Hobby News
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, [...]
Popularity: 27% [?]
7Oct2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
Because You’ll Never Win One . . .
Mastro Auctions is holding a two-day live auction December 8-9 at The Sports Museum of American in New York City. Day One of the event will feature Legends of the Gridiron, and Day Two will feature Legends of the Diamond.
Highlighting the items featured in Day One will be Charles White’s 1979 Heisman Trophy. Wouldn’t that [...]
Popularity: 21% [?]
6Oct2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | 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.
Popularity: 19% [?]
Popularity: 19% [?]
30Sep2008 | oregonweim | 1 comment | Continued
Topps Makes Another Production Mistake
Topps announces that because of a production error in 2008 Topps Finest Football, the Base Autographed Rookie Cards are not sequentially numbered as originally solicited. In an effort to correct this error, consumers can send these particular cards to Topps to have them sequentially numbered. Each card will be numbered and have a 3M Authentication [...]
Popularity: 22% [?]
24Sep2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
Topps Becoming Madden-esque
Okay, we get it, Brett Favre is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Certainly nobody will argue that. And his accomplishments are certainly worth celebrating. So, when Topps inserted a couple fun cards into this year’s Topps products, namely one with Vince Lombardi’s visage looking over his shoulder and one of him on [...]
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18Sep2008 | Zeeck | 2 comments | Continued
Donruss Leaf Appeasing the College Fans
With the NFL season in full swing, both on the field and in the card world, fans turn now to the game and event-used NFL jersey swatches and patches as the prime targets of their favorite players. Playoff Absolute Memorabilia and Gridiron Gear have whetted the appetite for many collectors of getting those new draft [...]
Popularity: 21% [?]
12Sep2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
eTopps back on eBay
After nearly two weeks, eTopps cards are back on eBay. There was a communication issue since there is no ‘actual’ delivery of eTopps, and eBay is cracking down on the sale of non-tangible goods.
This move came just a day before the 2008 Football IPOs launched. Doesn’t it seem a bit fishy that it took two [...]
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10Sep2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Topps Looks to Make Things Right After Bowman Sterling Gaffe
Apparently many people purchasing the new Bowman Sterling Football have been shorted an autograph. While this may be nothing new to many of us who have had this happen before, apparently with this product it’s happened at a much greater rate. Topps, acknowledging the error and looking to make things right with collectors, issued the [...]
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3Sep2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
Donruss Signs Gordon Beckham
Perhaps in response to Razor’s aggressive signing of many of the top baseball prospects to exclusive contracts, Donruss has signed on Chicago White Sox first-round pick, and eighth overall pick, Gordon Beckham to an autograph deal.
Gordon Beckham was the standout shortstop of the Georgia Bulldogs who quickly made a name for himself in the College [...]
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1Sep2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
Early Returns From White Plains
Just two short weeks after Nationals the collecting world turns its’ focus to the East Coast Nationals being held through Sunday August 17th in White Plains, New York. Reggie Jackson and Yogi headline the autograph class, while there are over one hundred or so dealers peddling their wares for consumers. Be sure to check back [...]
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15Aug2008 | oregonweim | 0 comments | 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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