Filed under: Beckett Media, NBA, Panini | Tags: 2009-2010 national treasures basketball, Blake Griffin, Panini
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
We’ve looked at Blake Griffin’s cards before on the blog. We asked which of his rookie cards would you like to own.
But if you could own any of his cards – rookie card logo rules withheld – would this card be it?
Griffin’s 2009-2010 National Treasures Logoman auto 1/1 is on eBay with a staggering buy it now price. Anyone who is interested in the card would only need to fork over $32,032.32
The seller is not accepting any low-ball offers either. He states directly in his auction that anything submitted under $15,000 will automatically declined. Twenty offers have already been submitted, but he hasn’t taken any yet.
In the last year, we’ve seen some cards go far tremendous prices – mostly in the baseball world such as Stephen Strasburg’s 2010 Bowman Chrome Superfractor.
But if this card were to go to auction, what do you think would be the final price?
Filed under: NHL, Upper Deck | Tags: 2011 nhl all-star game, NHL All-Star Game, stickkid, UD, ud stick kid, Upper Deck, upper deck stick kid
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
During Saturday’s rookie skills competition at the NHL All-Star Game weekend, 8-year-old Devin Ybarra will be up close to one his favorite hockey players.
Ybarra was selected as Upper Deck’s ‘Stick Kid’ for the competition. The North Raleigh resident will get to walk through the locker room and meet some of hockey’s best players while having the best seat at the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C.
“I can’t wait to walk into the Hurricanes locker room and meet all the All-Stars,” said Ybarra, a third-grader. “Going in the locker room, I want to see all the Hurricanes lockers and then just being able to sit on the bench because I’ll get to see (Hurricanes team captain) Eric Staal up close.”
Filed under: Beckett Media, Card gallery, NHL, Panini | Tags: 1990-91 Score Hockey, 2011 nhl all-star game, all-star fan fest, Hockey, hockey cards, NHL, Panini, Panini America, Sidney Crosby, Steve Yzerman, Taylor Hall, wrapper redemptions
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
Raleigh, N.C., will be the place to be this weekend for hockey fans and hockey card collectors.
Upper Deck released its plans of the 2011 NHL All-Star Fan Fair and now Panini America’s plans are out for all to see.
One of the biggest ways card company’s give away items at these types of events is through wrapper redemption programs. It gets the customer to buy product in order to receive exclusive cards.
Panini’s redemption program highlights 1990-91 Score Hockey.
For every three packs of 2010-11 Panini NHL hobby packs a customer opens at the Panini booth, they will receive a two-card pack.
The set commemorating Score Hockey will have seven cards limited to 500 copies, but there are opportunities to get some great hits in each pack. Along with special inserts, collectors have the chance to find Rookie NHL patch autographs and other autos from players such as Sidney Crosby, Taylor Hall and Steve Yzerman.
See a gallery of the cards after the jump.
Filed under: Beckett Media, Card gallery, NHL, Upper Deck | Tags: 2010-11 nhl ultimate, 2010-2011 nhl ultimate, alex ovechkin, hockey cards, Mark Messier, NHL, Taylor Hall, UD, Upper Deck, upper deck ultimate
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
With the NHL All-Star Game in less than a week, it’s never a bad time to look at hockey cards.
2010-2011 NHL Ultimate is gearing up to be a very impressive product on Upper Deck’s calendar, which is currently scheduled for mid-April.
We know how Ultimate works. You get one pack per box, and the hits can be worthwhile. Collectors can snag rare cards of players such as Alex Ovechkin, Mark Messier or Taylor Hall.
There are just four cards in a pack, but collectors get one autograph, one memorabilia and one rookie card in each pack. A 15-box case will yield one autographed-memorabilia card, three to four patch cards and three “A” Level autos on average.
Many of the best past and present players are included.
The NHL shield patch cards already seem to be favorite for some collectors.
Look for more pictures after the jump.
Filed under: Beckett Media, NFL, Topps | Tags: Allen & Ginter, allen & ginter football, Allen and Ginter, football, football cards, jerome bettis, NFL, NFL cards, Steve Young, Vince Lombardi
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
With the NFL getting closer and closer to its Super Bowl champions, Topps has released a new set of Allen & Ginter Super Bowl Champions on its ETopps.com website.
The first three cards in the 15-card set were released on Monday with Howie Long, Jerome Bettis and Vince Lombardi.
Filed under: NBA | Tags: 1998 press pass, 1998-98 bowman's best, 1998-99 skybox premium, atomic autographs, Basketball, NBA, nba rc, nba rookie cards, RC, Vince Carter
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
Vince Carter isn’t nearly in the news as much as he used to be. I remember way back in my teens, Carter was coming out of college and he received so much press. He was followed through North Carolina until he was drafted by the Toronto Raptors.
But once Carter got to the NBA, he never got the type of attention some of the other prolific scorers in the league received.
One of Carter’s issues is that he never played for a popular team. He spent six years with Toronto and then went to the New Jersey Nets where he spent another five years. Though a good player, the first 11 years of his career occurred in obscurity.
However, Carter was never quiet in these slow-moving areas of basketball.
On Monday, he became the eighth active player to reach 20,000 points and 37th player to ever do it.
Filed under: NBA, Upper Deck | Tags: 2006-07 exquisite basketball, Basketball, Boston Celtics, Kevin Garnett, NBA, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Shaq, Shaquille O'Neal
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor | Commentary
Rajon Rondo isn’t the biggest star on his team.
The Boston Celtics point guard lets the attention fall on those around him while he dishes out the ball to get the rest of his team the numbers that make people look.
Rondo is an assist machine. He averages 13.4 assists a game and had a 23-assist game on Jan. 5, but that wasn’t even his best game this season. He had a 24-assist game on Oct.29 against the New York Knicks.
With all those players around him such as Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and even Shaquille O’Neal, is Rondo overshadowed in the collecting world?
