Chris Sale Superfractor Auto

CHRIS SALE 2010 BOWMAN CHROME ~WHITE SOX~ SUPERFRACTOR AUTO RC 1/1 MASTERPIECE See original listing
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	Winning bid:	US $1,136.11 [ 47 bids ]

Yu Darvish Auto for 2012 Allen and Ginter

Topps adds Yu Darvish, Richard Petty and others to 2012 Allen & Ginter autograph lineup

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Posted on March 28, 2012 – 9:51 am | Author: chrisolds
Baseball | 2012 Topps Allen & Ginter, Albert Pujols, Cal Ripken Jr., Fatal1ty, featured, Hank Aaron, Ken Griffey Jr, MLB, Richard Petty, Rulon Gardner, Sandy Koufax, Stan Musial, Topps, Willie Mays, Yoenis Cespedes, Yu Darvish | Comments (0)

By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
This year’s edition of Allen & Ginter is still a few months away but that hasn’t stopped Topps from adding even more to its lineup.
And it’s the lineup that matters most to most collectors, the autograph lineup.
The company announced on Wednesday that it will be adding two MLB newcomers and two other sports legends to the popular retro-styled card line. Added to the lineup are new Texas Rangers ace Yu Darvish, new Oakland A’s outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, NASCAR legend Richard Petty and former Olympic wrestler Rulon Gardner.


The additions come in addition to what had been previously announced — no exclusions were mentioned — a lineup that, on the baseball side alone is topped by Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays, Cal Ripken Jr., Stan Musial, Ken Griffey Jr. and Albert Pujols. That’s a lineup perhaps not seen before in the six-year history of the product.
On the non-baseball side, the autographs already included Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model Kate Upton, tennis star Roger Federer, Olympian Michael Phelps, basketball coach Bobby Knight and golfing great Arnold Palmer.
Also added to the list are tennis icon John McEnroe, noted golf instructor Hank Haney and even a video game champion, Fatal1ty (aka Johnathan Wendel).
Others of note on the non-baseball inclusions are: Michael Buffer, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Al Unser Sr., Bela Karolyi, Annie Duke, Don Denkinger, Meadowlark Lemon, Curly Neal, Colin Montgomerie, Erin Andrews, Greg Gumbel, Keegan Bradley and Ara Parseghian.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball magazine. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.

2012 Topps Heritage Error Variations (from Beckett.com)

So, what are the 2012 Topps Heritage variations?

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Posted on March 20, 2012 – 1:24 pm | Author: chrisolds
Baseball | 2012 Topps Heritage, 2012 Topps Heritage SPs, Carlos Pena, Dan Haren, Darwin Barney, featured, Julio Teheran, Kerry Wood, Mark Trumbo, Mike Stanton, Ryan Madson, Topps | Comments (6)

By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
Hope you didn’t jettison some of those 2012 Topps Heritage commons just yet — as there are some tough-to-pull variations to be found inside those packs.
As previously reported here, there are 10 cards in the set that have intentional error-and-correction variations — some as a nod to the 1963 set. While Topps has not yet confirmed these cards, here is our list confirmed with the help of a few dealers around the country.

15 – Darwin Barney, error has no position on the card front
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29 — Brad Peacock, Devin Mesoraco, Justin De Fratus, Joe Savery; error says 1962 Rookie Stars
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54 — John Gaub, Addison Reed, Adron Chambers, Dellin Betances; error says 1962 Rookie Stars
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113 – Kerry Wood, error shows Aramis Ramirez (in a Brewers jersey) in main photo
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231 – Dan Haren, error shows Mark Trumbo in main photo
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341 – Ryan Madson, error shows team name and position in black letters with a red line through secondary photo
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341 – Ryan Madson, error shows team name and position in black letters with a white line through secondary photo
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380 – Carlos Pena, error has “complete major and minor league batting record” on stats header on the back
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454 – Julio Teheran, error lacks a white box around the card number on the back
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483 – Mike Stanton, error has a W instead of R over the runs stats column on the back
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We’ll have more on the color-swap and image-swap variations found in Heritage in the next issue of Beckett Baseball.

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Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball magazine. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.

Tobacco (cigarette) Cards

This Allen and Ginter pair were manufactured almost 125 years apart. On the left is the elusive 2010 Stephen Strasburg and on the right is the 1887 John Teemer. I just discovered however that the original Allen and Ginter tobacco cards were made slightly longer than the new ones that Topps has made. It doesn't fit in the standard tobacco card case. Oh well. Below is a little history of tobacco cards:

Beginning in 1875, cards depicting actresses, baseball players, Indian chiefs, and boxers were issued by the US-based Allen and Ginter tobacco company. These are considered to be some of the first cigarette cards.^[2] Other tobacco companies such as Goodwin & Co. soon followed suit. They first emerged in the US, then the UK, then, eventually, in many other countries.
In the UK, W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1887 were one of the first companies to include advertising cards with their cigarettes, but it was John Player & Sons in 1893 that produced one of the first general; interest sets ‘Castles and Abbeys’. Thomas Ogden soon followed in 1894 and in 1895, Wills produced their first set ‘Ships and Sailors’, followed by ‘Cricketers' in 1896. In 1906, Ogden’s produced a set of football cards depicting footballers in their club colours, in one of the first full-colour sets.
Each set of cards typically consisted of 25 or 50 related subjects, but series of over 100 cards per issue are known. Popular themes were 'beauties' (famous actresses, film stars and models), sporters (in the US mainly baseball, in the rest of the world mainly football and cricket), nature, military heroes and uniforms, heraldry^[3] and city views.
Today, for example, sports and military historians study these cards for details on uniform design.^[4]
Some very early cigarette cards were printed on silk which was then attached to a paper backing. They were discontinued in order to save paper during World War II, and never fully reintroduced thereafter.

World Record

Early in 2007, a world record price was paid in America for a single card - $2,350,000. This card was sold later on in the year for another world record price $2,800,000. The card in question featured Honus Wagner, one of the great names in U.S. baseball at the turn of the 20th century. Wagner was a dedicated non-smoker and objected when America’s biggest tobacco corporation planned to picture him on a cigarette card without his permission. Threats of legal action prevented its release, but a few slipped out, and it was one of these that stunned the collecting world when it was auctioned.<sup>[5]

For More, please continue reading at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_card</sup>

 

Sweet card - Winning bid...$4567.00

1921 E121 AMERICAN CARAMEL BABE RUTH BASEBALL CARD PSA 2 GRADED
Item condition:	--
Ended:	Mar 19, 201218:36:11 PDT
Bid history:	52 bids
Winning bid:	US $4,567.00

2012 Topps Heritage Hank Aaron Auto Surfaces!

2012 Topps Heritage Real One Autograph Auto Hank Aaron
Item condition:	--
Time left:	ENDED
Bid history:	27 bids

Current bid:	US $390.00

The 'Darvish Dementia' Begins

2012 TOPPS TRIBUTE YU DARVISH TEXAS RANGERS AUTOGRAPH #'D /25
Item condition:	Brand New
Time left:	Ended
Bid history:	31 bids
Current bid:	US $1,300.00