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With players like Ray Lewis, Darrelle Revis, Patrick Willis, and Jared Allen, it’s high time the NFL’s elite defenders got a little football card coverage. We look at 10 high quality rookie cards from some from the games greats and future greats.
The 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle is a hobby legend and the circumstances that helped this card achieve collecting immortality could help fix the overproduction of the Junk Wax era.
A look back at the set that gave us Kobe, the “Chromie”, and forever changed the way we look at cards.
Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh have breathed new life into the early-2000s basketball card product. As a bonus, check out the added comparisons to “The Matrix Trilogy” movie series.
2006 Topps Triple Threads Football Cards Set Info, Reviews, Auction Tracker and box buying guide.
2006 Upper Deck Exquisite Football Cards Set Info, Reviews, Auction Tracker and box buying guide.
2008 Donruss Threads Baseball Set Checklist.
2008 Playoff Contenders Baseball Rookie Ticket Autograph Short Print Checklist.
2009 Bowman Chrome Football Product Information Product Highlights: (1) Autographed Rookie Card (1) Rookie Box Loader per box Look for (1) Rookie Card per pack 2009 Bowman Chrome Football Product Breakdown Autographed Rookie Cards – 1 PER BOX. Autographed rookie card variations of 50 key rookies including Matthew Stafford, Michael Crabtree and Mark Sanchez. Available […]
The 112B Captured the 2009 NFL Season and the Eye of Collectors
Four of the Best Sets to put together from the 2009 Football Card Season!
2009 Playoff Prestige Football Hits Per Box: 4 Box Configuration: 24 Packs / 8 Cards Per Pack Product Information Every Hobby Box Contains: (4) Autograph and/or Game Used Memorabilia Cards (1 Autograph Guaranteed) (24) Rookie Cards (1) Insert or Parallel (3) Draft Picks Light Blue (1) Extra Points Gold (1) NFL Draft Insert (1) Prestigious […]
It is absolutely SHOCKING to see how bad Retail Packs can get! Especially after opening a Hobby box of SP Threads a few months back. In all honesty, if you put a 24-Pack Retail box and 2 Hobby Packs in front of me, I would take the 2 Hobby Packs without thinking twice! If you want […]
2009 Topps Football Release Date: Now Available Hits Per Box: 1 (Hobby), 3 (HTA Jumbo) Box Configuration: 36 Packs Per Box / 10 Cards Per Pack (Hobby), 10 Packs / 50 Cards Per Pack (HTA Jumbo) Product Information 2009 Topps Football features a checklist of 110 Rookies from this year’s NFL Draft Class. This is […]
2009 Topps Heritage American Heroes Brand: Topps Release Date: Now Available Hits Per Box: 2 Hobby Configuration: 24 packs / 8 cards per pack Price (Average): $60 / Hobby Box Staff Review User Reviews Staff Review 2009 Topps Heritage American Heroes Review Summary The Good: 2009 Topps Heritage American Heroes is easily the deepest, most […]
Good: Tons of rookie cards from the strongest rookie class in years, affordable, nice compliment of chrome parallels. Bad: Lack of hits per box. The Bottom Line: 2009 Topps Heritage High Number Edition, just as 2009 Topps Heritage was before it, is a vivid example of Topps’ ability to create high quality, well thought out […]
2009 Topps National Chicle Football is one of the best vintage products I’ve ever opened. The art used for the cards is inspired, imaginative, refreshing, and does justice to the game of Football. What’s even cooler is they used artists from Videogames, Comics, Sports, and various other walks of life. Topps National Chicle is Topps Mayo done […]
When opening 2009 Topps Platinum Football, it felt like I was opening a product that should cost a lot more than $5.99 a pack! Topps Platinum for the most part is on par with the considerably more expensive Finest and Bowman Sterling products. I liked how the “non-rookie” base cards were made on a considerably […]
