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		<title>Baseball Card Exchange to give away rarity at NSCC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the rarest Topps baseball cards of the 1990s -- if not the rarest -- can be yours at the National Sports Collectors Convention Aug. 1-5 in Baltimore.]]></description>
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<p>By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor</p>
<p>One of the rarest <strong>Topps</strong> baseball cards of the 1990s &#8212; if not <em>the</em> rarest &#8212; can be yours at the <a href="http://www.nsccshow.com" target="_blank"><strong>National Sports Collectors Convention</strong></a> Aug. 1-5 in Baltimore.</p>
<p>How? You&#8217;ll have to visit the booth of Lynwood, Ill.-based <a href="http://www.bbcexchange.com" target="_blank"><strong>Baseball Card Exchange</strong></a> to enter a giveaway for the card.</p>
<p>The 1990 Topps-style card of former President <strong>George H.W. Bush</strong> shows him as a member of the Yale baseball team &#8212; a card specifically made for the president, though a very small number of the cards reportedly made their way into circulation. A total of 100 cards, No. USA1, were presented to Bush by Topps&#8217; <strong>Arthur Shorin</strong>.</p>
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<p>&#8220;We recently acquired a collectors entire collection, which was quite sizable and extensive,&#8221; said <strong>Reed Kasaoka,</strong> the company&#8217;s director of acquisitions. &#8220;It appears he had some tough Topps test issues and some other rarities.  A few Bush cards were part of this collection.&#8221;</p>
<p>While the company regularly buys collections and wax, it never had landed a Bush, Kasaoka said. Finding <em>more than one</em> in the collection made the decision to give one away a lot easier.</p>
<p>&#8220;What we really wanted to do was create an excitement at the National while trying to raise the profile of Baseball Card Exchange,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We hope this creates some good publicity our hobby desperately needs.&#8221;</p>
<p>No purchase is necessary to win the card &#8212; just visit the BBCE booth and fill out an entry form. It will be given away at 3 p.m. on Aug. 4.</p>
<p>The card has been submitted for grading and will be slabbed for the winner.</p>
<p><em>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 <a href="http://www.twitter.com/chrisolds2009" target="_blank">clicking here</a>.</em></p>
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