One of the truest tests of seeing how much "nerve" a collector has is to hand them a Topps Supreme football box and watch them open the box. A collector gets four cards out of a box for a pretty steep price. My local store, Triple Cards in Plano reported decent but not overwhelming sales at $100 per box while the major on-line retailers are between $110-120. This is … [Read more...] about Topps Supreme Football Box Break
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2011 Topps Wrapper Redemption Program Announced
Topps will offer a special Hobby-Exclusive Wrapper Redemption Program for 2011 Series One baseball. Collectors can send in 36 wrappers from hobby boxes or 10 HTA Jumbo wrappers in exchange for a special 5-card pack of 60th Anniversary Black Diamond cards. In addition, Topps is seeding 34 different on-card autograph cards (#’d to 60), featuring subjects from the … [Read more...] about 2011 Topps Wrapper Redemption Program Announced
2010 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects Baseball Box Break
By Rich Klein For years Topps has proclaimed that their Bowman products are the best place to find rookie cards and leading prospects for baseball. Nowhere is that emphasis more evident than in the 2010 Bowman Draft Pick and Prospects issue. This product only has cards of players who were still officially rookies for the 2010 season and some of the leading … [Read more...] about 2010 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects Baseball Box Break
A Football Card Blaster Box is Born
We're pretty sure it's the first time a major trading card company has actually offered an inside look at exactly how cards go from uncut sheets to packs to unopened cases. Panini America has been allowing unprecedented inside looks at the entire process of card creation for several weeks now, but its latest video is probably the most interesting. The company's blogger, … [Read more...] about A Football Card Blaster Box is Born
2010 Topps Football Box Break
by Rich Klein Although the 2010 Topps football card issue hasn’t been quite as anticipated as the company’s annual baseball issue, there is little doubt that Topps understands the importance of the product to their overall football line. The baseball cards were a hit this year and Topps stuck with the formula for football. Each box gives you 360 cards and a number of … [Read more...] about 2010 Topps Football Box Break
Deceased Man’s Shoebox Keeps Memory Alive
It was how everyone kept their cards in the early 1970s. In shoe boxes. There were no tailor-made 660 or 800-count boxes back then. No fancy "sports card albums" with 9-pocket sheets. No penny sleeves or top holders. Baseball cards in your shoe box meant quick and easy access...just in case you needed to look up Manny Sanguillen's batting record. You wanted to fill … [Read more...] about Deceased Man’s Shoebox Keeps Memory Alive
2010 Bowman Baseball Review
Each year Bowman Baseball is heavily anticipated because of the focus on young prospects. That’s nothing new for this product. It’s been the brand’s calling card since Topps began using the Bowman name in 1989. If you look carefully at the checklists of even the early sets, you see a preponderance of younger players. What a collector has to remember, of course, is that … [Read more...] about 2010 Bowman Baseball Review
2010 Topps National Chicle Review
By Rich Klein The National Chicle name is very important in sports card history although the set best known under that name consisted of just 36 cards in the one football set produced back in 1935. The company made its initial entry into the baseball card market with its 1934-36 Diamond Stars baseball set, done in art deco style. Topps has purchased the rights to the … [Read more...] about 2010 Topps National Chicle Review
2009-10 OPC Hockey Boxed Update Set Released
As the hotly contested action in this year’s NHL playoffs continues to light up arenas across North America, the Upper Deck Company has just released its latest NHL-licensed trading card set: 2009-10 O-Pee-Chee Update. This 200-card update box set features the latest cards of rookies who debuted in October, including No. 1 pick John Tavares (Islanders), Matt Duchene … [Read more...] about 2009-10 OPC Hockey Boxed Update Set Released
2010 Topps Pro Debut Baseball Review
By Rich Klein In a year which has seen seismic changes in the card collecting world (and we have not even concluded our first quarter of 2010), Topps has had a great year re-establishing themselves as top baseball card manufacturer. By receiving exclusives from both Major and Minor League baseball, they have become, just as they were from 1956-1980, the only fully … [Read more...] about 2010 Topps Pro Debut Baseball Review