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Does anyone remember the online baseball card game Baseball Boss? Here's a Wikipedia description of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Boss . It involved virtual "cards" that you could buy in packs and cases using credits earned by challenging other players. You could also buy credits with your credit card, or even buy a subscription that got you pacls every month. It shut down quite abruptly in 2010 and it was rumoured to be because of a licensing dispute with Topps, who was reportedly developing their own online card game (I think that's when ToppsTown came out).
Baseball Boss featured cards from different eras of baseball. The sets issued were named for the year they represented, not the year they came out, and the play value of each card was based on the particular player's performance during the featured season. There were seven tiers of cards, T1 through T7, with T7 being the most rare and sought after and the most "powerful" in game play. There were also "National" and "Spire" brands, of which Spire was the premium brand and was more expensive and had more play value.
The site even had it's own auction page where people could buy and sell cards with credits. People also sold cards for PayPal, often using a "price guide" that was developed by one of the users (who himself bought and sold cards in the auctions, which I always thought was kind of fishy). There was also a card trading system, which unfortunately had a minor flaw that many exploited to scam cards from inexperienced traders. When you proposed a trade, the recipient could accept, reject, or make a counter-offer. In order to make a counter-offer you had to adjust the cards in the trade first, and then click "Make Counter-offer". Scammers would propose a trade asking for the victim's best cards and offering little or nothing in return. If the victim tried to counter by clicking "Make Counter-offer" first (instead of the changing the cards in the offer first), then the trade was just sent right back to the scammer as initially proposed and he would immediately click "Accept" and get the victim's cards.
I kept jpg images of all the Blue Jays and John Olerud cards from the site, as well as a bunch of others. I wish I had saved images of the card backs, which gave the rankings of the player in various categories that affected the card's play value. I really liked the Spire designs, especially 2007 and 2008.
1998 National Jose Canseco (T3)
1998 Spire Roger Clemens (T7)
2007 National Roy Halladay (T5)
2007 Spire Vernon Wells (T2)
2008 National Shawn Marcum (T4)
2008 Spire Gregg Zaun (T3)
"Friends & Rivals" set. There was a Pedro Martinez & Don Zimmer card!
2009 Spire All-Stars Aaron Hill (T4)
1998 Spire Legends John Olerud (T5)
2009 Spire Mariano Rivera (T7)
1907 National Christy Mathewson (T5)
1907 Spire Honus Wagner (T5)
1957 National Stan Musial (T5)
1957 Spire Mickey Mantle (T5)
1998 Spire Legends Babe Ruth (T5)
Baseball Boss featured cards from different eras of baseball. The sets issued were named for the year they represented, not the year they came out, and the play value of each card was based on the particular player's performance during the featured season. There were seven tiers of cards, T1 through T7, with T7 being the most rare and sought after and the most "powerful" in game play. There were also "National" and "Spire" brands, of which Spire was the premium brand and was more expensive and had more play value.
The site even had it's own auction page where people could buy and sell cards with credits. People also sold cards for PayPal, often using a "price guide" that was developed by one of the users (who himself bought and sold cards in the auctions, which I always thought was kind of fishy). There was also a card trading system, which unfortunately had a minor flaw that many exploited to scam cards from inexperienced traders. When you proposed a trade, the recipient could accept, reject, or make a counter-offer. In order to make a counter-offer you had to adjust the cards in the trade first, and then click "Make Counter-offer". Scammers would propose a trade asking for the victim's best cards and offering little or nothing in return. If the victim tried to counter by clicking "Make Counter-offer" first (instead of the changing the cards in the offer first), then the trade was just sent right back to the scammer as initially proposed and he would immediately click "Accept" and get the victim's cards.
I kept jpg images of all the Blue Jays and John Olerud cards from the site, as well as a bunch of others. I wish I had saved images of the card backs, which gave the rankings of the player in various categories that affected the card's play value. I really liked the Spire designs, especially 2007 and 2008.
1998 National Jose Canseco (T3)
1998 Spire Roger Clemens (T7)
2007 National Roy Halladay (T5)
2007 Spire Vernon Wells (T2)
2008 National Shawn Marcum (T4)
2008 Spire Gregg Zaun (T3)
"Friends & Rivals" set. There was a Pedro Martinez & Don Zimmer card!
2009 Spire All-Stars Aaron Hill (T4)
1998 Spire Legends John Olerud (T5)
2009 Spire Mariano Rivera (T7)
1907 National Christy Mathewson (T5)
1907 Spire Honus Wagner (T5)
1957 National Stan Musial (T5)
1957 Spire Mickey Mantle (T5)
1998 Spire Legends Babe Ruth (T5)
