01.24
Posted on January 24, 2012 – 1:26 pm | Author: chrisolds
Baseball | 2012 Topps, 2012 Topps Gold Rush, Adrian Gonzalez, Albert Belle, Albert Pujols, Dennis Eckersley, featured, MLB, Nelson Cruz, Sandy Koufax, Topps, Willie Mays | Comments (25)
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
Ok, all you cardboard 49ers … the 2012 Topps Gold Rush rules have been declared.
Eight days before the arrival of its flagship baseball card set for 2012, Topps has unveiled the details of its Gold Rush wrapper redemption program, and it’s one that won’t last long.
For every 50 hobby wrappers — or 14 HTA jumbo wrappers — that a collector sends in to the company, they will receive a five-card pack of Gold Rush cards.
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01.24
A preview of an item in the upcoming Art Issue of Beckett Sports Card Monthly …
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By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
If you’ve ordered sports cards on the Internet, you probably bought them from him.
If you’ve been to a larger regional show or The National, you’ve probably seen him — a somewhat unassuming big guy with a shaved head and a goatee (or some two-day scruff) working with his team in a gray Blowoutcards.com T-shirt and pair of shorts.
But what you may not know about Thomas Fish — one of the card industry’s leading dealers and leading marketers of the hobby — is that he’s dead serious about something else, too.
Original comic book art. That’s his other hobby and an area of investment — and it’s a business that’s booming.
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01.23
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
Hockey fans lucky enough to make it to Ottawa for the NHL All-Star festivities this week, will be in for a treat. Panini America is offering cards at the event through a wrapper redemption.
Panini has created base cards, autographs, memorabilia and special patch cards made just for the All-Star Game.
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01.23
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
As seen on the cover of the next issue of Beckett Baseball at the printer right now, Topps will be including short-printed variation cards of Albert Pujols and Jose Reyes into packs of 2012 Topps Series 1 when it arrives on Feb. 1.
The company teased the cards on Monday, nine days before the arrival of the hobby’s most-collected set — and the same day as the arrival of the magazine.
This will be Pujols’ first card as a Los Angeles Angel, while Reyes will be shown with the Miami Marlins for the first time. Pujols will be on card No. 331, while Reyes will be on 332 — both will have different (and not short-printed) versions in Series 2.
What else will be found inside the packs?
Find the magazine on Feb. 1 … maybe some packs of Topps, too.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball magazine. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
01.23
You might not think that a pair of stirrup socks would be worth one’s time at auction … but this dynamic duo proved that notion wrong last fall when they appeared on the auction block via Heritage Auctions.
What makes them so special? They were worn by New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig.
While the use of the items is not known – the color scheme is not of the New York Yankees or with the other items that Heritage sold that were once in The Iron Horse’s possession – they still got the attention of 13 bidders … and sold for $8,962.50. — Chris Olds
Look for more items just like this every month in the new-look Beckett Sports Card Monthly‘s Auction Watch department.
01.22
Join Chris Olds as he rips into a pack of 2011 Press Pass Legends racing in this latest installment of Ripping Retail.
What did he find inside? Watch and find out …
