2012 Topps Series One Baseball cards will hit store shelves next week and the company is planning to count down to the always-anticipated launch with news about the product each day. On Monday, they revealed that they were able to crank out cards featuring Albert Pujols and Jose Reyes with graphically enhanced images to show them "playing" for their new teams (Angels and … [Read more...]
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Beckett Graded Card Price Guide Now Available
As promised, the Beckett Graded Card Price Guide book has hit store shelves. The 384-page softcover book features a young Mickey Mantle on the cover and will tell you what your graded sports cards are worth (at least in the estimation of the book's pricing analysts). Fortunately for collectors of other sports besides baseball, the book includes pricing data for football, … [Read more...]
2011 Topps Finest Football: Long-Running Brand is Back
by Rich Klein Wow! Was it really almost two decades ago (1993) when Topps first announced the Finest brand in baseball? The product truly exploded when a whole bunch of dealers with pen and paper figured out there were "only" 241 of each refractor card printed. This may be difficult to believe, but back in 1993, only 241 of any card was a truly small release. The latest … [Read more...]
2010-11 The Cup: Collectors Willing to Roll Dice
Upper Deck's 2010-11 The Cup, the final hockey card product still tied to last season, hit store shelves late last month and again, collectors seem enamored with taking a shot at what might be inside. Box prices have risen from $300-325 to over $450, even though there is no guarantee what's inside will be worth that much. Collectors are willing to take a gamble that there … [Read more...]
Topps: Redemption Card Good for Pack, Not Set
If you open a box of 2011 Topps Chrome, don't believe everything you see. The company said Wednesday that a redemption card inside packs reads “You have just received a set of 2011 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Autograph Cards”. However, that's not what the company will be sending you. The card is actually good for either a 5 or 6 card pack of USA Autographs-- … [Read more...]
2010 Allen & Ginter: First Look
Topps will bring one of its most popular issues back for another go round in 2010. … [Read more...]
