Tri City Sports PL to release 2011 Auto's and Rookie's Graded Football

Tri City Sports PL has just announced they will be releasing 2011 Tri City Sports PL Graded Auto's and Rookie's Football. At only 30 total cases it's a very limited product.  Considering how fast their last product sold out, 2011 Diamond Cut, which was also had a production run of only 30 cases, this product could go fast.

2011 Tri City Sports PL Graded Auto's and Rookie's Football offers a nice combo of graded autos, rookie and vintage cards.  There is even a chance to pick up game used items and Presidential cut autos.  All cards are graded by PSA or BGS.

There will 20 hobby boxes per case with 3 hits per hobby box and there will be hot boxes with double the amount of hits with 6 each.

The hits of the box will include 1 graded Hall Of Fame auto, rookie auto, rookie year card or vintage graded card Per Box and 2 game used relic, autograph or patch cards.

There are case hits that come 2 to a case that include 1/1 numbered auto, relic or printing plates, Reebok logo tag patch or NFL logo tag patch card, Incased President cut auto that are PSA/DNA Certified or PSA or BGS graded blue chip graded rookie cards.

Also included are game used memorabilia case hits for helmets, jerseys and gloves.

Here is a checklist from their website - http://www.tricitysportspl.com/autosrookiesfootball.htm

Blue Chip Graded Cards odds 1 Per 40 Hobby Boxes

1957 Topps Bart Starr Rookie Graded PSA

1976 Topps Walter Payton Rookie Graded PSA 9

1984 Topps Dan Marino Rookie Graded PSA 10

1984 Topps John Elway Rookie Graded PSA 9 

1991 Stadium Club Brett Favre Rookie Graded PSA 10                  

1998 Co Signers Peyton Manning/ Dan Marino Duel Auto   Graded PSA 10 

1998 SPX Peyton Manning Rookie Graded PSA 9

2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady Rookie Auto Graded BGS 9

2000 SPA Tom Brady Rookie Auto Graded BGS 9        

2001 SPA Michael Vick Rookie Auto Patch Graded BGS 9 

2005 Exquisite Aaron Rodgers Rookie Auto Patch Graded BGS 9 

2005 Exquisite Aaron Rodgers Rookie Auto Patch Graded BGS 8.5

2005 Playoff Contenders Aaron Rodgers Auto Graded BGS

2008 Topps Rookie Premiere Matt Ryan Rookie Auto Graded PSA 10

2010 Donruss Tim Tebow Rookie Auto Graded BGS 9.5

President Cut Autos PSA/DNA Incased and PSA/DNA Certified (All cuts are limited to 1 PSA/DNA slabbed item)

George W Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, Barack Obama

Game Used Memorabilia Items – Odds 1 Per 20 Box Hobby Case

Game Used Helmet's (Helmets Are Redemptions)

Austin Miles Cowboys Helmet

Brett Favre Green Bay Packers Helmet

Peyton Manning Colts Helmet

Ray Rice Ravens Helmet

Game Used Jersey's (Jerseys Are Redemptions)

Austin Miles Cowboys Home Jersey

Austin Miles Cowboys Away Jersey

Brandon Jacobs Giants Home Jersey

Dustin Keller Jets Home Jersey

Ray Rice Ravens Home Jersey

Tim Tebow Broncos Away Jersey

Game Used Gloves (Gloves are inserted in to boxes) (Boxes that contain a Glove will only contain the Glove and 1 Graded Card)

Brandon Lafell Panthers Gloves (2 Total Gloves)

Brandon Jacobs Giants Gloves (4 Total Gloves)

Joe McKnight Jets Gloves (2 Total Gloves)

Austin Miles Cowboys Gloves (4 Total Gloves)

Adrian Petterson Vikings Gloves (4 Total Gloves)

Jeremy Shockey Giants Gloves (4 Total Gloves)

The expected release date is May 2011.

To find out more about the release, go to http://www.tricitysportspl.com/autosrookiesfootball.htm

Blake Griffin Signs an Exclusive Agreement with Panini America

Blake Griffin, who’s rookie cards have been soaring in value, has just put his autograph on another Panini America item, an exclusive multi-year agreement with the company.

Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers joins Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder and John Wall, of the Washington Wizards as part of the growing roster of Panini exclusive athletes.

As part of the agreement, Griffin will be featured on Panini products, packaging, and advertising, but perhaps more importantly his autographs and memorabilia will be found only in Panini products.

Along with their other exclusive athletes, Griffin will be at the forefront of the company’s new Panini Authentic memorabilia division that launches next month.

In addition, Griffin, Bryant, Durant and Wall will be highlighted in the much-anticipated Panini HRX video trading cards that will feature with unique behind-the-scenes content and individualized footage.

