If you’ve been following our blog the last few weeks, you’ve seen our coverage of the Yankee Stadium Legacy winners, not to mention Derek Jeter’s appearance in UpperDeckU. On the same day, YES Network cameras were there to talk to Jeter and the YSL winners about the event, and what it took to collect the […]

It’s a fun time to be a baseball fan right now: next week is the All-Star game, and soon after we’ll hit the trade deadline. In case you missed it, click here to see my trade deadline preview, and my view on the American League side of things. Today, we’ll take a look at the […]

In case you haven’t seen Andrew Long’s work on YouTube, the guy is a maniac. This is his latest video, where he brings “packs to the people”, encouraging random people off the street to open packs and show off what they get. As your standard disclaimer, this is not officially produced by Upper Deck. But […]

Hope everyone had a great Fourth of July holiday! I personally spent a lot of time at the beach, and got myself a nice sunburn to match (likely ironic justice for all my bragging on Thursday). More of summer is yet to come, including MLB’s All-Star game next week. As a dedicated National League fan, […]

In case you haven’t been following this blog much, we’ve got a handful of writers with various specialties here in the building. For example, Sean LaFavor is a wealth of hockey knowledge, and Patrick Sullivan can analyze basketball matchups like no one else. I happen to be the baseball geek. Five years removed from New […]

I love the Wild Card. Since it was implemented (from where I stand, the most positive development of Bud Selig’s tenure), teams are able to at least remain in contention well into the summer. Combine this with baseball’s remarkable parity over the past decade, and fans stay interested in their team and the game longer, […]

If you caught Carrie’s previous post on UpperDeckU, you know we ran a huge event in UpperDeckU a few weeks back, where Derek Jeter answered questions from hundreds of kids in our online world. If you wanted to see more (or maybe still didn’t believe it was the real Jeter?), check out the video below!