07.30
Can’t make it to Cleveland, Ohio, for the 30th National Sports Collectors Convention? We give you a peek at what it’s like from a quick walk of the show…
07.30
Dave & Adam’s Card World owns the only vending case of 1990-91 O-Pee-Chee Premiere hockey cards in existence and it’s on display — and for sale — at this year’s National in Cleveland, Ohio. Get the scoop on this one-of-a-kind item here.
07.30
One collector of football Hall of Famer autographs stopped by the Beckett booth with a one-of-a-kind cut autograph — a 1/1 with the wrong autograph. What’s the deal with his card? Watch the video and see…
07.29
During the 30th National Sports Collectors Convention that begins in earnest Thursday in Cleveland, Upper Deck will conduct a wrapper redemption program that will deliver a special 24-card set over the course of the four-day show.
Collectors who open five packs of 2009 Upper Deck product (pack SRP of $1.99 or more) at the UD booth can redeem those packs for one of four unique six-card sets while supplies last.
The sets will be distributed as follows:
Thursday: Derek Jeter, Grady Sizemore, Evgeni Malkin, Kobe Bryant, Ben Roethlisberger, Derrick Rose
Friday: Ken Griffey Jr., LeBron James, Peyton Manning, Bob Feller, Alexander Ovechkin, Larry Fitzgerald
Saturday: Cliff Lee, Gordie Howe, Adrian Peterson, LeBron James, Brady Quinn, Paul Pierce
Sunday: Kerry Wood, Sidney Crosby, Joe DiMaggio, Michael Jordan, Mo Williams, Matt Ryan
“We’re extremely excited to once again have a major presence at the National Sports Collectors Convention,” said Kerri Kauffman, Upper Deck’s director of Marketing. “We anticipate there will be thousands upon thousands of LeBron fans, so we’re prepared to satisfy their collecting pursuits.”
Stay tuned to Beckett.com for reports from the National show floor beginning Thursday.
07.28
Panini America released additional card images from its forthcoming Rookies & Stars football card set, which will arrive on Aug. 5.
Check ‘em out …
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07.28
McFarlane Toys has announced a pair of upcoming projects that focus on the big and small of two professional sports leagues.
This fall, McFarlane will work with video game-maker 2K Sports to offer a 3-inch Kobe Bryant figure only available with the NBA 2K10 Anniversary Edition video game that arrives in early October.
The special edition will cost $100 and is available for the PlayStation 3 or the XBox. It includes a 2K Sports’ NBA 2K10 game locker, the figure, a 16×36 Bryant poster and a NBA 2K 10th anniversary DVD.
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07.27
The September 2009 issue of Beckett Sports Card Monthly, on sale everywhere beginning the week of August 10, includes a cover-story examination of the massive impact made by the Ultimate Fighting Championship and mixed martial arts on the world of mainstream sports cards.
Topps UFC Round 1, released last February, is largely considered the most successful sports card launch of 2009 with boxes currently selling in excess of $350, more than four times original SRP. The product made the biggest splash to date in a sports card industry that has been experimenting with MMA insert cards since 2006.
In addition to including UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar on the cover, the September issue of BSCM includes information on Topps UFC 2009, the highly anticipated follow-up product due out in August, Beckett’s first MMA Hot List and information on the first certified autograph cards of Lesnar and street-fighting legend Kimbo Slice.
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07.27
Memory Lane Inc. recently announced its record-setting sale of what is considered the most iconic baseball card in the hobby, the T206 Honus Wagner.
The professionally authenticated card graded a 40 (very good) by Sportscard Guaranty sold for $925,000. It is the highest price paid for a Wagner in this condition and the third-highest recorded price ever paid. The top two are also Wagners; a near-mint version that sold for $2.8 million in 2007 and an excellent condition copy that brought $1.62 million at auction last year.
Memory Lane brokered the sale between two east coast collectors. The owner had kept it in his personal collection for about 10 years.
“The sales price is just another indicator that the demand for Wagner cards is still much greater than the supply,” said Memory Lane Inc.’s J.P. Cohen in a news release. “When one does come up for sale, there are usually collectors standing two or three deep waiting to buy it.”
Memory Lane is giving collectors a chance to see the card in person at the National Sports Collectors Convention beginning on Wednesday.
07.27
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Topps officials on Monday pulled back the curtain on Brock Lesnar’s first certified autograph card, an image that originally appeared in the Topps UFC 2009 advertisement in the debut issue of UFC Magazine.
The card will be inserted into the August release of Topps UFC 2009, the highly anticipated follow up to Topps’ history-making first UFC product released last February.
– Tracy Hackler
07.24
In this week’s installment of Collect Call, we spend 10 splendid minutes with Marcus Henderson, a hard-rocking Guitar Hero and hardcore collector with his own Allen & Ginter relic auto and tons of passion.
Eavesdrop on the conversation here.
