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2008 Absolute Memorabilia Football 2008-10-11 14:18:33 2008 Playoff AbsoluteMemorabiliaFootball
Release Date: Sep 03, 2008
Hobby Box MSRP: $160.00
Average eBay Sales Price: $119.04
Box Configuration: 4 cards / 4 packs per box
The Low Down
2008 Absolute Memorabilia Football is one of the best (probably the best) semi-premium football card product to be released this year. Each box yields 4 premium hits featuring game [...]
Weekly Wildcard - 10/11/08 2008-10-11 00:40:35 Chances are if you have been collecting sports cards for any length of time,you have seen your share of strange and ridiculous cards. These cards prompted you to wonder how on earth they escaped past quality control at the manufacturing plant. This weekly column pays homage to just these types of cards. [...] Read more:Weekly
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Arizona Fall League Preview — Peoria Javelinas 2008-10-10 23:50:22 After a brief hiatus, I am back to provide a look at some of the top prospects from the Yankees, Brewers, Mariners, Reds and Rays that will be suiting up for the Peoria Javelinas this fall. This year's Javelina lineup may be its most star-studded in recent memory...Here's a closer look.
1.) Austin Jackson---New York Yankees [...] Read more:Arizona
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Back on Topps Episode 3 “Paul Mitchell Report” 2008-10-10 17:40:10 Episode 3 “ Paul Mitchell
Report” from the Topps Internet Comedy Series entitled Back on Topps:
Description: When ex-utility major league ballplayer, Charlie Phipps, runs into Leif Topps, he has a request for the brothers and Topps... Is it a request that they can fulfill? Read more:Episode
2008 Razor Signature Series Baseball Final Checklist 2008-10-10 12:31:45 Late Thursday, in a story first reported by The Cardboard Connection, Razor
Entertainment released the final details for 2008 Razor Signature
Series Baseball. The final checklist for this prospect packed product is as follows:
BASE AUTOGRAPHS (CARDS #101-200) BASE AUTOS ARE NUMBERED TO VARIOUS QTYS.
THERE ARE 3 PARALLELS NUMBERED [...] Read more:Checklist
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Razor Announces Final Details for 2008 Razor Signature Baseball 2008-10-09 21:40:20 Late Thursday Evening the Razor
Entertainment Group issued a press release in which they announced the final checklist, as well as additional product details for its inaugural baseball product, 2008 Razor Signature
Series Baseball. The highlights of the set include:
Base autographs will be card numbers 101- 200 and will be numbered to various quantities. Each [...] Read more:Final
Sports Memorabilia Dealer Releases Book About O.J. Simpson Robbery 2008-10-09 21:13:01 Tom Riccio, one of the sports memorabilia dealers robbed by O.J. Simpson
in a Las Vegas Hotel Room last September, has released a "tell all" book about his life story. ‘BUSTED’ features, among other things, Riccio's first hand account of the highly publicized crime involving Simpson.
On September 16, 2007 O.J. Simpson was arrested and [...] Read more:Dealer
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Man Arrested For Fraudulently Purchasing $80,000 in Sports Memorabiia 2008-10-09 14:28:20 The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office in Aseboro, North Carolina announced the arrest of a local man believed to have received over $80,000 in cash and sports memorabilia through an Internet scam. The arrest was the result of a three-week investigation into the suspect's ongoing fraudulent Internet sales activites. Investigators announced that Brian Combs, [...] Read more:Purchasing
, Sports
Donruss Announces Limited Edition NFL International Series Sets 2008-11-03 18:33:21 Donruss issued a press release Monday afternoon in which they announced plans to produce two limited edition Football Card Sets to commemorate the NFL's two 2008 Regular Season Games that were played abroad. In the first international game of the 2008 season, the New Orleans Saints beat the San Diego Chargers to the tune of [...] Read more:Edition
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First Look: 2008 Topps Heritage High Number Baseball 2008-11-03 17:02:46 Topps has officially announced a release date for the highly anticipated debut of 2008 Topps Heritage
High Number
Baseball. Scheduled to hit hobby store shelves on November 26th, the Topps Heritage High Number Series will attempt to fill the void left by the discontinuation of it's sister product, Bowman Heritage. The product breakdown is [...] Read more:First
, First Look
Topps Annouces List of 2008-09 Letterman Basketball Patch Redemptions 2008-11-03 14:19:14 Topps has released the list of player redemptions for 2008-09 Topps LettermanBasketball
Lottery Pick Patch
Card Redemption Program. Topps randomly assigned each of the 2008 NBA Draft Lottery picks a letter (A-J). Redemption card holders will be able to redeem these cards for a letter patch card of the corresponding player listed below. All [...]
Upper Deck Does Away with MSRP on Hobby Products 2008-11-03 13:46:52 Friday afternoon Upper
Deck issued a statement outlining their plans to discontinue the practice of publishing Suggested Retail Pricing rates for their Trading Card Products
. The change will only effect Upper Deck Hobby
Products, with MSRP remaining in effect for all Upper Deck retail card products
Chris Carlin, Upper Deck's Marketing Manager, was quoted in the [...]
