2018 Bowman Mega Boxes are set to arrive in Target stores on May 23. After making its debut last year, the Mega Box will return with five packs of regular 2018 Bowman baseball cards and two five-card packs of Bowman Mega Box exclusive chrome cards inside. The 2018 Bowman Mega Box exclusive cards will highlight 100 chrome prospects with five different color refractor … [Read more...]
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What’s Hot: It’s Bowman and, Well, Everything Else
It is time for another edition of What's Hot and I feel like answering that question by yelling "EVERYTHING!" at an uncomfortably high level. I am talking megaphone loud, arena time-out loud and just-got-new-speakers loud because there are many more than five releases that are not just hot, but on fire. Collectors are buying just about everything. As I said before, … [Read more...]
Topps Launches On-Demand ‘Rookie Sensations’ Set
Topps has created an On-Demand set that’s nothing but rookies. The online exclusive set is priced at $75 postpaid and includes 30 cards plus one autograph and three parallel or chase cards (Alternate Photos and Rookie Teammates are the two subsets in the latter). Parallels include Green (# to 50); Purple (# to 25); Blue (# to 10); Red (# to 5) and 1/1 Gold. … [Read more...]
Topps Living Set Acuna Card a Huge Seller
Fans and collectors bought more than 46,000 "Living Set" cards of Atlanta Braves' rookie Ronald Acuna during the seven-day sales period that ended early Wednesday afternoon, setting a record for the newly launched on-demand platform and nearly tripling the number of the biggest selling Topps NOW card to date. Acuna, the 20-year-old who made his MLB debut late last month, was … [Read more...]
Free Grading for Ohtani Superfractor as Bowman Sales Boom
If you pull the Shohei Ohtani Superfractor autograph card from the 2018 Bowman boxes, Beckett says it will grade and authenticate the card for free. Earlier this week, Blowout Cards offered $60,000 for the 1/1 issue that lies somewhere inside a box of Bowman that was released to hobby shops, Wal-mart, Target and through online retailers today . The offer was for … [Read more...]
Notes: T206 Cobb Back Find; Mathis Talks ’52 Mantle Sale; Ohtani Atomic Refractor
Make way for another rare T206 Ty Cobb Back. Publicity generated by the 2016 Lucky 7 Find (that later became 8) of Cobb Tobacco back cards led one man who had inherited his father's old pre-War card collection to look a little closer in one of the albums where they were stored. Feeling confident, he had struck gold, he started reaching out in search of a buyer. … [Read more...]
Hottest Shohei Ohtani Baseball Cards
Could he not just be as good as advertised… but maybe better? The fascinating arrival of a big league unicorn from Japan who has led baseball historians to the record books has spearheaded a stampede of collectors and dealers searching for Shohei Ohtani baseball cards. If it seemed impossible for any player to put the market on his shoulders as well as Aaron … [Read more...]
Topps NOW Moment of the Week Launches
Topps has added a new element to its on-demand Topps NOW trading card platform. The company has announced plans for a Topps NOW Moment of the Week in which collectors can “vote” for their favorite baseball moment from a group of proposed cards. Votes will equate to purchase commitments, with the winning moment/card selected after a seven day period beginning each … [Read more...]
Ohtani’s 1st Home Run Ball Won’t Be Coming to Auction
Shohei Ohtani's spring training struggles evaporated into the night air near Disneyland Tuesday. His first major league home run, belted in front of an enthusiastic home crowd, was the talk of sports world. Considering the fuss over Ohtani and the intense interest from his home country, the ball would have been worth a significant amount of money on the open market but … [Read more...]
Topps NOW Season Opens with 10 Cards Including Ohtani in English, Japanese
MLB's official trading card partner launched its third season of TOPPS NOW on Friday with ten cards created from Opening Day. Two of those featured the first American base hit for Japanese rookie Shohei Ohtani--one version in English and a second in Japanese. It's the first time a NOW card has been offered in Japanese but it's not likely to be the last. "We plan to make … [Read more...]
