Over the past two months, I have found myself spending more time searching for cards on eBay and less on COMC. COMC, or Check Out My Cards, is an online trading card consignment store. You send them your cards and they load them to their marketplace and ship them when they’re purchased. Although I’ve never sold any of my cards on COMC, I’ve purchased several thousand cards over the past...
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The baseball card release calendar for 2022 kicks off in a week as Topps releases its flagship product, 2022 Topps Series One. A 330-card set, Topps returns this year with a simple, yet traditional design and much less busy than last’s year set design. The card features a solid white border with a player picture framed by team colors with the team and player name under the picture and the team...
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Earlier this week, MLB and the MLBPA met on back-to-back days in an attempt to negotiate a deal that could possibly end the current owner-imposed lockout. Any hope that a deal can reached before the date for pitchers and catchers to report for Spring Training may have gone up in smoke as The Athletic’s Evan Drellich reported that people with knowledge of the discussions taking place have said...
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When the Mets acquired Keith Hernandez from the St. Louis Cardinals for pitchers Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey in June 1983, the course of the franchise was suddenly altered. General manager Frank Cashen had already begun stockpiling young players through the amateur draft but needed veteran leadership. Keith Hernandez provided.This era in Mets history also coincided with what is referred to in the...
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We’re almost two weeks into the new year and a little over a month away from the release of the year’s first product, the 330 card 2022 Topps Series One. As we prepared to close the book in 2021, three new products were released by Topps on December 31st: 2021 Bowman Draft, 2021 Bowman Heritage, and 2021 Bowman’s Best.While Bowman Draft offers multiple parallel sets and an opportunity to pull...
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