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Feature Article #1

The New Gold Standard

Bowman Chrome is a much sought after product by baseball prospectors and collectors year in and year out. Famed for its refractors, everyone has their favorites - ‘Blue’, ‘Red’, ‘Gold’, ‘Orange’, ‘X-Fractor’, ‘Superfractors’ and regular old ‘Refractors’. What is going on with this year’s release? For those who haven’t had a […]

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Brett Laidlaw | August 27th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Michael Phelps Trading Cards Skyrocketing

With six gold medals under his belt these Beijing Olympics, and with two events still to go (the 100M Butterfly final tonight and the 400M Medley Relay Saturday night), all indications are pointing to Phelps breaking Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals in one Olympics. That’s not to mention that he’s already established […]

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Brian Zeeck | August 15th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Box Break: 2008 Upper Deck Goudey Baseball

Price: $84.00
Breakdown: 18 packs per box, 8 cards per pack. Each box contains seven Goudey 1934 Size Parallels, one memorabilia card and one autographed card on average. Inserted one per case are Original Goudey Baseball Buyback Cards and Sports Royalty Autographs. Also find Yankee stadium Legacy inserts randomly inserted.
With a lot of […]

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Brian Zeeck | August 5th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Honus Wagner T206 Fetches $1.35 Million

Mastro Auctions held its annual auction in conjunction with the National Sports Collectors Convention, and this year it included the “holy grail,” a T206 Sweet Corporal Honus Wagner graded Excellent - PSA 5 (MC).  The card got 10 bids, with the winner grabbing it for a mere $1.35 million.  This is roughly half of the […]

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Brian Zeeck | August 4th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #5

2008 National Sports Collectors Convention

It’s that time of year once again, time for the National Sports Collectors Convention.  This year’s event is being held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.
All the bells and whistles were in place, from the rip parties at the various manufacturer booths to the young, attractive women being used to lure […]

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Brian Zeeck | August 1st, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #6

Box Break: 2008 Press Pass Legends Football

Price: $115
Breakdown: Each box contains three mini-boxes, 6 packs per mini, 5 cards per pack. Each pack includes one sequentially numbered parallel. Each box contains five autographs and one game-used jersey card.
Having already busted one mini of this product, I couldn’t wait for this full box to come in the mail from […]

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Brian Zeeck | July 30th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #7

The NFL Shield Patch . . . Still Worth the Chase?

Topps has announced that this years Finest Football set is going to include limited edition autographed rookie cards, featuring an NFL shield patch (the list of players to be included in this subset can be found HERE). Great news, right? Maybe not. First of all, these Shield Patch Autographs are going to […]

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Brian Zeeck | July 29th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #8

Box Break: 2008 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball

Price: $89.00
Breakdown:   24 packs, 8 cards per pack. Two Autograph, Relic, Printing Plate, Allen & Ginter Original, and/or Rip Cards per box!  Each pack contains 6 Allen & Ginter Baseball cards, 1 Mini Parallel card, and 1 Dick Perez card.
Topps Allen & Ginter is back once again, including such out there cards as the […]

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Brian Zeeck | July 25th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #9

$25,000 for an Autograph?

Many of us have and will pay $25,000 for something in our lifetimes, but (for most) an autograph is not one of those things. Come August, however, Sportsbuy.com and the National Sports Collectors Convention are willing to pay that for a single autographed photo by the infamous Cubs fan […]

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Brett Laidlaw | July 24th, 2008 | Continued

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