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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Live from the Production Line: 2009 Exquisite Collection Football (updated)
03.16
Upper Deck officials are on location in North Carolina this week packing out one of the most anticipated trading card products of 2009: Exquisite Collection Football (never mind that were almost three months into 2010).
While it’s a shame we couldn’t be there with them, UD officials today are whetting collector appetites for the product’s March 30 release by posting real-time images of some of the product’s sweetest eye candy on Facebook.
See more mesmerizing memorabilia cards after the jump. It’s almost like you’re there. Almost . . .
– Tracy Hackler
The Card of the Day on Pi Day is …
03.14
Today, March 14, is Pi Day.
No, not apple, pumpkin or lemon. It’s Pi as in 3.14159265…
Don’t believe us? CNN even has a story.
All of that fascinating trivia naturally leads us back to a baseball card that appears in the 2009 Topps Allen and Ginter Mini World’s Biggest Hoaxes set. Card No. HHB2 is “Alabama changes value of Pi.”
That set, which recaps some famous hoaxes from the past touches on the “story” from 1998 that the state’s legislature was intending to drop Pi to its Biblical value of 3.
It never happened, but it was celebrated on a baseball card.
Ironically, the card books for $3.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
Sneak peek: Jason Heyward graces the cover of Beckett Baseball No. 51
03.12
Coming soon in your hobby shop and on newsstands everywhere near you will be Beckett Baseball No. 51, which is graced by red-hot Atlanta Braves rookie Jason Heyward.
He’s one of our 10 prospects to watch in 2010.
It’s been awhile since we’ve had an Atlanta Brave with a main cover presence — though Tommy Hanson did play a prominent role on the Rookie Rolodex issue’s cover, which out now.
A pricey autographed Bryce Harper USA Baseball patch card is up for grabs in issue 51 — it’s the only place you’ll get the chance to win it from us, so you’ll have to get the details in the magazine once it arrives.
Upper Deck names two card shops Hockey Card Heaven
03.12
Upper Deck‘s mission to dub a pair of Canadian sports card shops as “Hockey Card Heaven” is complete — the divine locales are Comic Connection in Hamilton, Ontario, and Wayne’s Sports Cards in Edmonton, Alberta.
Here are the details from Upper Deck …
Comic Connection created a window display using 1990-91 Upper Deck Hockey Cards (Upper Deck’s first NHL release) that spelled out “HOCKEY CARD HEAVEN” to help get the word out and ran different specials every day during the promotion to thank customers for their support. To engage kids, they designated every Saturday as “Kids Day” and offered a variety of specials to make the shop more family-friendly. They also tied in some of their larger promotions, including charities such as the Canadian National Autism Foundation.
“We’re extremely excited,” said Ted Krieg, owner of Comic Connection. “We’re big hockey fans and it’s fantastic to have something like this happen for us. We thought it was a great promotion and all of our staff just jumped at the opportunity. We worked really hard for this, but it’s also been a lot of fun, especially for our customers!”
Box Busters: 2010 Topps WWE Slam Attax cards
03.12
What happens when three self-confessed WWE geeks open a box of the new 2010 Topps WWE Slam Attax cards?
In the words of Gorilla Monsoon, “Pandemonium.”
Will there be any chair shots or steel cage matches stemming from this latest episode of Box Busters with with Bryan Hornbeck, Tracy Hackler and Chris Olds? Watch and find out by clicking here.
Honest Abe's 2010 Topps cameo comes courtesy of Milton Bradley's card
03.11
Earlier this year, Topps teased the fact that a short-printed variation in its 2010 Baseball set included Abraham Lincoln.
And thanks to a 33-year-old New York collector one card has been confirmed.
Rare versions of card No. 306 in the set has “Baseball Abe” and Lincoln’s face on the scoreboard — instead of the standard card’s “baseball notes” on the scoreboard behind a diving Milton Bradley.
Brian Lalonde said he discovered the card in a jumbo pack he bought at a Walmart in Ogdensburg, N.Y.
“There are only two of these known in existence as of right now,” Lalonde wrote in an email to Beckett Media on Thursday. “Mine and one other that I found online.
“I have contacted Topps and they assured me that it is a super-rare card and they will not give me any more information about it. They won’t give me a print run or anything. It seems that they are being very secretive.”
Tim Tebow's First Public Signing Attracts 1,500 Fans, Press Pass' Interest
03.11
Press Pass officials were watching intently last weekend when Tim Tebow, the superstar quarterback the company signed to a “draft picks” trading card exclusive just days earlier, conducted his first public signing.
They were no doubt thrilled by what they saw: More than 1,500 people descending upon Palm Beach Autographs in Jacksonville, Fla., willing to pay as much as $160 for Tebow’s signature and $75 for a picture with the former Florida Gators’ superstar.
Proceeds from the signing – which featured in attendance a father-son pair that traveled 800 miles from Pennsylvania in pursuit of a Tebow autograph – went toward the newly formed Tim Tebow Foundation.
“That’s special to have an opportunity to sign for people,” Tebow said afterward. “But it’s more special to be able to do things like we’re doing and being able to really just brighten kids’ days in really their darkest hour of need, which is a lot of what my foundation is about.”
Tebow’s first autographed trading cards will be included in 2010 Press Pass Football, due out March 31; the company will also include Tebow autographs in the inaugural Press Pass Portrait Edition that releases April 28.
Merlin Olsen's career remembered on TV as well as cards
03.11
Pro Football Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen, who many might remember from the “Little House on the Prairie” and “Father Murphy” television shows, died after a battle with cancer on Wednesday night. He was 69.
Olsen, a 14-time Pro Bowl selection during his 15-year career with the Los Angeles Rams, was a part of the famed “Fearsome Foursome” and was later named to the NFL’s 75th Anniversary team as well as the 1960s and 1970s All-Decade Teams. Also a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, Olsen was the winner of the 1961 Outland Trophy and a standout for Utah State.
Olsen appears on 338 football cards, with 93 of those being certified autographs and 104 of those being memorabilia cards. He has but one Rookie Card, which is found in the 1964 Philadelphia set (No. 91) and is worth just $50.
MLBP settlement with Upper Deck settles RC tag issue
03.11
After following the secondary market and considering input on the subject from dealers and collectors, a determination has been made regarding the Beckett Rookie Card designation for applicable cards in the 2009 Ultimate Collection, 2009 Upper Deck Signature Stars and 2010 Upper Deck Series 1 baseball releases.
Long-running legal feud over memorabilia cards ends
03.10
A long-running battle over patent infringement for memorabilia cards ended in a federal court this week as a case that had touched upon all of the major trading card companies, most recently Upper Deck, was dismissed.
How far back the do claims over memorabilia card concept go? In December of 1994, Adrian Gluck filed for a patent for a memorabilia card. At that time, the closest thing to what we know as a memorabilia card today was a trading card with a piece of a diamond embedded into it. After that a company called Media Tech, which licensed the patents, and Upper Deck have battled over the sports version of a memorabilia card.
In 2001, Media Tech accused Upper Deck of infringement, and in this, its most recent appeal, a pair of judges ruled the patents to be invalid based on the “obviousness” of the idea — the fact that someone could apply the previously established approach to other items.