Good: Nice selection of inserts, short prints, and rookie cards. Bad: Borderline cartoonish design, lacks an “it” factor that really sets it apart from other baseball card products. The Bottom Line: 2009 Topps T206 is an above average product that is worth buying for diehard fans of Topps Allen and Ginter and Topps Heritage. Unfortunately […]
Configuration: 6 packs per box. 5 cards per pack. Product Highlights: 3 Autographed Relic and 3 Relic Cards Numbered to 99 or Less Per Box 1 Autograph Relic or Relic Card Per Pack Every Value-Added Card Is Numbered 6 Parallel Cards Serial Numbered to 199 or Less Per Box Hobby Exclusive Product 2009 Topps Tribute […]
Good: Great looking cards, packed to the brim with big names and big hits. Bad: Expensive, poor resale value of singles on the secondary market, abundance of low quality game used jersey cards. The Bottom Line: Topps swung for the fences with 2009 Topps Tribute Baseball and came through in a big way. The only […]
Price: $135-$155
Review: 4 Stars (Excellent)
Hobby Configuration: 18 boxes per case, 3 mini-boxes per box, 6 cards per mini-box Product Highlights: Pigskin Parallels Triple Fold-Out Book Cards with Jersey Letters, Jersey-Front #’s, and Crest Logos Jumbo Plus Sleeve Patches (1) Auto Triple Relic serial numbered To 99 Or Less Per Box (1) Triple Auto Triple Relic serial numbered To 36 […]
Price: $165 per hobby box
Release Date: Now Available
Staff Rating: 4 1/2 Stars (Outstanding)
Good: Awesome design, great potential pulls, tons of rookie cards. Bad: Price is a little steep, only 1 autograph per hobby box on average. The Bottom Line: 2009 Topps Unique Baseball is a very nice addition to the Topps lineup. It breaks the mold by combining high stakes premium hits with high pack counts. Its […]
Good: Awesome design, tons of potential hits, plenty of numbered rookie cards. Bad: Hits seem a bit toned down when compared to Topps Unique Baseball, parallels get old fast. The Bottom Line: 2009 Topps Unique Football doesn’t measure up to its baseball counterpart but still makes for an interesting and entertaining experience. Design Topps Unique […]
Good: Plenty of value, inexpensive and lots of variety. Bad: Autographs are few and far between. Some of the inserts are a little redundant The Bottom Line: A fitting final installment to the best Topps baseball card set in recent memory. Design There isn’t much new to talk about in regards to 2009 Topps Updates […]
Good: The quality of the prospect checklist is staggering. The dual autograph pairings of blue chip prospects with retired MLB stars add a whole new dimension to the set that TRISTAR sets have lacked in years past. Bad: The design doesn’t do the set justice and is the only thing preventing it from receiving a […]
2009 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions Baseball Card Reviews, Information, and Deals.
Price: $72 -$79 per hobby box
Review: 2.5/5 (Average)
2009 Upper Deck Philadelphia Football Product Review and Set Information.
Release Date: November 25th, 2009
Hits Per Box: 5
Hobby Configuration: 12 Boxes per case, 20 packs per box, 5 cards per pack
Price (Average): $6.00 / Pack
Good: Tons of hits and inserts, reasonable price, robust checklist. Bad: Cheap feel to the cards, lackluster design. The Bottom Line: 2009-10 Panini Classics Basketball is the first basketball card product from Panini that I’ve broken to date. I was pleasantly surprised with the product, which is really saying something as I’m a lackluster basketball […]
We look at the best Hockey Cards from every member of the 2009-10 Philadelphia Flyers.
We look at the best Hockey Cards from every member of the 2009-10 Chicago Blackhawks.
2009-10 Topps Basketball Product Review, Product Information, and Shopping Deals.
Price: $825 / hobby box
Release Date: 9/29/09
Release Date: November 2009
Hits Per Box: 9 (including rookie cards)
Hobby Configuration: 10 Boxes per case, 9 packs per box, 5 cards per pack
From the ultra rare 1/1 red refractor to the most populous regular refractor /199, we provide a simple explanation of how 2010 Bowman Sterling Baseball’s refractor system works.
