Card Collector Universe

He was referred to in the #1 bestseller, Moneyball, as the Greek God of walks.  But he’s not Greek.  (A convenient moniker though for a guy who knows when to swing the bat, and who’s last name does sound like it might be Greek.)  In fact, Kevin Youkilis is Jewish and has been named the Jewish Major Leaguers’ Player of the Decade. Who knew there was such an award? According to the article in the Jewish Ledger online, Shawn Green and Ryan Braun finished two and three in the voting. Give Braun ten years in the bigs and then take a look at his stats. If he stays on pace, his stats will be gargantuan.

A 1953 Bowman Bob Feller, card #114, sold for $12,995 online this past week. The card was graded a 9 of 10.

Becoming available for baseball collectors next week are 2009 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection and our first product of 2010, Topps Series 1. 

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2009 (yeah, I know, it’s 2010 isn’t it?) Bowman Sterling became available for collectors on January 13th. (By the way - this isn’t the last of the 2009 baseball card products yet to come out!)

A 1-of-1 2009 Topps Tribute Roy Campanella cut autograph card sold for $1,000 online.

There’s been quite a bit of buzz about an upcoming movie with a plot involving stolen baseball card. The movie, by director Kevin Smith, is called “Cop Out“, and will be in theaters on February 26th.

Up next for release this coming week is 2009 Donruss Elite Extra Edition and 2009 Topps Sterling.

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Bleacher Report listed their top 27 Yankee quotes. You’ll notice the numbered quotes align with the player’s uniform number. The number 3 quote, from who else but Babe Ruth, the greatest to ever wear number 3, is my favorite.

Matthew Cerrone writes on Mets Blog about the surprise of Carlos Beltran’s recent knee surgery. Looks like the Mets might be going with Angel Pagan in center field. Pagan hit .306 in 343 at-bats for the Mets last year, with 14 stolen bases. If he keeps up that production, the Mets will be okay until Beltran returns.

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