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Who will be the biggest breakout star of World Series?

robbiez — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:54:54 +0000

On the eve of the 2010 World Series we wanted to take a look and predict some of the biggest movers hobby wise as a result of the games. There are players that are already well established hobby forces such as Tim Lincecum, but could he even become bigger with dominant performances in the World Series? His high end stuff is already extremely expensive, and for the most part wrapped up in the collection of our friend in San Francisco. His base chrome autograph has been selling on eBay for around $120 at this point. It could easily top 150 with a dominant game 1 vs Cliff Lee.

Cliff Lee is a player that could also be a great break out with such a limited number of autographed rookie cards out there of him. His total number of autographed rookies over a good deal of products totals around 1,000. His amazing numbers thus far in the playoffs on top of the fact that he may be changing teams to the Yankees this off season provide a very volatile potential market place.

Josh Hamilton is already one of the biggest stars in the baseball world. His 1999 Topps Traded Rookie could potentially skyrocket soon, but he is an interesting case due to the fact that after the Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium in 2008 his cards have already taken one astronomical jump. Could they potentially hit those heights again? Some tape measure shots in to the bay could definitely cause an explosion in his cards.

Neftali Feliz has limited autographs from 2008 all from what’s now known as Panini. He had autographs in the Prime Cuts, Elite, Threads, and Contenders products that year. His most limited are the Contenders and Prime Cuts at around 250 each. They are selling right now around 25 to 30 dollars but that number could easily increase if he lights up the radar gun over 100 in the World Series.

But my pick for the biggest potential breakout of the playoffs is the closer of the San Francisco Giants, Brian Wilson. He has become a YouTube sensation through out the playoffs. He has an extremely limited number of autographed cards with his SP Authentic from 2006. He also is in the Inkcredible insert set from that season so go check out your older boxes and see if you have any if these stashed away. The SPA Authentic has risen from around 20 dollars a few weeks ago to 60 dollars.

If you haven’t seen it take a moment and watch Brian Wilson’s appearance on Rome is Burning.

The Big Unit is now LIVE in EEE

robbiez — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:17:09 +0000

Panini released on Twitter today that the Randy Johnson Elite autographs were now in house. The cards look great, but left me wondering one thing. Why did they get Randy to sign on card, but couldn’t get Ben McDonald? I would love a nice Big Ben on card autograph. His one game stint in the Cape League was something I will never forget.

Sure he didn’t pan out like a lot expected, but if you are going to do an insert of him, and probably the biggest name in the set is on card, why can’t everyone be on card?

If the image above is deceptive, and there is a sticker there somewhere, I retract everything I said…..

Randy Johnson Autographed Signed 1989 Score Rookie Card PSA/DNA #65075728
US $99.00
Auction Ends: Wednesday Feb-08-2012 11:40:36 PST
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Randy Johnson Autographed Signed 1989 Upper Deck Rookie Card PSA/DNA #83134249
US $99.00
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RANDY JOHNSON SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED MLB RAWLINGS BASEBALL PSA/DNA 9
US $71.01 (7 Bids)
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RANDY JOHNSON FRAMED AUTO AUTOGRAPH SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO MOUNTED MEMORIES
US $200.00
Auction Ends: Wednesday Feb-08-2012 17:07:51 PST
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RANDY JOHNSON MICAH OWINGS Arizona DIAMONDBACKS Auto Mini 18" Bat Dustin Nippert
US $73.95
Auction Ends: Wednesday Feb-08-2012 18:20:07 PST
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Is there “Magic” in Elite 2010?

robbiez — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:47:54 +0000

aka “Why stickers are bad!”

We have had the launch of Elite Extra Edition in the last day or so, and a ton has been broken and listed on Ebay. But one card has really stuck out in particular. Jordan Swagerty‘s autographs look vaguely familiar, and they do not look anything like Jordan’s autographs from USA products. Now sometimes stickers can get swapped, but it’s for lesser player, or sometimes it’s for someone with the same name like Tony Gwynn, or Frank Thomas.

But how with this card did Jordan Swagerty from ASU get swapped with NBA Hall of Famer, and legend ? This should be super interesting to see play out!

2010 EEE Checklist print runs announced

robbiez — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:55:31 +0000

2010 Elite Extra Edition has hit the shelves, and the print runs on the different autographs on the checklist were posted to FreedomCardBoard.com today by Jaypers. I figured we would share this with everyone so you can be on the look out to find out if your guy is a Super Short Print.

