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Week in Review - 1/18 thru 1/24
Look at this, two weeks in a row. I’m on top of my game. We’ll see if I keep to it.
This week’s highlight of highlights was this Tye Hill 1/1 patch out of National Treasures that Brad picked up. This is seriously one of the nicest patches this board has ever seen. Incredible card and [...]
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25Jan2009 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
Week in Review: 1/11 thru 1/17
I’m going to try once again to make this a regular feature of the blog. I know I’ve said it before, but sometimes life just gets in the way and endeavors such as this have to take a back seat. But, I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback on this feature, so I’m going to [...]
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18Jan2009 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
The Greatest Game Ever Played - As You’ve Never Seen It Before
If you haven’t seen it by now, find out when ESPN will be re-playing it, and be sure to either watch or record its presentation of The Greatest Game Ever Played. Any collector or football fan will certainly find this well worth the watch.
In conjunction with NFL Films, ESPN took old footage from the 1958 [...]
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19Dec2008 | Zeeck | 2 comments | Continued
Juice’s Rookie Card Takes Another Hit
Once one of the most highly sought after vintage football cards, O.J. Simpson’s 1970 Topps Rookie Card has seen an enormouse fall from grace and decline in value. Certainly this news is far from shocking, as his recent history speaks for itself. Following the “Trial of the Century,” Simpson’s cards saw an extreme drop in [...]
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6Dec2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
Product review: 2008 Leaf Rookies and Stars Football
5 cards per pack – 24 packs per box – 12 boxes per case
100-card base set / 250 card complete set
A perennial favorite among rookie collectors is the Leaf Rookies and Stars brand, and this year Donruss / Playoff produces a quality product at a great price point that may make this release a hobby [...]
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18Nov2008 | CommodoreCountry | 2 comments | Continued
PopCardz, coming soon to a store near you!
Another celebrity-themed product will be releasing soon, however not by one of the established card manufacturers. PopCardz will feature 40+ hollywood stars ranging from new comers such as Megan Fox to established veterans such as Jessica Alba. Proceeds from the sale of the cards will be given to the celebrities’ charities.
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3Nov2008 | oregonweim | 0 comments | Continued
Paul Lempa’s Artwork Hits the Market
As some of you may know, our resident aspiring artist, PLempa, apparently got noticed. His baseball and football murals have been admired on message boards and by his friends for quite some time now.
Topps apparently took notice as well, and signed Paul on to produce sketch cards for the recent release of Topps Updates & [...]
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27Oct2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
JTorto Completes 2003 Press Pass Bronze Auto Set
So it’s not a set full of short prints (at least none that have been verfied). It’s not a set that’s highly sought after by set builders. But, the 2003 Press Prass Bronze Auto Set turned out to be a set five years in the making for member JTorto.
Why? Mainly because of [...]
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19Oct2008 | Zeeck | 3 comments | Continued
Sarah Palin Feeling the Hobby Love
With the build-up and seemingly never-ending aftermath of the Vice-Presidential Debates, it should come as no surprise that both Topps and Upper Deck took advantage of the surrounding hype by announcing their respective releases of Sarah Palin parody cards.
Upper Deck inserted its Palin parody card into random packs of SP Authentic Baseball. The card featuresPalin, [...]
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7Oct2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
Upper Deck inks new athlete for Stable of Stars
As reported on TuffStuff.com, Upper Deck has signed Tony Romo to an exclusive endorsement deal for autographed memorabilia. Romo joins Michael Jordan, Ken Griffey Jr., Albert Pujols, Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James as athletes who have exclusive autograph deals with Upper Deck.
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30Sep2008 | oregonweim | 1 comment | ContinuedTrading Card Companies
Agree. Nice blog entry! 
nice picture you found Zeeck. The funny thing is I know the collector who owns that outfit... (no it ...
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