Starlin Castro, Dustin Ackley, Wil Myers, Miguel Sano, Gary Sanchez, Manny Machado, Jameson Taillon highlight our rankings of all 102 chrome prospect autographs from 2010 Bowman, 2010 Bowman Chrome and 2010 Bowman Draft.
2010 Prestige Football card set checklist, product review, product details, and more.
Panini announces the print run of Tim Tebow’s Rookie Ticket and Rookie Ink inscription variations from 2010 Playoff Contenders Football.
Tips on how to build this year’s Allen and Ginter base set, mini set, and mini insert sets without breaking the bank, the “intelligent print run” theory explained, and the value of an eBay “lot”.
Good:Creating a strategy trading card game is definately a step in the right direction, the cards look cool, the online features are cool, the games are short. Bad: The strategy is pretty weak, too simple, it’s more like playing war with a deck a of cards than an actual strategy game, the cards ratings are […]
Jahvid Best, Sam Bradford, LeGarrette Blount, Colt McCoy, Mike Williams, Tim Tebow, Ryan Mathews highlight the final 2010 Topps Gridiron Rookie of the Week checklist. With the 2010 NFL regular season over, we recap all 17-cards from the promotional hobby shop redemption set.
Good: Strong base set, classic design, compelling checklist. Bad: Lack of innovation. The Bottom Line: 2010 Topps Heritage certainly doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but its still an above average product that is worth checking out. Design I’m personally a huge fan of the 1961 Topps baseball set, so 2010 Topps Heritage scored big designwise for […]
Good: Set Builder’s Dream, Intriguing Parallels Within Base Set, Amazing Card Art, Throwback Parrallels In Base Set, Captures Great Players From Every Era in MLB History, Cabinet Cards Are Worthy of Being Framed Bad Disappointing Auto Checklist, Too Many Artist Auto’s, No Mini Cards, Chicle and Bazooka Back Parallels are too similar Bottom Line: This product is […]
Good: Players like Roy Halladay and Curtis Granderson are on their new teams, which wasn’t the case in 2010 Topps Series 1. Kids might enjoy the Topps Attax Inserts. Bad: There is no value, it’s too similar to Topps Series 1, the inserts are pretty bad, the odds of getting an auto border on impossible, […]
Good: Prospect checklist is filled with future stars, low print run on Gold and Blue Parallels, jersey cards are worth something, Topps brings credibility to minor league cards, Aaron Hicks cut AFLAC auto Bad: Autograph line up is weak compared to the jersey card line up, no Jason Heyward Auto, inserts are worthless and a […]
Good: Packed with hits, sleek design, strong checklist. Bad: Price is heavily marked up by dealers, gold parallels are boring and uninspired. The Bottom Line: 2010 Topps UFC Main Event, Topps’ third UFC trading card product to date, delivers in a big way. As good as the first two UFC trading card products were, Main […]
We look at some of Alexander the Great’s greatest Rookie Cards.
It was only a few years ago that the Arena Football League was one of the hottest properties in sports. With its games televised on NBC and ESPN and celebrities like John Elway and Jon Bon Jovi as owners, some media outlets earlier in the decade speculated openly about whether the AFL, and not the […]
One of the most common complaints about the current state of sports cards is that it’s too expensive, making it a hobby that only those with a lot of disposable income can enjoy. Though manufacturers have attempted to provide products at a range of price points, there’s no getting around the fact that it costs […]
John Wall, LeBron James, Larry Bird, hearty patches, dual autos, quad autos, rookies, legends, superstars and a random collection of crazy 2010-11 basketball card pictures from eBay.