Franchise Futures Signatures
# Person Seq.
1 Bryce Brentz 719
2 Drew Vettleson 690
3 Mike Olt 399
4 Tyrell Jenkins 599
5 Delino DeShields Jr. 499
6 Asher Wojciechowski 675
7 Bobby Doran 644
8 Hunter Morris 619
9 J.R. Bradley 625
10 Nick Castellanos 699
11 Chad Bettis 635
12 Drew Robinson 550
13 Aaron Sanchez 499
14 Brandon Workman 450
15 Matt Moore 819
16 Cole Leonida 669
17 Seth Rosin 710
18 Josh Rutledge 595
19 Vincent Velasquez 799
20 Matt den Dekker 694
21 Rett Varner 650
22 Reggie Golden 819
23 Derek Dietrich 490
24 Robbie Aviles 810
25 DeAngelo Mack 819
26 Alex Wimmers 199
28 Mike Antonio 99
29 Andy Wilkins 494
30 Cody Buckel 816
31 Kevin Munson 819
32 Chris Hawkins 99
33 Drew Smyly 799
34 Gary Sanchez 669
35 Dan Klein 599
36 Yordy Cabrera 818
37 Ralston Cash 819
38 Jonathan Galvez 810
39 Sam Dyson 199
40 Rob Segedin 816
41 Jimmy Nelson 640
42 Daniel Tillman 816
43 Raoul Torrez 325
44 Sammy Solis 699
45 Austin Wates 99
46 Matt Harvey 149
47 Connor Narron 835
48 Bryan Morgado 601
49 Chris Hernandez 690
50 Hayden Simpson 599
51 Brooks Hall 819
52 Devin Lohman 694
53 Pat Dean 525
54 Gary Brown 199
55 Stetson Allie 599
56 Griffin Murphy 775
57 Jake Thompson 699
58 Cody Wheeler 815
59 Niko Goodrum 819
60 Rob Brantly 819
61 Austin Ross 819
62 Kevin Rath 820
63 A.J. Cole 819
64 Scott Lawson 694
65 Logan Bawcom 790
66 Connor Powers 811
67 Mike Nesseth 590
68 Jose Vinicio 99
69 Ryan Casteel 817
70 Rick Hague 490
71 Kyle Blair 749
72 Jordan Swagerty 450
73 Jake Anderson 810
74 Brian Garman 810
75 Mark Canha 799
76 Perci Garner 799
77 Edinson Rincon 819
78 Jonathan Jones 694
79 Ross Wilson 815
80 Mel Rojas Jr. 819
81 Luke Jackson 99
82 Cole Nelson 819
83 David Filak 817
84 Kyle Bellows 819
85 Sam Tuivailala 820
86 Cole Cook 840
87 Jesse Hahn 99
88 A.J. Griffin 99
89 Max Walla 819
90 Jurickson Profar 390
91 Zach Cates 816
92 Ronald Torreyes 599
93 Marcus Littlewood 825
94 Parker Bridwell 99
95 Tyler Austin 811
96 Rob Rasmussen 658
97 Seth Blair 99
98 Tyler Holt 694
99 Micah Gibbs 390
100 Pamela Anderson 35

