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Our Great American Baseball Card Tour continues as we look at the top 20 cards from each member of the American League West. The AL West wraps up our American League portion of tour, as next week we will venture in the National League, beginning with the NL Central.
Tour Stop #2: American League East Welcome to stop #2 on our massive 30 team, 600 card tour of the best veteran and prospect baseball cards on the planet. Our tour began with a look at the premier cards from each member of the American League Central. Our next stop takes us to the best [...]
From 1997 SP Authentic to 2010 SP Authentic, we look at 14 years of football card design from Upper Deck’s trademark franchise.
Back for a second season is our massive baseball card tour of all 30 teams in Major League Baseball! This year, we expand from 300 to 600 cards by breaking down the top 10 veteran and top 10 prospect cards for every team. The American League Central is our first stop on the 2011 tour!
Ian Kinsler, Pablo Sandoval, Justin Upton highlight our baseball card geared look at a handful of baseball stars prepared to bounceback big during the 2011 MLB season.
Carlos Dunlap’s Rookie Ticket Auto from 2010 Playoff Contenders Football goes from sure fire short print to worthless due to the unexpected release of a $29.99 retail version of the product.
The top 10 recent eBay sales of Freddie Freeman baseball cards. With Domonic Brown on the mend, the talented 21-year old Braves first baseman’s chances of capturing the 2011 NL Rookie of the Year Award are looking pretty good at the moment.
In 1991, Jack Palance won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role as “Curly” in the movie City Slickers, Jack Morris pitched his way into baseball history in Game 7 of the World Series and a new brand called Stadium Club forever changed the way we look at cards. Get out the screw cases, it’s time to rip open a box of the year 1991!
2010-11 Crown Royale Hockey’s corny regal themes and card design offer collectors a refreshing departure from the cookie cutter cards of today. After a seven year absence from the ice, Crown feels right at home in the hockey card section.
Following yesterday’s announcement of the final six cards, we take a look at all 60 fan voted cards from Topps’ 60 Greatest Cards of All-Time countdown. We also look at a handful of cards we thought should have made the list. What cards do you think were snubbed?
2007 PBA, Battlefield Earth, Scooby Doo 2, The Blair Witch Project and other premium trading card product previews from years that are no longer with us. Plus a bonus proposition you’d be hard pressed to turn down from recovering rip-aholic and peddler of fake Pro Bowl Memorabilia, the one and only Cornelius.
If we were talking about a product that carried a box price of around $180, this would be an excellent product. Seeing as how the actual box price is between $275-$325, Tribute simply doesn’t deliver enough bang for your buck for a high-end product.
The code entering phase of Topps’ Diamond Giveaway promotion officially begins. Each Diamond Giveaway code card unlocks one 1952-2009 Topps card and gives collectors one “dig point”, which is used to search for buried prizes on a virtual baseball field. Code cards are seeded in packs of 2011 Topps Series 1 Baseball.
Bowman Sterling best tells the story of the top 10 recent eBay card sales for Philadelphia Phillies rookie of the year contender Dom Brown, whom many scouts have compared to Darryl Strawberry. Dom’s 2010 Bowman Sterling red refractor auto tops the list with a sale price of $1,200!
2010-11 SPx Hockey returns with simpler card design and unlike past years, isn’t the first product of the year to deliver rookie autographs. Overall, it’s an above average offering that will appeal to hardcore SPx fans.
Does it live up live up to the hype? Probably not, but it’s still a really good product that will most certainly appeal to hardcore Topps fans, set builders, kids and baseball fans with an itch to rip and are counting the days until opening day (hopefully not the product “Opening Day”, but the actual start to the 2011 MLB Season).
Buster Posey, Miguel Sano, Mike Moustakas and Jackie Bradley Jr. autographs highlight the first batch of wrapper redemption cards from 2010 Bowman Chrome Baseball to hit eBay. The promotion runs until July 11th, 2011, giving collectors plenty of time to dumpster dive.
2010 Topps Supreme Football features a solid checklist, intriguing card design and the potential for high quality hits, but falls short when it comes to delivery – each $80-$90 box delivers a total of four cards, of which only one is a hit. I would recommend seeking singles over buying a box, but if you have an itch to rip, you could do far worse than Topps Supreme.
