I received an email from Pete Williams the other day. If you don't remember Pete, he was the USA Today writer who did many columns on sports collectibles and also wrote the book called Card Sharks: How Upper Deck Turned a Child's Hobby into a High-Stakes, Billion-Dollar Business, which chronicled, among other hobby history, the Upper Deck Company. We arranged to speak to each … [Read more...] about Ramblings: Card Sharks and the 2 Decades Since
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Ramblings: 1954 Topps Set Break Proves a Hit
When ideas are conceived, sometimes the popularity of the concept far outweighs what was predicted. A recent example in the baseball card collecting world was the first Net 54 (a popular message board for primarily pre-war collectors) "set" break. The idea was to purchase a complete vintage set, sell ‘slots’ in the break, draw randomly and have some fun. The group there opted … [Read more...] about Ramblings: 1954 Topps Set Break Proves a Hit