1.) 2009 Leaf Certified Football

Certified is loaded with 4 game used memorabilia or autograph cards per box. With the 2009 season in full swing, many rookies are having solid seasons, and many are emerging on a week to week basis. Certified is a great box of football cards for collectors looking to chase the top 2009 rookies and get some nice hits. This product also contains Brett Favre’s first autograph card as a member of the Minnesota Vikings.

2.) 2009 Upper Deck SP Authentic Baseball

09 SP Authentic Baseball delivers 3 autographs per box including 2 by the letter signed patch cards. SP Authentic Baseball also contains the autographed Future Watch rookie card of #1 rated prospect Matt Wieters. Another highlight of the product is the chance at getting a 1993 UD SP Derek Jeter Rookie Card Buyback Autograph. Look for this card to be extremely hot if the Yankees win the World Series this year.

3.) 2009/10 Panini Prestige Basketball

Prestige is Panini’s first basketball card release. Look for 4 autograph or memorabilia cards per box including a chance at autographs from the always in demand Kobe Bryant.

4.) 2009 Upper Deck SPx Football

SPx has a hit per pack, making that 10 autographed or memorabilia cards per box. The new twist this year is the Shadowbox card, which also comes with autographed variations like the Peyton Manning featured below. As a side note, for all 2009 Upper Deck Football Rookie Cards, you can enter them online for a chance to win the Upper Deck rookie of the week contest.

5.) 2009/10 Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Hockey

O-Pee-Chee is a cool looking hockey product with a good amount of hits mixed in. Hockey card collectors can’t go wrong with this product.

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1.) 2009 Upper Deck Football

With the 2009 NFL Regular Season just around the corner, the football card market is starting to heat up. Upper Deck’s flagship football product is definitely looking like a quality and fun break for collectors. The product contains 3 memorabilia cards and 1 autograph card per box, as well as some of the best NFL Photography on its base cards. Inserts like Premier Autographs, Same Day Signatures, and Cuts are all strengthening this product even more. The 2009 Rookie Class is currently being led by newly named Jets Starting QB Mark Sanchez, but there are a lot of other solid rookies being pulled from these boxes.  Overall quality content, some new inserts, and the start of the NFL Season have this product at the top of the Hot List.

2.) 2008/09 Upper Deck Exquisite Basketball

Exquisite Basketball is the standard for High-End Basketball Products. This year’s release is doing very well, and the cards look great. Some of the 1/1 logoman patches and dual inscription autographs are very impressive.

3.) 2009 Topps Chrome Baseball

Topps Chrome Baseball is always a solid product, and this year is no different. Baseball Card Collectors who love on card autographs and refractors will get their fill with this product.

4.) 2008/09 Upper Deck Cup Hockey

Cup Hockey, much like Exquisite Basketball, is a very high-end product that is growing even more popular with collectors. Although the rookie class isn’t quite as strong as it has been in past years, the limited production combined with new twists on this product have Cup Hockey on fire once again.

5.) 2009/10 Bowman ‘48 Basketball

Bowman ‘48 Basketball is an interesting retro themed product that delivers 3 autographs in every box. With a decent amount of hits per box and a cool Retro theme to it, this product is very popular at its reasonable price.

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The autograph list contains all the usual High End Stars -  including Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, and the NBA Rookie Of the Year Derrick Rose.

1.) 2009 SP Legendary Cuts Baseball

This year’s SP Legendary Cuts contains four memorabilia cards per box. Cut signatures fall two per case, mystery signatures are one per case, 20th anniversary memorabilia cards one per case, and on card autograph inserts fall two per case. Obviously many baseball card collectors are chasing cut autographs when they are busting these boxes, but the sharp looking stamp design and other strong content has this product at the top of the hot list.

2.) 2009 Playoff Prestige Football

Prestige delivers four game used memorabilia or autograph cards per box and falls into the “pre-season” football boxes that give collectors their first shots at autographed rookie cards from top rookies.

3.) 2008/09 Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Premier Hockey

2008/09 O-Pee-Chee Premier Hockey is really a sharp looking product. With tons of cool inserts, autographs from the NHL’s best, and the product being short printed it could continue to move up the hot list.

