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Tim TroutNot due in shops until next Friday, May 9! Get a first look here.
Press Pass cards are printed at a plant in the Dallas area. So when Press Pass Football Brand Manager Nick Metijevich flew in from North Carolina for the pack out of 2008 Press Pass Signature Series, he stopped by Beckett HQ with some goodies, where he met burnt orange clad David Lee and the newly goateeless Tracy Hackler. Check out the vid for some behind the scenes stuff.
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Tomorrow (May 3) is Free Comic Book Day. Visit your local comic book store and cash in.
A few years ago, there was a groundswell for a National Trading Card Day. Krause Publications and Beckett Media took the lead, bringing the card manufacturers together in a series of conference calls in an effort to put together a free pack of cards.
Those calls were amazing. Card Company X wanted to make sure it had a card from all sports represented. Card Company Y, who only produced two sports, was upset about Card Company X having more cards in the pack. Card Company Z said that if X and Y had cards in the pack, it wanted to have a similar amount.
Guys, what about the free cards for the customers?!
Eventually, the packs were delivered to shops and distributed on Opening Day weekend of the MLB season. But the whole process was such a colossal beat down for everyone that it never happened again. Meanwhile, Free Comic Book Day enters its seventh year on Saturday. – ph
