A few retail breaks, checking out the new 2013 Topps Archives Football and Past & Present Basketball. Below is the pack by pack blow of Archives.

2013 Topps Archives

8 Packs – 8 Cards per pack

Pack 1 – Chris Johnson, Julio Jones, DeSean Jackson, Ben Roethlisberger, Willis McGahee (1000 YD Club), Isaiah Pead, Ryan Tannehill, Marques Colston

Pack 2 – Michael Turner, Clay Matthews, Brian Orakpo, Ray Rice (1970 Glossy), Jay Cutler, AJ Jenkins, Mohamed Sanu, Matt Forte

Pack 3 – Kurt Warner, Pierre Garcon, Darrius Heyward-Bay, Robert Turbin, Don Beebe, Kevin Kolb, Matthew Stafford, DeVier Posey

Pack 4 – Willis McGahee, Malcom Floyd, Robert Griffin III (GAME USED JERSEY), David Wilson, Luke Kuechly, Ryan Mathews

Pack 5 – Marshawn Lynch, Bernard Pierce, Kendall Wright, Reggie Bush, Ray Rice, Travis Benjamin, Lamar Miller, Doug Martin

Pack 6 – Rashard Mendenhall, Alex Smith, John Elway, Peyton Manning, Trent Richardson (Stand Up), Percy Harvin, JJ Watt, DeAngelo Williams

Pack 7 – AJ Green, Rueben Randle, Fred Davis, Ben Coates, Michael Vick, Vincent Jackson, Charles Woodson, Victor Cruz

Pack 8 – YA Tittle, Eli Manning, Larry Fitzgerald, LaMichael James, John Elway (1970 Glossy), Eric Decker, Joe Flacco, Darrelle Revis

 

000_0001You’ve all seen the boxes that have the random packs and promise the world, well I tried my luck with the 12 assorted packs + 3 Fat Packs, and it has to be a G-R-E-A-T deal, the box says so… $35 + MSRP Value…. Lets rip and see what we got.

2010 Score – Dwight Freeney, Jonathan Babineaux (Gold Zone 158/299)

2011 Topps Legends – Roger Staubach (116/299) Emmit Smith, Torrey Smith (RC)

2011 Topps – Ed Reed

2012 Topps – Ray Rice (Tall Boy)

2012 Bowman – Doug Martin (Gold RC), Eli Manning

2009 R & S – Nate Davis – Michael Crabtree (Studio RC)

2011 Score – Jake Locker (Hot Rookie)

2012 HIT (2)- Robert Griffin III, Ryan Tannehill

2008 Score – Devin Thomas (RC)

2011 Upper Deck – Jarvis Williams (Star Rookie)

2012 Young Stars – N/A

2011 score (Jumbo) – Brian Urlacher, Matt Forte (Glossy), JJ Watt RC

2012 Hit Jumbo (2) – Doug Martin, Robert Griffin III,

MOJO HIT

 

DPMsportcards has been doing breaks on Mojobreak for quit awhile, and MOJO has struck us. A great looking Ryan Williams Gold Standard NFL Logo 1/1.  Wanna see it pulled? Click here and go to the 5:00 minute mark.

Owner James McWhorterr (WISH TV)

Owner James McWhorterr (WISH TV)

James McWhorter is the owner of The Dugout, a sports memorabilia store located on the west side of Indianapolis. On Sunday morning someone broke into his business, and took off with a signed Peyton Manning football valued at $1,000, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan trading cards, and cash. McWhorter said it took the thief about eight minutes to swipe nearly $8,000 worth of items. To see the story on WISH-TV click here.

Video surveillance (WISH-TV)

Video surveillance (WISH-TV)

000_0001My 2013 Topps baseball Hobby fill wont get here till tomorrow (Wed 30th) so I had to grab some retail stuff. I ended up with 5 packs, 2 Rack Packs, and a Blaster Box. Here’s how those breaks turned out.

5 Packs – 12 Cards per pack

Pack 1 – ARod, Chris Sale (Mini), Aaron Crow (Blue)

Pack 2 – Mark Lowe (Gold), Million $ Chase Code,

Pack 3 – Profar (RC), Roy Holladay (Chasing History), CJ Wilson (Chasing History GU),

Pack 4 – Bryce Harper (Chasing The Dream)

Pack 5 – Kendrys Morales (Green)

2 Rack Packs – 36 Cards

Rack 1 – Logan Ondrusek (Green), Ted Williams (Chasing History), Drew Smyly (Chasing The Dream), Willie Mays (Mini), Million $ Chase Code, Don Mattingly (Chasing History), Ian Kinsler (Chasing History), Yonder Alonso (Blue), Miguel Montero (Blue), Maicer Izturis (Blue), Tim Lincecum (Calling Card)

