Baseball Card Collecting Articles & Editorials.
Baseball season is finally upon us! In anticipation for the season, we’ve put together 3 MLB All-Card Teams (1st, 2nd, and 3rd teams). Each team is composed of the best card at each position. We took numerous factors into account when putting the teams together; Star Power, Player Potential, Player’s Place in Baseball History, Team, [...]
2010 Bowman USA Baseball Set Checklist.
Topps has announced a larger then usual assortment of short prints and variations in 2010 Topps Heritage Baseball. The full short print / variation checklist is as follows:
Short Printed Base Cards
Base cards 426-500 are short printed and can be found 1:3 packs.
1961 HR Chase Insert
2010 Topps Heritage commemorates the 1961 Topps design, so Topps saw [...]
Topps has released tons of new images of cards from their eagerly anticipated release of 2010 Topps Chicle Baseball, which are pictured below:
The all-painted set, which is slated for release in late April, guarantees 2 on-card Autographs and 1 Relic per hobby box.
With the release of 2010 Topps Heritage Baseball only about a week away, Topps decided to add to the buzz surrounding one of their most popular brands by releasing a number of never-before-seen images from the set. The design of the cards, which are featured below, is borrowed from 1961 Topps Baseball.
A video preview of the upcoming 2010 Topps Pro Debut Series 1 Baseball card set. Topps now has the exclusive license to produce Minor League Baseball cards.
During the 2009 season, the World Series Champion New York Yankees had a special way of celebrating walk-off heroics – smashing pies in the faces of the game’s heroes.Topps captures 12 of these fun moments on (very) short printed variations in 2010 Topps Series 1.
Alex Rodriguez- 5/16/09
Johnny Damon- 5/17/09
Jorge Posada- 7/4/09
Hideki [...]
As of this season, Topps is the only manufacturer licensed to produce official trading cards for Major League Baseball. To celebrate that fact, the company recently revealed plans for cards that show off the league’s most instantly recognizable trait: its logo.
Baseball collectors will be able to get their hands on two different kinds of MLB [...]
Upper Deck has released the checklist for the much anticipated release of 2010 USA Baseball. Mega-prospect Bryce Harper signed over 1,150 autographs for the set, which is set for release January 18th.
Topps has announced the Cut Signature Checklist from their eagerly anticipated upcoming release of 2009 Topps Sterling Baseball. Cut signatures will be seeded at a rate of 1 per 10 pack case.
Adam Comorosky
Homer Peel
Admiral Harold Smith
Hoyt Wilhelm
Al Lopez
Huck Betts
Al Simmons
Hughie Critz
Alexander Clay
Humphrey Bogart
Allie Reynolds
Indian Bob Johnson
Amos Otis
Ival Goodman
Andrew Johnson
J.Edgar Hoover
Andy Seminick
Jack Banta
Andy Warhol
Jack Dempsey
Art Carney
Jack [...]
One of the biggest hobby stories of 2009 was the comeback of the 90’s collector. Coming back into collecting for this group (mid 20’s-early 30’s) meant coming to grips with the reality that your collection is probably worth nothing. The reason for this is simple, they printed too many cards! I was sorting through a box [...]
With a fan base that includes Ichiro, Cal Ripken, Paul Molitor, Elton John, and virtually every scout, GM, and Manager in the game, it’s fairly easy to see why it doesn’t bother him.
While Bryce Harper was hitting 500 Ft. Batting Practice moon shots at Tropicana field, Tampa Bay Rays Manager Joe Maddon raved about a different Catcher, [...]
In similar style to what it did in its regular 2009 Topps Heritage Baseball release by recreating variations from the original 1960 Topps Set, Topps is confirming that there are also six variation cards in the just-released Heritage High Number Edition. The variations are extremely short printed. (images attached)
# 15 Dustin Pedroia
New York Yankees [...]
Many card collectors easily jump from baseball to football and hockey season. There are even basketball card collectors out there. However, there are also a significant portion of us that are strictly one-sport collectors, including myself.
Baseball is the only sport that I collect cards. So, how do we cope with the off-season blues. The hot stove [...]
2010 will mark the beginning of a brand new chapter in Upper Deck’s popular Exquisite Baseball card set. Instead of being released as a stand alone set, 2010 Exquisite Baseball will be a special limited-edition set distributed throughout each of Upper Deck’s 2010 hobby baseball product launches.
“Exquisite collectors are extremely passionate about the brand as [...]
The September release of 2009 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions baseball has scored high marks across the board from collectors. Upper Deck could have very well found the next big brand in Goodwin Champions.
“We’ve been very pleased with the performance of 2009 MLB Goodwin Champions,” said Upper Deck’s baseball brand manager, Gabriel Garcia. “We think collectors [...]