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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Box Busters: 2011 Topps Lineage baseball cards
08.17
Join Beckett Baseball’s Chris Olds and Brian Fleischer as they rip into a box of 2011 Topps Lineage baseball cards in this latest edition of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch and find out …
Box Busters: 2011 Topps Inception football cards
08.17
Join Beckett Football’s Dan Hitt and Andrew Tolentino as they rip into a pair of 2011 Topps Inception football cards in this latest edition of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch and find out …
Box Busters: 2011 Upper Deck All-time Greats basketball cards
08.17
Join Beckett Basketball’s Chris Olds and Rob Springs as they rip into a pair of 2011 Upper Deck All-time Greats Basketball boxes in this latest episode of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch and find out …
Press Pass adds a little more fanfare to upcoming set
08.15
By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
Press Pass is upping the ante with a little more fanfare in its forthcoming high-end FanFare NASCAR set.
As in bonus packs good for autographs, 1/1s or even potentially tickets to an actual race.
The one-hit-per-pack, $20-per-pack product is scheduled to arrive on Aug. 31 and will now include a box-topper bonus pack.
Inside each bonus pack will be one of the following:
There’s nothing Goofy about this piece of memorabilia
08.15
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
Ok, so I just watched a cartoon at work — it’s research for our upcoming sports movie memorabilia issue of Beckett Sports Card Monthly.
Why was I watching Walt Disney‘s 1942 short “How to Play Baseball” on YouTube?
To refresh my memory of the classic after I discovered how rare and how pricey the one piece of memorabilia tied to this short is.
What is it? How much is it worth? Find out … after the jump.
Signing game remains same despite name change for Perfect Game All-American Classic
08.14
Tanner Rahier (left) and Jameis Winston sign their Bowman cards made by Topps for the Perfect Game All-American Classic during a signing session on Saturday in San Diego.
By Theo Chen | Special to Beckett Media
SAN DIEGO — If you’re looking for 2011 Bowman Aflac cards made by Topps, you won’t find any because after a five-year run, production has stopped.
Well, sort of.
The cards are still being produced, but longtime title sponsor Aflac was replaced in 2011 by Perfect Game USA, which bills itself as “Baseball’s Largest Scouting Service.”
Change, in fact, could be the theme for 2011 especially as it concerns baseball card collectors. The location of this afternoon’s Perfect Game All-American Classic – Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres and the 2009 and 2010 Aflac games — hasn’t changed, but almost everything else has.
Legal filings piling up in the hobby …
08.14
A pair of lawsuits have been filed this month with card companies sparring for one reason or another.
First, Upper Deck International is suing Upper Deck over a $1 million loan from UDI to help settle the Konami lawsuit over counterfeit Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards. According to the complaint, UDI presumed that the settlement would clear any legal entanglements with Konami for both companies. Meanwhile, according to this report, UD Chairman Richard McWilliam told Konami that UDI wasn’t interested in settling.
A second lawsuit filed this month has Topps suing Leaf for unauthorized use of images of its trading cards in Leaf’s 2011 Best of Baseball sales materials.
The product, which includes one re-purchased professionally graded card and one cut autograph card in every pack, had sales materials showcasing 16 non-Leaf creations with 11 of those being from Topps products. The most prominently displayed card is Topps’ most-iconic release, the 1952 Mickey Mantle. Only two cards shown on the sellsheet were new Leaf creations made for the product.
Leaf denied any wrongdoing to TMZ.com, which also reported that Topps warned Leaf about similar practices last year.
Ripping Retail: 2011 Topps Lineage baseball cards
08.12
Join Beckett Baseball’s Chris Olds as he rips into a blaster box of 2011 Topps Lineage baseball cards in this latest Ripping Retail episode.
What are his first impressions? What will he find inside? Watch and find out …
Box Busters: 2011 TRISTAR TNA Signature Impact wrestling cards
08.12
Join Beckett Media’s Chris Olds and Bryan Hornbeck as they rip into a pair of 2011 TRISTAR TNA Signature Impact wrestling boxes in this latest episode of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch and find out …
Box Busters: 2011 TRISTAR Obak baseball cards
08.12
Join Beckett Baseball’s Chris Olds and Brian Fleischer as they rip into a box of 2011 TRISTAR Obak baseball cards in this latest edition of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch and find out …