2011 Press Pass Football Hobby Box Break, another All About Cards SPEED-break™

With the 2011 NFL draft just three weeks away, here's our SPEED-break™ of 2011 Press Pass Football cards.  Five minutes, five on-card autos, one hundred and forty cards shown. 

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Bye Bye Manny. Ramirez retires after being notified about an MLB drug policy issue.

Six games into his 19th season in the Major Leagues, Manny Ramirez has announced he is retiring.  This is on the heels of his notification of an issue under the MLB's drug policy.

The commissioner's office issued a statement Friday stating that rather than go through MLB's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, Ramirez decided to retire. There was no announcement whether or not Ramirez tested positive for a banned substance, but Manny has previously served a 50-game suspension for violating the drug policy while he was with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

So Manny will end his career as a 12 time All-Star selection, 9 time Silver Slugger Award winner, 2 time Hank Aaron Award winner, 2 time World Series champion wining the World Series Most Valuable Player Award in 2004, and having led the AL in batting average in 2002, home runs in 2004 and RBI’s in 1999.

Short Print Cam Newton and Very Short Print Ryan Mallett to be found in 2011 SAGE HIT High Series Football

2011 is turning out to be the year of the SP and the SSP.   We were one of the first to spot the Alex Rodriguez mirror image SSP’s and have kept you up to date on all the other 2011 Topps Heritage short prints and variations.

We just did a Box Break of 2011 SAGE HIT High Series Football and noticed something odd, almost another mirror card.   Take a look.

It’s not a mirror, but definitely a variation of card number 100 as you can see from the back.

The Cameron Newton with the orange stripe on his sleeve, the one with him on the right side of the card is a short print.   But why is does the SP of Cam Newton exist?

When SAGE was going to print, they were missing one image, one for a pre-rookie card. That left a blank space on the printing form.  To make their deadline, instead of leaving the space blank, they filled it with a 2nd base card version of the Cam Newton.  Kinda of a win-win situation, nothing gets wasted and collectors wind up being able to chase a short print of a player who is scheduled to be an early pick in the draft, if not the first pick.

The image was used on the opposite side (right side) of the card to allow the SP to be easily identified. So the base card SP should have about the same printing numbers as the Pre-Rookie cards.

But what about the Pre-Rookie card that wasn’t printed?  

The missing image was of Ryan Mallett, another player who is scheduled to be an early pick in the draft. That image was eventually found but it was too late to put in the regular print.  The Pre-Rookie Ryan Mallett card (#PR6) was printed digitally, which takes far less time than conventional printing. But it was printed at an even lesser number than the other Pre-Rookie cards, making it a very short print. Here is a look at the card. 

The Mallett SSP was inserted in the boxes of 2011 SAGE HIT High Series Football randomly at the last minute.

So be on the look out for both of these cards.

The Power of the Internet. When one Tweet leads to another, great things can happen.

When people talk about the power of the Internet, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the technology and forget that it really is just an access tool.  A tool that enables one to reach vast numbers of people, but only as powerful as the character of those you reach.

You are reading this blog post, which has power in numbers. Some of you come by way of our Facebook page and even more of you follow us on Twitter.  Through tweets of 140 characters or less, the mundane can be passed on or the seriousness of someone’s passing can be shared.    While a constant IV drip of tweet updates like “I need to sneeze, no tissues” can be a waste, sometimes a tweet can lead to great things.

One of my Tweeps is @SportsCardNews and a recent tweet was a simple one ” Old school Giant Gaylord Perry signing autographs http://t.co/2RWThC” 

That’s Baseball Hall of Fame inductee in 1991, Cy Young award winner in both the American & National Leagues, 300+ game winner and notorious spitball pitcher Gaylord Perry, a player who’s auto I’ve been chasing. 

I tweeted @SportsCardNews “Is he charging for that? If not... I don't have him yet, sure would be nice... wink wink”

I got a reply back “let me see what I can do.”

Here is a result of that short exchange.

WOW!

I would have been happy with an auto on the back of a program.  To have a ball arrive on my doorstep was above and beyond.

So while it's amazing that someone could be in another state and casually put out some information that was pertinent to me, a prime example of the power of the Internet is that a short, timely exchange could lead to this.   But it’s not the technology that is the powerful element.   It’s the person on the receiving end.   The technology does not prompt a person to act, the spirit of the person does.

You can follow @SportsCardNews on Twitter and check out his blog at http://www.sportscardreport.info and, of course the other site he is associated with Sports Card Radio and the forum at http://www.sportscardradio.com  and http://www.sportscardradio.com/forum/

Many thanks.

2011 SAGE HIT High Series Football Hobby Box Break, another All About Cards SPEED-break™

To complete the set of cards from our previous break of the low series, here comes 2011 SAGE HIT High Series Football Cards.

This box comes with 10 autographs on average per box.  Check out our SPEED-break™ to see which ten prospect autos we pulled from this hobby box.

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