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Contributors Wanted!

We want everyone to know that this site isn’t intended to just be a few people posting information and whatever else just whenever the mood hits us. It’s the members that make the site, and, to that end, we want to extend an open invitation to anyone who wants to contribute to the blog.
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12Nov2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
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Paul Lempa’s Artwork Hits the Market

As some of you may know, our resident aspiring artist, PLempa, apparently got noticed.  His baseball and football murals have been admired on message boards and by his friends for quite some time now.
Topps apparently took notice as well, and signed Paul on to produce sketch cards for the recent release of Topps Updates & [...]

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27Oct2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
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Topps Inks Exclusive Deal with UFC

It was only a matter of time till these ever-increasingly popular sport became the focus of trading card sets. Although a handful of UFC and other Mixed Martial Arts athletes have been featured on cardboard, Topps has signed a multi-year deal with the UFC to produce UFC brand trading cards exclusively.
The deal will last [...]

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27Oct2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
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JTorto Completes 2003 Press Pass Bronze Auto Set

So it’s not a set full of short prints (at least none that have been verfied). It’s not a set that’s highly sought after by set builders. But, the 2003 Press Prass Bronze Auto Set turned out to be a set five years in the making for member JTorto.
Why? Mainly because of [...]

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19Oct2008 | Zeeck | 3 comments | Continued
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Sarah Palin Feeling the Hobby Love

With the build-up and seemingly never-ending aftermath of the Vice-Presidential Debates, it should come as no surprise that both Topps and Upper Deck took advantage of the surrounding hype by announcing  their respective releases of Sarah Palin parody cards.
Upper Deck inserted its Palin parody card into random packs of SP Authentic Baseball.  The card featuresPalin, [...]

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7Oct2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
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Because You’ll Never Win One . . .

Mastro Auctions is holding a two-day live auction December 8-9 at The Sports Museum of American in New York City.  Day One of the event will feature Legends of the Gridiron, and Day Two will feature Legends of the Diamond.
Highlighting the items featured in Day One will be Charles White’s 1979 Heisman Trophy.  Wouldn’t that [...]

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6Oct2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
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Topps Makes Another Production Mistake

Topps announces that because of a production error in 2008 Topps Finest Football, the Base Autographed Rookie Cards are not sequentially numbered as originally solicited.  In an effort to correct this error, consumers can send these particular cards to Topps to have them sequentially numbered.  Each card will be numbered and have a 3M Authentication [...]

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24Sep2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
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Topps Becoming Madden-esque

Okay, we get it, Brett Favre is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.  Certainly nobody will argue that.  And his accomplishments are certainly worth celebrating.  So, when Topps inserted a couple fun cards into this year’s Topps products, namely one with Vince Lombardi’s visage looking over his shoulder and one of him on [...]

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18Sep2008 | Zeeck | 2 comments | Continued
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Big-Z No-Hitter Puts Pappas in Back Seat

1972.  That was the last time a player in a Cubs uniform pitched a no-hitter.   While that wait of thirty-six years pales in comparison to the 100 year wait for a World Series Cubs fans have endured, Zambrano has given them something to hang their hat on this year.  Unfortunately for Milt Pappas, [...]

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16Sep2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
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Weeks in Review: 8/31 - 9/13

Once again we’ve combined two weeks into one.  While it may not be as timely with some of these acquisitions, at least it provides for a whole lot more substance to the review.  As has become the trend, this review is football-dominated, but at least there’s a bit of professional pool thrown in.
To start things [...]

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16Sep2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
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