2. Hobby News
1955 Topps Bowman Tom Landry PSA EX 5 |
1990 Topps Traded Emmitt Smith PRO MINT 9.0 |
PSA is hiring graders. In sort of a surprise move, PSA President Joe Orlando posted on the Collector's Universe message board that PSA was looking to hire a card grader. The position will be located in Southern California (Santa Ana area). If your interested you can either email Joe (joe@collectors.com) or call his office 949-567-1170 for details.
The PRO Grading experiment. This article is worth reading. Its a documented article about one collector's experiment with sending cards to PRO Grading company to be graded. The experiment involved the submission of 10 cards. Each card had a story and some had been removed from other grading company holders. Read the story to see how PRO Grading stacked up against some of the big boys in the grading community.
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MLB Teams up with Bank of America to offer Tickets to games and Game Used memorabilia.
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3. Dallas Cowboys News
Upcoming NFL Draft;
The performance of the Dallas secondary was beyond poor during the second half of last season, and the emphasis in drafting corners and/or safeties this year will likely be focused on their ability to cover more than hit. Another pass rusher would also be a welcome addition to the defense. Offensively, Dallas has to be looking at the respective ages of Terrell Owens (33) and Terry Glenn (33 in July) and searching hard for an impact receiver. Elsewhere within the attack, free agent pickup Leonard Davis does not solve the club's offensive line woes in and of himself. Don't be surprised if three o-linemen take their place among the team's 10 selections.
To be sure though, Cowboy card collector will keep their own on the draft to see which of the players the Cowboys draft appear in the first 2 football card releases of 2007, Sage Hit and Press Pass.
Partial schedule is released.
The Cowboys will open the season on Sunday Night Football Sept. 9 at home to face their division rival, the New York Giants and Eli Manning.
The Cowboys will play the New York Jets at home on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22nd.
Preseason schedule is released.
8/9 Colts (fox)
TBA Broncos
TBA @ Houston
TBA @ Minnesota
New Stadium Live feed
Watch the Cowboys new stadium being built via the internet. 24.7.
Live Feed.
The Cowboys have resigned Wide Receiver Patrick Crayton to a 1 year deal $1.3 million offer. Patrick, a restricted Free Agent, will remain the Cowboys no. 3 receiver behind Terry Glenn and Terrell Owens. Patrick had a career-high 36 catches for 516 yards and four touchdowns last season and returned 11 punts for 85 yards.
After a year off, Babe Laufenberg returns to the radio booth.
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 4. The Dallas Cowboys Complete Football Card Guide
Volume 3
2007 EDITION
1960 - 2006
This 226 page, full-color guide, provides the Dallas Cowboy collector with information on over 6000 different sets from 1960 to 2006. The book includes checklists, prices, and set descriptions with color pictures to help you identify your cards, or cards you’re looking for. Volume 3 includes modern era 1991 – 2006 checklists, updated prices, an alphabetical set listing and chronological set listing. Also includes all known odd-ball and insert sets along with Media Guides, Pennants, Pocket Schedules, Coke Caps, Cups, Glasses, Bobbin Head Dolls, Starting Lineups and much more. Over 26,000 items listed!
For more information and to order yours today, please go to;
www.thecowboysguide.com
PS. This book is a must for Cowboy football card collectors. I have one and use it almost everyday.
5. Web Site Additions (stats)
I am constantly adding cards, sets and players to my ever growing database. Here are the current stats from my database:
468 - players listed
6,548 - sets listed
27, 031 - cards listed
I recently added the 1960 Team Sheets to my database. There are 10 sheets in this set measuring 9x11 (inches). There are 4 players on each sheet (1 sheet has 5 players). A lot of the players in this set were not in my database so when I added this set, I had to add 10 new players to my database. These are players that do not appear in any sets that I already have listed.
See this sets checklist.
6. Cards in the news.
Although this particular story does not pertain to a Cowboy card it is of particular interest to sports card collectors as a whole. The 2006 Topps Regular Derek Jeter (Yankees baseball) card was recently released with a fury of hype. Apparently someone from Topps airbrushed some unique characters onto the card. If you look closely in the Dugout, behind Jeter, you will see none other than Yankee Great Mickey Mantle. On the other side of Jeter, in the stands, standing up is none other than President George Bush. Once the news of this 'error' card hit the street sales began to skyrocket. This base card would typically sell between $1 to $2 was selling over $100.00 on eBay with parallels going in the thousands. The highest value to date was a Copper parallel (numbered to 56) sold for $10,000 on eBay. Honest. Check out the ebay link - here.
 Card of the week (not yet available on my web site).
One of the reasons for the Tony Romo rookie card craze that occurred late last season was the fact that there are so few Rookie cards of Tony Romo available. Trading card companies did not pay much attention to the undrafted Free Agent from Eastern Illinois. There are only a handful of his Rookie cards on the market compared the 100s available for most top tier Rookies.
Now you can get a
2003 Upper Deck Tony Romo Rookie Graded 9.5 Gem Mint by Beckett Grading Services. This is one of the finest examples of this card available. If you missed the Tony Romo craze late last season, don't miss it this year. If Tony starts out hot, which we all hope he does. His Rookie cards will once again be in demand and in some cases be out of reach.
If your interested in purchasing this card, click here.
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