Rival trading card companies will have to wait their turn to get more Yasiel Puig autographs inside their packs. The Los Angeles Dodgers' slugging sensation has signed a one-year exclusive autograph trading card agreement with Topps Through 174 games, the 23-year-old Cuban stalwart had hit 30 homers with a .318 average. He joins fellow young NL All-Star, Bryce Harper, as … [Read more...]
2013 Bowman Chrome Superfractor Yasiel Puig Sold
The golden child of 2013 baseball cards has been sold. The 1/1 2013 Bowman Chrome Superfractor Yasiel Puig autograph was listed on eBay Tuesday, three weeks after it was pulled from a repack product called Super Box Rookies & Phenoms during a live box break. By late Wednesday afternoon, it was gone. The lucky winner, Canadian collector Adam Davidson, consigned the … [Read more...]
Bowman Sterling Arrives Today With 18 Autographs Per Box
If you like finding autographs in your baseball card packs and you’re willing to be patient, you won’t find more bang for your buck than with 2013 Bowman Sterling Baseball, which is scheduled to arrive in hobby shops today. Three of the four cards in each pack will be signed. With six packs per box, that’s 18 autographs per box. At around $300 per box, it’s for the pack … [Read more...]
What’s Hot in the Shop? TGIBF: Thank Goodness It’s Black Friday
I would like to start out by wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving. It is a very special time of the year and I hope you all are able to spend it with those that you love and care about. On this Thanksgiving I will start off my day watching parades with my kids, around noon head over to my wife’s family for my first dose of turkey and follow that up close to five with a … [Read more...]
Topps Heritage High Number Set Releases This Week
Topps’ first-ever Heritage High Number boxed set is scheduled for release on Thursday. The set, announced by the company earlier this summer, will consist of 100 cards, numbered H501-H600, thus extending the regular set and short print grouping issued last spring. The set is priced at $99.99 and will only be available through the Topps online store, continuing a move toward … [Read more...]
2013 Topps Rookie All-Star Team Announced
In a tradition that dates back to the late 1950’s, Topps has announced its Major League Rookie All-Star team for 2013. The list includes both of this season’s Rookies of the Year, along with Dodger sensation Yasiel Puig. The Rookie All-Stars are celebrated on the following year’s baseball cards with the imprint of a trophy on the front. Here's a look at the … [Read more...]
Panini Brings Back Select for Upcoming Baseball Card Product
Panini America has announced plans to issue the first Select brand baseball cards in 15 years. The company will utilize its MLBPA license to produce Select, which made its return to the hobby with its NBA-licensed basketball issue last season. Releasing late this year, the product won’t include team logos or trademarks because of MLB’s exclusive partnership with … [Read more...]
Topps Releases List of Chrome Redemptions; Promises More Communication
Topps took a preemptive strike toward softening the blow of more redemption cards in its upcoming 2013 Topps Chrome Baseball product. On Tuesday, the company released a list of players whose autographs won’t be live in packs and it’s a long one. While collectors will be hoping for autograph Rookie cards of Yasiel Puig, Many Machado, Mike Zunino and others, they’ll probably … [Read more...]
Topps Will Produce Chrome Update Series as Part of ‘Holiday Mega Boxes’
About a month after the release of the standard issue which is slated for next week, Topps will release 2013 Topps Chrome Update, a product that will only be available as part of a holiday gift-oriented “Mega Box”. Topps used MLBShop.com to release details on the update series which will include a 50-card base set, plus black and gold parallel cards of each player. You’ll … [Read more...]
2013 NSCC Promos Hit eBay
There was a lot of flipping going on at the National Sports Collectors Convention. Collectors snapped up their free promo and redemption cards at the show, then made a dash for eBay, where they hoped to turn some of that Chicago-exclusive cardboard into cash. There were near riots over Topps' 2013 Bowman Platinum NSCC rookie card promotion. Dealers, as always, jumped in … [Read more...]