2010 Topps Tribute / Stephen Strasburg update

cgilmo said:

Topps announces there are a total of 500 Stephen Strasburg Autographed Relic cards available for redemption in 2010 Topps Tribute Baseball (250 Autographed Dual Relics & 250 Autographed Single Relics). Both the single and dual Autographed Relic cards feature pieces of game-used base from his historic Major League Debut (as stated on the card’s back) and are sequentially numbered as follows:



Base - 99

Blue Parallel - 75

Black Parallel - 50

Gold Parallel - 25

Red Parallel – 1



Collectors holding redemption cards for either the Autographed Dual Relic or Autographed Single Relic will be randomly sent one of the 5 different rainbow foil cards within the next three weeks.

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Jastermereel said:

Random

There's no room for shenanigans there!

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nosterbor said:

did not look real good last night. could be a flash in the pan. David Price,there is a guy collectors should be going gaga over.

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nosterbor said:

did not look real good last night. could be a flash in the pan. David Price,there is a guy collectors should be going gaga over.

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schmidtfan20 said:

I see a few problems, first...they tell collectors will be getting the cards in three weeks? Highly unlikely. Second will random be actually random, or random like the million card giveaway where all the good
cards are at the bottom of the stack and the higher print run ones at the top? You don't need to be
a genius to figure out that topps wouldn't kill sales giving away the 1/1 early on. Will these be sticker autographs?
What they should be doing is taking care of Ginter autographs first.

Thanks for the info!

Kevin

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uniquebaseballcards said:

Although many may not see it this way which is OK, the 1/1 of this card isn't particularly impressive when compared to cards that have a larger overall print run.

It seems there are 500 Stras cards in this set including all parallels, meaning that the 1/1 is .002 of the print run. By comparison if the print run of all the cards were 5000, there'd be ten "1/1s" and everyone here would say 'meh'.

Not that I'd turn this card away, but it would be interesting to see how people value this particular 1/1, but we can probably say now that whomever winds up with it will advertise it as being as good as any other 1/1 should that person choose to sell it.

schmidtfan20 said:

I see a few problems, first...they tell collectors will be getting the cards in three weeks? Highly unlikely. Second will random be actually random, or random like the million card giveaway where all the good
cards are at the bottom of the stack and the higher print run ones at the top? You don't need to be
a genius to figure out that topps wouldn't kill sales giving away the 1/1 early on. Will these be sticker autographs?
What they should be doing is taking care of Ginter autographs first.

Thanks for the info!

Kevin

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schmidtfan20 said:

is there a picture of this card yet? Will it be on card or sticker auto?

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Crash Davis said:

schmidtfan20 said:

is there a picture of this card yet? Will it be on card or sticker auto?

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All Tribute autographs are sticker autos. Why should this be any different?

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cgilmo said:

nosterbor said:

did not look real good last night. could be a flash in the pan. David Price,there is a guy collectors should be going gaga over.

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And yet people were calling David Price a flash in the pan as recently as the start of this season.

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Jaypers said:

Crash Davis said:

schmidtfan20 said:

is there a picture of this card yet? Will it be on card or sticker auto?

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All Tribute autographs are sticker autos. Why should this be any different?

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When dealing with Topps products, rule # 1 is as follows -- "assume nothing".

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