Filed under: Card gallery, Hall of Fame, MLB, Panini | Tags: 2010 Century Collection, Andre Dawson, Babe Ruth, baseball, baseball cards, Baseball Hall of Fame, Bob Feller, Cooperstown, Don Mattingly, Eddie Murray, Fergie Jenkins, Jim Rice, Joe Jackson, MLB, New York Yankee, new york yankees, Panini America, Paul Molitor, Pete Rose, Reggie Jackson, Rod Carew, Ron Santo, Will Clark, Yankees
By Chris Olds | Editor
Panini America may not be an official trading card licensee of Major League Baseball, but you wouldn’t know that from the company’s legendary inclusions in the forthcoming 2010 Century Collection set.
No, there aren’t any MLB logos or airbrushed uniforms in the multi-sport and non-sport product — it’s high school and casual photography — but it’s clear that the autograph and memorabilia assets left over from the Donruss days are getting good use and much of it will be in the hands of collectors starting this week.
In fact, it’s that non-traditional photography that might make these cards stand out from others — whether the significance or story behind the photo is noted on the card or not. (They likely aren’t … in their place an authenticity statement.) For example, the Paul Molitor card shown above is from his behind-the-scenes tour of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., back in 2004.
The bat he’s holding? It’s a Babe Ruth gamer.
Filed under: Beckett Media, Leaf, MLB | Tags: Cut Autographs, cut autos, Cut signatures, Joe Jackson, leaf sports icons, leaf sports icons update, Shoeless Joe Jackson
By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor
Next week, the search for “Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s cut autograph begins with the release of 2010 Leaf Sports Icons Cut Signatures.
Each box will have one pack with three cards, two cut autographs and a Jackson insert.
Only 340 master cases will be made and each case will be numbered. Some of the names in the set include Babe Ruth, Cy Young, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Kennesaw Mountain Landis, Roger Maris, Jackie Robinson and Ty Cobb.
The limited set is going to offer one of four collectors the chance to win a Jackson cut autograph.
Three of the Jackson Four Leaf Clover cards will be inserted into the product, while the fourth will be given to a the collector who presents the most-completed set of 2010 Leaf Sports Icons Update. One of these collectors will win a Jackson cut signature at the 2011 National Sports Collectors Convention.
Check out pictures from the Jackson insert set after the jump.
Filed under: Hobby Stories, MLB, NFL | Tags: game-used jersey, Hall of Fame, Joe Jackson, Mike Ornstein, Reggie Bush, Super Bowl ticket scandal
Here’s a look at two stories with hobby-related ties in the mainstream media recently …
Chicago Sun-Times: Shoeless Joe Jackson Hall of Fame jersey a fake
Yahoo! Sports: Sports marketer Mike Ornstein awaits sentencing on fraud charges
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Olds’ Take: It’s unfortunate in the Jackson case that one of the greatest sports memorabilia collections, the Barry Halper collection, had an example of a bad item show up in Cooperstown. Even expert collectors with plenty of industry ties like the late Halper will make mistakes when buying items. (It’s no Black Betsy, but it reminds me of that one Nick Swisher game-used bat I bought … I bet you have something in your collection you’re not 110 percent certain on. Then again, our collections probably aren’t destined for Cooperstown.)
As for the Ornstein case, it’s one that is wide in scope for the NFL — but primarily for the ticket scalping scandal. The game-used jersey aspect isn’t good, either. Yet, at the same time, it probably shouldn’t be unexpected as there are a lot of modern-day game-used jerseys out there that show little to no use at all to distinguish it from another game-issue jersey. Game-issue could, in theory, be quite plentiful. The card companies have to do their homework — and they do — while buying from trusted/approved sources. Unfortunately, if a player agent isn’t a trusted source … who is? Nobody is closer to an athlete.
