Basketball
Upper Deck Releases 2011 Goodwin Champions Set
Just as the 2011 professional baseball season readies itself for its annual Mid-Summer Classic later this month, the Upper Deck Company is excited to release its second baseball-themed trading card set of the year: 2011 Goodwin Champions! The 231-card regular set features an impressive array of baseball legends and prospects plus memorable champions and standouts […]
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Does Marrying a Celebrity Make a Player More Collectible?
I found myself turning the channel on sports talk radio yesterday quite frequently from station to station. Why you ask? Because it seemed like all the hosts were talking about was the fact that Kris Humphries of the New Jersey Nets popped the question (with TV cameras rolling, of course) to reality TV star Kim […]
READ MORELeBron Remains the Difference Maker
Miami’s Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh are terrific basketball players, but it’s LeBron James who will be the deciding factor on whether or not the HEAT advance to the NBA Finals. Bosh had his best game (34 points, five boards and two steals) of the season last night in a convincing 96-85 win over the […]
READ MORELeBron’s Game-Used Shoes: Win a Pair!
Starting today through Tuesday, May 31, the folks at Upper Deck Authenticated are running a special “Caption Contest” promotion where one extremely lucky basketball fan will walk away with a pair of autographed and game-used Nike shoes from Miami HEAT superstar LeBron James. That’s right, an actual pair of LeBron’s game-used shoes from this season […]
READ MOREAsk UD: Moves, New Address, Customer Care, Checklists and TBD Redemptions
As Upper Deck’s Customer Care Manager, it is my goal to help educate our collectors and fans so they can have a better experience with our collectible products. I’ll routinely post updates about what we hear on the phones and through e-mails from customers in segments called Ask UD. I hope you find this information […]
READ MOREBrag Photo: A Smörgåsbord of Memorabilia
Have I mentioned before that Upper Deck is a cool place to work? Well if I haven’t, I’m here to tell you that it most definitely is. It seems like not a week goes by where we don’t have some cool memorabilia item come in from an athlete or we have tons of memorabilia on […]
READ MORE‘Hey LeBron, Stay Focused Big Guy’
As Upper Deck’s Public Relations Manager, I’ve met LeBron James on several occasions. In September of 2008, fresh off his gold-medal-winning play in Beijing, we conducted a special “Shoot Hoops with LeBron James” clinic in our front parking lot, which the local media ate up. Ten worthy kids learned the round-ball ropes from King James […]
READ MORECollector of the Month: Ron Firestone Hunting For Michael Jordan
Each month Upper Deck spotlights one of its valued collectors to showcase their collection or pursuits. The great thing about sports collectors is that they are all very different in what they collect, how they collect, and what they do once they have the cards they were looking for. Ron Firestone is the type of […]
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