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2010 Pro Debut Series 2
2010 Topps Pro Debut Series 2 will be available for baseball card collectors in late September. This minor league release from Topps will feature two autographs and one memorabilia card in each hobby box. Of the auto signers, the one … Continue reading →
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September 08, 2010
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Are You Going to The Show?
Are you going to the 31st National Sports Collector’s Convention? It’s going to be on the East Coast this year, held right near the birthplace of the greatest baseball player of all time. Yep, this should be a good ‘ol … Continue reading →
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July 31, 2010
Baseball Card Odds and Ends
Blowout Cards tweets that 2010 Topps Pro Debut Series 2 will is available as a pre-sell with estimated release date of September 22. The release will include 220 top Minor Leaguers with three “hits” per box. Each box should also … Continue reading →
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July 14, 2010
Baseball Card News 07 09 10
3 Top Recent eBay Baseball Card Sales 2010 Bowman Chrome Stephen Strasburg Superfractor 1/1 – Sold in Auction for $25,000 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle PSA 5 – Sold with B.O. for $15,500 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle PSA 4 – Sold … Continue reading →
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July 12, 2010
Baseball Card Boxes – Where to Find Them
If you are looking to find baseball card boxes to store your cards, where do you usually look? Many local hobby shops do not stock the types of boxes which will hold your cards, in any count (which you will … Continue reading →
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July 08, 2010
Baseball Card News 06 11 10
3 Top Recent eBay Baseball Card Sales
1) 2010 Bowman Chrome Superfractor – Stephen Strasburg 1/1 – Card # BCP1 – Sold for $16,403 in auction
2) 1928 George Ruth Candy Co. – Babe Ruth Card # 2, Graded PSA7 – Sold for $14,999 in auction
3) 1952 Topps – Andy Pafko Card # 1, Graded PSA7 – [...]
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June 11, 2010
Baseball Card News 06 04 10
An article in the Denver Post, recently stated how baseball cards area a “huge hit again”. It’s an interesting quick read, that talks about the hype of the card market of late, evidencing the Strasburg baseball card sale that topped $16k, among others.
Ken Griffey Jr. announced his retirement as a major league baseball player after [...]
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June 03, 2010
Baseball Card News 05 21 10
Tuff Stuff Magazine released a great article on how certain memorabilia cards are created. This article applies more to racing memorabilia cards than it does to baseball memorabilia cards, but it’s a great inside look at the process nonetheless.
The eTopps Big League Challenge returns for 2010, beginning on Monday, May 24th. Weekly winners and a [...]
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May 21, 2010
Baseball Card News This Week - February 12, 2010
One of the leading sports card companies continued to battle on multiple fronts.
One lucky collector pulled a sweet dual auto card that even a Boston Red Sox fan would turn their nose up at.
A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card, graded PSA 7, sold for a whopping $26,200 online, on February 8.
Topps announced a new CEO [...]
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February 15, 2010
Baseball Card News This Week - February 5, 2010
Jim Caple of ESPN wrote an interesting article about baseball cards recently. He speaks about the joy brought by the ancipation of opening a pack of baseball cards. This is really what it’s all about, isn’t it?
Talk about anticipation of opening a pack………two awesome cut signatures cards were pulled in the same store on the [...]
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February 06, 2010
Baseball Card News This Week - January 29, 2010
2009 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection and 2010 Topps Series 1 were both released this past week.
Up for release this coming week is 2010 Upper Deck Series 1 (without the MLB license, but with the MLBPA license), and 2009 Just Minors Mystery Balls (technically not a card product).
It was announced that a baseball card shop owner from [...]
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January 30, 2010
2009 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection Baseball
2009 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection baseball is slated to become available from Upper Deck on January 26th, 2010. This will be one of Upper Deck’s last MLB licensed (remember, they still have an MLBPA license), high-end baseball products. You get one pack per box, with four cards per pack in each hobby box. In each [...]
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January 25, 2010
Baseball Card News This Week - January 22, 2010
He was referred to in the #1 bestseller, Moneyball, as the Greek God of walks. But he’s not Greek. (A convenient moniker though for a guy who knows when to swing the bat, and who’s last name does sound like it might be Greek.) In fact, Kevin Youkilis is Jewish and has been named the Jewish [...]
