After 162 games, and exciting NLCS and ALCS series, the 2010 World Series is set. Texas vs San Francisco. It’s no surprise that some of the most exciting players from these two teams make up our final installment of Hot List for Baseball for 2010.
He has the skills and abilities to be on of the best in the NFL. He replaced a legend on the San Diego Chargers roster when he was drafted in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. Ryan Mathews has very large shoes to fill and very high expectations to meet in just his first NFL season. Considered by most as one of the top rookies from this years NFL draft class, his sports cards have been selling very well so far into the season, despite his slow start to his career. His 2010 Topps Chrome Superfractor Auto is currently up at a 10-day auction, ending on November 3. While Mathews still may be considered a true project by some, there is no denying that the void that someone will need to replace in the Chargers backfield after LaDainian Tomlinson was released. Mathews has the makeup to fill that void very nicely.
Without a doubt, Derrick Favors has taken the award for having the worst autograph in this history of sports card autographs. This title, previously held by Chris Johnson (Titans), and Lawrence Timmons, were tough competition to top as previous Worst Autograph Title Holders, but as you can see by the sheer apathetic approach Favors took to signing his cards, he was an easy selection.
Congrats to Derrick, I am sure you worked long and hard to achieve this prestigious award.
2010 Topps Chrome Baseball has been on the streets for about two full weeks now. Without a doubt, the biggest buzz around this product has been the Stephen Strasburg Chrome Autographs that were inserted in the product. Even after Strasburg’s season was cut short due to his injury, his secondary market prices have not bottomed out, completely.
I have compiled some data from eBay on the sales of all of the 2010 Topps Chrome Stephen Strasburg Autographs to date. Check out the table to see some very interesting data:
On the heels of announcing that Topps had signed an exclusive agreement with 2010 Number 1 Draft Pick, Bryce Harper, Topps announced today their plans for including Harper in some of their upcoming products.
Included as an extra incentive to bust the 2010 Topps Chrome Football product, Topps had inserted a Topps Chrome Reprint Rookie Autograph into their product. Each card is a reprint of their original Topps or Topps Chrome rookie and features their refractor technology. Each card is numbered to 10 and features a autograph on the card.
After 2010 Topps Chrome Baseball left a sour taste in a number of collectors mouths, most of them tip-towed into their 2010 football counterpart. Topps decided to merge two products into their 2010 Topps Chrome release by adding a special Bowman Chrome subset to the product. These include base cards, refractors, autos, and refractor autos from some of this years top rookies. The baseball set featured a number of quality control issues – and from all early indication – those are not present with football product.
Here is a break down of some early sales on eBay of 2010 Topps Chrome Football items:
The holy grail of Tim Tebow cards has made it’s way onto eBay. His 2010 Topps Chrome Superfractor Auto is currently up at a 10-day auction, ending on 10/24. While Tebow has not been anywhere close to one of the top rookies of the 2010 NFL season, his card prices have held steadily through the first 5 weeks of the season, and he has seemed to maintain his cult following of fan from his college days.
Famed multi-case breaker Brent Williams, or better known as brentandbecca is hosting an unprecedented group-break over at the Freedom Card Board Forums. He has put together a 35-case group-break of 2010 Bowman Chrome Baseball that he is going be streaming live via uStream. There will be 225 slots available in this break with a single slot pricing of $130 and pricing breaks available for multiple slot purchases.
For more information about the group-break, or to join, be sure to visit Freedom Card Board.
In the 2010 Topps Football release, Topps has inserted some alternative photos for some of the rookie cards in the set. The short print variations (SP) are seen on the left in each of the photos below.
