Remembering a Friend
February 28th was a day for me that I would never forget, it was my grandfathers birthday. He passed away in 2003, and I’ll never forget him. Unfortunately another event happened on the same day last year that the card world, not the sports card world, but the collectible card game world lost a giant figure that I considered one of my best friends.
Two New Episodes Posted
We recorded two new episodes of The Card Podcast over the last few days. In episode 22, we are joined by Steven Judd from TheSportsCardFile.com. This was a lot of fun talking to Steven, who has worked on the inside of the card industry from Topps, Donruss, Upper Deck to Beckett.
The next night we recorded episode 23 with Craig Calcaterra of HardBalltimes.com. Craig has written the popular Shyster Ball blog on the HardBall Times site, and we didn’t talk about sports cards as much as we discussed the game of Baseball.
Both episodes were extremely fun to record and I had as much fun talking with them as I have anyone. Check out both of their sites. They are both at the top of the game in the subject matter that they cover.
Razor Metal First Look
The base cards will release through ThePit.com. The gold and blue will be limited to 25 and 50 respectively. They will be sold through Razor’s EBay store.
Upper Deck debuts new Griffey cards
The 20th Anniversary of Upper Deck has been celebrated with various Ken Griffey Junior cards. Well not to miss out on another opportunity to promote “The Kid” Upper Deck has released two new cards that celebrate the return of the Seattle great to the team that he started his career with. We got a press release and some images of his new cards today that you can view after the link.
Bowman 2009 First Look
Beckett Blog has revealed the first ever images of 2009 Bowman Baseball. This was the set that we broke the story that Yu Darvish and other WBC Stars would have their first cards featured in. Strong base checklist for this set, it should be a hit as per usual. We also expect a ton of changes to the checklist before it releases on May 11th as well.
Here are full color sell sheets, including pics and insert information (serialization).
Topps Mayo Short Print list released
Topps announces that the recently-released and very popular 2008 Topps Mayo Football features a number of short printed cards including base cards, autographs and relics.
American Heritage Review
2009 Topps American Heritage is a set that is a historical set builders dream. It also has some of the nicest high end hits in a set for quite some time with cut signatures of former Presidents, and the CMG guys that Topps signed last year. I got in a box to review, our review follows after the link.
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Washington Lincoln has been pulled!
This video gets main page news anyday. The biggest pull from the most expensive set has been hit, and was filmed for YouTube.
George Washington Cut Pulled
I don’t have to say much about this one. There is some salty language, but one of the best cards in Razor Oval Office has been pulled on YouTube. Congrats on the amazing pull!!
2008 Contenders SP List revealed
The 2008 Contenders SP list had been heavily debated, and discussed. The print runs vary from 52 all the way up to 399. I kept saying I had to pick a Shooter Hunt autographed card since he was a former Falmouth Commodore…. Too late now! Keep reading for the entire list.
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Upper Deck and Joe Dimaggio team up
Joe Dimaggio’s estate and Upper Deck have entered in to a new partnership. This was celebrated by Upper Deck inserting a special #0 card in 2009 Upper Deck Series One. Should be interesting to see the exciting new cards this brings Upper Deck in upcoming releases.