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January 22, 2010
Baseball Card News This Week - January 15, 2010
2009 (yeah, I know, it’s 2010 isn’t it?) Bowman Sterling became available for collectors on January 13th. (By the way - this isn’t the last of the 2009 baseball card products yet to come out!)
A 1-of-1 2009 Topps Tribute Roy Campanella cut autograph card sold for $1,000 online.
There’s been quite a bit of buzz about an [...]
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January 16, 2010
What I’m Reading: 27 Quotes, Knee Surgery
Bleacher Report listed their top 27 Yankee quotes. You’ll notice the numbered quotes align with the player’s uniform number. The number 3 quote, from who else but Babe Ruth, the greatest to ever wear number 3, is my favorite.
Matthew Cerrone writes on Mets Blog about the surprise of Carlos Beltran’s recent knee surgery. Looks [...]
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January 15, 2010
2009 Bowman Sterling Baseball Topps Video
If you haven’t seen the 2009 Bowman Sterling Baseball product yet, check out this video from Topps. The Yu Darvish relic card is sweet. The dude in the yellow shirt is the best in this video!
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January 14, 2010
What I’m Reading: WSJ, Yankee Signing, Houston Idol
The Wall Street Journal reports on baseball cards, or sports cards to be exact, as an investment. Did you know they kept a Sports Card Industrial Average (like the Dow Jones Industrial Average), that is put together by Beckett? They do, and it has done quite well. Still think that sports cards can’t be treated [...]
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January 13, 2010
2009 Bowman Sterling
2009 Bowman Sterling Baseball will be released today by Topps. Good luck to all you fortunate (read: “loaded”) collectors who can afford a hobby box. They’re currently selling on eBay for about $235. Must be nice. This thing is loaded with rookie and prospect autographs in every box, so enjoy it. I won’t be (read: “can’t afford [...]
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January 13, 2010
Where Do You Get Your Baseball Cards?
I don’t live close to a hobby shop. If I did, I would buy my cards there, if the prices were reasonable and I liked the owner or manager of the shop. I would also probably have a lot less money if I lived close to a hobby shop.
So where do I [...]
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January 13, 2010
Auction: Homer #500
The youngest player to reach 500 career home runs will have their 500th home run ball put up for auction this year. In a post at Tuff Stuff it’s said that the fan who caught the ball hit by A-Rod has consigned it to SCP Auctions for their internet auction closing on February 4th.
This ball [...]
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January 12, 2010
Baseball Lingo
In baseball terminology, do you know what a “Gopher Ball” is? How about a “pea”? A “yakker”? These are all terms defined on the MLB.com site in their official baseball lingo.
There are some easily recognizable baseball terms on that page, like “whiff” or “sweet spot”, but there are few more obscure ones like those...
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January 11, 2010
What I’m Reading: 1981, Rangers and Monkeys
Checking out some of the throwback “tribute” cards on White Sox Cards. I gotta say, the 1981 Topps Jerry Owens is mighty cool. Nice work Steve.
Learned from MLB Trade Rumors that Khalil Greene has signed with the Texas Rangers. Greene, who came up as a shortstop with the Padres will be a [...]
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January 10, 2010
National Chicle Baseball Cards by Topps for 2010
Looks like Topps will be applying it’s successful National Chicle football brand to it’s (now MLB exclusive) baseball card brand.On the Beckett Blog, Chris Olds wrote about the 2010 National Chicle baseball card set which Topps will release later this year. Looks like this release will have all on-card autographs, which is a big plus [...]
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January 09, 2010
2010 Topps Series 1 Baseball Cards
We’ll see our first baseball card release of 2010 in late January, when Topps releases it’s Series 1 Baseball, currently slated for January 27, 2010.
As Topps stands alone on top of the baseball card heap as the “only official baseball card of Major League Baseball”, it’s initial offering to baseball card collectors is much anticipated. [...]
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January 09, 2010
Most Valuable Baseball Cards Sold on eBay - late December / early January 2010
1) 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth, #144, Graded PSA 7 - Sold for $21,100 on December 30th, 2009
2) 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, #311, Graded PSA 7 - Sold for $12,500 on December 30th, 2009
3) 1909 T206 Sherry Magie (Magee) Error, Graded SGC 20 - Sold for $11,500 on January 1, 2010
4) 1933 Sport Kings Babe Ruth, #2, [...]
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January 08, 2010
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