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Tim TroutFiled under: BSCM, Beckett Baseball, MLB, Non-sport, Political memorabilia, Pro wrestling, TNA wrestling, TriStar, the National | Tags: barack obama, minor league baseball cards, the National, TriStar, TRISTAR Obak, wrestling cards
TRISTAR released preview images and basic information on Thursday for its set of Obak preview cards that will be produced for this year’s National Sports Collectors Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, later this month.
Obak is a standalone baseball product based on early 1900s tobacco cards of the same name. The set, which will feature current and past players, will arrive in hobby shops in August.
The preview set will consist of eight cards — five baseball players as well as TNA Wrestling stars Kurt Angle and The Beautiful People (Angelina Love and Velvet Sky) and President Barack Obama.
Filed under: Autographs, BSCM, Beckett Baseball, MLB, Memorabilia, Non-sport, Topps, non-sports sets | Tags: 1969, astronaut autographs, Co-Signers, Man on the moon, NASA, Neil Armstrong autograph, Space memorabilia, Topps
With the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon upon us this coming Monday, there might be more than a few collectors interested in picking up something related to the flight that starred Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and “Buzz” Aldrin.
Now there have already been countless movies, documentaries and tributes about the Apollo missions, but there also will undoubtedly be some added interest as people read about one of the most historic events in world history on its anniversary. Several newspapers and magazines already have produced items relating to the anniversary and there’s sure to be more.
But when it comes to mass-produced collectibles — and in particular the autographs of Armstrong — there’s not a lot to choose from, despite there being a healthy interest in NASA memorabilia and astronaut autographs.
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Topps announced the short-printed autographs, Relics and inserts list in its 2009 Allen & Ginter baseball set on Thursday.
There are some surprises — in particular some gimmick Relic cards like the Bigfoot hair card above — as well as some short-printed baseball autographs to be found.
See them all after the jump.
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USA Today’s Game On has an interesting story on how well the Steiner Sports sale of Yankee Stadium memorabilia has been going — well enough to the tune of eight-figures (i.e. more than $10,000,000) so far.
And some of the deep-pocketed collectors are the Yankees themselves — as well as former Yankees. Jason Giambi, now with the Oakland A’s, purchased his old locker for $50,000.
Read more about the Yankees (and others) who are collecting here.
