• Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • The Sports Bookie
  • Link Page
Bob D'Angelo's Books & Blogs
On Twitter! Or email me!

Vintage on display at Huggins & Scott auction

1/27/2019

0 Comments

 
Here is a story I wrote for Sports Collectors Daily about next month's Huggins & Scott auction:
​
www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/huggins-scotts-february-auction-loaded-with-vintage-lots/
0 Comments

Upper Deck Chronology hockey debuts in May

1/21/2019

0 Comments

 
Here's a story I wrote for Sports Collectors Daily about the May debut of the Upper Deck Chronology (Vol. 1) hockey set:

www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/upper-deck-chronology-hockey-debuts-in-may/​
0 Comments

Looking back at 1987 Topps football

1/18/2019

0 Comments

 
Here's a story I wrote for Sports Collectors Daily about the  Topps football set:
www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/1987-topps-football-return-to-normalcy/​
0 Comments

Collect call: Topps 2019 Road to WrestleMania

1/17/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Can you believe it? WrestleMania will be staged for the 35th time. Vince McMahon Jr.’s version of a professional wrestling Super Bowl will be held April 7 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Topps and World Wrestling Entertainment have begun to whet the appetites of wrestling fans with its 2019 Road to WrestleMania product.
Fans who enjoy hobby boxes will find them affordable for this product, somewhere in the $50 range. Blaster boxes are $19.98, and that’s what I bought to review.
​
The base set is 100 cards, and the set recaps the key wrestling events and story lines of 2018 while providing a nice run-up to WrestleMania 35. Bronze parallels fall one in every other pack, and collectors can also pull Blue parallels (numbered to 99), Gold (10) and Red (1/1), along with 1/1 Printing Plates. There are also hobby-exclusive Silver parallels, numbered to 25.

Picture
Picture
The base cards include the best moments from SmackDown Live, WWE Raw and WWE 205 Live.

Blaster boxes have 10 packs, with seven cards per pack. In addition, there is another pack that contains a mat relic and four Women’s Revolution insert cards.

The mat relic card I pulled featured The Miz and a swatch of the mat from WrestleMania 34. The Women’s Revolution is a 10-card insert set that highlights the top women in the WWE, including Charlotte Flair, Nikki Bella, Paige, Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch.
​
And don’t forget Ronda Rousey. The WWE, knowing the marquee crossover value of the former mixed martial arts world champion, produced a 40-card insert set that will cover her career. Called Ronda Rousey Spotlight, the subset will be split over several Topps products during 2019. The first 10 appear in 2019 Road to WrestleMania. I pulled two Rousey insert cards from the blaster box I bought.

Picture
The other major insert in the blaster box are the WrestleMania Roster Cards, a 50-card subset that lists the likely competitors for this year’s event. Each pack had two of these cards, so I wound up with 20 of them.  

The blaster box yielded 42 base cards, an average of six per pack. That would be nearly half the base set, so that’s a good start out of a blaster box.

I also found five bronze parallels too, which hits the average Topps projects.
​
Topps and the WWE continue to produce a nice variety of pro wrestling cards. The subject matter remains relevant and involving the women wrestlers more is an excellent move. 

Picture
0 Comments

Arkansas collector gets signed baseball cards back -- 16 1/2  years later

1/14/2019

0 Comments

 
Here's a story I wrote for Sports Collectors Daily about Dale Case, who mailed three cards to former major-leaguer Glenn Hubbard to sign in 2002. Last week, he finally got them back:

www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/arkansas-collector-gets-signed-cards-of-glenn-hubbard-16-1-2-years-after-they-were-mailed/
0 Comments

Cubs collector seeking a million cards

1/11/2019

0 Comments

 
Here is a story I wrote for Sports Collectors Daily about Beau Thompson, a Chicago Cubs fan who has a goal of obtaining 1 million baseball cards of Cubs players.

www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/wisconsin-man-has-goal-of-collecting-1-million-cubs-cards/
0 Comments

Stephen Curry launches auction for 'Moon Landing' shoes

1/8/2019

0 Comments

 
Here 's a story I wrote for Sports Collectors Daily about an auction for a pair of "Moon Landing" sneakers belonging to Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry:

www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/stephen-curry-launches-auction-for-autographed-moon-landing-shoes-on-ebay/
0 Comments

Cranston show returns with new name, new format

1/4/2019

0 Comments

 
Here's a story I wrote for Sports Collectors Daily about the newly named Super Bowl card show in Rhode Island, a fixture in New England since 1976.

www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/cranston-show-returns-with-new-name-new-venue/
0 Comments

1973-74 Topps hockey loaded with future Hall of Famers

1/1/2019

0 Comments

 
Here's a story I wrote for Sports Collectors Daily about the 1973-74 Topps hockey set:

www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/1973-74-topps-hockey-set-loaded-with-hall-of-famers/
0 Comments

    Bob's blog

    I love to blog about sports books and give my opinion. Baseball books are my favorites, but I read and review all kinds of books.

    Archives

    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

    Sports Collectors Daily
    Dave and Adam's Card World
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.