The vaults are always fun to explore here at Upper Deck, and we got something pretty special recently. Check this out: This would be a baseball signed by President Bill Clinton, who made some news recently with his trip to North Korea (and the two imprisoned journalists who got to come home as a result). […]

Back in Upper Deck’s early days, when the company was just trying to get liftoff, officials sometimes farmed out design projects to outside artists. One of those projects consisted of illustrated team checklists cards that were routinely dropped into baseball sets in the early ‘90s to showcase rosters of the team in question on one […]

Earlier in the week, I conducted another Catching Up With Collecting interview: this time with Mark Shaunessy, who works in our game-used department. The amount of stuff he put on display was enough to do two months worth of Brag Photos, and you’ll see ’em next week. It was a fascinating collection of memorabilia, and […]

After showing off the Giant Sidney Crosby, Tiger Art and Yankee Stadium Legacy set we have in the lobby, I figured I would round it out with another unique item we see every day: the Michael Jordan bikes. These remain stationary in our lobby (no, we can’t take them for a spin), but it was […]

If you’ve been following our blog the last few weeks, you know that five obsessive collectors completed our Yankee Stadium Legacy collection (well over 6,000 cards, one for each game played at the old stadium), and got to meet Derek Jeter before a game as a reward for their hard work. Now, aside from these […]

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, even though I’m a big sports fan, I actually got my start here at Upper Deck on the entertainment/gaming side of things (and I’m still active there today). Being able to work on both games and sports makes for a really fun job, and it’s always interesting to see […]

As I teased last week, today I’ll be showing a photo of something all of us tend to brag about here: our weather. To help set this up a bit, here’s our office: Now for those who may not be familiar, we work in Carlsbad, which is a part of North County San Diego. It’s […]