Pack 2 – Lucas Harrell (Green), Reggie Jackson (Chasing History), Brett Lawrie (Chasing The Dream), RA Dickey (Mini), Million $ Chase Code, Johan Santana (Chasing Histort), Kerry Wood (Chasing History), John Danks (Blue), Justin Masterson (Blue), Chad Billingsley (Blue), Chase Utley (Gold),

Blaster Box – 10 Packs + 1 Patch Card

Pack 1 – CC Sabathia (Chasing History), Addison Reed (Blue), Daniel Nava (Blue),

Pack 2 – Matt Holiday (Green), Felix Herenandez (Calling Card), Aaron Crow (Blue), Jhonny Peralta (Blue)

Pack 3 – Cliff Lee (Mini), Dustin Moseley (Blue), Kenley Jansen (Blue)

Pack 4 – Casey Kelly (Chasing The Dream), Allen Craig (Blue), Ryan Vogelsong (Blue)

Pack 5 – Gaby Sanchez (Blue), Jason Grilli (Blue), Warren Spahn (Chasing History)

Pack 6 –  Million $ Chase Code, Lucas Duda (Blue), Matt Kemp (Blue)

Pack 7 – Nolan Ryan (Mini), Josh Hamilton ( Cut to the Chase), Tyler Colvin (Blue), Justin Maxwell (Blue)

Pack 8 -Michael Brantley (Gold), Cabrera -Trout – Beltre (Green), Brian Matusz (Blue), Chris Davis (Blue)

Pack 9 -Babe Ruth (Chasing History), Jose Reyes (Blue), Will Venable (Blue)

Pack 10 – Mike Trout (Chasing The Dream), Prince Fielder (Calling Card), Jamey Carroll (Blue), Adam Jones (Blue)

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Overall great looking cards with plaenty of inserts. The Strasburg patch card looks awesome even with it being created for 2013 Topps. If you take the time to read the back, I like the Career Chase tidbit on each card, like on Shin-Soo Choo card it reads, “With 265 extra base hits, Choo is 1.212 away from Hank Aaron’s all-time record of 1,477. Or the back of Clayton Kershaw card, we all know now that he’s a big Taylor Swift fan. Like any of the cards listed here check out my Ebay auctions, some will be posted and even more after this weeks Hobby breaks.

The Count

Blues – 27

Calling Cards – 3

Chasing History – 10

Chasing The Dream – 5

Gold – 3

Green – 5

Chaing The Chase – 1

Mini – 5

Code Cards – 4

Game Used cards – 1

 

Stolen Jordan Card

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A valuable basketball card of Michael Jordan was among the items stolen in a series of LaPorte area vehicle break-ins, know police are looking for it’s owner. Check out the full story by clicking here.

WISH-TV

WISH-TV

A Carmel, Indiana sports memorabilia seller is in hot water after online collectors accuse him of collecting the cash but not delivering the goods. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said 17 consumers filed complaints with his office against Brett Lemieux, doing business as Ultimate Athlete Ink and Ultimate Sports Connection. In all, nearly $2,500 exchanged hands in the transactions involved in the complaints. Read and watch the full story over at WISH-TV.

It’s the time of year to reflect back over the last year and ahead to the new. The following list are friends, places, and sites that I spend my time, money, and even just hang out at. They range from blogs, forums, and card shops, places that you should check out if your in town or have some free time surfing the web. So here we go in no order….

1) Sports Collectors Daily – A great site to check out for sports collecting news. Stories are added every day, Monday-Friday. SCDaily gathers card collecting news and stories about the sports memorabilia industry from outlets coast-to-coast, but also publish completely original sports collecting news stories you won’t see anywhere else. The President and Editor of Sports Collectors Daily Incorporated, Rich Mueller, is a long-time television sports anchor, reporter and online journalist that understands what collectors want to read about. (You can also add Fantasy Football Champion to his resume this year)

2) Cardboard Connection Radio – This show hosted by Card Corner Club founder Doug Cataldo, Voice of the Collector’s, Rob Bertrand and Sportsology’s Russ Cohen, it is the longest-running collectibles and trading card show and is broadcasted live every Wednesday and Friday nights on Blogtalkradio.com.  Past guests of the show include Sy Berger, Tracy Hackler, Clay Luraschi, Alan Biegel, Dr. Brian Price, Brian Gray, Chris Carlin, Scott Prusha, Lance Fischer, Dick Perez, J.P. Cohen, Harris Toser, Mark Sapir, and Brian Wallos among many others. Be sure to tune in, you wont be disappointed.

3) Sports Card Radio – While were on the topic of sport card radio, here’s another good one to check out ran by Colin Tedards and his brother Ryan, who also runs Sports Card News. From the podcast, the website and Twitter these guys have it covered, a great job this last year covering The National, I look forward to meeting you guys in Chicago if you guys make the trip.

