Hello everyone and I hope you survived the holiday season well and that you were good enough to have gotten all the cool gifts you wanted, but bad enough to have had fun in 2014. As I shared recently, December was an interesting month with the deluge of releases that hit hobby shops. Fortunately collectors at my store really stepped up and we have gotten through most of … [Read more...] about 2014 Playoff Contenders Tops the Hot List
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What’s Hot in the Shop: The 2014 Mikey Awards
Hello fellow card maniacs, It’s time for the second annual Mikey Awards. This is easily my most favorite piece to share each year and yes, I do put more than 20 minutes into this article. I still write it after midnight just like my other reports just to make it as cool and culturally relevant as possible.Since I’m writing this on Christmas morning, I hope that you were … [Read more...] about What’s Hot in the Shop: The 2014 Mikey Awards
Bowman Sterling Football Boxes Not Lacking Hits, But Price Drops
When dealers and collectors first heard about the 2014 Bowman Sterling release, they were intrigued by having each pack guaranteed to have both an autograph card and a dual relic card in every pack. And with every card in the base set being a rookie, that guarantees some collector happiness if the 2014 draft class either starts with anyone good or the player develops into a … [Read more...] about Bowman Sterling Football Boxes Not Lacking Hits, But Price Drops
Are 2013 Kris Bryant Bowman Chrome Auto Parallels Ready to Emerge?
In the spring 2014 Bowman release, Topps issued the highly anticipated 2014 Bowman Chrome Prospects Kris Bryant autographs, representing the first Bowman Chrome autos of baseball's Minor League Player of the Year. Bryant, the #2 overall pick of the 2013 draft by the Chicago Cubs, is expected to be in their lineup next season. Now as everybody knows, the first Bowman Chrome … [Read more...] about Are 2013 Kris Bryant Bowman Chrome Auto Parallels Ready to Emerge?
Rise of the Bowman Chrome Autograph
We spent the past couple of weeks talking about the likely impact that case breakers are having on inflating the supply of new card issues, and whether or not case breakers are good or bad for the hobby. Regardless of where you stand on the latter issue, the one thing that is clear is that increasing supply creates logistical issues of great impact for manufacturers, … [Read more...] about Rise of the Bowman Chrome Autograph
2014 Topps Football Arrives
The theme for their baseball set this year was "The Future is Now." In keeping with the perception of the NFL's breakneck pace Topps has given their 2014 Topps Football set a theme and tagline of "Unleashing the Future." And efforts to do exactly that are evident in many ways with the inclusion of some fresh inserts, forward-looking artwork (no white square borders on the base … [Read more...] about 2014 Topps Football Arrives
2014 Bowman Chrome Football Preview
2014 Bowman Chrome football will include 18 packs per box at a retail price of around $75. A full checklist for the product is linked below. Each box will have one autographed card and Topps promises every fourth box will have a bonus autograph. Every pack in this annual hobby exclusive product will have four cards. The autograph lineup features refractors, die cuts … [Read more...] about 2014 Bowman Chrome Football Preview
Baseball Cards of the 2014 MLB Draft Picks
Most won’t sign a contract for at least a day or two but baseball cards of the 2014 MLB draft picks—some of them at least—are already in the marketplace. The top ten picks Thursday night included a mix of high school and college players with a strong emphasis on pitching. It may seem odd to talk about baseball cards of high school and college kids, but if and when some … [Read more...] about Baseball Cards of the 2014 MLB Draft Picks
2014 Bowman Sterling Baseball Preview
If you are a collector who thrives on building sets, especially base sets of cards, the 2014 Bowman Sterling is not for you. Of course, if you are familiar with Bowman Sterling you already know that it has not been about building sets. Rather, this annual installment from Bowman features prospect and rookie ink…and a good flow of it, too. That is what you get when the … [Read more...] about 2014 Bowman Sterling Baseball Preview
2014 Bowman Box Break/Review
Way back in the day I used to have a phrase, "The Card of the Show". In simpler times, there were moments when a specific card was so popular that seemingly every dealer and collector at a show wanted to buy, sell or trade for that card. I like to tell the story about the 1983 Chicago National, which really had two cards of the show: the 1977 Dale Murphy rookie card and the … [Read more...] about 2014 Bowman Box Break/Review