In an era where rookie photo shoot jerseys are used en masse on memorabilia cards — even the high-end products — this shouldn’t sting as badly as it might.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
Filed under: MLB, Upper Deck | Tags: 2010 Upper Deck, 2010 Upper Deck baseball, Andy Pettitte, baseball, baseball cards, Chase Utley, Derek Jeter, Elvis Andrus, Joe Jackson, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, MLB, new york yankees, Pete Rose, Sarah Palin, Shin-Soo Choo, Upper Deck
Upper Deck revealed on Friday that there are four rare retail short-prints to be found for its 2010 baseball card set and that there are two more “double take” players with photo variation cards.
The four SPs include Sarah Palin, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Pete Rose and a five-time world New York Yankeees champions card featuring Jorge Posada, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettitte. The Palin and Rose cards are found in packs in Walmarts, while the other two cards can only be found in packs at Target stores.
Filed under: Hall of Fame, MLB, Upper Deck | Tags: 2010 Upper Deck, baseball, baseball cards, Baseball Hall of Fame, Goudey, Joe Jackson, Pete Rose, Upper Deck
This is another of those benefits of being unlicensed.
Upper Deck announced Wednesday that it has signed all-time hits leader Pete Rose to an autograph deal to include him in the company’s 2010 baseball sets.
He will make his debut alongside “Shoeless” Joe Jackson in 2010 Goudey Baseball, which is set to arrive on March 18.
Like Jackson, Rose is on baseball’s ineligible list after he was banned for life for gambling. Because of this, Rose cannot appear on any cards or memorabilia licensed by Major League Baseball Properties. Upper Deck’s 2010 cards are only licensed by the MLB Players Association.
Because of this, Rose has appeared on just one card produced by Upper Deck — a card in the the 1994 Upper Deck: The American Epic set (above). His only appearances on cards since 1989 (not many) have been in products that were not licensed by MLB Properties.
Filed under: MLB, Upper Deck | Tags: 1919 World Series, 2010 Goudey, 2010 Upper Deck, baseball, baseball cards, Black Sox scandal, Chicago White Sox, Joe Jackson, MLB
This is one of those advantages of not being fully licensed.
Upper Deck announced Tuesday that it will include “Shoeless” Joe Jackson in its 2010 Goudey baseball card set, which is scheduled to arrive on March 16.
The set will include cards of Jackson as well as game-used bat cards and will be the first of a few 2010 Upper Deck products to include the disgraced star.
The highest-profile player in the 1919 Black Sox scandal where the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series, “Shoeless Joe,” appears on just 209 baseball cards and nearly a quarter of those were made unlicensed by Donruss in 2008.
Jackson and all other players on Major League Baseball’s ineligible list cannot appear on baseball cards licensed by MLB Properties. However, Upper Deck did include a bat card of Jackson (his first memorabilia card; above) in its 2001 SP Legendary Cuts set, which ruffled some MLB feathers at the time.
“The legend of Shoeless Joe Jackson grows every year,” said Gabriel Garcia, Upper Deck’s baseball brand manager, in a news release. “We are extremely excited to have reached an agreement with his estate that allows us to include this former baseball standout in many of our sets next year.”
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Graded Card Investor. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
Filed under: MLB | Tags: Auction Houses, auctions, baseball, baseball cards, Eddie Plank, Heritage auctions, Joe Jackson, MLB, T206, Tobacco Cards, Ty Cobb, vintage baseball cards
The impressive haul of rare and high-grade key vintage baseball cards — The Freedom Collection — in the latest Heritage Auctions sale ended on Thursday with a 1909-11 T206 Eddie Plank PSA 6 leading the way at $155,350.
Three notable cards from the collection did not sell — a PSA 8 Ty Cobb 1911 D304 Brunners card estimated at $200,000 — along with a – 1910 T210 Old Mill Series 8 Joe Jackson PSA 2 and a 1910 T210 Old Mill Casey Stengel PSA 6. Those cards are available for purchase now on Heritage’s site, the Cobb with an asking price of $239,000.
The remainder of the collection sold with many of the cards reaching into five-figures.
See a rundown after the jump. See additional images from the auction here.