Autographed Rookies
# Person Seq.
101 Michael Choice 470
102 Christian Colon 400
103 Chris Sale 655
104 Jake Skole 675
105 Mike Foltynewicz 653
106 Kolbrin Vitek 542
107 Kellin Deglan 640
108 Jesse Biddle 796
109 Justin O’Conner 794
110 Cito Culver 589
111 Mike Kvasnicka 530
112 Matt Lipka 722
113 Noah Syndergaard 809
114 Ryan LaMarre 564
115 Josh Sale 536
116 Zack Cox 478
117 Bryan Holaday 502
118 Todd Cunningham 699
119 Jarrett Parker 580
120 Leon Landry 548
121 Cam Bedrosian 652
122 Ryan Bolden 799
123 Cameron Rupp 498
124 Jedd Gyorko 675
125 Matt Curry 553
126 Drew Pomeranz 527
127 Yasmani Grandal 395
128 Deck McGuire 441
129 Chevez Clarke 799
130 Jameson Taillon 699
131 Kaleb Cowart 750
132 Manny Machado 425
133 Tony Thompson 399
134 Dee Gordon 310
135 Chance Ruffin 550
136 J.T. Realmuto 99
137 Kevin Chapman 694
138 Kyle Roller 810
139 Stephen Pryor 819
140 Jonathan Singleton 699
141 Drew Cisco 399
142 Blake Forsythe 401
143 Kellen Sweeney 819
144 Brett Eibner 545
145 Martin Perez 494
146 Jean Segura 811
147 Christian Yelich 815
148 Robby Rowland 799
149 Trent Mummey 694
150 Zach Lee 650
151 Jason Mitchell 600
152 Nick Longmire 819
153 Robbie Erlin 699
154 Addison Reed 601
155 Austin Reed 499
156 Tyler Thornburg 819
157 Ty Linton 99
158 Chris Balcom-Miller 819
159 Wes Mugarian 799
160 Tony Wolters 99
161 Justin Grimm 99
162 Alex Lavisky 199
163 Taijuan Walker 819
164 Arodys Vizcaino 770
165 Brody Colvin 819
166 Christian Carmichael 815
167 Josh Spence 699
168 Joc Pederson 799
169 Justin Nicolino 399
170 Nick Tepesch 550
171 Joe Gardner 819
172 Taylor Morton 815
173 Jason Martinson 815
174 Matt Miller 585
175 Justin Bloxom 790
176 Matt Suschak 780
177 Zach Neal 750
178 Ben Gamel 801
179 Jimmy Reyes 810
180 Matt Price 699
181 Aaron Shipman 701
182 Hector Noesi 819
183 Peter Tago 649
184 Kyle Knudson 825
185 Matt Kirkland 99
186 Mickey Wiswall 99
187 Steve Geltz 599
188 Shawn Tolleson 815
189 Greg Holle 810
190 Erik Goeddel 810
191 Paul Goldschmidt 820
192 LeVon Washington 199
193 Trey McNutt 249
194 Henry Rodriguez 620
195 Adrian Sanchez 620
196 Daniel Bibona 420
197 Chad Lewis 799
198 Brodie Greene 625
199 Carter Jurica 685
200 Anthony Ranaudo 150

2010 EEE Images are starting to hit

robbiez — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:17:33 +0000

The first images of Panini EEE have been hitting the internet today via FreedomCardBoard.com and Panini’s Facebook page. They are highlighting so far the on card autos including Grandal, Cox and more. I am hoping I can get some images of Todd Cunningham’s autos, but who knows he said he wasn’t sure he was in the set until he got the contract to sign.

From Wossa’s Vault – Mike Stanton 1/1

robbiez — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:46:12 +0000

From time to time we want to bring a scan of a card from Wossamottau’s vault that otherwise would never see the light of day. This card is, as far as we know, the best 1/1 of the Florida Marlins Phenom that is tearing up the MILB, as we speak to have surfaced. So far no one has seen the Superfractor, and it has not hit Ebay.

With the prices that cards of Stanton, Jesus Montero, and Jason Heyward as of late, we shudder to think how high this card could go at auction right now. Heck an Ike Davis Orange Ref went over 2K last night!

EEE is shaping up very nicely

robbiez — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:30:36 +0000

Panini released some more info today about the Elite Extra Edition Baseball product coming out next month. The biggest highlight is that Albert Pujols signed 20 cards depicting him in his high school jersey to be inserted in the product, plus the FIRST EVER Aroldis Chapman certified autographs!

With one month remaining before the scheduled release of 2009 Donruss Elite Extra Edition, Panini America has released the checklist for the product that integrates draft picks, top prospects and – for the first time – baseball legends in the product.

The legends are shown in high school or college shots, some of them rarely seen before. For instance, George Brett can be seen crossing the plate in an El Segundo (Calif.) High School game, Mike Schmidt at Ohio University, Al Kaline is shown at Southern High School in Baltimore, Nolan Ryan is depicted in his delivery in a staged photo at Alvin High School and Mark Fidrych is pictured while at Worcester Academy.

Several other legends appear in Back to the Future Signatures, Elite Series Autographs and Private Signings.

“We wanted to mix a little of the old with the new without affecting the base EEE checklist, which just includes current prospects,” said EEE Brand Manager Mike Payne. “Elite Extra Edition is so much about high school and college baseball prospects. . . we just thought it would be fun to show some names from the past as they appeared at that period in their lives. Some of the older shots are better than others, but all of them capture a moment in time and provide a glimpse of the player before he made it big and, in many cases, before anyone outside his school had ever heard of him.”

One current big leaguer is also shown as a high school player: Albert Pujols, then a junior shortstop at Fort Osage High School in Independence, Mo.

Pujols hand-signed 20 copies of his Elite Series card, and reportedly was amused at seeing the nearly 12-year-old image of himself decked out in his Fort Osage Indians jersey.

