Monthly Archives: September 2012

Ripping Retail: A 250-card Excell baseball repack

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Join Beckett Baseball‘s Chris Olds as he rips into a 205-card retail baseball card repack from Excell Marketing in this latest Ripping Retail video.

What will he find inside? Watch and find out …

Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan highlight 2012 SP Authentic Golf

By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

Collectors have had to wait about eight years for a new golf set from Upper Deck.

In that time, we’ve seen some great tournament runs and golfers endure rises and falls. This week marked the return of SP Authentic Golf from UD highlighting some of the most popular male and female golfers.

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Get ready … October is Beckett Customer Appreciation Month

October is a fun time with Halloween and the baseball playoffs. Football races take shape and basketball and hockey (hopefully) get their starts.

But there is another reason to enjoy October – Beckett Customer Appreciation Month.

Every day in October, Beckett will give away a prize to members of the Beckett community.

Prizes include subscriptions, autograph cards, Beckett Grading Services gift certificates and much, much more for a total of 31 prizes.

In order to win, you have to create an account at Beckett.com. Then, starting October 1 you will visit the contest page and click a button to enter. It’s that simple.

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Rittenhouse reveals Halle Berry auto

By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

It took nearly 10 years, but Halle Berry has signed autograph cards for an upcoming James Bond product.

Rittenhouse Archives released a photo today of the Oscar-winning actor’s first certified autograph in a trading card product. The autograph will be in James Bond The 50th Anniversary Trading Cards Series 2.

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Beckett OPG By The Numbers: 2012-13 Prestige

 

By Chris Olds | Beckett Basketball Editor

The auctions have ended, the numbers have been crunched. The ranges have been tabulated and the Online Price Guide has been posted.

The 2012-13 Prestige 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.

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Box Busters: 2012-13 Prestige basketball cards

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Join Beckett Basketball‘s Rob Springs and Chris Olds as they rip into a pair of 2012-13 Prestige boxes from Panini America in this latest edition of Box Busters.

What will they find inside? Watch and find out …

2012 Prominence Football released today

By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Football Editor

The newest football product 2012 Panini Prominence is on the shelves.

One hobby box comes with just one pack of eight cards, including three hits.

Some of the big names in Prominence include the 2012 rookies, especially Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III. With Wednesday being the first official day of the release, let’s take a look at some of the cards that have appeared on eBay.

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Box Busters: 2012 Topps Triple Threads

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Join Beckett Baseball‘s Chris Olds and Brian Fleischer as they rip into a pair of 2012 Topps Triple Threads boxes in this latest edition of Box Busters.

What will they find inside? Watch and find out …

First look: 2011-12 Exquisite Collection basketball

By Chris Olds | Beckett Basketball Editor

Exquisite Collection is returning — and it’s returning soon.

Upper Deck announced on Tuesday that its highest-end line is on its way in basketball as 2011-12 Exquisite will arrive “in the coming weeks” with five autographed in every box.

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First look: 2012-13 Panini Prizm basketball cards

By Chris Olds | Beckett Basketball Editor

Panini America‘s next new basketball line will perhaps have collectors looking at NBA cards a different way.

Through a prism … or Prizm.

When it arrives on Oct. 24, 2012-13 Panini Prizm will arrive, as the company puts it, “a familiar, but dramatically improved technology that has been missing from the Basketball hobby.”

Mocked up to be printed on what appears to be chromium-like stock, Prizm will consist of a 300-card base set that includes 100 rookies. Each 20-pack box, suggested retail price $100), will include two autographs, two Prizms parallels and two inserts. There will be six cards per pack and 12 boxes per case.

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