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Product review: 2008 Leaf Rookies and Stars Football

5 cards per pack – 24 packs per box – 12 boxes per case
100-card base set / 250 card complete set
A perennial favorite among rookie collectors is the Leaf Rookies and Stars brand, and this year Donruss / Playoff produces a quality product at a great price point that may make this release a hobby [...]

Popularity: 6% [?]

18Nov2008 | CommodoreCountry | 0 comments | Continued
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PopCardz, coming soon to a store near you!

Another celebrity-themed product will be releasing soon, however not by one of the established card manufacturers.  PopCardz will feature 40+ hollywood stars ranging from new comers such as Megan Fox to established veterans such as Jessica Alba.  Proceeds from the sale of the cards will be given to the celebrities’ charities.
Popularity: 34% [?]

Popularity: 34% [?]

3Nov2008 | oregonweim | 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 & [...]

Popularity: 45% [?]

27Oct2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | 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 [...]

Popularity: 58% [?]

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, [...]

Popularity: 72% [?]

7Oct2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
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Upper Deck inks new athlete for Stable of Stars

As reported on TuffStuff.com, Upper Deck has signed Tony Romo to an exclusive endorsement deal for autographed memorabilia.  Romo joins Michael Jordan, Ken Griffey Jr., Albert Pujols, Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James as athletes who have exclusive autograph deals with Upper Deck.
Popularity: 81% [?]

Popularity: 81% [?]

30Sep2008 | oregonweim | 0 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, [...]

Popularity: 80% [?]

16Sep2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | Continued
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eTopps back on eBay

After nearly two weeks, eTopps cards are back on eBay. There was a communication issue since there is no ‘actual’ delivery of eTopps, and eBay is cracking down on the sale of non-tangible goods.
This move came just a day before the 2008 Football IPOs launched. Doesn’t it seem a bit fishy that it took two [...]

Popularity: 83% [?]

10Sep2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Topps Looks to Make Things Right After Bowman Sterling Gaffe

Apparently many people purchasing the new Bowman Sterling Football have been shorted an autograph.  While this may be nothing new to many of us who have had this happen before, apparently with this product it’s happened at a much greater rate.  Topps, acknowledging the error and looking to make things right with collectors, issued the [...]

Popularity: 81% [?]

3Sep2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
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Donruss Signs Gordon Beckham

Perhaps in response to Razor’s aggressive signing of many of the top baseball prospects to exclusive contracts, Donruss has signed on Chicago White Sox first-round pick, and eighth overall pick, Gordon Beckham to an autograph deal.
Gordon Beckham was the standout shortstop of the Georgia Bulldogs who quickly made a name for himself in the College [...]

Popularity: 71% [?]

1Sep2008 | Zeeck | 1 comment | Continued
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