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The first of many cards from Wossamottau’s collection

Due to April’s Fools day last year I became friends with famed EBay big spender and international man of mystery, Wossamottau. I had been bugging him since April to get some images of his collection to share with readers. This is the first of many that we hope to be bringing you, this was received by him today and this is the first place you will ever see the images of the Jesus Montero Autographed Superfractor from 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks and Prospects. Read more

Bowman Sterling is Live and smoking!

Bowman Sterling has hit the streets and we have already seen some amazing pulls come out of it. Pretty much every Red Refractor I wanted has been pulled. Lars Anderson is currently on EBay and way out of my price range. Andrew from All In Cards did a live break on UStream this evening of two cases and this product looks loaded. Rumors say that 2009 Sterling will be all on card autos, which if it continues the quality that we have seen this year should be a huge hit.

World Baseball Classic Patches to be in Bowman Sterling

Topps announces that it has included additional content to its highly-anticipated 2008 Bowman Sterling Baseball release.

As a bonus, each 4-box case will include a special redemption card for a (1) exclusive 2009 World Baseball Classic Patch Card. Because the Classic will not be played until March 2009, all subjects will be TBD.

Topps holds the exclusive rights to produce trading cards of players participating in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

Each 5-card pack of 2008 Bowman Sterling Baseball includes (2) Autographs, (1) Relic or Autographed Relic, (1) Rookie and (1) Prospect. Bowman Sterling hits hobby shelves exclusively next week!

Group Case Breaks Guest Review

A growing new trend in Sports card collecting is the Team Case Break. A few months ago, people started buying cases of products like 2007 Bowman Draft, and selling off all of the cards from each team, with price depending on the content of each team’s checklist. They have been very successful apart from one very messy situation, but not every product is made for great breaks for many teams.

As 2008 came to a close, three major prospect-driven products released within weeks of each other, and the case breaks started to be offered. Andrew aka All In Cards was responsible for the majority of them. Running a case break seems like it would be the best of both world – you get the thrill of ripping all of the packs, with none of the financial worries about “What if I don’t get my money back?”. You already have the whole thing paid for in advance.

I had a case of Bowman Draft coming in, thanks to the live.com discount, but had no plans for busting Donruss Elite or Razor Signature Series. I decided to take part in case breaks of all three products to compare the random nature of the products and the case breaks.

For all three of the breaks, Andrew changed the format a little bit from earlier attempts; he charged a flat fee, and then randomly assigned the teams. Donruss Elite was the first product up – $35 was the buy-in. I was chosen to receive the San Francisco Giants. I was thrilled with this selection.

November 26, Thanksgiving eve was the Elite night. After not being able to get the break live on a video conference, he went to the backup plan of breaking each box and scanning the hits. Box two gave me a Gold Roger Kieschnick die-cut /25 (non-auto). Not too bad, but I didn’t want the Giants for Kieschnick. Box five and six each have a Porcello in them, so that’s looking nice for whoever got the Tigers. Earlier in the day, I had opened three boxes of Bowman Draft that were shorted autographs. I’d hit nothing besides the Gold parallel yet in this case, I was in need of sleep, and had an early day to start the holiday. I wussed out and went to bed.

I wake up, and while my wife is in the shower, I just check to see how bad the last 4 boxes were for me. Things improved greatly. Box eight gave me a Waldis Joaquin auto, a Roger Kieschnick auto patch, and a Buster Posey/Tony Thomas dual auto /20. Box nine gave me another Kieschnick auto patch, and a Buster Posey die-cut /150. The final box, Box ten gives me a Posey auto patch. Needless to say, I felt much better, and that my $35 was well spent.

Next up was the Bowman Draft case. $30 was the cost for this one. I actually didn’t get in until the third case, because the first two were so popular. This time, the drawing gives me Cleveland. That gives me Chisenhall on the auto checklist, LaPorta on the prospect checklist, and I don’t even know what else. This wasn’t the best team to hit, but I just went with it.

This one was able to be broadcast live on Ustream on Monday, December eighth. I had a road game with my basketball team, and after having to wait for all of the parents to pick up their kids, I didn’t get home until after 2 boxes had been opened. Box three gave me a Chisenhall base auto. The next 9 boxes were nothing for me, but if you had the Marlins, you were sitting pretty. The Mets, Brewers and Rays also had solid hauls.

