Hobby News
More Hair in Your Cards?
Upper Deck has introduced into its 2008 A Piece of History Baseball set an insert set of Hair Cuts. Not just one hair card of say George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, but an entire set. Upper Deck has procured locks of hair from fifteen different historical figures to be encapsulated into trading cards.
If the company [...]
Popularity: 8% [?]
15Aug2008 | Zeeck | 3 comments | Continued
Michael Phelps Trading Cards Skyrocketing
With six gold medals under his belt these Beijing Olympics, and with two events still to go (the 100M Butterfly final tonight and the 400M Medley Relay Saturday night), all indications are pointing to Phelps breaking Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals in one Olympics. That’s not to mention that he’s already established [...]
Popularity: 6% [?]
15Aug2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
Upper Deck Releasing First Stand-Alone Mixed Martial Arts Set
Upper Deck will soon release the first ever set devoted strictly to the sport of mixed martial arts. The set will be comprised of a 60-card base set including such greats as Royce Gracie, Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz, Ken Shamrock and Anderson Silva. In addition to the base set will be insert sets such as [...]
Popularity: 9% [?]
6Aug2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
Box Break: 2008 Upper Deck Goudey Baseball
Price: $84.00
Breakdown: 18 packs per box, 8 cards per pack. Each box contains seven Goudey 1934 Size Parallels, one memorabilia card and one autographed card on average. Inserted one per case are Original Goudey Baseball Buyback Cards and Sports Royalty Autographs. Also find Yankee stadium Legacy inserts randomly inserted.
With a lot of [...]
Popularity: 18% [?]
5Aug2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
Honus Wagner T206 Fetches $1.35 Million
Mastro Auctions held its annual auction in conjunction with the National Sports Collectors Convention, and this year it included the “holy grail,” a T206 Sweet Corporal Honus Wagner graded Excellent - PSA 5 (MC). The card got 10 bids, with the winner grabbing it for a mere $1.35 million. This is roughly half of the [...]
Popularity: 18% [?]
4Aug2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
Federal Agents at Nationals
According to reports from the New York Daily News and Fox News Chicago, Federal agents made rounds over the weekend at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Rosemont, Illinois. The reports state that agents spent a considerable amount of time questioning employees of PSA and Mastro Auctions. A member of the Mastro booth [...]
Popularity: 12% [?]
4Aug2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
The Dmitri Young Collection on Display
Dmitri Young, first baseman for the Washington Nationals, enjoys this hobby . . . . in a big way!! His collection has become very well known among the collecting community, known simply as the Dmitri Young Collection. It’s a collection that consists of the highest graded rookie cards of the greatest players from [...]
Popularity: 23% [?]
2Aug2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
More Allen & Ginter Print-Run Info Released
Can a truck really autograph a card? According to Topps, absolutely! Topps has released a few more tidbits about the print runs of certain Allen & Ginter cards:
* There are a total of 10 Wooly Mammoth DNA Cards, which include hair strands from a real Wooly Mammoth. A printing error on the box states this [...]
Popularity: 5% [?]
1Aug2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
2008 National Sports Collectors Convention
It’s that time of year once again, time for the National Sports Collectors Convention. This year’s event is being held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.
All the bells and whistles were in place, from the rip parties at the various manufacturer booths to the young, attractive women being used to lure [...]
Popularity: 14% [?]
1Aug2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
Fans Get First Look at Razor Card Design at Nationals
Finally, after all the hype, all the news about big signings and all the speculation, collectors can finally get an idea of the baseball prospects product that Razor will be putting out. At their booth at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Rosemont, Illinois, Razor had sample promotional cards to pass out, and so [...]
Popularity: 14% [?]
31Jul2008 | Zeeck | 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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