The Milwaukee Bucks have a long and not entirely unsuccessful history. Since joining the NBA in 1968, the franchise has won 13 division crowns and two conference titles and even managed to snag one NBA championship back in 1971. Eight Hall of Famers, including the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson, have suited up […]
Before Jared Allen, another larger than life personality wearing the number 69 lined up at Defensive End for the Minnesota Vikings. In 2004, following Wrestlemania XX, current UFC Heavy Weight Champion Brock Lesnar gave pro football a shot. Ever since his wrestling days at the University of Minnesota in the late 90’s, Lesnar had dreamed […]
I received a concerning email from friend, and sketch card artist Brian Kong last week. It seems that a certain seller on eBay has forged his artwork, and is selling it as his own. Brian did what he thought was the right thing and reported the seller to eBay immediately. Here is a comparison between […]
Ultra Pro’s Vintage card sleeves offer collectors the ideal level of protection for the modern memorabilia card. The sleeves were designed for oversized vintage cards, but work perfectly for 90% of today’s hits and thicker stocked cards.
Cardboard Connection’s “Best of 2010” features some of the site’s most popular articles from the year that was. On May 12th, 2010 we inducted the first ever class into the “Unspectacular Football Memorabilia Hall of Fame”. Inaugural class was filled with unextraordinary gentleman, cards, collectibles, newspapers and a Coach Childress rookie year 10×8 Auto!
The greatest question Allen & Ginter asks collectors each year is whether or not to rip the ever elusive rip card. I recently pulled my first ever rip card, which are seeded 1 per case. As a result, Kyle Blanks has been staring at me for 3 straight days. I’ve gone back and forth over […]
The Baseball Hall of Fame has inducted its most recent class, and the two men elected for 2009 (along with Veterans’ selection Joe Gordon) took very different paths. All-time basestealing king and feared leadoff hitter Rickey Henderson made it in on his first try, while Red Sox power hitter Jim Rice had to wait until […]
It wasn’t quite the “Miracle on Ice,” but Sunday’s USA Olympic hockey victory over Canada – the first such win since 1960 – ranks just a notch or two below it in the country’s history in the sport. Though the U.S. team is comprised entirely of NHL players just like Canada’s squad, most observers gave […]
View the full Donruss Hall of Fame Diamond King Puzzles checklist and set guide for the popular series from the 1980s and 1990s.
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?
LaDainian Tomlinson is the reason I got back into collecting sports cards and memorabilia after a lengthy absence. To prove that’s no hyperbole, allow me to back up a step and explain. I grew up in the 1980s collecting cards from all four of the major sports, with the biggest chunk of my collection devoted […]
From Kyle & Doug Drabek to Dee & Ton Gordon, we cover all the bases and have the cards to prove it.
Whether you’re a rookie, a star, or somewhere in between, you can still be underrated. We look at 5 of baseball’s most underrated players and the baseball cards that accompany them.
Barry Sanders, LeBron, MJ, Larry Bird among autographs hiding in Champ’s hockey checklist.
Whether it be a top loader, magnet case, snap case or hinged box, painter’s tape offers the perfect amount of protection when it comes to sending sports cards through the mail, more importantly, it’s easy to remove and doesn’t leave behind residue.
How to get a picture perfect scan of your sports cards when selling on websites like eBay and Sports Buy. “Swiffer” makes dust free scanning possible, in the process making your card more appealing to potential buyers.
In case you missed it, Jaroslav Halak and the #8 seed Montreal Canadiens upset Alexander Ovechkin and his #1 seeded Washington Capitals, in the process becoming the first #8 seed in NHL history to come back and beat a #1 seed after trailing a series 3-1. The reason for this was simple, Goalie Jaroslav Halak held […]
Put your “King James” cardboard knowledge to the test!
The most common and affordable way to start a Mark Buehrle collection would be with his rookie cards, which come from products released in 2000.
In the 2009 NHL Draft, there was John Tavares and everyone not named John Tavares. Tavares was without a doubt the most heralded and coveted prospect since Sidney Crosby. In fact, he was so good that he unsuccessfully attempted to enter the 2008 NHL Draft at the age of 17. For these reasons, it’s curious […]
It’s hard to believe that Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest NBA player of all time, has been in retirement long enough to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame next month. It doesn’t feel like Jordan’s been gone long enough to be enshrined because he’s still so visible. Turn on a television […]
Was the Strasburg Superfactor Auction the end of a short-story or the beggining of a much larger story?
