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 month. The Baseball card industy has been booming over the last year due to the success of Strasburg. 2010 Bowman exploded on the secondary market with the inclusion of a chrome Strasburg, and an autographed base card of him. We have seen huge bumps in the prices of Topps Triple Threads, Topps Chrome, and Allen and Ginter due to the inclusion of the former #1 pick in the product. Read more
What could have been Razor Distinction
Got these images in this morning. These would have been the designs of Razor Distinction if it had not been cancelled. This set has however been shelved and these cards will never see the light of day.
Distinction Cancelled by Razor
Last night on FreedomCardBoard.com Adam Burk of Razor announced that due to customer feedback and economic conditions Razor had decided to cancel their super high end “Distinction” product. They have decided to only go with the Signature Series, Letterman and Metal Products as of right now.
Update: Click here to listen to Brian on the latest episode of The Card Podcast!!!
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.
Razor ThePit.com Base Checklist released
On the FreedomCardBoard.com Razor Board Brian Gray revealed the checklist for Razor’s Metal (Chrome) base cards from ThePit.com. The checklist follows after the link.
Razor Oval Office Images Surface
Brian Gray president of Razor Collectibles released the images of the Barack Obama/John McCain dual cut autograph and George Washington cut signature from their upcoming Oval Office Signature Series. Oval Office is the single highest end product in history with 99 packs being made at a $2,200.00 SRP. The images follow after the break.
Discuss the images here at FreedomCardBoard.com. There already is five pages of discussion on this subject.
New Episode Posted – Razor Live
We recorded another episode recently with Brian Gray from Razor. We discuss the upcoming US Army Set, Letterman, and maybe another game changing signing from Razor. You can listen to it on the side of the page, or Click Here to Subscribe on Itunes!
Pete Rose added to Razor Letterman
The first ever letterman autographed cards of Pete Rose will be inserted in to 2008 Razor Letterman. This along with the exclusives and upcoming surprise autographs should make this a highly desired set for player collectors, and letterman collectors.
Razor to release 2008 U.S. Army All-American HS Football Set
ALL 100 players in this years game (100 of the top high school players in the country)
PLUS, all FAMOUS ALUMNI OF THIS GAME,.. including the
first ever nationally issued cards of:
TIM TEBOW!
PERCY HARVIN!
JOE MCKNIGHT!
TYRELLE PRYOR!
MARK SANCHEZ!
AND MANY MORE!!!!
PLUS, REGGIE BUSH, ADRIAN PETERSON AND MORE ALUMNI OF THE GAME!!!!!
They will be released in factory set form with 2 hits per set.
One autograph or game used PLUS a chromatic card of either a TOP 10 player from this game or TOP 10 alumni player.
Sets will be VERY inexpensive and will give collectors a chance to collect TOP college players and high school players WELL BEFORE their PRO career is well underway.
More info will be coming in next few weeks…
BG
p.s.- before anyone starts another conspiracy theorey, players were NOT PAID for appearances,autographs or the like.. NO RULES violated…. COMPLETELY LICENSED BY THE U.S. ARMY, WHO CHOSE RAZOR AS THE OFFICIAL TRADING CARD COMPANY OF THE GAME!!!
Razor Exclusivity called to question?
Wade Miley is in Prime Cuts 2008, he is also exclusive to Razor for all cards and autographs. After a day of people debating back and forth about this with no comment from Brian Gray, he has commented. It is the kind of comment that means that there probably will not be more comments forthcoming.
One interesting note about these cards is that only the /25 and /1 variations have surfaced thus far.
Here is an entire post from Brian on the matter.
#1- Razor absolutely has an ironclad contract with Wade Miley that 100% enjoins Donruss from this usage.
#2- Wade Miley also might have entered into a contract with Donruss VIOLATING his agreement. If so, both Miley (for breach of contract) and Donruss (for tortuous interference) will be sued and we will stop at nothing to be as punitive as possible as to the damages that are sought.
#3- Donruss originally had Matt Wieters in EEE 2008, but on our learning of this they pulled him at the last second as they acknowledged the validity of our ironclad agreements.
As a side note, I am growing very tired of hearing posters spread conspiracy theories. For example,
Quoting Jeff N., “Now I know why he wouldnt let me see the contract”…… My response to this, I have signed confidentiality agreements with every player and showing you this agreement would be a material breach… Unlike others in the business, I do not breach contracts….
For once and all, Our contracts are rock solid…
Feel free to PM any questions… BG
Thanks to Dchurg from Freedom Card Board for pointing this out. You can discuss it here.