05.22
Posted on May 22, 2013 – 9:08 am | Author: Susan Lulgjuraj
Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, MMA, Multisport, Soccer | @shaq, Bill Parcells, Dr. Brian Price, Fernando Valenzuela, Frank Gifford, In The Game, Kerri Strugg, Scottie Pippen, Shaquille O'Neal, Sports Kings, Sportskings Series F, Tito Ortiz | Comments (1)
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
In The Game, Inc., and Sport Kings LP are merging as one company.
The companies owned by Dr. Brian Price were kept separate, but they will now be one, Price announced today.
“By making this acquisition, I will be able to continue the production of the Sport Kings brand as the consolidation of the brand into the ITG family makes it easier to move forward with future releases,” Price said on his blog. “In the past websites, marketing and sales were kept separately causing confusion in the marketplace, this acquisition removes that confusion.”
Price will move forward with the Sportking series releasing Series F this summer before the National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago.
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04.22
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
Doc Jacobs got his tryout — and now he’s getting a baseball card.
A Purple Heart-honored Navy vet who lost his left leg, toes on his right foot and parts of two fingers in Iraq had a tryout with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Feb. 28 — and now he’ll get his own baseball card from Upper Deck in its retro-styled 2013 Goodwin Champions multi-sport set that arrives on July 9.
Jacobs will be signing 100 copies of the card found in an insert set called Heroic Inspirations.
“When we heard about Doc’s story, we immediately said to ourselves, ‘Now that’s a baseball player we need to make a trading card for,’” said Chris Carlin, sports marketing manager for Upper Deck. “We worked in concert with our great partners at Operation Gratitude and the charity Doc co-founded, VETSports, to make it happen. We couldn’t be more excited to give patriotic Americans the opportunity to collect inspiration.”
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04.20
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
The Olympic Pavilion is returning the National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago this summer.
Two years ago, officials from the NSCC joined with members of the Olympin Collectors Club to bring memorabilia to the National. They are back again after taking last year off due to the 2012 London Games.
Memorabilia at the Olympic Pavilion comes from so many aspects of the international sporting event. Different items include pins, medals, badges, programs, apparel, paintings and other paraphernalia.
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03.05
Posted on March 5, 2013 – 6:10 pm | Author: chrisolds
Baseball, Multisport, Non-Sports | 2013 Panini Golden Age, 2013 Panini Golden Age checklist, Evel Knievel, horse racing, MLBPA, Panini America, Secretariat, Three Stooges | Comments (2)
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
The Golden Age has extended itself for at least another year.
Panini America revealed its plans for the sophomore release of its retro-styled baseball card set (one that includes way more than just baseball) on Tuesday as it announced 2013 Panini Golden Age is planned to arrive in June.
A 150-card base set will include stars from the sports world as well as newsmakers from the worlds of politics and pop culture. Each standard card, the company said, will have six mini variations for collectors to chase. Part of that pop culture? The Three Stooges are back once again — this time with a nine-card insert set of their own — as well as other appearances. Also part of the pop culture experience? Comic book icon Stan Lee and actress Bo Derek for starters.
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01.22
Posted on January 22, 2013 – 1:18 pm | Author: chrisolds
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By Chris Olds | Editor
Admit it, you’ve been here before — you rip into a pack, see a thick card and that rush of excitement is thwarted by a plain white swatch of a guy you’ve seen a dozen times before.
It doesn’t always have to be that way.
As you’ll see in the next issue of Beckett Sports Card Monthly — The Hits Issue — what is a hit can vary from person to person and they can vary even more from product to product. If you dabble in some of the hobby’s multi-sport creations or in the non-sport realm, you can find even more variety in hits.
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Here is the back story — and the instructions are after the jump.
Should you choose to accept this mission, you will add something new to your collection — and maybe something more as I’m going to cough something up for the entry that you guys find to be the most interesting or impressive entry of the bunch.