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Topps has announced the latest additions to their 2009 eTopps Baseball Card Set. This week’s new eTopps releases are as follows: 2009 eTopps Mat Gamel RC Milwaukee Brewers 3B Card ID #: 20 Price: $7.00 Max Issue Qty: 949 On Sale Until: 5/21/09 1:00 PM EST 2009 eTopps Pablo Sandoval San Francisco Giants 3B Card [...]
Every six months or so I make a concerted effort to “streamline” my collection. Simplify, if you will. Purge, if necessary. It starts out simple enough—I vow to only collect cards from certain sets, eschew unnecessary parallels, etc. The specifics vary every time I do it, but the basic idea is the same: spend less [...]
New York City officials have reported agreed to a deal with the New York Yankees in which they will receive $11.5 million in exchange for the rights to sell off seats, signs and other Yankee Stadium Memorabilia salvaged from the Bronx Bombers’ former MLB stomping grounds. The New York Yankees have enlisted the help of [...]
The next time you walk into your local hobby shop, have a good look around. Don’t stop until you remember every crevice and every crack in the wall. For years, local hobby shops have been closing. This isn’t new news, but the rate has escalated in recent months. In this economy, the situation has gotten [...]
The long awaited start to the regular season has come and gone and the performances of some talented youngsters have the hobby abuzz: Jordan Schafer, Atlanta Braves, CF The Braves and Phillies opened their seasons on Sunday and the baseball world witnessed first hand the uber-talented centerfielder for the Braves, Jordan Schafer. The 22 year old rookie took [...]
Want to help New York City decrease its budget deficit? According to the New York Post, a tentative agreement has been reached between the New York Yankees and the city of New York to sell off portions of Yankee Stadium. The city will reportedly receive 5% of net sales over $16 million, 10% of sales [...]
Baseball is in the air and with the start of the 2009 MLB Regular Season right around the corner, collectors patiently await the flurry of new 2009 baseball card releases to come. Although the release of 2009 Topps Allen and Ginter Baseball is almost 3 months away, the popularity of the Allen and Ginter brand, [...]
Junk Wax (noun) : Sports cards manufactured in the 1980′s and early 90′s that flooded the sports collectibles market and ushered in the birth of sportscard shops, Beckett price guides, soft sleeves, and the 5-row box. If you collected during this era, odds are that you have a box of this stuff lying somewhere–unless your mom threw [...]
Donruss commemorated President’s Day by taking a look back at some of the key presidential signatures that have been featured in their various products over the years. These cards, which are pictured below, include several from 2008 National Treasures Football:
A list of potential victims of the alleged Ponzi scheme run by Bernard Madoff emerged Wednesday night in a federal bankruptcy court filing in New York, and it revealed a startling list of high profile athletes and celebrities. The 162-page list included baseball Hall of Fame great Sandy Koufax, Hollywood director Steven Spielberg’s charitable foundation, [...]
2008 National Treasures Football Release Date: 1/27/09 Hits Per Box: 6 Box Configuration: 1 Pack / Box , 7 Cards / Pack Product Information Every (7) Card Hobby Box of 2008 National Treasures Contains: 3 Autographed Cards 3 Memorabilia Cards 1 Common or Parallel Card Product Highlights: On Card Autographed Jumbo Prime Patch Rookie Cards [...]
Following their embarrassing 44 – 6 loss at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys disappointing 2008 season came to a screeching end. In addition to kissing their Super Bowl hopes goodbye, the end of the 2008 seasons marked the end of an era for Cowboys fans and players who bid [...]
The London Telegraph reported Monday that a cassette containing a song recording made by a drunk John Lennon was sold over the weekend for more then $35,000. The item was sold at a Memorabilia Auction in Los Angeles. The cassette, which has never been publicly aired, features Lennon singing the 1957 Lloyd Price track Just [...]
Judge Jackie Glass, the same judge who recently sentenced O.J. Simpson to 9 – 33 years in prison, has ordered the immediate sale all of the footballs, pictures and other memorabilia that was collected as evidence during Simpson’s Las Vegas Trial. Simpson’s memorabilia will be shipped to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office where it [...]
For those in search of a new way to reliably purchase retail packs of trading cards, Major League Baseball has come to the rescue. The MLB.com Pack of the Month Club ships a variety of newly released baseball card products to each of their members each month. The packs are shipped directly from the manufacturer [...]
Each day, legions of diehard collectors embark upon the task of building their collections with whatever free time, and money they have available. There are certain types of collectibles – Baseball Cards, Memorabilia, Coins, and Art to name a few – that have become so deeply ingrained in the fabric of our society that it’s [...]
Topps has announced the latest additions to 2008 etopps football. The etopps Football Card Releases for this week (12/1/08) are: Peyton Hillis 2008 Rookie Card Denver Broncos RB Card ID #: 35 Price: $6.50 Max Issue Qty: 499 On Sale Until: 12/04/08 1:00 PM EST Kurt Warner 2008 Arizona Cardinals QB Card ID #: 36 [...]
As many collectors will remember, Donruss distributed puzzle pieces in a number of their baseball cards products from the early 80′s until the early 90′s. The most popular of these puzzle inserts were Donruss Hall of Fame Diamond King Puzzles. The Hall of Fame Diamond King puzzle line appeared in various Donruss and Leaf products [...]
