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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Box Busters: 2009 Playoff National Treasures
01.22
Beckett Football‘s overly giddy duo nervously devours two boxes of the highly anticipated 2009 Playoff National Treasures. Check out the goods — some of which will be up for grabs soon — right now.
This could only happen to the Oakland A's …
01.22
Prospectors don’t often have to deal with this one, but it seems like it’s always something if you’re an Oakland A’s fan these days.
Grant Desme, an outfielder in the Athletics organization who hit .288 with 31 home runs and stole 40 bases last season, is retiring at age 24.
Why?
Will Mark McGwire's return to baseball mean his return to baseball cards?
01.22
With Mark McGwire finally deciding to “talk about the past” and returning to Major League Baseball as hitting coach of the St. Louis Cardinals, does that mean that his certified autograph might re-appear in packs of 2010 baseball cards?
Maybe and maybe not.
Readers Write: What about the unlabeled Topps Relic cards?
01.22
Topps detailed the Relics that use stadium seats within days of this publishing. See that story here.
We know that Readers Write is an immensely popular department in Beckett’s magazines, so every once in a while we’ll post letters that are pertinent and relate to issues that being talked about. Here’s one …
The Question …
Long-time reader of Beckett and always enjoy your box breaks.
Question: I may have missed it, but is Beckett going to address the issue where Topps is misleading collectors with the Relic pieces that what I believe most collectors thought were bat pieces that are actually pieces of some seat or bench? I know I purchased a T206 Ty Cobb bat card off eBay that I thought was a bat but yesterday when I spoke to Topps they would not confirm if it was a bat or a seat/bench.
I also purchased several packs of Topps Tribute at Nick’s Sports Cards in the hunt for old players that I collect, hoping to pull one of the Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, or Ty Cobb cards. It now appears that the wood on these cards are not game used bats but again pieces of a seat or bench. I pulled two Duke Snider cards and again I questioned Topps about the piece but the customer service person to whom I spoke did not know if it was a game used bat or a seat. He placed me on hold and checked with his brand manager. The brand manager would not confirm the wood piece. Which told me it was not a game-used bat piece.
Several collectors to whom I have spoken all feel that we believe Topps is deceiving the hobby. I would like to know what will be Beckett’s take on this and I would very much appreciate hearing from you. I have been a collector for over 50 years, so I have seen the good and the bad of the hobby but Topps’ action is some of the very worst I have seen.
Thank you and I look forward to your reply.
– Ron Firestone
Get our answer after the jump …
Colts, Vikings Super Bowl in the Cards
01.22
If a highly unscientific, sinfully entertaining football card comparison can serve as a hobby-heavy harbinger, the Indianapolis Colts and Minnesota Vikings are headed for a Super Bowl XLIV showdown.
It’s the game most of America wants to see (Peyton Manning vs. Brett Favre) after Sunday’s conference championship games; and it’s the decided outcome of an off-the-beaten-path, off-the-field projection produced by the heavily queried, incomparably massive Beckett database.
We started by ranking the NFL’s four remaining teams (the Colts and New York Jets in the AFC, the Vikings and New Orleans Saints in the NFC) in five collecting categories: Total number of cards all time, total number of 2009 cards, average Rookie Card value, average autograph card value and average memorabilia card value.
We then awarded points to each team in each category depending on how they fared (four points for first, three for second, two for third and one for fourth), tallied the overall scores for each team and – voila! – had our results . . .
Box Busters Preview Gallery: 2009 Playoff National Treasures Football
01.21
The Beckett Box Busters crew on Thursday afternoon drooled on, then nervously unveiled the contents of, two $400 boxes of 2009 Playoff National Treasures. You can catch the full results of the 18-card, $800 haul when the Box Busters episode is posted on Friday.
In the meantime, we thought a few sweet sneak peek pics would hold you over. While we don’t want to give away too much, we’re happy to report that each box delivered four autographs (and not all were stickers), three memorabilia cards, absolutely zero “scandal” cards and a duped Hall of Famer.
Stay tuned to Beckett.com on Friday to watch this must-see edition of Box Busters. Enjoy the images . . . now
– Tracy Hackler
Box Busters: 2010 Press Pass Element Racing
01.21
The Beckett Racing team breaks one of the first boxes of 2010 Press Pass Element and unearths all manner of racing goodness, including Danica Patrick‘s first NASCAR Rookie Card.
For high entertainment value, watch the video here.
LTL PRINTS isn't done with new wall graphics just yet …
01.21
Earlier today, we brought you news that Topps has partnered with LTL PRINTS to bring fans of the Garbage Pail Kids giant wall-sized graphics.
Well, they’re not done there.
Today, LTL is launching a line of graphics featuring memorable Topps baseball, football, basketball and hockey wrapper designs — those distinctive pieces of art that defined a product at a glance. (Well, at least until they’re opened.)
The wrappers span from the 1950s to the 1990s and are similar in prize and size to the Garbage Pail Kids graphics with prices starting at $14.95.
You can examine them all by clicking here and you can see more after the jump.
Not a bad box of 2009 Topps Triple Threads
01.21
It’s refreshing to see some real excitement out there when collectors open such high-end boxes like 2009 Topps Triple Threads. And this box? Well, it’s got plenty inside. (Watch both packs … )
But it’s even more refreshing to see how ridiculously polite the kid is, too.
Preview Gallery: 2010 Press Pass 8 Seconds rodeo cards
01.21
Guilherme Marchi, the 2008 PBR world champion, shows off his autograph card. (Photograph courtesy of Press Pass.)
Press Pass‘ 8 Seconds pro rodeo card set, which features stars from the Professional Bull Riders circuit, arrives next week with a new look and feel for trading cards.
It’s not the first rodeo for the trading card industry — there have been other card sets — but it might be the first one to include this many certified autographs and memorabilia cards. Collectors can expect a total of six per 24-pack hobby box. (See the promo set here and get more details about the product by clicking here.)
You can see a few more images — including the autograph card for Ty Murray — after the jump.