The 2024 Hobby edition of the annual Topps Baseball Factory Set will be out July 26. Combining all 700 base cards from Series 1 and 2, the sets are popular with those who don't have any interest in inserts, relics or autographs but do want to maintain a collection of the Topps flagship set each year. Printed in a special box, the sets usually come in at … [Read more...] about Notes: 2024 Topps Factory Sets; Olympic Set Goes Chrome; Upper Deck Cards at The Sphere
Michael Phelps
Shop Talk: New Sports Categories Roll into Shop, Phelps Find, Making Young Customer’s Day
Tony Reid offers his weekly dose of happenings inside Sports Zone, the Central Pennsylvania shop where he works. —– Early this week, on top of our usual shipping and receiving, we did a small buyout of a number of different sports related die-cast vehicles, from Hummers to ATVs to bullpen carts and everything else under the sun. In all honesty, there are times where I walk … [Read more...] about Shop Talk: New Sports Categories Roll into Shop, Phelps Find, Making Young Customer’s Day
Notes: Call Him Mr. VP; Hobby News from The Hockey News; Phelps Finally Gets His Man
Andy Broome has been promoted to Vice President of Certified Sports Guaranty (CSG). In late 2020, Broome left Beckett to join CSG, a division of Certified Collectibles Group, where oversaw the company's move into grading sports cards through new hires and training. The company says it is on the brink of grading one million cards since its launch in February of 2021. … [Read more...] about Notes: Call Him Mr. VP; Hobby News from The Hockey News; Phelps Finally Gets His Man
Topps Olympic and Paralympic Box Break
The Summer Games are history and suddenly North America needs some new television programming to fill the nightly void. From Michael Phelps to the U.S. gymnasts; Usain Bolt to Katie Ledecky, there were plenty of great athletes to watch in Rio. Card collectors are now a little more familiar with the faces and names behind the U.S. athletes in 2016 Topps Olympic Team … [Read more...] about Topps Olympic and Paralympic Box Break
2009 Allen & Ginter Short Print List Unveiled
Topps has revealed its list of short printed autograph cards--and other quirks--inside its newly-released Allen & Ginter set. … [Read more...] about 2009 Allen & Ginter Short Print List Unveiled