| Baseball Card Writing
Contest |
7/22/2008
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7/18/2008
Time for a new contest!
This writing contest is for a 2008 Topps Chrome Baseball Hobby Box!! There
will be 1 lucky winner.
As most of you know, for the past 10 years Sportscardfun.com has been all about
trying to help people use the Internet safely and effectively for trading sports
cards. Several years ago I wrote a FREE guide to help "newbies" learn all of the
ins and outs of on-line sports card trading. Quite frankly, there was a bit of
selfish motivation on my part in writing this; the more people who know how to
use the Internet to trade properly and safely, the easier our job is running
Sportscardfun.com.
This on-line guide/booklet is called:
The Sports Card
Collectors Guide to Trading on the Internet
Since it's been several years that the guide was promoted, we thought it
would be a fun way to give it a plug and hopefully help more people along the
way. For this contest we'd like you to write us either a book review or a press
release for the guide. The goal of your essay is explain the benefits of the
booklet and to encourage people to read it.
Here are the rules and additional guidelines for you to follow:
1. You must read the guide (it's not long and you might just benefit from it!)
2. The subject for your essay must contain the title of the guide The Sports
Card Collectors Guide to Trading on the Internet (other than that you can spice
it up how you'd like)
3. Stick to the subject.
4. You must provide us with 1 item of constructive criticism. In other words,
what could make the guide better? If you're writing a press release type of
essay you can just add this piece separately if you'd like to.
5. You must write a minimum of 200 words. (less than 200 words do
not get entered to win)
6. All essays must be turned in by August 1st, 2008
7. Use our contact form to submit your
finished entry.
8. All qualifying entries will be posted on our site.
Remember, August 1st, 2008 is the deadline!
Good luck!
Darcy
Sportscardfun.com
Be sure to check out our previous baseball card essay contest
entries. These essays are full of great ideas and useful information about
baseball cards:
Baseball
cards on Baseball Tonight
Baseball card show or a
good baseball card shop?
I'm going to save the baseball card industry and here's how I'm going to do
it.
Why Should a kid start collecting baseball cards?
Visit our
baseball card boxes page for new
release information and viewing of some great hobby products!
7/24/2008
NAXCOM.com announced today that it is
changing the
name of its online sports collectibles marketplace to SportsBuy.com
7/22/2008
* Lucky Egg
Wins
Collectors $1,300 In Cards
* Upper Deck Announces
Fifth SPx Baseball Mystery Redemption - Collin Balester of the Nationals
is the next player added to the 2008 SPx Baseball set
7/16/2008
Sportkings Series B Adds Value, Maintains Price Point
7/15/2008
Fukudome baseball cards added to Remainder of 2008 Topps Baseball
Products
7/11/2008
Challenge Games today announced the release of Baseball Boss, the first free
online game to bring together the nostalgia of
baseball card collecting with the excitement of fantasy sports.
7/10/2008
Lot's of baseball card goodies at the 2008 MLB All-Star FanFest:
Topps’ eight-card redemption set
Topps will also offer a complete of 2008 Topps Baseball featuring 2008 All-Star
packaging and five exclusive Yankee Legends cards.
Upper Deck also has a redemption program
read more
7/9/2008
* Upper Deck Enters Last Month of Company’s
“Show Us Your Box Breaks!™” Promotion
* After months of speculation, collectors holding the much publicized
2007
Donruss Elite Extra Edition Redemption card #130 will have to wait a few
weeks longer
7/7/2008
*
Baseball card dealer portrayed as crooks in new movie - has Mr. Mint
steaming mad.
*
Limited edition trading cards featuring photos of favorite MLB players
when they were babies
7/3/2008
* Topps today announced the player redeemable for the
2008 Topps
Baseball Series 2 Red Hot Rookie Redemption #6 is Chris Davis of the
Texas Rangers.
*
2009 Hawaii/Mainland Conference returning to Florida
7/2/2008
* Dmitri Young's
HOF Rookie Card Collection On Display At National
*
The skinny on this year's National
6/24/2008
Fukudome Revealed as
Topps
Finest Rookie Baseball Card Redemption #3
6/19/2008
*
Upper Deck Reveals Third SPx Baseball Mystery Redemption. Rays Third
Baseman,
Evan Longoria,
set to shine in 2008 SPx Baseball
*
Temporary Restraining Order Has Been Dissolved For Distribution of Upper Deck
Products:
“Upper Deck is pleased we are able to get 2008 SP Legendary Cuts Baseball into
the market for our collectors,” said Tim Muret, Upper Deck’s vice president of
Sports Cards and Memorabilia. “The product has such a huge following and we are
happy collectors will get to enjoy the experience of pulling the exciting cut
signature autographs of baseball’s greatest stars.”
7/1/2008
* Ever Wonder What the
Largest Baseball Card Set in History Looks Like?
* Rick Porcello, the minor league's top pitching prospect and the first-round
pick of the Detroit Tigers in 2007, has signed a deal with the Donruss Trading
Card Company to offer
his
first-ever autographed trading cards.
6/18/2008
* Topps officials today confirmed that the player redeemable for the 2008
Topps
Baseball Series 2 Red Hot Rookie Redemption #3 is John Bowker of the San
Francisco Giants.
