08.26
Topps announced its ninth Finest Rookie Redemption of the year on Wednesday, and it’s Detroit Tigers pitcher Rick Porcello.
Porcello is 10-8 with a 4.39 ERA and 66 strikeouts in 123 innings for the AL Central-leading Tigers.
Each master box of Finest includes one redemption card, which can be found as Refractors (numbered to 199) and Gold Refractors (numbered to 50).
The 10th and final Finest Rookie has yet to be announced.
The previously announced cards are:
No. 1 — Indians OF Matt LaPorta
No. 2 — Braves P Tommy Hanson
No. 3 — A’s P Andrew Bailey
No. 4 — Rangers OF Julio Borbon
No. 5 — Cardinals OF Colby Rasmus
No. 6 — Padres OF Kyle Blanks
No. 7 — Rangers P Neftali Feliz
No. 8 — Orioles OF Nolan Reimold
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.
08.26
TRISTAR‘s Jeff Rosenberg will be stopping by Beckett Media headquarters on Thursday morning for a special edition of Box Busters on to discuss his company’s latest minor league baseball card set, Obak.
Read more about the set here, here, here and here.
It’s a set that’s rich in baseball history — a lesson in the game as well as a nod to the early 1900s tobacco cards of the same name — and is a set that’s chock-full of variations. Several cards in the base set have card back variations — three based on the 1910 design, one based on the 1911 — while others have photo variations.
According to the in-box checklist, for example, Atlanta Braves pitcher Tommy Hanson has five versions of card No. 16 as does No. 12 — Gordon Beckham – as well as Tom Seaver (No. 39), Ted Williams (No. 41) and U.S. President Barack Obama (No. 100) among others. Other cards in the set merely have photo variations.
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08.26
The final NBA-licensed Topps basketball card set arrives very soon, 2009-10 Topps Basketball — and we’ve already busted our boxes — see more here — but we wanted to make sure that NBA fans can see more of what the set has in store.
Leading the way among the cooler images is this Nate Robinson-Dwight Howard card. Remember that dunk? We thought you would
Click on the images for a closer look for just a tiny sampling of some cool photos found in the set …
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08.25
Join Beckett Media’s Dan Hitt and Tracy Hackler as they bust into a box of Donruss Threads football, which arrives on Wednesday with four autographs or memorabilia cards per box.
What will they find in this episode of Box Busters? Watch and see…
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08.25
This year’s Donruss Threads football set arrives Wednesday packing four autographs or memorabilia cards in every hobby box — and retail boxes, once they arrive, will deliver the first Brett Favre cards picturing him in preseason action with the Minnesota Vikings.
Here’s a look at some of the autographed cards to be found courtesy of Panini America.
Check ‘em out after the jump …
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08.25
We’ve gotten our hands on some 2009 Topps American Heritage Heroes Edition cards a bit early so we could soak up the Americana and historic cards that are found only in this type of trading card set.
Mr. Rogers now has a Topps trading card. Erin Brockovich now has a card. Robert Jarvik now has a card. Barack Obama now has a bunch more trading cards.
And several of New York City’s Finest — police officers and more who responded to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 — now have cards.
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08.25
Join Beckett Media’s Bryan Hornbeck, Tracy Hackler and Chris Olds as they open a brand-spanking-new box of 2009 Topps American Heritage Heroes Edition in this episode of Box Busters.
What will they find inside this historically rich product loaded with unusual Relic cards?
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08.25
The Force is strong with this one, too.
Topps released basic preliminary product breakdowns and preview images for its latest Star Wars card set for release in late October.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Widevision will document the first season of the cartoon series in the over-sized card format previously used for past Star Wars releases.
The set will include scenes from all of the Season 1 episodes with each 24-pack hobby box containing one Sketch Card as well as a chance at Sketch Cards by the show’s animators (odds still to be determined) as well as autographed from cast members (also TBD).
Among the insert sets are: gold-foil parallels (limited to one copy per card), silver parallels, Season 2 sneak previews (1:12 packs), Flix Pix Motion Cards (1:8), Animation Clear Cels (printed on plastic, 1:4), and foil cards (1:3).
For a closer look, click on the images below.
08.25
In recent issues of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Sports Card Monthly, we asked readers to tell us who is the greatest New York Yankee of the Upper Deck era. The winner gets the 1993 Upper Deck Autographed Buyback Rookie Card seen above.
The deadline has passed and we’ve examined all of the entries from around the country, who made solid cases for Jeter, Mariano Rivera and even others like George Steinbrenner as the most important Yankee since 1989.
The answer is debatable, but the best effort and case for the player got the card.
And the winner is …
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08.25
Join Beckett Media’s Keith Hower, Tracy Hackler and Chris Olds as they bust open a brand-spanking new HTA jumbo box of 2009-10 Topps Basketball cards in this episode of Box Busters.
What will they find inside a box of this product that’s absolutely loaded with patches, Logoman, Laundry Tag, Chrome and other cool cards?
Watch and see…
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