Earlier this week, Topps celebrated the launch of 2013 Topps Baseball Series 1 and the start of Spring Training with the World’s Largest Baseball Card. Near the Detroit Tigers’ spring training home in Lakeland, Florida, Topps unveiled the massive, 5000-plus square foot image of Prince Fielder spanning a large section of a youth baseball [...]
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Hobby News – The Saturday Edition – 26/01/2013
Posted by tgbrown on January 26th, 2013
Panini News Release: During two days worth of intensive, impassioned and productive distributor meetings at company headquarters earlier this week, Panini America Vice President of Sales, D.J. Kazmierczak, announced that the company would no longer require hobby shops to adhere to a previously instated minimum advertised pricing policy (MAPP) on its products. The policy change [...]
Product Preview – 2013 Panini Triple Play Baseball
Posted by tgbrown on December 14th, 2012
Panini’s 2012 Triple Play Baseball was one of the most enjoyable, affordable, fun-for-all-ages trading card releases of the year. With its entertaining mix of colourful illustrations, wearable eye blacks, temporary tattoos, and stickers, Triple Play was a hit. In late March, 2013 Triple Play Baseball will provide a follow-up to last year’s release with new [...]
Sunday Fun-Day Fun Facts
Posted by tgbrown on December 2nd, 2012
From Michael O’Keefe, New York Daily News: Bill Mastro, the one-time king of sports collectibles who was indicted on a count of fraud in July — and accused of trimming the world’s most expensive baseball card — has agreed to plead guilty to fraud. Mastro, the founder of Mastro Auctions and once the most important [...]
Sunday Fun-Day Fun Facts – 09/09/2012
Posted by tgbrown on September 9th, 2012
From the Portland Press Herald – August 30, 2012 BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — A rare 1888 card of Hall of Fame baseball player Michael ‘‘King’’ Kelly has been sold at auction for $62,000. The buyer was an anonymous collector who made his bid by telephone during the Wednesday night auction in Biddeford. The item was [...]
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