05.27
By Chris Olds | Baseball Editor
The baseball season isn’t even at its midpoint — and Topps Series 2 hasn’t yet arrived — but that means one thing with new product news.
It’s time for 2011 Topps Update to be unveiled.
Topps released the basic product information and preview images for its season-capping set on Friday, a 330-card set that will arrive in early October.
The first half of the 2011 season will be recapped with 55 new rookies, recently traded players and highlights from this year’s All-Star Game all among the checklist.
New this year will be Hope and Cognac Diamond Parallels with base and base variation cards from the first two series in these packs as well as Glove Leather cards, 1/1 player-produced sketches, All-Star autographs and Relics and, of course, Silks and other inserts that we have seen this season.
Each 36-pack hobby box will include one autograph or Relic, while the 10-pack HTA Jumbo boxes will include an autograph and two Relics.
Read more and see more images after the jump.
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05.27
By Chris Olds | Baseball Editor
You may have seen the Your Turn page in nearly every issue of Beckett Baseball where we showcase stuff that is all about you. You can see your comments on hobby topics and get chances to win cool stuff in contests all on one page. While we used to run this prompt for replies on the message board, we’re going to try it out here …
Here’s the next Your Turn question for issue No. 65, which will focus on prospecting:
Who is the player you are prospecting right now … and why? (BASEBALL ONLY)
Please include your name and location with your comment below — we will only run items with that information. A selection of your answers will appear in the next issue along with our next batch of contests and giveaways found only in the magazine.
05.27
Posted on May 27, 2011 – 10:17 am | Author: tolentinotown
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By Andrew Tolentino | Football Editor
Following a previous announcement regarding the readiness of a few redemptions in 2011 Legends, Press Pass confirmed today that all outstanding autographs have now been signed and returned by the players in question.
“We know collectors are not fans of redemption cards, and we wanted to make sure that they were aware that if they pull one from a box of Legends, they won’t have to wait long to get the actual on-card autograph in their hands,” noted Nick Matijevich, Press Pass’ Director of Product Development.
This announcement is particularly pertinent to collectors who have already pulled and sent in redemption requests for Past & Present autographs. Read More »
05.25
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
Upper Deck isn’t out of the baseball market yet. The company teased SP Legendary Cuts Baseball on Wednesday with a product that featured more than baseball players.
SP Legendary Cuts Baseball is also coming out in June – and with no redemptions.
Each box will contain just one cut signature card. The single-player cuts are considered part of the 200-card base set. All cuts are hand-numbered to 35 or less. SP Legendary Cuts will feature 91 Hall of Famers such as Roberto Clemente, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth.
Upper Deck unveiled photos of some of the historic cards collectors can obtain.
See a full gallery after the jump …
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05.25
By Chris Olds | Baseball Editor
Keith Olbermann is known for a few things in the political and sports arenas but one of his newest baseball cards revisits a bit of cardboard trivia from his past.
That nugget of information has everything to do with a card seen above — a relatively worthless 1981 Topps card — something most collectors don’t know about unless they read card-related publications years ago.
“I am also on the 1981 Ken Landreaux card,” wrote Olbermann on a few of his 60th Anniversary autographs that will be placed into packs of upcoming Topps cards. “Happy birthday Topps! Keith Olbermann.”
Yep, that’s his right leg and arm …
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05.25
By Chris Olds | Basketball Editor
Upper Deck is taking one part UD Glass and one part past letterman releases and meshing them together in its next basketball product with one name that’s pretty big in the basketball card world.
Michael Jordan.
The company’s 2011 All-time Greats set will arrive on June 14 with Letterman autographs as seen above encased in PETG plastic and signed on the smooth surface instead of the fabric. Each four-card box will contain three base cards and one autograph — each of the same player — with just 20 players on the product’s checklist. Each case includes just three boxes.
The base set will consist of 200 cards, while the insert lineup will include Storybook Career booklet cards, One-on-One Dual Signatures booklets, the Lettermen autographs and All-time Nine signatures, which are 1/1s. There will be no sticker autographs in the product, according to the company.
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