Douglas Cox
What Are My Upper Deck Sports Cards Worth?
You have shoeboxes full of trading cards just sitting in your garage, basement, attic or closet, but you do not touch them. Your father told you not to as that would affect the value. He was always adamant about hanging on to them since his mother threw his cards away. Are they worth something? Who […]
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Hockey Card Halloween Costumes & More from the Holiday
The Upper Deck Volunteer Alliance members receive a variety of missions throughout the year that keep them busy making the hobby better and creating more awareness for trading cards. One of their recent assignments was to create an Upper Deck Halloween costume and we had a couple clever new costume concepts we wanted to share. […]
READ MORETrading Cards as a Fashion Statement?
Our fans are so awesome. Recently one of our Upper Deck Volunteer Alliance members was working on an assignment coming up with a Halloween costume incorporating Upper Deck cards. During their experimentation they realized they could use trading cards as a popular accessory for female sports fans. With a few tweaks Upper Deck trading card […]
READ MOREHow to Be a Part of ESPN’s College GameDay
I’ve talked before about how much I love college football so when I heard the ESPN College GameDay crew was going to be in Los Angeles this weekend for the USC and Stanford game, I had to make the two-hour trek north. I wanted to go primarily to record for other college football fans how […]
READ MOREUpper Deck Celebrates the Return of the NHL in Winnipeg with a Special Jets Set
It’s not every day a hockey starved community sees the NHL return after a 15-year hiatus, but that’s what happened this year in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Fan support for the team has been amazing thus far and the Winnipeg Jets have become the hottest ticket in town. Unfortunately many Winnipeg Jets players won’t be featured on […]
READ MOREBrag Photo: The Priority Signings Autograph Cards Return for the 2011 Fall Expo
For those who have ever been to the Sports Card & Memorabilia Expo in Toronto, you know that collectors in attendance are looking for the most limited autograph cards of their favorite hockey stars. As we have in year’s prior, Upper Deck delivers with the return of the wildly popular Priority Signings autograph cards at […]
READ MORE2011 Goodwin Champions Entomology Short Prints Revealed
Collectors throughout the US have been eagerly awaiting a special mail day from Upper Deck as we continue to ship out the 2011 Goodwin Champions Entomology card. You likely saw a preview of them on YouTube, but in case you missed it, here it is: Now that you’ve received your special “creepy crawly” card in […]
READ MOREAre These Guys Any Good? Get to Know the 2011-12 NHL Impact Rookies!
The 2011-12 NHL season is underway and puck fans are busy cracking new Upper Deck hockey products for the season like Victory, O-Pee-Chee, Artifacts and coming in early November; 2011-12 NHL Upper Deck Series One. As collectors pull new names, often they ask themselves, “Is this guy any good?” or even better than that, “How […]
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