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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Topps announces Red Sox & Yankees box sets
03.11
Topps released the basic set information and preview images on Wednesday for a pair of upcoming box sets for two of baseball’s most storied franchises.
The company will produce 55-card box sets for the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, which will arrive in June.
Legendary Auctions acquires Mastro Auctions
03.11
A newly formed auction house named Legendary Auctions has announced that it has taken over Mastro Auctions assets and will assume its business.
All registered bidders in Mastro Auctions will be transferred to the Lansing, Ill.-based company, according to a news release, and the first Legendary Auction is scheduled for April 20.
Doug Allen, Mark Theotikos and Ron Oser will head the new company.
More on Topps 3D Live
03.09
You might have seen a New York Times story on it right here this morning, but check out this video for Topps 3D Live.
It’s a virtual game of sorts you can play with your PC and ToppsTown cards as long as you have a webcam. What’s seen here is, in theory, what you’ll see as you play on your computer screen. Pretty interesting stuff.
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Viddler video.Schlotzsky's wants fans to get in the game
03.09
The Schlotzsky’s chain of sandwich shops is hoping to hit a home run with baseball fans with a promotion that can get a personalized miniature baseball bat into the hands of 1,000 fans.
The objective is to collect three of the “baseball cards” seen above — you get one with the purchase of the particular Big League Clubz sandwiches — and then upload a photo of yourself holding the three cards to the Big League Clubz website. The first 1,000 to do that get free bat when uploads start soon.
The Austin, Texas-based company’s promotion is one part interactive and one part social-networking as visitors are encouraged to draft a team and play a series of online baseball games.
First look: 2009 Topps Series 2 baseball cards
03.09
Topps released preview information and images for its 2009 Series 2 baseball set on Monday. Here’s a look at the set, which will arrive in late May …
The product continues much of what Series 1 included — Turkey Red inserts, Legends of the Game, Sketch Cards, Silk Cards and ToppsTown — but includes four World Baseball Classic insert sets.
The WBC sets will include a 25-player standard card insert set, 10 autographed cards (limited to 100 apiece), 10 Relic cards, 10 autographed Relic cards (limited to 50 apiece) and stamp cards that include baseball-themed stamps from around the world.
While the WBC insert set is still TBD (as are the Relics), here is the WBC Autograph and Autographed Relic checklist (subject to change):
BCA-DW David Wright
BCA-JR Jose Reyes
BCA-DP Dustin Pedroia
BCA-RB Ryan Braun
BCA-BM Brian McCann
BCA-CG Curtis Granderson
BCA-AIR Alex Rios
BCA-CR Carlos Ruiz
BCA-CD Carlos Delgado
BCA-DO David Ortiz
Also returning for 2009 in Series 2 are the Red Hot Rookie Redemptions, which fell one per box last year and included some of the game’s newest rookies. There will be 10 players on that checklist.
Topps announces World Baseball Classic eTopps cards
03.09
The World Baseball Classic is under way and Topps announced on Monday its first offerings of WBC cards via eTopps.
Four players — Japan’s Yu Darvish, the United States’ David Wright, Korea’s Jin Young Lee and Cuba’s Frederich Cepeda – will be offered this week.
Each card is $5, except for the highly touted Japanese pro pitcher, who is $7. Darvish is a 22-year-old who has gone 48-19 with a 2.33 ERA in four seasons with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.
Cards in the news(papers)
03.09
There are lots of hobby-related stories out there in the mainstream press these days, but we liked these two (click to read) …
Here are a few others of note from recent weeks:
Houston Chronicle: Houston collector lands a piece of history
Los Angeles Daily News: Wooden family has request for fans
First look: Razor Letterman Autographs
03.06
Here’s a glimpse at the first signed copies of Razor‘s upcoming Letterman autographs. The unlicensed baseball product will include one manufactured patch autograph per pack when it arrives.
Chris Olds: Editor. Collector. Award-winning wrestling writer.
03.04
I’ve had the privilege of working directly with Beckett Baseball Editor Chris Olds for the better part of six months now and I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he’ll cringe when he reads this.
But facts are facts, and here’s a little-known one about Chris: In addition to being an uber passionate baseball card collector and Nick Swisher devotee, Olds is fanatical about professional wrestling. Oh, it’s true, it’s true. You can look it up.
Indeed, late last month, Olds and former Orlando Sentinel colleague Andrea Adelson were honored with a 2008 Associated Press Sports Editors national writing award for their extensive coverage leading up to WrestleMania XXIV, held last March in Orlando.
Since Chris is way too modest to bring this up himself, I figured I’d do it for him.
He and Adelson teamed up on a series of pieces that ran for a couple of months in advance of the event and served as a visually compelling and thoroughly insightful build-up to World Wrestling Entertainment’s showcase event. Their work constituted one of just 10 winners selected by the APSE in the Special Projects category for newspapers with a circulation of more than 250,000. It put them alongside special projects teams from The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, The Kansas City Star and the Boston Globe, among others.
Although everyone at Beckett Media is happy for him, I don’t think many of us are surprised. After all, Olds is a decorated journalist and newspaper designer by way of the University of Alabama who’s been covering sports collectibles for more than a decade now. I first met him about nine years ago when he was at The Tuscaloosa News. From there he went to the San Antonio Express-News and then to the Sentinel. Thankfully, he’s in Beckett’s corner now.
Congratulations on the new hardware, Chris. In an industry and at a juncture when good news seems harder and harder to come by, your victory, like a match-winning Hulk Hogan leg drop, is perfectly timed.
– Tracy Hackler, Publisher
Tickets now on sale for The National
03.04
Tickets for the 30th annual National Sports Collectors Convention set for July 29-Aug. 2 in Cleveland are now on sale at NSCCShow.com.
General admission tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the show, while VIP tickets are $119 in advance online ($129 at the show). VIP tickets allow for admission to all five days of the show as well as an early sneek peak on July 29. It also includes 12 autograph tickets for certain VIP signers and a gift package including cards and promotional items made exclusively for the show.
New this year is a SUPERVIP Ticket, which is $159 in advance or $199 at the show. It all VIP perks but adds another set gifts and a total of 18 VIP autograph tickets.
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.