4) Baseball Card Exchange – The BCE, has really brought the LCS back to the city of Indianapolis. Dont get me wrong there has always been a handful of shops, and card shows on the weekends around here, but owner Andy Albert has given the hobby a big needed boost in this area with case breaks, giveaways, and friendly collector service, willing to help anyone form the super collector to the novice that may just want to look around. Stop in and see Andy, Glenn, Dick or Mindy the store is located at 8519 Westfield Blvd – Indianapolis,IN 46240.

5) Mojobreak.com -Mojobreak was created when two sports card enthusiats, Dan and Doug, realized that they could turn there love for sports cards into a nice hobby business. Mojobreak does its breaks by team so you can pick your favorite team at a fraction of the price. There maybe other sites that do this also, it seems more and more have been poping up all the time, but MojoBreak does it a step above. Great service all around… from the breaks, posting the videos, to the packaging and shipping.

6)More Fun Sports Cards -Owner Ken Zajkowski has been a collector himself for over 40 years, and has been in business for over 30 years. MFSC’s has an extensive inventory that’s second to none, and has friendly, knowledgeable, personal service from Ken and his staff. Check out his Facebook page here, and when in the Region stop by located at 706 Joliet St. (Route 30) in Dyer, IN 46311.

There are many other collectors that help keep this hobby fun, check out my twitter @DPMsportcards to see and follow some of those collectors…. Good Luck to everyone in 2013 and Happy New Year!!!!

I’ve being hearing alot of hype about this Panini Prizm, and in the number of hobby packs I’ve opened I havent seen much, including the few I got yesterday at the LCS. So then news of how “Limited” the retail Prizm would be, but as you know I’m trying to cut back on that retail thing. (Is there a patch for that or gum?) I hit the local Wal-Mart, sure enough retail Prizm. So not to bore you with the pack by pack blow of this product I will give you the 3 “hits” out of the 5 packs. (See Below) Dr. J (Green), Carmelo (Green), Charles Jenkins (Auto).

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Of course I couldn’t get out of there with out a blaster also… So we went with 2012 Absolute Football.

8 Packs – 10 Cards per pack
PACK 1 – Roethlisberger, Peterson (Ground Hogs), Peyton Manning, Cutler, Bradford, McFadden, Harvin, Kolb, Chris Johnson, Collie

Pack 2 – Greene, Romo, Locker, Nicks, AJ Green, Rice, Steve Johnson, Vick, Wallace, Matt Ryan 

Pack 3 – Bowe, Fitgerald, Cribbs, Palmer, Clark, DeMaryius Thomas, Steve Smith, Peterson, Bryant, Holmes, Bernard Pierce (Star Gazing GU)

Pack 4 – Davis, Mike Thomas, Eli Manning, Dalton, Nelson, Fitzpatrick, Heyward-Bey, Mendenhall, Wells, Cassel

Pack 5 – Witten, McGahee, Newton, Schaub, Maclin, Sanchez, Helu Jr, Marshall, Little, Brady

Pack 6 – Daniel Thomas, Blount, Suh, Boldin, Brees, Vincent Jackson, Jennings, Ray Lewis, Colston, Jones-Drew

Pack 7 – Brown, Mathews, Gronkowski, White, Foster, GOre, Hernandez, Santana Moss, Forte, Rivers

Pack 8 – DeSean Jackson, Reggie Bush, Lynch, Johnson Jr, Flacco, Bess, Freeman, Rodgers, Rice, Sproles

Not much to that box, but very nice looking base set.

2012 Certified Box Break

10 Packs – 5 Cards per pack

PACK 1 – Brandon Marshall, Frank Gore, Shonn Greene, Jared Cook, Ndamukong Suh, Marshall Falk (GU Immortals 84/199)

PACK 2 – Reggie Bush, Jamaal Charles, Cortland Finnegan, Willis McGahee, Michael Smith (New Generation RED 13/250)

PACK 3 – Antonio Brown, Roddy White, Doug Baldwin, AJ Green, Eli Manning, Lamar Miller (Freshman Fabric 128/149

PACK 4 – Dez Bryant, Matt Schaub, Nate Washington, DeAngelo Hall, Andre Branch (New Generation 27/999)

PACK 5 – Brandon Pettigrew, Mark Ingram, Beanie Wells. Philip Rivers, Rob Gronkowski, Robert Turbin ( Freshman Fabric GU AUTO 366/499)

PACK 6 – Chris Johnson, Miles Austin, Eric Decker, Matt Forte, Willie Brown (Immorals 509/999)

PACK 7 – Von Miller, Matthew Stafford, Mike Williams, Cameron Ware, Michael Turner (Blue 89/100)

PACK 8 – Steve Breaston, Charles Woodson, Karlos Dansby, ahmad Bradshaw Brian Urlacher (RED 44/250)

PACK 9 – Donald Brown, Christian Ponder, alex Smith, Tony Romo, Rashard Mendenhall, Jor Flacco (RED GU 71/99)

Pack 10 – Santonio Holmes, Jared Allen, Brandon Lloyd, Kenny Britt, Vinny Curry (New Generation 2/999)