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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 [...]

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25Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

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19Dec2008 | | 2 comments | Continued
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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 | | 1 comment | Continued
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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 [...]

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4Aug2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 the 1950′s [...]

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2Aug2008 | | 0 comments | Continued