Highlights of the 150-card base set include:

Cards of the first 18 players in the Autographed Rookies subset (card #’s 51-68) were sent out for on-card autographs – a first for EEE. Their parallel cards will be sticker autographs. “The intent was to make those players’ on-card Autographed Rookies as valuable as possible,” Payne said. “To do that, and keep enough autographs in the program, we opted to use stickers for the Turn of the Century parallels and for any inserts they may appear on.”

The first certified autographs of Aroldis Chapman – The 22-year-old lefthander and Cuban defector had not signed with a major league club at the time of the printing of EEE, so he is pictured in his Holguin uniform whom he played for in the Cuban National Series last year.
Some 42 first-round or supplemental first-round picks have autographs in the set
Other highlights of the product:

Pete Rose autographs and memorabilia cards
Elite Series autographs, Back to the Future Signatures and Private Signings – autographed sweet spot baseball swatch material – make their debuts
Throwback Threads – with, among others, an LSU Jared Mitchell jersey, a Brownwood (Texas) HS Shelby Miller jersey, a Mike Minor Braves jersey worn during the 2009 Arizona Fall League, an Arizona State Jason Kipnis jersey and a Millville (N.J.) HS jersey worn by Mike Trout
Yes, there will be Hot Boxes

Elite Extra Edition is scheduled to release January 20.

First On Card EEE auto pics surface

robbiez — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:48:58 +0000

Panini posted the first image of an on card EEE Baseball autograph on their Twitter Page. I really commend them on this effort. Many of the first Panini on card autographs had bubbling issues, and no area designated for the autograph. The Tony Sanchez autograph that they released seems to correct both of these issues.

Hopefully they continue this quality among the rest of the on card autographs!!

Panini bought Donruss!!

robbiez — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:35:43 +0000

SportCardsUncensored.com today reports that according to his sources the Donruss / Panini deal is nearing completion. We had Scott Prusha on Episode 21 of The Card Podcast and he hinted at the potential of this deal. We will try to update as soon as we hear any news on this front.

UPDATE – Steven Judd from TheSportsCardFile.com reports that it is a done deal and has a great post on the entire goings on. You can check out his appearance on The Card Podcast above at the Listen link, and we will try to have him on again soon to discuss this!!

2008 Contenders SP List revealed

robbiez — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:06:56 +0000

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.

Representatives at Donruss-Playoff confirm the following autographed Rookie Tickets from 2008 Playoff Contenders Baseball are short prints:

122 Shooter Hunt Minnesota Twins P 52

127 Wilmer Flores New York Mets 3B 75

64 Carlos Gutierrez Minnesota Twins P 87

78 Derrick Rose Chicago Bulls G 88

103 Michael Beasley Miami Heat FW 88

112 O.J. Mayo Minnesota Timberwolves G 88

109 Mike Stanton Florida Marlins OF 149

62 Bryan Price Boston Red Sox P 165

81 Evan Frederickson Milwaukee Brewers P 177

129 Zach Collier Philadelphia Phillies OF 200

54 Andrew Cashner Chicago Cubs P 216

118 Robbie Grossman Pittsburgh Pirates OF 227

87 Jarek Cunningham Pittsburgh Pirates 3B 229

94 Justin Parker Arizona Diamondbacks SS 229

67 Chris Hicks Houston Astros P 230

60 Brad Holt New York Mets P 236

70 Cord Phelps Cleveland Indians 2B 244

71 Curtis Petersen Florida Marlins P 244

110 Neftali Feliz Texas Rangers P 246

111 Neftali Soto Cincinnati Reds SS 249

98 Logan Forsythe San Diego Padres 3B 262

93 Juan Ramirez Seattle Mariners P 267

59 Brad Hand Florida Marlins P 274

101 Mark Sobolewski Toronto Blue Jays 3B 277

51 Aaron Cunningham Oakland A’s OF 283

55 Andrew Walker Pittsburgh Pirates C 288

91 Josh Lindblom Los Angeles Dodgers P 288

119 Roger Kieschnick San Francisco Giants OF 289

72 Daniel Cortes Kansas City Royals P 292

65 Chase D’Arnaud Pittsburgh Pirates SS 304

123 Trey Haley Cleveland Indians P 309

99 Logan Morrison Florida Marlins 1B 314

73 Daniel Schlereth Arizona Diamondbacks P 317

61 Brandon Crawford San Francisco Giants SS 339

83 Greg Veloz New York Mets 2B 339

90 Jordan Danks Chicago White Sox OF 354

105 Michael Taylor Philadelphia Phillies OF 362

75 Danny Espinosa Washington Nationals SS 395

76 Dayán Viciedo Chicago White Sox 3B 395

121 Shane Peterson St. Louis Cardinals OF 399