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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Product Preview: 2009-10 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection hockey cards
01.19
Upper Deck recently released the product breakdown and preview images for its 2009-10 Ultimate Collection hockey set, a higher-end product that packs one Rookie Card, one autograph and one memorabilia card in every four-card pack.
Collectors will find four patch cards per 15-box case as well as one autographed memorabilia card. Upper Deck also promises three top-level autographs in every case as well.
While collectors will have to wait until April 27 to get their hands on these cards, they can see a gallery of preview images after the jump.
Preview Gallery: 2009-10 O-Pee-Chee Metal hockey cards
01.19
With 2009-10 O-Pee Chee Metal hockey cards set to arrive next week, we figured what better time than now to take a closer look at what the Upper Deck product will be packing.
Each 24-pack box will include 48 Metal parallels, two ‘Metal X’ parallels, one Top Draws Triple Jersey, 24 OPC Retro variations and eight OPC Update Rainbow parallels
Each 12-box case should include two OPC Metal autographs and two OPC Signatures or The Champions autograph cards.
Se e more images after the jump.
Upper Deck explores NFL's Legacy with new football card set
01.19
Upper Deck will examine the origins and past stars as well as celebrate today’s NFL in a new football card set that will arrive in May called Legacy Collection.
The standard set will consist of 100 Immortals, 100 Veterans and 100 rookies with each subset printed on differing stock. The Immortals will be printed on clay-coat cardboard, while the rookies will appear on foil board. The veterans will be standard cards.
Each 24-pack box will include four autographs or memorabilia cards with one of the cards being a single-piece or dual-piece numbered patch card.
Every pack will include some type of insert card from a lineup that includes NFL Legacy, Foundations, Franchise Legacy, Past Meets Present and the UD Wire Photos insert sets. The Wire Photos set emulates the printouts that newspapers and magazines used for years if they subscribed to photo services like The Associated Press.
The 200-card AFL/NFL Legacy set will highlight the 40th Anniversary of the AFL/NFL Merger as an insert that will be found across all Upper Deck football brands. The line will include autograph and memorabilia cards as well.
See a full gallery after the jump.
Panini releases 2009 Playoff Contenders College Rookie Tickets short-print list
01.18
Panini America released the list of short-printed College Rookie Tickets cards from its 2009 Contenders football set on Monday.
See them all after the jump.
500 Home Runs: A club forever changed
01.17
Once upon a time, the 500 Home Run Club truly was an elite group of baseball players, a small number of sluggers assured of immortality in the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Today, its exploding ranks carry much more than an air of greatness — it also carries an air of suspicion.
Entering the 1993 season, there were a mere 14 members of the club in nearly 125 years of baseball — that’s what my once-trusty third edition of Total Baseball says. (Remember the heyday of that relic? Some of you do.) It’s a list topped by Hank Aaron followed by Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Reggie Jackson, Mike Schmidt, Mickey Mantle, Jimmie Foxx, Willie McCovey, Ted Williams, Ernie Banks, Eddie Mathews and, ending the list, Mel Ott at 511.
Barry Bonds was nowhere to be found among the top 100 sluggers in MLB history with just 196 home runs for his career.
Oh, how times have changed.
Bears DE and former Clemson star Gaines Adams dead at 26
01.17
Gaines Adams, a third-year defensive end for the Chicago Bears and former first-round draft pick, died on Sunday. He was 26.
Adams, a former Tampa Bay Bucs and Clemson football standout, died from cardiac arrest possibly linked to an enlarged heart.
The fourth overall pick in 2007, Adams appears on a total of 841 football cards, just 35 of those tagged as Rookie Cards in the Beckett.com database.
In all, Adams signed for 334 different certified autograph cards and has 278 different memorabilia cards. His most expensive autographed cards check in at $80 apiece (one being his 2007 Leaf Certified Materials Mirror Gold Materials #206, which is limited to 25 copies), while his most-expensive rookie cards (2007 Playoff National Treasures #112 JSY AU RC and 2007 Donruss Threads #280 AU RC) are $50.
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.
Panini releases Playoff Contenders Football SP list
01.15
Panini America released the list of short-printed Rookie Cards found in 2009 Playoff Contenders Football on Friday.
See the list after the jump.
Box Busters: 2009 Donruss Elite Extra Edition baseball cards
01.15
Join Beckett Media’s Tracy Hackler, Chris Olds and Brian Fleischer as they rip into a pair of 2009 Donruss Elite Extra Edition baseball boxes in this piping hot same-day edition of Box Busters.
Each 20-pack hobby box from Panini America contains at least six autographed cards, while one in every five boxes is a Hot Box that contains 10 autographs and one game-used memorabilia card. (Yes, we know that’s every other pack, not every pack.)
What will they find inside? Click here to find out.
Product preview: 2010 Bowman baseball cards
01.15
Topps released the basic product information and preview images for its 2010 Bowman baseball card set on Friday afternoon, a set that will mark the cardboard debut of No. 1 overall draft pick Stephen Strasburg in a Washington Nationals uniform.
Scheduled to arrive May 10, the set will include 110 prospect cards and there will be one autographed Chrome card (no sticker autographs) per 24-pack hobby box. Each 10-pack HTA Jumbo box will include three autographs.
There will be 220 cards in the basic set — all with Printing Plates, Red, Orange, Blue and Gold parallels as in past years — while there will be 110 prospects found with standard Bowman and Chrome cards. These, too, will have the standard range of parallels.
The Bowman Chrome Autograph checklist includes 32 players — 10 Autographed Rookie Card variations and 22 Autographed Prospects — all with the typical parallels.
See images and the full preliminary checklist after the jump.
Upper Deck unveils football rookie redemption program
01.15
Upper Deck has a new wrapper-redemption program coming next month that will put cards of top NFL rookies into collectors’ hands.
The company unveiled its Own the Rookies program on Friday, which will give the cards to collectors who buy $10 or more in Upper Deck football packs at their nearby Diamond Dealer hobby shop beginning in February.
The first 10 players who took Upper Deck’s Rookie of the Week honors will be on the checklist — a crop that includes Mark Sanchez, Matt Stafford and Percy Harvin among others.
See a few more cards from the set after the jump.