A tribute to the memory of the former Arizona Cardinals Safety who believed in things larger than fame & money. Rarely are real American heroes captured on Cardboard.
Even in today’s market, a single set of football cards that costs $5,000 is something most collectors wouldn’t even consider buying. But what if that set contained autographs from over 100 of the best football players of all time? That’s exactly what the Pro Football Hall of Fame has put together with its set of […]
The brand new batch of Hall of Famers inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this past weekend includes several gentlemen with impressive credentials. The NFL’s all-time sack leader (Bruce Smith), it’s single-game sack king (Derrick Thomas), a former world’s fastest man (Bob Hayes), and arguably the greatest cornerback ever to roam the gridiron […]
Paranoia (par-a-noia), noun; a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others. Example: You just opened a pack of cards and your worst nightmare is realized, you’ve pulled an insanely awesome card! You become filled with anxiety as your eyes scan the front of the card, […]
Sports jerseys make an excellent gift for any occasion. Find out about the differences between authentic, replica and vintage baseball, football, basketball and hockey jerseys. Includes buying guide and more.
Following Topps’ announcement that they’re not offering any new eTopps cards, we look at the confusion caused by the announcement as well as why the sudden program end might leave some unhappy.
If you had $100 to invest in official baseball rookie cards of current players, which ones would you choose? Take the $100 Rookie Card Challenge and find out if you can see a profit on your investment.
1960 was a great year for football cards as it ushered in a decade where collectors could buy two different football card sets. Two football leagues were now vying for fans across America as the fledging American Football League brought their wide open play to the Gridiron that fall. And two different card manufactures, Topps […]
After 20+ hours of putting this list together (I was in too deep before I reallized what I had gotten myself into), I present to you the 100 rookies and prospects that defined the 2010 trading card season! Due to the NHL and NBA’s carry over into multiple years, rookies from both 2009-10 and 2010-11 […]
The story of Brett Favre’s 321 consecutive game streak told through nearly 20 years of football cards. We focus on cards made between 1992 and 2010 in this retrospective look back at the Silver Fox’s epic journey.
Browse our comprehensive list of the best Michael Jordan Autographed Cards of all-time.
Top 10 highest recorded Aaron Rodgers single card sales since the Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl XLV. The list is topped by a one-of-one 2005 SP Authentic NFL Shield Logo Autograph which sold for $8,600!
From signed gloves & paintings to a 1959 Golden Gloves Program, we look at the Champ’s most saught after memorabilia.
Playoff Contenders is a yearly right of passage for Football Collectors world wide. Contenders has a unique history and mythology all it’s own. From legends like Manning and Brady to urban legend short prints like Kenny Irons and Aaron Kelly, Contenders has captured the imagination of set builders since 1998. Below we rank the Top […]
Limited Hockey, SP Game Used, Upper Deck Ice Premieres, Young Guns parallels, Certified highlight the top selling Taylor Hall hockey cards from the first half of January. The Oilers freshman skater’s 1/1 Limited NHL Logoman and Upper Deck Young Guns french parallel among the list’s most intriguing cards.
From the legendary 2003-04 LeBron James to the 2007-08 Kevin Durant, we countdown Exquisite’s most Exquisite.
With the Chicago Blackhawks on the cusp of the cup, we countdown our Top 5 Jonathan Toews Rookie Cards.
A look at the Canadian born slugger’s key cardboard.
Some of the most valuable video games in the world are found in the the sports genre.
Rock & Roll trading card tribute featuring The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan and other legendary names from the ’60s & ’70s rock scene.
27 random Taylor Hall hockey card pictures from 2010-11 SPx, 2010-11 Certified, 2010-11 Limited, 2010-11 Upper Deck, 2010-11 SP Game Used, In the Game, 2010-11 Donruss, 2010-11 Score and more!
