Card Corner Club

From March 1st and March 28th, collectors will have the chance to collect 5 different players every week. Lots of prizes and bonuses for collecting every player.

Find your participating shop.

Only two short weeks after receiving Danica Patrick's race used fire suit from her Nationwide debut in Daytona, Press pass is set to release Premium, featuring the first cards of race used gear from Danica Patrick.

Approximate Release Date: 04/28/2010

Configuration: 5 cards per pack, 20 packs per box

Base Set: 100 cards featuring all new photography

Product Highlights
Look to pull (1) Race-Worn Memorabilia and (1) Autographed cards per box (on average

Hot Threads- Race-used firesuits....1:20

Press Pass Premium Signatures- Exclusive autograph...1:20

The complete checklist and sell sheet are attached for your convenience.

HOBBY RELEASE DATE: JUNE 2, 2010
HOBBY CONFIGURATION: 11 CARDS, 1 PACKS, 15 BOXES
HOBBY PACK SRP: $100.00

BOX BREAK
Four Autograph or Memorabilia cards (at least one autograph), three commons #’d to 325, one bronze parallel, one 5x7 Box Topper #’d to 225 and three others

CASE BREAK
Look for one or more of following autographs: Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Shaquille O’Neal, Stephen Curry, Tyreke Evans and Brandon Jennings. Also find two 5x7 Autographed Box Toppers per case.

HIGHLIGHTS
Exclusive Kobe Bryant on-card autographs

Find Exclusive Brandon Jennings and Tyreke Evans rookie autographs

Elegant Supreme Court insert with on-card signatures from the top NBA stars

Find redemptions for one of 120 exclusive Kobe Bryant signed 16x20 Lithos

Checklist Attached

ITG recently added new images and checklists for the Non Memorabilia Inserts 09-10 Between The Pipes, including Gold Medal Masks, Tribute and Net Brawlers II. We are especially excited for Gold Medal Masks that which is a 9 card set featuring goalies who played in Vancouver 2010, including the Men's Gold Medal Game!

Also added are the Game-Used Memorabilia Checklist, Base Card Checklist, the Goaliegraph Checklist, the always popular Masked Men II Checklist.

Complete Details, Images and Checklists

In The Game's Between the Pipes releases March 25th.

When: August 4-8th, 2010
Where (City): Baltimore, MD
Where (Venue): Baltimore Convention Center

General Admission: This ticket admits one person. A single-day General Admission Ticket is good for ONE DAY ONLY - ANY DAY OF THE EVENT - including Wednesday Sneak Peek!
$16.50

VIP Package: A VIP Ticket provides entrance for one person to all 5 days of the show including the Wednesday Night Sneak Peek. VIPs also receive an exclusive VIP Gift Package, 12 FREE VIP autographs, one-half hour early admission each day, use of the VIP lounge and additional benefits!
$119

Super VIP: SUPERVIP Ticket provides entrance for one person to all 5 days of the show including the Wednesday Night Sneak Peek. SUPERVIPs also receive an exclusive DOUBLE VIP Gift Package, 18 FREE VIP autographs,
one-half hour early admission each day, use of the VIP lounge and additional benefits!
$159

LAS VEGAS, NV - An impassioned initial meeting of the Industry Summit's content advisors Tuesday generated consensus on primary goals and strategies for the April 11-14 event.

The content committee - Evan Kaplan, MLBPA; Mike Phillips, Upper Deck; Lisa Stellato, Evolution Sports Marketing/Never Enough Cards; Lloyd Kee, GTS Distribution; Wayne Wagner, Wayne's Sports Cards; and Daryl McKay, Sports images - is tasked with recommending content that will provide value to all participating classes of trade at the Vegas Summit.

At Tuesday's meeting, members said increased collaboration between all classes of trade is critical to advancement.

"We have to accept that we're all in this together," Stellato said. "As a retailer, I have to accept that I cannot be successful, long term, if the manufacturers and distributors are not. We have to work together at the Summit and beyond to fix things that can make a difference, not only to maintain our industry but to help in its growth."

Other committee members' principal goals for the Summit:

What? Quickly capitalizing on their announcement yesterday of having reached agreement with USA Baseball for exclusive licensing rights to produce Team USA baseball cards, Topps released early details on when collectors can anticipate getting their first taste in 2010.

Team USA Chrome inserts will be included in 2010 Bowman when it ships in May. They will be seeded 1 per 4- packs and will also be found with the following parallel variations:

Refractor Parallel Sequentially #'d 750.

Blue Refractor Parallel Sequentially #'d 250.

