(But no Dawn. [cricket chirps]. Never mind).
Orlando, author of the new Collecting Sports Legends: The Ultimate Hobby Guide (Zyrus Press), is profiled in The Wall Street Journal. I guess with the current economic climate, investing in baseball cards might come back into vogue.
The article includes a “tab” for a challenging quiz to test your knowledge of card collecting. It’s at teh top of the article (took me awhile to find it).
To borrow a phrase from the late Phil Rizzuto.
From AmericanChronicle.com:
…the Upper Deck Company has released the largest baseball trading card set ever assembled in tribute to the world-renowned sports shrine. The “Yankee Stadium Legacy” (YSL) collection is a 6,661-card compilation chronicling every single New York Yankees home game ever played at the current venue. It began its official debut in February by being inserted in random packs of Upper Deck´s 2008 Series 1 Baseball release. Since then, seven of the nine additional Upper Deck baseball launches including YSL insert cards have packed out.
As a basis of comparison, an entire year’s run of Topps cards in the 1970s was typicaly around 600 cards.
Depending upon how ambitious a collector is, there is certainly the possibility of putting together the entire Yankee Stadium Legacy Collection. But it will take patience and some luck to achieve. Since Upper Deck´s YSL set includes only Yankee home games through the 2007 MLB season, the first five lucky collectors who put together the entire set and have it validated will also receive each of the insert cards chronicling the 2008 season (82 cards, including this year´s All-Star Game) to complete their sets. The YSL cards representing 2008 will appear in 2009 Upper Deck Series One Baseball next February and thus put a close to the Yankee Stadium Legacy promotion.
No word in the article about how much something like this would cost. For more infor, visit the Upper Deck Website.
As a kid I collected baseball cards. As a kid in the 60s and 70s, I never thought of them as investments so I subjected them to all sorts of indignities: writing on them, taping over the team names when the player was traded, pasting them to oaktag for school projects (I could have retired on the 1970 All-Stars I glued to an orange field with a poorly drawn green diamond: Mays, Aaron, Yaz, Seaver…Oh, the pain.)
So it was with a bit of relief that I came across the Poor Old Baseball Cards blog, motto “dedicated to all those baseball cards that have been put through the wringer.” After all, the point used to be to enjoy them, not mummify them in plastic.
Upper Deck is opening a new store tomorrow (Feb. 22) in Huntington Beach. There’s even a 25%-off coupon! And Steve Garvey will be on hand on Feb. 23 to sign autographs. (Luke Walton will be there for the Grand Opening, but he’s just a basketball player.)
Interesting piece on the 2008 set from the japanesebaseballcards blog.
Politicians will say anything for your support. Look at Hillary Clinton, claiming to be a lifelong fan of several franchises, including the Cubs and the Yankees.
Topps commemorates former presidential hopeful — and devout Yankee fan — Rudy Giuliani with a “faux card,” according to this item posted Feb. 5 by Sports Illustrated.
On the one hand, I know baseball is “just” a game, and shouldn’t be taken too seriously. But when you start playing around with “photo-shopped” images on what used to be the gold standard in the sports card industry, well, that can’t be a good thing. I’m just saying…
From “The Infield Dirt” column on Sports Collector Digest’s Web site, an interesting suggestion on a new arts and crafts project. I wrote a note to the writer, T.S. O’Connell, asking for a picture of the item.
Since we’re heading into awards season, this seemed appropriate:The Gummies, picking the best and worst baseball card-related items of the year. Unfortunately, there’s no explanation for the picks, nor a list of the other nominees that were in the running.
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