Clearance.
Buying last years Hockey Cards makes little sense except when last years card are on clearance.
Push out the Hockey, make way for Baseball. Monday, February 3rd marks the release date of the 2009 edition of Upper Deck Series 1 Baseball. This year Upper Deck celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the very first Upper Deck collection. The 1989 Baseball set with eighty-nine Ken Griffey Jr autographed (1989) rookie card randomly inserted into this year’s Series 1 packs. The inserted 1989 Griffey Jr card, the hallmark of modern sport cards was the very first card to roll of the Upper Deck manufacturing line twenty years ago. Junior autographed eighty-nine copies of his 1989 rookie card with the special insignia of "twenty years" and Upper Deck has dutifully inserted those card into random packs of this year’s first Baseball release slated for Feb 3rd.
All this talk of Baseball cards means a reduction in the clamour over Hockey cards. Big box retailers are clearing out stock to make room for this year’s Baseball cards and for Hockey collectors this can often be a good time to pick up sharp deals on slightly stale stock. Oddly enough this week I was privy to a few of these slightly stale bargains and was able to pick up two twelve-pack blaster boxes of last year’s Upper Deck Hockey. Both Series 1 and 2 were available at the same cost and offer significant value considering the topnotch rookies found in both sets.
Series 1 contains both Montreal Canadian’s Goalie Carey Price (Rookie Card - Book Value = $100) and Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane (Rookie Card - Book Value = $80.00)
Series 2 is perhaps a little less weighted but does feature Chicago Blackhawks team captain Jonathan Toews (Rookie - Book Value = $80.00)
I’m a Toews collector, so the decision really wasn’t all that difficult. I purchased two boxes, twenty-four packs of 2007-08 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey at $1.50 per pack, almost half the retail price.
On the way to the cash I also spied an irregular looking three pack of this year’s Upper Deck Black Diamond Hockey. The three pack box appeared to have one pack that was a lot thicker than the rest, perhaps a jersey/swatch card or some other exciting goodie. I purchased this pack ($12.00) on a whim, as a bonus to this week’s insidethebox pack blasters and the usual debate ensued. Is there a special goodie inside the magic pack or does the pack contain nothing more than an oversized piece of cardboard advertising, a trick used by Upper Deck and other sport card manufacture attempting to dishearten unruly pack spies.
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