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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Heads Up on a Signed Hockey Helmet
12.10
Upper Deck is giving away this autographed helmet from the 2009 NHL Rookie Photo Shoot to one lucky collector. The company plans to release the pertinent details of how on Monday via its Facebook page. Until then, here’s a status report on some of the NHL’s top young superstars.
John Tavares – Islanders star is the early favorite to win the Calder Trophy.
Viktor Hedman – Logging heavy minutes on the blue line for the Lightning.
Matt Duchene – Closing in on double digit goals early in his rookie season in Colorado.
Cody Hodgson – He’s Canucks property, but he won’t play in the NHL for a few years.
Mikael Backlund – The Calgary Flames gave him a taste last year but he could be a late-season call up.
Tyler Bozak – He got his taste of the NHL and he’s now playing for the Toronto Marlies.
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Box Busters: 2009-10 Panini Threads basketball cards
12.09
Join Beckett Media’s Tracy Hackler and Keith Hower as they bust a box of 2009-10 Panini Threads basketball cards hot off the presses from Panini America.
What will they find inside?
Click here to find out.
Also be sure to watch the video for your chance to win a vintage-style leather basketball from Past Time Sports.
Box Busters: 2009 TRISTAR Prospects Plus baseball cards
12.09
Join Beckett Media’s Tracy Hackler, Chris Olds and Brian Fleischer as they bust open boxes of 2009 TRISTAR Prospects Plus baseball cards.
What will they find inside a standard and a Hot Box of the first baseball card set of the year to have 2009 draft picks inside?
Click here to find out.
Box Busters: 2010 Press Pass Racing
12.08
Beckett Racing brain trust (and we use that term loosely) Tim Trout and Tracy Hackler just can’t drive 55 with an early box of 2010 Press Pass Racing.
Run, don’t walk, to check out the video to see what they pulled.
Pro Football Hall of Fame Unveils High-End Card Set
12.08
Here’s betting that hard-to-shop-for football fan on your Christmas list doesn’t have this. The Pro Football Hall of Fame recently unveiled the extravagant Bronze Bust Collector Card set, a 253-card collection limited to an edition of just 150 sets.
Oh, and here’s the kicker: More than 130 cards in each set are autographed – by the likes of Joe Montana, John Elway, Barry Sanders, John Madden, Steve Young, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Jack Lambert and Dan Marino.
“The bronze portrait busts, which we use to honor our Hall of Fame members, are often cited as something that separates the Pro Football Hall of Fame from other sports museums,” says Steve Strawbridge, the Hall of Fame’s Vice President Merchandising/Licensing. “With the Bronze Bust Collector Cards we feel that we have again created something that separates us from the norm.”
2009-10 Heroes & Prospects Packs World Junior Championship Excitement
12.08
By Russ Cohen
The 2010 World Junior Hockey Championships will start and finish before 2009-10 ITG Heroes & Prospects is released on January 27, so the demand for some of the cards based on the key players’ on-ice performances could potentially skyrocket.
Two of the players most likely to reap the biggest benefits are Cody Hodgson and Oliver Roy.
I’ve been to the “Bunker,” home of the Brampton Battalion, and have seen firsthand how crazy the hometown fans are for Hodgson, the future Vancouver Canucks standout. A game-used fatigue/jersey of Hodgson will most certainly be a hot commodity. Although he’s coming off an injury, Hodgson is expected to play and have a sizable impact for Team Canada.
Roy is a solid goalie for the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles in the “Q.” He has a chance to make the World Junior squad but he did play in the “Subway Super Series” and ITG has acquired the jersey rights to the “fresh” game-used memorabilia from that tournament as well as the CHL Top Prospects Game. Future top-five picks in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, Taylor Hall (Windsor) and Tyler Seguin (Plymouth Whalers) played in the Super Series.
Preview gallery: Upcoming basketball and football card inserts from Panini America
12.07
Panini America is busy this time of the year prepping its upcoming basketball and football releases, but that hasn’t stopped them from pulling back the curtain some more on a trio of future releases.
Check out these cards to be found in the upcoming Contenders basketball and football sets as well as the always popular National Treasures football set.
National Treasures is set to arrive in late January, with both Contenders products will arrive earlier in the month.
See a full package of images after the jump.
Topps Unique's bat knob cards add to short and unique niche
12.07
By CHRIS OLDS | Beckett Baseball Editor
While Billy Ripken still has the most memorable bat knob in hobby history, the latest baseball card set from Topps certainly is giving him some competition.
Among the tough-to-find insert cards in 2009 Topps Unique are Bat Knob Relics, which have a piece cut from a player’s game-used bat. (You can guess which part.)
Found at a rate of one in more than 50,000 packs, Unique has 110 knob cards to be found — all 1/1s — between the standard and autographed sets. But what’s interesting is how this release affects the total population of a very small niche in the hobby.
It raises the total number of bat knob cards listed in the Beckett.com database to just 551 different cards — and just 132 of those are autographed. How many of those 132 came from Unique? Just 95.
How many overall knob cards exist? A majority of them are 1/1s, while some — cards with knob-size cuts touted to be from the South end of a bat — have as many as 10 copies. And, in all, there are just 17 memorabilia card sets that include bat knob pieces — and most of them pale in comparison to Topps’ 2005 Pristine knob inserts, which was — and remains — the largest set of knob cards on the market, despite Unique’s arrival.
What was pulled at the Topps Unique Rip Party?
12.07
What did The Rip Master and crew find in the 2009 Topps Unique Baseball box-busting party? Watch this and find out …
Jewish Major Leaguers Inc. wants baseball fans to help select its Player of the Decade
12.07
With the decade winding down, Jewish Major Leaguers Inc. wants to know who has been the best Jewish player in the Major Leagues.
And they want you to vote.
The organization, which produces a set of baseball cards featuring Jewish players and their milestones nearly each year, has presented a ballot that can be found at www.jewishmajorleaguers.org.
There were three players to have played the full decade — Brad Ausmus, Jason Marquis and Scott Schoeneweis – and five more played several seasons (John Grabow, Shawn Green, Gabe Kapler, Mike Lieberthal and Kevin Youkilis), but there’s also been a new crop of talent to emerge that includes Ryan Braun, Ian Kinsler, Craig Breslow, Scott Feldman and Adam Stern.
“One of the purposes of the contest,” said JML President Martin Abramowitz, “is to highlight the fact that this has been an extraordinary decade, perhaps the greatest ever.”
The organization’s 2010 “Deck of the Decade” baseball card collection, is set for release just after Opening Day.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Graded Card Investor. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.