Nothing like a little voting – bracket style – to get you fired up for March Madness, otherwise known as the NCAA Tournament. Tuff Stuff is creating a bracket of the best 16 rookie cards from the 1980s and '90s in baseball, basketball, football and hockey and pitting them against each other until there is one left standing – all determined by your votes.
Deadline Approaching Collect.com Auctions Catalog Sale Collect.com Auctions is in the home stretch of collecting consignments for the upcoming Catalog Auction No. 4. The deadline is Feb. 13. To consign, call 888-463-3063 or visit www.collect.com/auctions.
We’ve already received some great items for the next Catalog Auction that ends April 8. Among the early highlights are:
1921 E253 Oxford Confectionery Near-Complete Set (16/20) with Babe Ruth & Ty Cobb
1964 Philadelphia Football Complete Set
1909 Croft's Candy E92 Johnny Evers (Blue Back) SGC Authentic
1966 Topps Baseball Cello Pack with Drysdale on top
2 different 1912 T207 Blank Backs
Mickey Mantle & Roger Maris Original Artwork by Darryl Vlasak
1972 NFLPA Iron Ons Complete PSA Graded Set (35)
1961 Golden Press Complete PSA-Graded Set (33) with 16 PSA 9s
W.H. Yawkey & Frank Navin Dual-Signed Check (1904) from Navin's Estate
1916-20 W-UNC Strip Card lot of 9 with Walter Johnson & George Sisler
Bidding starts March 22 and ends April 8. To register, visit www.collect.com/auctions or call 888-463-3063,
Collect.com Auctions, 700 E. State St., Iola, WI 54990.
For more information, call 888-463-3063 or visit www.collect.com/auctions. Check out results from all of our auctions, now on our website.
Next Tuff Stuff Series Looking For Your Top-3 Collectibles With the Olympics just a couple weeks away, Tuff Stuff decided to pay tribute to our Olympic athletes with it's next reader-generated series. While every collector has a few favorites in his/her collections, the reasons behind why they're atop your list can be as interesting as the pieces themselves. Whether its the card your older brother gave you before he left for his duty in the service or the signed photo of your favorite athlete, these items and the stories behind them are at the very essence of why we collect in the first place. To learn more, click here.
Send your submissions to scott.fragale@fwmedia.com or click here.
What's Next For Upper Deck?
By now, many of you have heard the news that Upper Deck is on its way back to the courtroom. Fresh on the heels of its costly lawsuit with Konami for producing counterfeit Yu Gi Oh cards, UD finds itself heading back to court for alleged trademark infringement regarding its recently released baseball card products. After UD released its 2009 Ultimate Collection and Signature Stars Baseball products last week, many who saw the products wondered how the card company could produce sets featuring MLB logos despite the fact that they didn't have a license to do so. Well, less than a week later MLB has responded with a lawsuit against UD coming days after sending a letter to distributors asking them to stop selling the products and return them to the card maker.
To read more, click here.
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The Sports Collectors Monthly Hockey Forum is growing by the hour, thanks to a new Hockey Fantasy League and some coaching changes. Join the ice discussion
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