Filed under: Donruss, MLB | Tags: 1919 World Series, baseball, baseball cards, Black Sox, Black Sox scandal, Chicago White Sox, Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson, MLB, vintage baseball cards
There are plenty of scandals and black eyes for baseball through the years but today is the day, albeit 90 years ago, that one of the most egregious tales officially began.
The Black Sox — the throwing of the 1919 World Series by the Chicago White Sox.
Eight players — Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Lefty Williams, Chick Gandil, Fred McMullen, Swede Risberg, Happy Felsch and Buck Weaver — were banned from the game for life, added to baseball’s ineligible list for their involvement in or knowledge of the fix.
And because those players are on the ineligible list, they have largely been unseen on modern-day baseball cards because they are ineligible to appear on any cards licensed by Major League Baseball.
Filed under: Beckett Media | Tags: 1919 World Series, baseball, Baseball art, baseball cards, baseball memorabilia, Baseball movies, Black Sox scandal, Buck Weaver, Chicago White Sox, Chick Gandil, Eddie Cicotte, Hap Felsch, Joe Jackson, MLB, Monty Sheldon, sketch cards, sports art, World Series
An example of Monty Sheldon's sketch cards -- a past Sheldon’s Sketch Card Champions card of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.
Noted baseball artist Monty Sheldon is commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Black Sox scandal with a series of eight hand-drawn and intricately detailed pencil sketch cards that he will complete, unveil and sell on the anniversary of each game from the 1919 World Series.
His “Eight Men Out” concept is an interesting piece of self-promotion — he already sells his Sheldon’s Sketch Card Champions cards, which are part of a larger set weekly on eBay (user rube77) — but this project will acknowledge the history of the game and, with the auctions’ subjects and timing, also perhaps bring some attention to one of baseball’s more interesting stories.
But it’s also a project that ties into his creative past.
“When I first started painting on baseballs back in 1998, I knew the following year would be the 80th anniversary of the Black Sox scandal, and I finished painting a baseball of each player to correspond with each game’s date,” Sheldon said on Friday afternoon. “Back then, that group of baseballs proved to be quite popular when I would display them at the card shows.
“Now, it is 10 years later, and I wanted to add something special to my sketch card set, so the 90th anniversary set made perfect sense.”
Filed under: Hall of Fame, MLB | Tags: Babe Ruth, baseball cards, Buck Weaver, Casey Stengel, Eddie Mathews, Eddie Plank, Ernie Banks, Heritage auctions, Honus Wagner, Joe Jackson, lou gehrig, Mickey Mantle, The Freedom Collection, Tobacco Cards, Ty Cobb, vintage baseball cards
An impressive collection of rare and high-grade key vintage baseball cards is set to hit the auction block through Heritage Auctions in September, led by a PSA 8 Ty Cobb 1911 D304 Brunners card estimated at $200,000.
The Freedom Collection as a whole is estimated to fetch more than $1.2 million for just 40 cards of Hall of Fame players and will be sold during the Dallas-based company’s Signature Sports Auction that launches on Sept. 10 and ends on Oct. 1. The seller has wished to remain anonymous.
“It absolutely ranks among the finest private collections of high-end cards in the world,” said Heritage’s Chris Ivy in a release. “Only the most iconic names in baseball history are represented, and each of the 40 cards rate among the highest graded available … It’s rare to have a single six-figure card in an entire auction, and there are several examples in this small but special collection.”
It includes “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays among the highlights. See a sampling of the cards after the jump.
Filed under: MLB, Upper Deck | Tags: 1989 Upper Deck, 2008 Playoff Prime Cuts, baseball cards, Beckett Media, Chicago White Sox, Donruss, Joe Jackson, Ken Griffey Jr., MLB, Seattle Mariners, Upper Deck
We received hundreds of entries in our Beckett Sports Card Monthly-exclusive contest for the 2008 Prime Cuts Joe Jackson Icons dual bat card we pulled from a Box Busters video right here a few months ago.
But there’s only one winner.
The Beckett Blog 