Razor was right on the heels of Draft. Tuesday night was the team draw, even though Andrew was the only one that got to see it, while the rest of us on Ustream saw a blank grey screen. But when the teams were revealed, I had the Pittsburgh Pirates – complete with #2 pick Pedro Alvarez. Back to being stoked!

Wednesday night was the rip. Ten boxes, ten autos per box, so there were ample opportunities for everyone to come out with something. Myself, I had five guys on the checklist. Box one gave me Robbie Grossman. Box four gave me an unnumbered Pedro Alvarez. And that was it. It’s hard to say who the real winners were, as Razor neglected to print on the card which team drafted the player, and I haven’t taken the time to research them all. But the case had some great hits on the /199 cards, but there were zero of the /25 or /5 autos. The real winner of the night was Andrew and his sweet shirt. The only real negative on the night were the trolls on the chat board.

Also, as of my writing, I have received the contents of the Elite break. I’m pretty sure people don’t mail out fine china with this much care and protection. Everything Andrew has done is first-class. There are a lot of positives about these breaks if you have even the slightest gambler in you, then you should get in on one of these.

Editors notes:

I just wanted to throw something in to suggest people get in on Andrew’s breaks if they have a chance. We also would like to begin doing some breaks of this nature here on The Card Podcast. We can’t rely on companies sending free product to us to review, so feel this would be a great way to get a comprehensive review of the products at little cost to our site.

Episode 15 with Clay Luraschi from Topps posted!

We were lucky enough to have Clay Luraschi from Topps on The Card Podcast again to talk about all the new releases from Topps for the next few months. So listen to it on the side of the site or if you subscribed to The Card Podcast through ITunes you would have already known that it was posted.

I was also a guest on the T4Show today with Michael Manna. You can listen to my appearance on there through their site as well. If it wasn’t for that site and podcast, this site would not be here today.

2008 Bowman Chrome Superfractor Tracker!

Bowman Chrome Draft is LIVE!!!

2008 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks and Prospects is LIVE and already Freedom Card Board Member Elemin8 has pulled one of the best cards you could get out of the product. The card that we exclusively revealed that would be in the set’s Gold Refractor has been released.

If you listened to our first podcasts, we had Clay Luraschi from Topps on and he revealed that Buster Posey would be in Bowman Chrome Draft Picks and Prospects. So it was pretty cool to see the first huge pull out of the product was live. The card is already on EBay and awaiting a Wossa offer.

We should be seeing a lot more coming out of this product in the upcoming weeks. This is many prospectors set of the year, but it should be interesting to see how it does with Razor snagging so many of the top players from this years draft. I personally think both Topps and Razor will do well with their products. Everything Topps did to juice up BCDP by listening to the fans, I think, should definitely pay off with two of the strongest products we have seen in a long time.

BCDP Rumored Autograph Checklist.

Thanks to Andrew aka All In Cards from FreedomCardBoard for posting these.  I haven’t got confirmation if this is the legit checklist, but could be a great set if this is 100% legit. I am currently on a public wifi that keeps dropping somewhere in Randolph MA, so hopefully this all posts. 

1 BDPP111 Wilmer Flores New York Mets®
2 BDPP112 Lonnie Chisenhall Cleveland Indians®
3 BDPP113 Carlos Gutierrez Minnesota Twins®
4 BDPP114 Derek Holland Texas Rangers®
5 BDPP115 Michael Stanton Florida Marlins®
6 BDPP116 Ike Davis New York Mets®
7 BDPP117 Anthony Hewitt Philadelphia Phillies®
8 BDPP118 Gordon Beckham Chicago White Sox
9 BDPP119 Daniel Schlereth Arizona Diamonbacks
10 BDPP120 Zach Collier Philadelphia Philles®
11 BDPP121 Evan Frederickson Milwaukee Brewers™
12 BDPP122 Mike Montgomery Kansas City Royals
13 BDPP123 Cody Adams Milwaukee Brewers™
14 BDPP124 Brad Hand Florida Marlins
15 BDPP125 Josh Reddick Boston Red Sox®
16 BDPP126 Michel Inoa Oakland Athletics™
17 BDPP127 Jesus Montero New York Yankees®
18 BDPP128 Buster Posey San Francisco Giants

Lincecum Sterling Red surfaces

Time for Wossa to make a bid. The Bowman Sterling 1/1 Red Ref of Tim Lincecum has been listed on ebay via a reasonable BIN of 7,999.99. How high will it go? Well we know he already has the Bowman Chrome Superfractor of it, will this card pair up with that?

Click Here for the Ebay listing

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