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Category Archives: Soccer
If you’re a SuperCollector, we want your story!
03.14
By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
We’re going to dedicate an issue of Beckett Sports Card Monthly to SuperCollectors this summer and we want to see your collections.
We’ll pick the most interesting and most outrageous collections for that issue of the magazine, but first we need to hear about your stash. Some will make the special issue, while others will appear in the magazines leading up to that issue. (We run SuperCollectors every month.)
You don’t have to have the most-expensive collection on the block but it needs to be unique — downright crazy — in some way that it stands out.
Here are your instructions …
Send in an email to readersrock@beckett.com the following information:
Box Busters: 2012 Upper Deck World of Sports
02.28
Join Beckett Media’s Chris Olds, Bryan Hornbeck and Dave Sliepka as they rip into a pair of 2012 Upper Deck World of Sports boxes in this latest edition of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch and find out …
Hobby Challenge: Make fun of your collection
02.21
I'd like the hair on my head to match my mustache, please.
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By Andrew Tolentino | Hockey Editor
Why so serious?
Poking around our hockey forums yesterday afternoon, I stumbled across a thread entitled “HILARIOUS hockey cards! Post em here!” Member tha penguin opened the online floodgates and encouraged fellow collectors to join in on the fun by posting scans of their favorite funny cards with interpretive commentary.
For the most part, hobby hilarity has ensued and the collector challenge has been extended. (More details after the jump.) Read More
Your Turn: What’s your favorite autograph?
02.14
By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
We’re preparing this year’s edition of The Autograph Issue for Beckett Sports Card Monthly and want to know just one thing from you at the moment.
What’s your favorite autograph (and why)?
Maybe it’s a signed ball or a signed piece of scrap paper from a random meeting. Maybe it’s a certified autograph of a superstar — or maybe not even a sports autograph at all.
Tell us — and be sure to include your name and location, which will appear with your answer in the next issue.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Sports Card Monthly magazine. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
Collector Challenge: Create a Super Bowl Commercial for the Hobby
02.02
By Andrew Tolentino | Football Editor
Let’s face it. Trading cards have been pushed to the back burner in the wake of the internet, video games, and many, many other advancements in the entertainment revolution. It’s been quite some time since the world has seen a sports card commercial on prime-time television, and there’s a good chance that we won’t see one on Super Bowl Sunday.
But it’s time to take a stand.
A stand against what though? Technology? The internet? Of course not. It’s not really a matter of opposing the obstacles that have decreased hobby popularity, but an opportunity to use what we now have our disposal. Tons of collectors have caught on, started blogs, created websites and started posting video breaks for the world to see. But there’s still room to grow.
Big picture, card collecting isn’t in quite in the limelight. But with a little DIY creativity it could be.
Product preview: Upper Deck World of Sports
02.01
By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
It’s wide world of sports out there and Upper Deck is aiming to get it all down on cardboard.
Where? In its latest World of Sports release that’s set to arrive on Feb 21, a 2011-branded product that will include stars from baseball, football, basketball, hockey soccer and beyond.
Oh, and it will include three autographs and memorabilia cards per 24-pack box, too.
Your Turn (BSCM): What’s your favorite type of game-used memorabilia card?
12.21
By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
It seems like everything has been made into a memorabilia card through the years — though some items moreso than others.
Now, we want to know which ones stand out to you … which types of cards you’d want to see in future card sets?
We’re not wanting a dream list or a who’s who of sports legends. We simply want to know …
What types of game-used memorabilia cards would you like to see more of (in any sport)?
Numbers crunching: Memorabilia cards have made their mark on hobby
12.20
By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor | Commentary
The first memorabilia cards arrived 15 years ago with the novel idea that a smaller piece of something big and valuable could still be a pretty big deal.
Turns out they were right.
Since 1996, memorabilia cards might have built a bit more of a love-hate relationship with some collectors as the once-treasured cards have become a bit of a mainstay — almost an unexciting expectation — in today’s products. While jerseys make up most memorabilia cards these days, countless kinds of items have been chopped up and placed into cardboard. Everything from jerseys to stadium walls, towels, artificial turf and even game-used dirt have found their way into cards for fans to caress, obsess about and collect as a way to get closer to the sports that they follow.
While we’ll use a bit more time and space elsewhere — in the February 2012 Beckett Sports Card Monthly — to focus more on game-used memorabilia and items, we took time today to do some digging in the Beckett database to crunch the numbers and discover a bit more about game-used memorabilia cards.
The statistics? Well, they are quite telling …
Would you, could you actually destroy a card?
12.19
By Andrew Tolentino | Beckett Media | Commentary
Among the cheesy holiday cards I’ve received (and sent out) over these past few weeks, one not-so-cheesy piece of mail from Beckett Facebook contest winner Lee Patton continues to make me think the most.
Patton, who won the opportunity to destroy my very own Vince Young card after a lopsided Red River Rivalry game, sent me a thank you card and explained his position. “I watched your heartfelt video and decided to send your card back. Which I really don’t like destroying cards. Just goes against my collecting nature.”
To my surprise, he included not only the original Young card I kissed goodbye, but another single to add to my collection.
Was this a trick? Should I have expected both cards to suddenly vanish into thin air and then see a hologram of Patton laughing and saying “nanner, nanner boo boo?” Read More
Box Busters: 2011 SP Game-Used Soccer
11.23
Join Beckett Media’s soccer gurus Brian Fleischer and Dave Sliepka as they rip into a pair of 2011 SP Game-Used in this latest edition of Box Busters.
What will they find inside? Watch and find out … it’s worth the wait.
Oh, and if you want a chance to win a box — and more — watch the video.