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Join Beckett Baseball‘s Chris Olds & Brian Fleischer as they rip into a box of not-even-out-yet 2010 Topps Chrome baseball cards in this latest episode of Box Busters.
What will they find inside?
Watch and find out …
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It can be argued that the first great sports collectible wasn’t the sports card. It was the sports ticket, another rectangular piece of paper that gained its holder entrance into the game to watch the star who appeared on the card that would become the second great sports collectible.
In its purest form, the ticket (or the surviving stub in many cases) is a timeless, memory-inducing piece of memorabilia for any true sports fan — or rock concert-goer, for that matter. The folks at That’s My Ticket know this, which is why they’ve long given the ticket its due with the proper amount of reverence.
The company produces a full line of ticket collectibles, from suitable shrines to honor your own unique game-day experiences to larger-than-life reproductions of classic game tickets. That’s My Ticket’s roster of offerings includes NFL team-logo ticket albums and ticket boxes, Historic Ticket Frames, Stadium Ticket Frames, Game Day Ticket Frames and the newest products — Mega Tickets and Mini-Mega Tickets depicting historic NFL and college football and basketball matchups.
“Tickets have always told a story and transported fans to an exact moment in sports history,” says That’s My Ticket Dean Macchi. “Now, our Mega Tickets and Mini-Mega Tickets will do this for memorable college championships and NFL games. Fans can hang one in their home or office where it will spark game-specific conversations and memories for years.”
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09.30
The lively and entertaining Beckett Baseball crew of Chris Olds & Brian Fleischer have ripped the first boxes of 2010 Topps Chrome baseball cards for an upcoming edition of Box Busters.
While the video is in the microwave (coming up later this evening), we figured you’d want some card images to chew on. Here are some cards that stood out in our pair of boxes.
Chew on the images and a first taste of the latest from Topps after the jump.
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Panini’s high-end offerings for its sophomore season as the NBA’s exclusive licensee of trading cards tips off with Timeless Treasures, a $100 a pack product that carries the hits and a mix of aesthetics that might appeal to a few types of collectors when it arrives on Dec. 8.
Each five-card pack will include three autographs or memorabilia cards — a minimum of one autograph — and two base cards or parallels numbered to 399 or less.
Each 15-tin case will include at least one of the following card types: autographs of Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Bill Russell, Bill Walton, John Stockton, Larry Bird, Shaquille O’Neal or John Wall as well as Cut Signatures, Logoman cards, Logoman Signatures, Laundry Tag Logoman cards, Laundry Tag Logoman Signatures, Laundry Tag Team Logos and Laundry Tag Team Logo Signatures.
Panini promises more than 300 1/1 cards in the product as well as exclusive autographs of Wesley Johnson and Brandon Jennings.
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09.30
Join Beckett Media’s Keith Hower & Tracy Hackler as they rip into a box of 2010-11 Panini Prestige basketball cards in this latest episode of Box Busters.
What will they find inside?
Watch and find out …
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Update: On Oct. 22, Topps announced that it will be adding autographs of Buster Posey and Jason Heyward to the program. There will be 100 signed versions of each card with Refractors numbered to 90 and Green Refractors numbered to 10 also to be found in the packs.
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Topps Chrome hasn’t yet arrived but there’s already an extra reason to pick up a hobby box — a wrapper redemption focusing on the best rookies of 2010 and the best players in baseball history.
The company announced on Thursday morning a program that will put an exclusive pack of three Chrome Rookies & Legends variation cards into the hands of any collector who sends in 24 2010 Topps Chrome hobby wrappers.
The cards are part of a 15-card set promotion that will run through Feb. 28. Every 1oth pack of the cards will include Refractors.
See the complete checklist and get the address after the jump.
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Topps has announced a simplified plan for getting missing “hit” cards — autographs or Relics guaranteed in its hobby boxes — the company announced on Wednesday.
Rather than having to mail box panels, wrappers and proof of purchase materials back to the company, it will handle that information electronically.
Here’s the process:
“Customers can email support@topps.com and include their name and address, along with digital pictures in PDF format. The image must include the UPC symbol from the box with either an ‘X’ or hole punched through the center, the wrapper from the pack with the missing card and a copy of the store receipt proving the purchase. Once Topps receives the email and confirms, it will expedite the process and ship the missing item(s).”
09.29
Topps has compiled a video featuring a bunch of the big finds that collectors have landed out of their 2010 Triple Threads boxes since the high-end product’s release.
Check out the video, which is laced with prime patch goodness and more, and then let us know what you found in the comments below.
09.28
Upper Deck officials on Tuesday offered a sneak peek at several new images from the company’s December-releasing World of Sports multisport product.
The product’s key calling cards will revolve around longtime company exclusives Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Tiger Woods. But the product also is slated to includes stars from such sports as baseball, hockey, soccer, mixed martial arts, extreme sports, Olympic sports and even lacrosse.
The 400-card base set is bolstered such insert sets as Athletes of the World Signatures, Sports National Dual, Triple and Quad Signatures, All Sport Apparel and Clear Competitors.
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Topps unveiled the 10th and final of its 2010 Red Hot Rookies on Tuesday and this one’s Houston Astros infielder Brett Wallace — with 10 percent of the cards being autographed.
Wallace, who has bounced from the Cardinals, to the Athletics and then the Blue Jays before landing in Houston, is hitting .215 with two home runs and 10 RBI in 47 games this season.
The Red Hot Rookie redemptions are found one per hobby box of 2010 Topps Series 2 baseball cards. The 10-card set is now completely revealed.
Previous RHRs include Braves pitcher Mike Minor (No. 9), Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg (No. 8), Phillies outfielder Domonic Brown, (No. 7), Marlins infielder Logan Morrison (No. 6), Cubs infielder Starlin Castro (No. 5), Marlins outfielder Mike Stanton (No. 4), Tigers outfielder Brennan Boesch (No. 3), Pirates outfielder Jose Tabata (No. 2) and Indians catcher Carlos Santana (No. 1).
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.
