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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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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 [...]

Popularity: 41% [?]

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 [...]

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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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 [...]

Popularity: 69% [?]

6Oct2008 | Zeeck | 0 comments | 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: 80% [?]

Popularity: 80% [?]

30Sep2008 | oregonweim | 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 [...]

Popularity: 94% [?]

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 [...]

Popularity: 100% [?]

18Sep2008 | Zeeck | 2 comments | Continued
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