Archive for March, 2015

Upper Deck Throwback Thursday Create the Caption Promotion: Shaquille O’Neal

It’s Throwback Thursday so let’s go back through Upper Deck’s trading card history and come up with a fun giveaway. This weekend is Selection Sunday for NCAA March Madness Basketball and Upper Deck’s Bracketology Game officially begins! There is still plenty of time for you to head out and grab packs of 2014-15 March Madness [...] Upper Deck Blog

Prince William, Kate Middleton will appear in baseball card set

By Chris Olds | Editor

The Queen will now include some royalty.

Topps unveiled its plans for a new baseball card set styled in the fashion of an 1887 release some time ago, but on Friday the longest-running manufacturer of baseball cards announced a little something extra in packs of the forthcoming 2011 Gypsy Queen baseball cards.

Prince William and Kate Middleton — two members of Britain’s Royal Family — will appear on a card.

Building on the product’s “jewels” theme — which includes bonus cards of various gypsys (yeah, we’re mystified, too) —  a  “Royal Jewels” card can also be found in packs.

No word on a card of Enrico Palazzo, though.

Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.

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Brag Photo: See a First Look at 2015 Upper Deck Dinosaurs Sketch Cards

As we have shared before, there has always been a passion among collectors for Upper Deck dinosaur trading cards and we expect there to be tremendous interest in the 2015 Upper Deck Dinosaurs set out this summer. One of the aspects collectors have been curious about are the artist hand-drawn sketch cards in the release. [...] Upper Deck Blog