Donruss Interviews Dallas Cowboys Running Back Felix Jones 2008-11-02 13:09:33 In this recently released video Donruss interviews DallasCowboys
rookie running back, Felix
Jones. Felix has jump started his NFL career in a big way. Through his first 5 NFL games Jones has rushed to the tune of 266 yards and 3 touchdowns off of only 30 carries. His yards per carry average [...] Read more:Interviews
Collecting a Legend: Connie Mack 2008-11-01 14:26:10 The only player to appear on an 1886-87 Old Judge and Topps baseball card during their career, Connie
Mack is considered one of the best managers that baseball has ever seen.
Connie Mack made his major league debut on September 11th, 1886 for the Washington Nationals and played his final game on August 29th, 1896 with [...] Read more:Collecting
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Preview: 2008 Bowman Draft Picks and Prospects Baseball 2008-10-31 22:36:14 Preview: 2008 Bowman Draft
Picks and Prospects Baseball Cards
Description:
Topps gives us a quick look at 2008 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects Baseball. This year's installment of Bowman Draft is currently scheduled for release in early December.
US Auctions
Australian Auctions
Austrian Auctions
Belgian Auctions
Canadian Auctions
French Auctions
German Auctions
Hong Kon Read more:Preview
Catching Up Where I Once Quit 2008-10-31 19:00:54 I opened my first pack of wax in 1990 and collected for close to a decade before quietly bowing out of the game in late 1997.
First Look: 2008 Leaf Rookies & Stars Football 2008-10-31 15:22:29 Fresh off a year in which it won Beckett's "2007 Most Improved Product" Award, Leaf Rookies & Stars is back for more. 2008 Leaf Rookies & Stars appears, at first glance at least, to start where the 2007 product left off. Donruss claims that this year's installment of Leaf Rookies & Stars features more on-card [...] Read more:First
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Upper Deck to Produce Limited Edition Green Bay Packers Mini Helmet Cards 2008-11-21 16:42:34 Upper Deck announced Friday that they will be orchestrating a special Green
Bay Packers
promotion in partnership with 10 different newspapers in the Wisconsin market. For 24 straight days Upper Deck will unveil a new metal mini-helmet collectible card coupon featuring a standout Packers player that collectors can redeem for the actual card at participating [...] Read more:Cards
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Winner Declared in Yankee Stadium Legacy Contest! 2008-11-21 16:19:23 Upper Deck confirmed Friday afternoon that Tommy Baxter of Little Rock, Arkansas has been declared the winner of the YankeeStadiumLegacy
Set Contest
. Baxter, 36, is the first person to successfully assemble the entire Yankee Stadium
Legacy Set, which consists of more then 6,600 different baseball cards. Baxter says his 11 year old daughter [...]
Donruss Interviews Company Spokesman Gordon Beckham 2008-11-21 15:26:17 Former University of Georgia Star Shortstop GordonBeckham
signed a contract with Donruss earlier this year that will have him featured as one of the company's leading athlete spokesmen. Beckham was selected by the Chicago White Sox with the 8th overall pick in the 2008 MLB First Year Player Draft and has started off his Professional [...] Read more:Interviews
Back on Topps Episode 16 “Tap Some Leather” 2008-11-20 23:12:58 As a last ditch effort, in a quest filled with last ditch efforts, Leyland and Leif try and convince major league all stars to take one for their team and give up their roster spot in the 2008 All Star Game for Julio Franco. All they need is one. Read more:Episode
, Leather
2008 Hawaiian Winter League Wrap-Up 2008-11-20 15:51:04 Jeremy Porter chronicles the top 10 offensive performances as well as the top 5 pitching performances from this year's HWL league. Read more:Hawaiian
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CHL Fans Given Chance to Star on Own Hockey Cards 2008-11-20 15:05:12 The Central Hockey League (CHL) has announced a new partnership with Extreme Sports Cards
Inc that will allow CHL fans to create and star in their very own hockey cards.
Kevin V. Huhn, the CHL’s Director of Business Development, couldn't be happier about the newfound partnership, “The CHL is excited about this relationship with Extreme Sports [...] Read more:Given
Police Nab Sports Card Thief 2008-11-20 14:12:26 WBOC News reports that police in Laurel, Delaware arrested a burglary suspect Tuesday on charges that he stole thousands of dollars in sports cards from a local sports card shop. The arrest took place Tuesday, just over 2 weeks after the alleged crime occurred.
According to police, sometime during the evening of Nov. 3, someone cut [...] Read more:Police
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Donruss Releases Full Product Breakdown of 2008 Playoff Prime Cuts IV Baseball 2008-11-19 15:52:39 2008 has been the year of the baseball card for Donruss. First with Donruss Elite, and then again with Donruss Threads, Donruss has taken the baseball card scene by storm this year. Donruss has compensated for their lack of MLB licensing by packing their products with a great checklist of prospects and tons of hits [...]
Back on Topps Episode 15 “Coolio Franco” 2008-11-19 14:03:30 With their backs against the wall and their quest going nowhere, Leyland and Leif head to Shea Stadium to bring their message of Julio Reinstatement to the subway series. Read more:Coolio
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Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Trading 2008-11-19 13:53:09 The New York Post reports that Mark Cuban
, the eccentric but affable owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has been charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The agency charged that Cuban dumped shares of Mamma.com after he found out it was going to raise funds using a type of private offering that often [...] Read more:Charged
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