Angels ace Jered Weaver no-hits Minnesota

By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor

Who cares if Albert Pujols doesn’t have a home run this season if Los Angeles Angels ace Jered Weaver holds the opposing team hitless?

That’s exactly what happened late Wednesday night in Anaheim, Calif., as Weaver no-hit the Minnesota Twins and his team rolled to a 9-0 victory. It was Weaver’s fourth win of the season and 86th in his seven-year career. It was the first Angels solo no-hitter at home since Nolan Ryan no-hit Baltimore on June 1, 1975.

On cardboard, Weaver appears on a total of 1,776 cards in the Beckett.com database, a collection valued at more than $11,500 before the news and not including rarities too scarce to price. (Need a Weaver-only checklist or an OPG? Click here.)

Weaver appears on a total of six Rookie Cards from back in 2005, all made by Topps. The most valuable is his Bowman Chrome Draft autograph (Blue Refractor version above), which sells for $80 or less, while all of his other RCs can had for less than $10. The Gold Refractor parallel of Weaver’s RC, a card limited to just 50 copies, typically sells for $600 or less.

The long-haired right-hander out of Long Beach State has signed 307 different certified autograph cards during his career and appears on a total of 375 memorabilia cards. His earliest cards can be found from back in 2003 when he pitched for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team.

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 clicking here.