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One of our favorite companies/suppliers around MLB Memories is the group at Just Minors. Their name can be a bit misleading (even though it harkens back to how they started as producers of some great minor league baseball card sets) because they deal with much more than just minors.



Back in 2008 the company entered into a unique license agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association (also known as the Players Union). The license agreement covered all their packaged… Continue

Being laid up with the flu and feeling disgusting has not left me much time for enjoying the new season of Topps flagship product. In fact, our shop sold out of Jumbo boxes before I ever got to rip through one! Ah well, such is the life of a ball card dealer with a stomach virus!



However, I do have the best wife in the world (okay, some may want to argue so we will call it a multi-way tie), and she picked me up some goodies at our local Target. I always enjoy ripping some specialty… Continue

Collectors and dealers often talk about 'the hobby'.  While it's a convenient and distinguishable name among those who are in the industry, to outsiders it doesn't mean much.  We sometimes forget there is a huge audience of sports fans out there who think this stuff is pretty cool.  They'd like to collect, but aren't sure how.  That's why events like the NFL Experience are so important.…

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Great site. Looking forward to help promote the industry!   Tom Zappala The T206 Collection: The Players & Their Stories

 

Rudy Tomjanovich (5-time NBA All-Star with the Houston Rockets, 2-time NBA Championship winning coach of the Houston Rockets, 2000 Olympic Gold Medal winning coach) will be signing autographs at our store on Saturday December 18, 2010 at 1:00pm.

If you would like to mail in an item(s) to be signed please include the signing fee and an SASE for return mailing. Mail to:

Fiterman Sports Group

1855 Cullen Pkwy.

Pearland, TX 77581

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Just wanted to let you know of our upcoming events. Hope to see you there!



November 8, 2010

Brian Cushing (public signing)

Brian Cushing will be hosting Monday Night Football at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Pearland from 7-9pm. Autograph tickets can be purchased online securely through PayPal from our website, or at the event. Purchase online to ensure an autograph even if the event is sold out, and move to the front of the line! Of course, we will have items to purchase if you… Continue

FOLDING BASEBALL SHAPED MENU, 1934 - Babe Ruth Signed Others Imperial Hotel, 1934. Official Dinner Program Menu. Overall excellent condition, tightly hinged very strong printing and hand-signed ink signatures, some pin holes (none effecting signatures.) Housed in thick plexiglass case with plastic thum screws. Approximately 4 inch diameter when folded closed, nearly 8 inches long when opened. Signed in person all at same function by Babe Ruth, Charles Gehringer, John Quinn, Joe Cascarella, and… Continue

This week's Sports Illustrated magazine has a feature on the sports card industry, but unfortunately it is kind of a microcosm of the zillions of newspaper articles that have appeared in the last few years. It focuses mainly on the "decline of the baseball card industry".



Here's the deal. Most of the writers 20 or 30-something. Many collected cards as kids in the late 1980s and early 90s. Now they're adults, rediscovering the collection they left at their parents' house. They dig… Continue

As someone who makes his living in journalism, it's been tough to see so many local daily newspapers either stop publishing, lay off workers or go all online. It happens almost every day now. There's a danger that one of the most important roles of the media is being severely weakened. The media is supposed to act as a watchdog--asking important questions of powerful people, covering tough issues and offering the opportunity for readers to make their voices known as well.



The decline… Continue

Baseball cards have been around for a long time; some have actually made their fortunes from the sale of such cards. When one begins looking at baseball card collections, one has to wonder how it all started. When did the tradition of collecting player cards begin; who printed the first cards? These are just some of the questions one must consider when looking at card collecting.



The beginning of baseball cards can be traced to the increase… Continue

The story about the 1869 Peck & Snyder Cincinnati Red Stockings card found amid boxes and boxes of miscellaneous stuff inside a Fresno, CA antique shop has grown legs.



It first appeared in the Fresno Bee. Sports Collectors Daily grabbed on and linked to it...then it hit Yahoo this week and now, Al & Bernice Gallego are famous. They're going to be on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Martha Stewart has called and there were 142… Continue

If I had bought nothing but 1950s and earlier baseball cards in high grade when I first started going to card shows back in the late-1970s I would probably not have a lot of money worries. The growth in this part of the industry has been nothing short of phenomenal. Who could have predicted grading companies, huge national sports memorabilia auctions conducted over the internet and, well, eBay?



But I didn't do that. I bought some 50s cards. Some 60s stuff. I've now got sets back to… Continue

I just wanted to draw your attention to this current post within the Editor's Blog on the Sports Collectors Daily main site. Not only do I offer a recommendation for the 2009 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards which I just bought last night, but I want to encourage everyone to participate in something that's easy, will help the long-term future of the hobby and make you and your gift… Continue

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