Topps has released the 2022 edition of its 3D Baseball product. Sold as an online exclusive, it gives a lenticular look to some of the better cards from Series 1, Series 2, and Update.
Each eight-card pack contains six base cards and two Insert cards.
Inserts include 2022 Rookie Class Motion base card image variations of ten players on the checklist (see below).
Packs are being sold for $19.99 via this page on Topps’ website.
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Fanatics Chairman Michael Rubin talked a little about his company’s move into sports trading cards and collectibles during an interview with Colin Cowherd. Fanatics has already purchased Topps and will take over licenses for NBA and NFL trading cards in the coming years.
He touched on the company’s hope to eliminate redemption cards.
“So many collectors, they hate it so we’re saying how do we eliminate it? We need to do better.”
Rubin also continued to promise a bigger marketing effort than what’s currently being done and how the hobby has blossomed in spite of those limited efforts and sometimes less than stellar customer service.
“There’s so little done to promote the collectibles industry but it’s grown and grown and grown. There’s so much we can do to innovate the product, so much we can do to market the product so much opportuniy to take better care of collectors. If this business is doing this well treating customers this way, without innovating and marketing the products, the sky’s the limit for what we can do.”
Rubin says he’s hoping to take a Nike-like approach to marketing the sports collectibles side. He called sports cards and collectibles “a massive opportunity.”
You can watch that portion of the interview below.
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A New Jersey man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison on mail fraud charges over the sale of Super Bowl rings he shouldn’t have been able to purchase.
Last February, Scott V. Spina Jr., 25, had pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
The scheme began in 2017, when Spina purchased a Super Bowl LI ring awarded to a Patriots player who subsequently left the team. Spina, who bilked the former player by paying for the ring with at least one bad check, sold the ring soon after for $63,000 to a dealer.
When Spina obtained the player ring, he also received the information that allowed the former player to purchase Super Bowl rings for family and friends that are slightly smaller than the player rings. He posed as the former player and was able to obtain three rings with the name “Brady” engraved on them after falsely representing they were gifts for Brady’s family.
Spina then sold the rings to the same dealer for $81,500 in November 2017 but the buyer started to believe that Brady did not have nephews, and he tried to withdraw from the deal.
During an auction in February 2018, one of the family rings was sold for $337,219. That transaction was eventually canceled after the evidence came to light.
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