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chrisoldsFiled under: BSCM, Beckett Football, Donruss, NFL, Panini | Tags: 2009 Donruss Elite, Donruss, Elite Retail-only rookies, football cards, NFL, NFL draft, Panini
Panini America announced on Wednesday evening that there are several retail-only rookies to be found in 2009 Donruss Elite football.
They are:
Filed under: BSCM, Beckett Basketball, Beckett Blog, Beckett Grading BGS, Beckett Hockey, Memorabilia, NBA, NHL, Sports Illustrated | Tags: Beckett Grading Services, BGS, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, magazine collectors, NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Finals, NHL Champion Pittsburgh Penguins, NHL Stanley Cup Finals, Pittsburgh Penguins, SI Uncirculated, Sidney Crosby, Sports Illustrated, sports magazines
The championship Sports Illustrated covers for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Pittsburgh Penguins are now available from SI Uncirculated — a joint project between Time Inc. and Beckett Grading Services.
The issues are $24.99. The Lakers issue, which has Kobe Bryant on the cover, can be purchased here, while the Penguins issue, which features Sidney Crosby, can be purchased here.
SI Uncirculated was announced last week and debuting with the June 8 national and regional issues featuring the Detroit Red Wings and star high school baseball player Bryce Harper. (The Harper issue sold out quickly, while a few of the Red Wings issues remain available.)
Under the authority of Time Inc., this is a collector’s only way to get an uncirculated copy of SI slabbed by BGS — copies that were not released to the public but instead distributed directly to BGS for the program. Only a limited number of each issue are available. Once the initial offerings are sold out, they cannot be offered again.
Filed under: BSCM, Beckett Baseball, Beckett Football, Beckett Grading BGS, Beckett Hockey, Memorabilia | Tags: Beckett Grading Services, BGS, photo authentication, photography, sports photos
Beckett Grading Services has launched an original photograph authentication and grading service.
From news photos, wire photos and movie stills to snapshots, Polaroids and mounted photos from the 1800s, BGS will grade them all. It also will provide a choice between authentication and encapsulation only or slabbing with with a numerical grade. Both services provide the best preservation and presentation capabilities on the market.
BGS will team with noted photograph expert and art historian David Rudd (www.cycleback.com).
For more information, call (972)-448-9188 or visit www.beckett.com/photos
Filed under: BSCM, Beckett Baseball, Beckett Blog, Beckett Media, MLB, Topps | Tags: 2009 Allen & Ginter, baseball cards, Brian Kong, MLB, sketch cards, Tobacco Cards, Topps, Topps Allen & Ginter
Noted Sketch Card artist Brian Kong will have a 25-card insert set featuring his artwork in the 2009 Allen & Ginter baseball set from Topps.
Kong will have 25 cards in the product, which is in its fourth year and arrives on July 1. The 2006 and 2007 sets included artwork cards from Dick Perez.
You’ll be able to see a gallery of many more of Kong’s cards in the August issue of Beckett Sports Card Monthly.
For more on Kong’s work, visit www.briankong.com.
Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
Filed under: Auction Houses, Autographs, BSCM, Beckett Baseball, Hall of Fame, MLB, Memorabilia | Tags: 1927 New York Yankees, Autographs, Memory Lane Inc., new york yankees, PSA, sports memorabilia
A PSA/DNA-certified, near-mint condition photograph signed by 30 members of the legendary 1927 New York Yankees team has been purchased for a record $350,000.
The price is the most ever paid for a vintage sports photograph and is nearly 70 percent higher than the last time this item was auctioned in 2006.
The purchase by an anonymous buyer from an also unidentified seller was brokered by Memory Lane Inc. of Tustin, Calif. The company first sold the autographed photo for $206,000 in a December 2006 auction.
“The team-signed photograph of the 1927 Yankees players was purchased by a New York metro area collector who told me he now wants to share it with other fans and make arrangements for publicly displaying it at the new Yankee Stadium,” said Joe Orlando, President of PSA/DNA, in a news release.
Signatures include Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Herb Pennock, Waite Hoyt, Earle Combs, Benny Bengough, Bob Meusel and manager Miller Huggins.
The autographs originally were obtained by Yankees pitcher George Pipgras who passed it down to his daughter, LeMorn Pipgras Simpson. She later sold it for $80,000.
Filed under: Autographs, BSCM, Beckett Basketball, Memorabilia, NBA, Upper Deck | Tags: 2009-10 Upper Deck SP Signature edition, basketball cards, Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, NBA, Upper Deck
Upper Deck has released the first preview images and the basic product information for its 2009-10 SP Signature Edition Basketball set, which will include two autographed cards in every box.
The standard set consists of 100 cards along with SP Signature Rookies, while the inserts will include Star Signatures (two, three and four types), Inkredible and SIGnificance.
Each pack will include four cards when it arrives in September.
Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
