Tag Archives: baseball

Ripping Retail Retro: A 1980 Topps cello pack

Beckett Baseball’s Chris Olds ripped a cello pack of 1980 Topps baseball cards on the floor of the National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago for yet another Ripping Retail Retro video.

Ripping Retail Retro: A pack of 1982 O-Pee-Chee

Beckett Baseball Editor Chris Olds picked up a few older packs and boxes to rip for you on camera while at the National Sports Collectors Convention.

NSCC gallery: Autographs aplenty

We all know how important the autograph is to the collecting world these days, and it’s more than obvious that’s the case if one strolls the floor of the National Sports Collectors Convention.

Ripping retail retro … at The National

Beckett Baseball Editor Chris Olds decided that his first wax purchase at the 2011 National Sports Collectors Convention would be a big one … a box of packs that cost him about two cents apiece.

Ripping Retail: Olds’ 2011 Topps Diamond Giveaway haul (so far)

Join Beckett Baseball’s Chris Olds as he opens his mail from a 2011 Topps Diamond Giveaway shipment. It wasn’t his first, but this one was done for gags — and UPS made it extra special.

Box Busters Preview gallery: 2011 ITG Heroes & Prospects Hits Series 2

If you’re a fan of big hits and prospects — and that’s it — you just might find what you’re looking for in the second installment of In The Game’s baseball line.

Coming soon … Moneyball and its memorabilia

With any new release, there will be marketing campaigns, which in the past meant materials that ultimately become memorabilia.

For the New York Yankees fan who has it all …

If you know a New York Yankees fan who has it all, you might need to see this.

Ripping Retail: 2011 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball

Join Beckett Baseball’s Chris Olds as he rips into a pair of 2011 Topps Allen & Ginter blaster boxes in this latest episode of Ripping Retail.

Collector Box Busters: Two Ginter boxes at the shop

Beckett Baseball’s Chris Olds was at Nick’s Sports Cards where he witnessed a collector rip open two boxes of 2011 Topps Allen & Ginter baseball.