*
Honus Wagner card changes hands for $5 (warning, this story is not for
the feint of heart)
6/16/2008
* Always good to hear about a new
baseball card shop opening up
6/16/2008
*
NAXCOM names new CEO
6/13/2008
* Topps announces the player redeemable for the 2008 Topps Baseball Series 2 RED
HOT ROOKIE Redemption # 2 is Justin Masterson, Pitcher, Boston Red Sox.
*
Topps to Offer Limited Edition Cards Celebrating New York Greatness at
Fanfest
* The Second
SPx
Baseball Mystery Redemption Is Clayton Kershaw
* Topps is suing Upper Deck over
Legendary Cuts baseball cards
6/6/2008
* Ebay's "Buy it now" items are the
fastest growing segment of eBay’s business.
*
Hobby retailers hope sales, traffic will heat up
* Topps Announces
New On-Line Redemption Card Program
*
Sportkings Series B is scheduled to release July 28
* Assembling
New Upper Deck Trading Cards Proves to be a Hair Raising Experience
6/5/2008
* Upper Deck Shares Unannounced
Fukudome Japanese Rookie Card
6/2/2008
*
Clinton versus Obama baseball cards: Upper Deck Predicts a Winner with
New Baseball Parody Cards! Trading card company unveils caricature baseball card
featuring a high-spirited Hillary supporting the Obama campaign
* Topps Town (went
live yesterday) will bring together the popularity of trading cards with the
exploding world of web-based social networking to create the first online sports
community for kids. To unlock your very own Topps Town, cards are available in
2008 Topps Baseball Series # 2, now on sale.
5/30/2008
* After acquiring locks of hair from a variety of famous personalities along
with extremely rare cut signatures, Upper Deck is pleased to bring “Hair Cuts”
cards to the market
beginning with 2008 SP Legendary Cuts Baseball.
* Incredibly positive
sales trends for baseball cards
*
Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball returns in 2008 even bigger and better.
From DNA cards to Cut Signatures, Rip Cards and Ancient Icons, this back-to-back
Beckett Product of the Year is set to deliver the quirkiness, fun and
collectability that collectors have come to love since its inception
* A man who police say walked away from a halfway house in Berks County about 18
months ago is charged in the
alleged robbery of nearly $50,000 worth of baseball cards from a
Montoursville business.
5/19/2008
Olbermann's Topps Proof Series Part I
5/14/2008
* 2008 Triple Threads
Baseball Set to Feature Some Amazing Cards
* Upper Deck Announces the
First Winner of Box Break Contest
* Sports
card shop stays open late into the night until all of the games are over
- sounds like it's paying off!
5/13/2008
101 A-Rod Rookies
Walk Through the Door
5/8/2008
Topps is now giving collectors a sneak peek of a
truly unique card that will appear in 2008 Topps Triple Threads Baseball
(releasing late July).
5/7/2008
* The Upper Deck Company says "show
us your box breaks" with their Diamond Vision video program. Those who
submit videos have chances to win prizes. The grand prize this year is a trip to
the World Series.
* Topps announces that it has made three
major enhancements to 2008 Topps Baseball Series 2.
4/25/2008
Collector pulls Babe Ruth cut auto out of 2008 Upper Deck Premier
More news about baseball
cards
| Baseball Card of the
Week |
The Sports Card of the Week (or sports card story) is provided by our members. The Sports Card of the
Week is not selected based on cash value or rarity. Rather, it's simply a card
or story that has some sort of personal value to the person who owns it. We hope to show
you the wide variety of reasons that people collect or find certain cards
appealing. It's just our way of providing a way for collectors to share some of their
passionate for this awesome hobby.
This week's Card Story of the Week is by S & J Sazin (aka
WallytheGreenMonster) from
Ipswich, Massachusetts
It all started in July of 2007, when I picked up the
monthly "Beckett" magazine at a local paper store. I flipped through the pages,
and on the inside of the back cover, I saw an ad for the new "2007 Topps
"K-Mart" Exclusive Baseball Inserts called "Generation Now Arrives". Pictured on
the add were the cards of David Wright, Prince Fielder, and Daisuke Matsuzaka in
the middle.
Now, at the time, Matsuzaka was (and, I guess still is), one of the top players
people want cards of. And around then, not too many cards of Dice-K had come out
yet, so this one a nice, good looking card that I thought I should take a crack
at looking for.
I went to my local "K-Mart", and searched the store for a good "Retail Box" of
07 Topps Series 2. I got one for $19.99 (inside, including 6 of the K-Mart
Inserts). So, I had six chances of pulling the Dice-K I set out for. I got into
the car, and opened up the box. As usual, inserts exclusively from the store are
set on top inside the box, so I just had to open those first.
I flipped through real slowly, to find the order of the inserts to be:
1. David Wright
2. Prince Fielder
3. Bobby Jenks
4. Ian Kinsler
5. Delmon Young
Now, by then, I thought, odds were, "Am I going to pull that Dice-K?"
As i slowly turned the Delmon Young to the side......... there it was. Dice-K
Matsuzaka's "Generation Now Arrives" K-Mart Exclusive Insert RC. I was stunned.
What were the odds? I keep this card on the front page of my Matsuzaka's, just
to remind me that, although there are high odds, you could be the one to break
them.
Read more cool stories about baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards
and hockey cards in our
previous sports cards of the week.
All cards and stories were submitted by our members!
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cards? Check out out sports memorabilia
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resource links about old baseball cards. If you're into basketball
cards you'll want to visit our basketball
cards page. Likewise, we have a good section of information devoted to
new release information about
football cards and hockey cards
as well.
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