Joe Mauer, isn’t your typical catcher, and the Minnesota Twins are fine with that. Mauer isn’t necessarily known for his defense – not that the 2008 AL Gold Glove Award winner doesn’t posses those skills, it’s just that he’s too busy hitting any baseball that happens to get in his way. So far this season, [...]
There has been a lot of discussion on various collecting sites about what a ‘Super Collector’ is and if certain collections qualify as one. Both sports card collecting websites ‘The Bench’ and ‘Sports Card Forum’ (SCF) have programs where members can submit statistics, pictures and websites and apply for ‘Super Collector’ status on each site. [...]
This interview was originally posted on The Bench last year year. Some of these questions were asked by members of The Bench. This interview is used with permission from The Bench. Chris Carlin is the Baseball brand manager for the Upper Deck Company. My thanks to Mr. Carlin for taking time to answer [...]
This interview was originally posted on The Bench earlier this year. Some of these questions were asked by members of The Bench. This interview is used with permission from The Bench. This interview was conducted just after Panini won the license to produce NBA cards and purchased Donruss. Peter Warsop is the Group Licensing Director [...]
This interview was originally posted on The Bench last year. This interview was conducted before Donruss was purchased by Panini. Some of these questions were asked by members of The Bench. This interview is used with permission from The Bench. Scott Prusha is the Marketing and PR Director for the Donruss Trading Card Company. He [...]
This interview was originally posted on The Bench last year. Some of these questions were asked by members of The Bench. This interview is used with permission from The Bench. Dave Dravecky played for 8 years in the majors. He broke in with the San Diego Padres in 1982 and finished with the San Fransisco [...]
Anna-Megan Raley with the Houston Chronicle catches up with Super Bowl MVP and Heisman Award Winner Roger Staubach at the 2009 TRISTAR Collectors Show in Houston.
People aren’t the only things packed with Christmas cheer around this time of year, packs of cards also contain their own bit of Christmas. Can you believe that Santa Claus has his own card? There isn’t just one, but tons that dawn St. Nick’s image. Santa’s first card appeared back in 1989 and was a promo from [...]