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Where the hell is Heritage?

Exactly two weeks ago, Topps released Heritage to the masses. Or so they made you think. Case breakers displayed the very latest cards, the very latest hits and short-prints, and everyone got high on the 1965 design. Later, people who ordered boxes received their shipments and displayed them on their blogs. Around that same time, folks in certain parts of the country begin to find Heritage in stores -- and, yes, in the usual places that I've mentioned before. Dallas, Texas, always seems to have the latest cards before everyone else. Still more Heritage appeared on blogs in those favored locales. Then it arrived in other parts of the country and people began to notice: "Hey. Where are the blasters? Where are the blisters? It's just rack packs." This was an understandable question, but I couldn't question it because I couldn't find even a rack pack in any Target or Walmart in my area of Upstate New York. This week, evidence of Heritage blasters fina...

The day I gave away a nebulous 9 need

Perhaps you have not grasped the wonderfulness of the prize for the 100,000 hits contest. I am going to track down something nice specifically designed for the winner. I am not offering a random relic of Bobby Crosby as a prize. I am finding something that the winner wants. This isn't a 10-table card show I'm going to either. There are over 100 tables. Also, I have decided I will find something a little less nice, but nice nonetheless, for the second-place finisher. So, if you want to get in on that, enter ! OK, end of commercial. Time to discuss the last contest that I held. Back in November, I gave away a couple of random hits -- a Lisa Leslie auto and a Mark Buehrle relic -- in another milestone contest thingy. I also threw in a bunch of early 1980s cards that I purchased at the dollar store. Zach, of Autographed Cards , won the contest. So I shipped the winnings off to Kansas and went on my merry way. Several months later, I was organizing my Dodger cards. Secure ...