Archive for May, 2008

Top 5 Hottest Sports Card Boxes 5/14/08

1. 2008 Bowman Baseball Hobby Box
Bowman Baseball is a perennial big hit. The “Home of the Rookie Card” has been upgraded this year and now includes Autographed Bowman Chrome Prospect Cards which fall one per box.

 2008 Bowman Baseball Hobby Box

2. 2008 Playoff Prestige Football Hobby Box

Playoff Prestige delivers very strong content again this year. With another football card release not coming out until mid-June and 4 auto’s or memorabilia cards per box collectors are eating this product up.

3. 2007/08 Upper Deck SP Authentic Hockey Box

Last week’s #1 Product continues to stay hot. With the rookie class of 2008 exceeding many expectations SP Authentic Hockey remains a very solid product.

4. 2007 Upper Deck SP Rookie Edition Baseball Box

Upper Deck SP Rookie Edition Baseball is being driven by an average of 4 rookies per pack and 2 rookie signatures per box. This is a very affordable product, and delivers a whopping 40 rookie cards per box!

5. 2007/08 Upper Deck Sweet Shot Hockey

The newest 2007/08 hockey product has hit the shelves. Sweet Shot Hockey delivers 3 hits per tin and includes the popular sweet spot autographs on baseball skins. So far Sweet Shot Hockey has hit the spot for hockey collectors.

 2007/08 Upper Deck Sweet Shot Hockey Hobby Box (Tin)


(Please note: The Top 5 is purely an opinion of a Dave and Adam’s employee. This is based on sales, feedback from collectors, and market trends.)

What products are in your top 5?

2007/08 Upper Deck SPx Basketball Box Break Contest

Check out our latest video box break of 2007/08 Upper Deck SPx Basketball! After watching the video enter the contest to win all the cards for free! Entries must be submitted by 4/18/08.

You can go directly to the contest page.

Kevin Durant SP Authentic RC Auto!

Check out this Kevin Durant RC Auto! Ryan from San Antonio pulled this from his box of 2007/08 SP Authentic Basketball.

Kevin Durant RC Auto

This is definitely an awesome Durant RC. This year’s SP Authentic rookie cards look really sharp, and pulling a multi-color Durant would excite any basketball collector. Where do you guys think the jersey piece is from?

Cal Ripken Jr. Auto Pulled

Thanks to Chad who submitted this Cal Ripken Jr. Auto (#ed 3/10) that he pulled out of his box of 2007 Ultra SE Baseball.

Cal Ripken Jr. Autographed Baseball Card

Top 5 Hottest Sports Card Boxes 5/8/08

1. 2007/08 Upper Deck SP Authentic Hockey

SP Authentic Hockey is scorching right now. This perennial winner is being driven by the always popular Rookie Cards #’d to 999. Collectors have no shortage of rookies to chase this year with stars Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Carey Price, and Nicklas Backstrom leading the way.

2. 2007 Topps Co-Signers Football

Topps Co-Signers Football is being driven by 2007 NFL Rookie of the Year Adrian Peterson, as well as the content of three auto’s per box.

3. 2007/08 ITG Superlative Hockey

Many collectors seem to be really pleased with the effort In the Game put into Superlative Hockey. This product is loaded, each pack contains :
1 Hard signed autograph card
1 Game-used jersey card
1 Game-used patch card
1 Superlative Prospect autographed game-used jersey card
1 Autographed game-used jersey card
1 Famous Fabrics card
1 Memorabilia card

4. 2007/08 Upper Deck Premier Basketball

When Upper Deck announced that the remaining basketball products for the year would be short printed, collectors took note. This edition of Premier Basketball has only 499 cases produced, with every box delivering strong content.

5. 2007 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection Football

Another product being driven by the hot rookies of 2007, including the ultra-hot Adrian Peterson. With Ultimate delivering a signature in every pack as well as 2 memorabilia cards, this product has remained strong.

(Please note: The Top 5 is purely an opinion of a Dave and Adam’s employee. This is based on sales, feedback from collectors, and market trends.)

What products are in your top 5?

1984/85 Topps Hockey Pulls

Jeff S. recently sent in his pulls from some packs of 1984/85 Topps Hockey.1984/85 Topps Hockey Wax Pack

Jeff hit rookie cards of Tom Barasso and Steve Yzerman, as well as a nice card of Wayne Gretzky.

Jonathan Toews Hot Prospects RC Auto Patch Pull!

Congratulations to Derrick of Middle Village, NY, who pulled this Jonathan Toews Hot Prospects Auto Patch #ed 158/199.

Jonathan Toews Hot Prospects RC Auto Patch #ed /199

“I recently purchased a box of fleer hot prospects 07-08 hockey from your website, and i pulled the best card of my life! A prized prospects auto patch card of JONATHAN TOEWS, # 158/199. I just wanted to say thanks!”

We are always glad to hear from our customers. Please e-mail us if you are interested in having your card in our “Phenomenal Pulls” section.

New Box Breaks on the Way

We will be posting some new box breaks later this week. Same as before, all the cards from the breaks can be won by answering the trivia/collecting question in the video. If you would like to be notified of the box breaks be sure to subscribe to the dacardworld blog or our youtube channel.

If you have any suggestions on the breaks feel free to share.

MLB.com Post on 1970’s Baseball Card Hairdo’s

Check out the article by Doug Miller over at MLB, The Bigs List: ’70s baseball card hairdos. Pretty funny stuff. I originally ran across this piece over at gossiponsports.com

Oscar Gamble of the New York Yankees gets our vote for the top hairdo.



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