Gold Refractor Parallel Sequentially #'d 50.

Orange Refractor Parallel Sequentially #'d25.

Red Refractor Parallel Sequentially #'d 5. Hobby Only

Super-Fractor Parallel Sequentially numbered 1/1. Hobby Only

Printing Plates Sequentially numbered 1/1. Jumbo Box Only

The roster includes:

2009 National Team

USA-BC1
Trevor Bauer P

USA-BC2
Chad Bettis P

USA-BC3
Bryce Brentz P/OF

USA-BC4
Michael Choice OF

USA-BC5
Gerrit Cole P

USA-BC6
Christian Colon IF

Configuration: (4) Packs Per Box, (4) Cards Per Pack

Per Box Highlights:
(4) Autographs or Memorabilia Jersey Cards Per Box
(2 Autographs + 2 Jersey Cards)
(1) Rookie Card

MSRP: $40 per pack, $150-$160 per box

Key Rookies:
Blake Griffen
Tyreke Evans
Brandon Jennings
Tyler Hansbrough
Ty Lawson

Notes: All Kobe Bryant autographs will be ON CARD!

Sports card leader can continue selling recently released baseball products as part of the mutually agreed-upon settlement

Carlsbad, CA (March 3, 2010) – Today, the Upper Deck Company and Major League Baseball are pleased to announce that both parties have mutually agreed to settle the lawsuit brought by Major League Baseball against Upper Deck. Per the terms of the settlement agreement, Upper Deck has agreed not to use MLB trademarks including team names and/or logos on its trading cards going forward. As such, many of Upper Deck’s scheduled baseball product launches already in the pipeline for 2010 will not be released. However, Upper Deck can continue to sell three recently released baseball products currently on store shelves: 2009 Signature Stars, 2009 Ultimate Collection and 2010 Upper Deck Series One.

As an update to our original preview of Legacy,today, Upper Deck released new rookie card images including autographs.

DURHAM, N.C. — USA Baseball and the Topps Company, the leading creator and marketer of sports cards, today announced an exclusive multi-year licensing deal to make Topps the Official Baseball Card of USA Baseball. Topps will have exclusivity on USA Baseball trademarks, logos and other intellectual property, for use on cards featuring USA Baseball players.

From 1984-93 Topps was the exclusive card manufacturer for USA Baseball, producing cards for the U.S. Olympic Baseball Team. The new agreement calls for cards, autographs and game-used equipment of USA Baseball’s Collegiate, 18U and 16U National Team players to be featured in a variety of Topps products each year.

Organizers unveil new format for industry discussion/debate

LAS VEGAS, NV - Key sales executives from Upper Deck and Topps have agreed to a discussion forum on internet retailing and the resultant impact on hobby stores as a featured segment of the 2010 Industry Summit, organizers announced today.
Mike Phillips, hobby sales director at Upper Deck, and David Reel, hobby sales director at Topps, will address the issue that hobby retailers say is "most critical'' to their businesses entering the Summit.
"We realize it is THE topic that hobby stores want us to address,'' Phillips said. "I look forward to discussing the ideas and potential solutions that the Summit's retail attendees bring to the table, as well as being able to share our thoughts and vision on this urgent topic with the group as well.''

Said Reel: "I am glad to meet to discuss the impact of the current internet retailing world on brick-and-mortar hobby stores. The format will allow for good discussion and increased understanding throughout the business.''

Release Date: April 2010

Configuration: (1) Graded PSA 7 or Higher pre-1970 Vintage Card OR 1 PSA/DNA Authenticated pre-1970 Autographed Card Per Pack

SRP: TBD

Sell Sheet with additional details attached.

With glowing hearts, CSE Games is proud to present Hockey Canada RPS 27: The Rock-Paper-Scissors Jigsaw Battle. Following Canada's dramatic overtime victory over the US in Men's Hockey, the Burlington, Ontario company has officially released its first kid's focused product - with a truly Canadian hockey theme.

For ages six (6) and up, RPS 27 is a unique puzzle game of rock-paper-scissors developed by GT2 Fun & Games Inc. from Vancouver, British Columbia. The game is quick, fun, easy-to-learn and takes 10 to 20 minutes to play. Printed in the US, each game of Hockey Canada RPS 27 includes 18 high-quality puzzle pieces and there are 27 pieces to collect in all.

The premiere edition of RPS 27 features classic Team Canada hockey jerseys from 1920 to 2010 and production quantities are very limited.

Hockey Canada RPS 27 is available now. Ask for it at quality toys and games retailers across Canada and on Amazon.com in the US. Suggested retail price: $14.99.