The Process of Making A Card – Part 1
So a lot of the cards I purchase are of former members of the Falmouth Commodores. This summer how ever working with the team and Mike from RedBlackRed.com , we produced a completely original team set of the 2009 Falmouth Commodores. There had only been two team sets of my team in the past, but we were assured that it would be fine for us to produce one this year. The 2006 set included newest Toronto Blue Jay Brett Wallace.
This year we had a few players who had previously had either AFLAC cards (Hunter Morris, Evan Danielli) or cards in the Upper Deck releases of Team USA sets (Hunter Morris, Cecil Tanner), but for many of them this was an opportunity to have their very first baseball card.
The first thing I wanted to make sure we did, and did well was pick out the best photographs of the players possible. Once those were picked out after a day or so Mike got back to me with the proof sheet that will be at the bottom of the various possible designs. You can see the mock ups and the raw image we used. We are going to end this post here, but this will be a continuing series about the production of my first card set.
How many autographs did USA players sign?
Check out the two scans I got from Chad Bettis USA cards this year. I don’t even want to know how many stickers he must have signed for his sig to change this much during it. I like the triple jerseys, but would have preferred the traps over stickers as in the past USA products.
Topps Clears up Tribute Relics
Topps has confirmed that the following five memorabilia cards in the recently released 2009 Tribute Baseball include pieces of stadium seat:
Babe Ruth Dual Relic — Bat/Old Yankee Stadium Seat
Babe Ruth Triple Relic — Old Yankee Stadium Seat/Uniform/Old Yankee Stadium Seat
Ty Cobb Dual Relic — Bat/Tiger Stadium Seat
Jackie Robinson Triple Relic — Ebbets Field Seat/Bat/Ebbets Field Seat
Mickey Mantle Triple Relic — Old Yankee Stadium Seat/Uniform/Old Yankee Stadium Seat
Topps will replace any of the above cards with a pack of 2009 Topps Tribute Baseball or comparable product for collectors that are not satisfied with their card(s).
In addition, every card in 2009 Topps Sterling Baseball features game-used bat and game-used uniform except for one subject — Carl Erskine, which features Erskine’s autograph with stadium seat. Topps will replace this card with a pack of 2009 Topps Sterling Baseball for collectors not satisfied with their card.
Moving forward, to ensure no confusion, stadium seat pieces will not be used as memorabilia pieces unless it’s part of a special stadium seat-specific insert.
Please send all items intended for replacement to the address listed below. Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery.
The Topps Company
ATTN: Seat Relic Replacement
401 York Avenue
Duryea, PA 18642
Sharing some of my current pick ups and thoughts….
I figure occasionally I should share cards that I actually buy, I’d rather be someone who is actively buying things that I like, instead of just critiquing and bashing. I am getting in a decent bit in the upcoming week from the recent draft products and figured I would critique them as I get in, and do a small write up on them.
Razor signs CJ Spillers
Razor sent out a press release on the first of what they tout as many upcoming signings of exclusive autograph contracts of athletes in all sports. Keep reading to see their press release.
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Panini offers $1,500 for One Special Card
Beckett has posted a story about a special promotion Panini is offering one collector either already holding or pulling the 2009 Limited Pro Bowl Combo Materials card featuring Super Bowl XLIV passers Peyton Manning and Drew Brees and, most importantly, also bearing sequential number 44/100.
Panini is offering $1,500 dollars for this card as well as the collector that has the card will get one box of every Panini NFL product that is released in 2010.
Legendary Contenders SP List revealed
Officials at Panini America announced today the complete list of short-printed Legendary Contenders from 2009 Contenders football.
Archie Manning/35
Bart Starr/62
Bert Jones/33
Bobby Bell/24
Boyd Dowler/77
Brett Favre/4
More from the Vault of Wossa
We got in a few more images from Wossamottau of his collection of one of the two time Cy Young winner, Tim Lincecum’s best rookie cards. So hope you folks enjoy his Red Refractor Autograph. You can view all the additions that we have to the collection in our flickr page for the site under the Wossamottau section. So far we have been pleased to bring the first images of Jesus Montero’s 09 Superfractor and Bowman Sterling Red Refractor.
National Packtime Details revealed
Calling All Baseball Card Shops: Join Upper Deck in Celebrating ‘National Packtime’ on Sat., March 6
Honoring the start of the upcoming baseball season, Upper Deck will distribute FREE packs of baseball cards to fans around the country
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Jesus Montero Sterling Red Ref from the Vaults.
We wanted to share more images from the Wossamottau collection with our readers. This is another 1/1 of the Yankees Top Prospect that, if it had been seen before, is a rarity. We present you the Jesus Montero Bowman Sterling Red Refractor 1/1.
Topps National Chicle Baseball Preview
TOPPS INTRODUCES ALL-PAINTED SET TO BASEBALL
Topps has commissioned 12 top sports artists to create the upcoming and much-anticipated 2010 Topps National Chicle Baseball.
The gorgeous 330 base-card set will include yesterday and today’s stars and even a fusion of the two. In addition, every box will guarantee 2 on-card Autographs and 1 Relic.
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