Archive for August, 2010

The 2010 Team USA is coming to Topps and Bowman line

The 2010 Team USA is coming to Topps and Bowman line

Topps released a press release about the players that will be included in Bowman, and Topps Chrome and other products through their agreement with Team USA. It should be interesting because the original image released seems to hint that the…

2010 Bowman Sterling First Look

2010 Bowman Sterling First Look

We got the first images of 2010 Bowman Sterling from Beckett Blog today and they look great. This is always a popular product with prospectors, and this years set looks as nice as any edition. With the Team USA…

Leaf Certified 2010 Football images are out

Leaf Certified 2010 Football images are out

Panini America released the basic information and images for my favorite annual Football product, “Don’t call me Select, or now, Leaf ” Certified 2010, which will hit stores around the end of October.

The product will include two autographs and…

Strasburg to the DL, How Much Impact on Future Products?

Strasburg to the DL, How Much Impact on Future Products?

On the day that news broke that Stephen Strasburg Allen & Ginter autographedcards had gone live on Ebay, we also got the news that the Nationals Phenom was going on the DL for the second time in a…

Unnumbered rare Topps Parallels hit Ebay

Unnumbered rare Topps Parallels hit Ebay

We have seen plenty of backdoored cards hit the market over the years. From the Pinnacle 1997 Mirror Golds up to the recent wave of unnumbered Tim Lincecum 2007 Bowman Chrome Fake autographed refractors, but the auctions today may be…

Panini signs John Wall to Exclusive Deal

Panini signs John Wall to Exclusive Deal

WASHINGTON WIZARDS DRAFT PICK JOHN WALL SIGNS EXCLUSIVE NBA TRADING CARD AND MEMORABILIA DEAL WITH PANINI AMERICA

Arlington, Texas (August 18, 2010) – Panini America (www.paniniamerica.net) , a subsidiary of The Panini Group, the leading global publisher of sports and…

Topps announces Finest RC #9 and #10

Topps announces Finest RC #9 and #10

Topps announces the players redeemable for 2010 Topps Finest Baseball Rookie Redemptions #9 and #10 are outfielders Domonic Brown (Phillies) and Ryan Kalish (Red Sox) respectively.

Throughout the 2010 Major League Baseball season, Topps has announced…

Upper Deck supports Hobby with Volunteer Alliance

Upper Deck supports Hobby with Volunteer Alliance

Last month Upper Deck unveiled an exciting new initiative designed to further engage the company’s loyal collector base. The “Upper Deck Volunteer Alliance” is a program free of charge that’s open to collectors from around the world that enables them…

2010 BCDP : Who do you want to see?

2010 BCDP : Who do you want to see?

2010 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks and Prospects is coming sooner and sooner by the date. We now know who is eligible to be in the product due to the signing deadline passing, so I started a discussion on FCB asking

The Strasburg 1/1 from Famous Fabrics has hit!

The Strasburg 1/1 from Famous Fabrics has hit!

One of, if not the top hit out of Famous Fabrics has surfaced on EBay. TheStephen Strasburg USA Hat Logo 1/1 has been listed at a $10,000 Buy it Now. His stuff is surfacing more and more rapidly, and…

Prelim Checklist and Sellsheet for 2010 BCDP is out

Prelim Checklist and Sellsheet for 2010 BCDP is out

This thread on FCB  has the first details on the 2010 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks and Prospects Checklist. This is a very barebone skeleton of what the checklist should look like. Names like Jake Skole, Kolbrin Vitek, and Bryce Brentz…