exactly what happened to one collector who reported his find on the BMB.
I’m not sure it’s a priceless kind of error — but he’s got the card on eBay with a BIN of $499. Will anyone buy it? We’ll see. It’s an interesting error — one that Donruss may try to fix for the collector.
But here’s the real question … did Aaron get paid the same for signing half as many stickers? Or does Donruss have a super sticker project in the works?
Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
12.11
Razor President Brian Gray will stop by Beckett Media headquarters Friday to bust open some boxes of his company’s first baseball card set, 2008 Razor Signature Series, for an episide of Box Busters.
Look for it here tomorrow.
Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
12.11
Topps American Heritage is about a month away from release and we figured it was a good time to take a look at the checklist, particularly for cards of President-elect Barack Obama (who will be a main selling point and non-collector draw in the set) and the autographs, which will draw the attention of the more advanced collector.
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12.11
Are you grappling with collation as you try to finish off that Topps WWE Heritage IV autograph set?
It doesn’t seem like it would be a huge challenge, but some of these cards have been nowhere to be found, it seems.
Until now.
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12.11
There’s no doubting the allure of the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card and the current bid total for the PSA 8 copy of the card above reinforces that.
How much is the card going for in the Memory Lane Inc. Winter Extravaganza Rarities Auction with more than two days left to bid?
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