Hall of Fame hockey player Phil Esposito is selling his personal collection, which includes awards, portraits and even a signed leg cast from a playoff injury.
Esposito’s collection will be sold through Legendary Auctions in November.
Esposito kept a vast collection of items through his 18-year playing career with the Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers.
“Through the years, I collected items that meant something to me personally,” Esposito said in a release. “They represent pieces of me and I want to leave that legacy in good hands. I wanted to be the person who decided what happened to my collection.”
Topps will close out the 2012 calendar year with one of its high-end football products.
Topps Supreme, which is scheduled to be released the last week in December, will have only low-numbered hits. Each pack contains two base cards, a red parallel and one low-numbered autograph, autograph relic or relic card in every pack.
Cards aren’t the only things collectors can get out of Topps Supreme. There will be randomly inserted cards collectors can redeem for up to 15 player-signed jerseys.
Sometimes companies can’t get the cards they want in time for a product before it’s packed out. That’s why collectors end up with redemptions.
Recently, UpperDeck took a different approach. If the company had been unable to get specific cards in time, it didn’t include them in a product. That includes redemptions.
However, when UD finally did get the cards back, it included them in the product’s release. It recently happened with SP Authentic, and it did it again with The Cup.
The auctions have ended, the numbers have been crunched. The ranges have been tabulated and the OPG has been posted.
The 2012-13 Hoops basketball card set from Panini America has arrived on Beckett.com with the favorites, autographs and memories in tow. Let’s take a look inside the numbers crunched by Beckett Basketball Senior Market Analyst Rob Springs – and see even more — after the jump.
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor | Commentary
If you’ve collected for any amount of time, you’ve probably had the moment where you sit back, look at all of the hot mess that is your collection and wondered what your focus is.
Wait, it’s just me? Ok, I’ll go along with that … but we all know better.
As I pondered a column topic for an upcoming Beckett Baseball, I turned to the Hall of Fame — the simple idea of writing about notable sigs I don’t have. It was to be a woe-is-me approach — more like confession — of how I am lacking some notable signatures in my collection, particularly given my supposed collecting focus (well, at least one of them … one that has been around for a long, long time).
Instead, I actually surprised myself — while still realizing that, yes, I am lacking some notable sigs.
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
Golfer RoryMcIlroy is joining Michael Jordan, LeBron James and TigerWoods.
Golf’s current sensation has signed to be an exclusive spokesperson with UpperDeck.
Upper Deck will offer autographed memorabilia of McIlroy through its Upper Deck Authenticated program. Items will include pin flags, photos, lithographs, game-used items and more. His items will begin to appear with UDA in October.
His trading cards will appear in Upper Deck products in 2013.
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor | Commentary
It seems vintage baseball card “finds” are in the mainstream news more and more these days with the Black Swamp Find and other notable auctions grabbing headlines.
But the truth is that, while the finds and the rarities don’t get discovered everyday, there’s plenty of cash being spent on elite, vintage and pre-war baseball cards all the time. A glance through any notable auction catalog — or the results — will tell you that.
Another fine example of a find — and a notable sale — happened Wednesday night in Biddford, Maine, as an 1887-89 Old Judge Cabinet N173 card of Hall of Famer Mike “King” Kelly hit the auction block after being found in a trunk of old papers.
The Portland Press-Heraldwas at the auction Wednesday night, capturing the video above as the card was auctioned for $62,000 — $71,200 including a buyer’s premium.
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.
In about a week, collectors will be able to redeem cards pulled from 2012 Topps Football for exclusive packs that were given to hobby shops for the Topps Kickoff Hobby Store Promotion. The promotion starts Sept. 5, but some dealers have seemingly began to put cards up for sale on eBay now.