4.) 2009 Upper Deck Draft Edition Football

2009 Draft Edition Football contains 5 autographs per box, a great product for Football Card collectors who love rookie autographs.

5.) 2009 Topps Series 2 Baseball

Series 2 Baseball contains 1 game used memorabilia or autograph card per box, and has some well sought after inserts such as  huge game worn patch cards.

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Here is some product information and notes on 2009 SP Legendary Cuts:

• 100 Card Base Set with short print variation – cards numbered to 550.
• Four Memorabilia Cards in Every Box
• Two Legendary Cuts Per Case, One Mystery Cut Signature Redemption  Per Case
• “Stamp” Design

What Upper Deck had to say about the release:

““This year’s SP Legendary Cuts launch left few stones unturned,” said Gabriel Garcia, Upper Deck’s associate baseball cards brand manager. ”We really pulled out all the stops.”

Cup Hockey is the one of the most talked about products every year in the hockey card market, and this year is no exception with talk of the product being short printed.

Besides yielding the most sought after rookie cards of the year, The Cup also brings back popular inserts like Honorable Numbers, Dual Shields, and Scripted Swatches. Upper Deck has also included a few new items this year including 500 Goal Scorers, a Gretzky Signature Insert, and Insert set dedicated to Canada Hockey Excellence and signed rookie draft boards right from the stage! You can see some of the new elements below:

You can check out even more information on the Cup over at Upper Deck’s Facebook Page.

1.) 2009 Sage Hit High Number Football Box

Sage Hit High Number delivers 9 on card autographs per box. Some collectors may wait until after the draft to start ripping into 2009 football, but some love to get all the autographs now.

2.) 2009 Topps Finest Baseball Box

Finest contains 2 numbered autographed rookie patch cards per master box. Great product to start the 2009 MLB season.

3.) 2008/09 Topps Signature Basketball Box

Topps Signature Basketball is loaded with autographs. Look for 8 autographed cards per box, one of which will be a “Group A” autograph.

4.) 2009 Press Pass Football Hobby Box

Press Pass football delivers 5 on card autographs per box. A great product to bust open in anticipation of the 2009 NFL draft.

5.) 2008/09 Upper Deck SP Authentic Hockey Hobby Box

SP Authentic Hockey is on fire with 3 autographs per box. Look for the year’s top rookies with autographed rookies and autographed patch cards of Stamkos, Schenn, Wheeler, Filatov, Brunnstrom, Sutter, Oshie, Doughty, Boedker, Kulemin, Gillies, Mason, and more! Also contains autographs from all of the NHL’s biggest stars including Ovechkin and Crosby.

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Check out this week’s Top 5 hottest sports card boxes:

1.) 2008/09 Upper Deck Lineage Basketball Hobby Box

Upper Deck took plenty of old school designs and put them into Lineage basketball. If you collected basketball cards in the early 90’s this product definitely “takes you back”. Each box contains two autographs, and some of the classic inserts like 15,000 point club and Flight Team are in this product. Collectors are also chasing after the buyback autographs in this product.

2.) 2008/09 Upper Deck SP Authentic Hockey Hobby Box

SP Authentic Hockey is on fire with 3 autographs per box. Look for the year’s top rookies with autographed rookies and autographed patch cards of Stamkos, Schenn, Wheeler, Filatov, Brunnstrom, Sutter, Oshie, Doughty, Boedker, Kulemin, Gillies, Mason more!

3.) 2009 Upper Deck Piece of History Baseball Hobby Box

Piece of History contains 1 Hollywood Memorabilia Card, 2 MLB Memorablia Cards, and 1 Autograph per Box. One of the big hits is 20th Anniversary Hollywood Memorabilia Cards, which fall 1 per case.

4.) 2008/09 ITG Between the Pipes Hockey Hobby Box

Between the Pipes has an average of 1 autograph every 16 packs and 1 game used memorabilia card every 20 packs. Some of the popular insert sets include Super Sized Pads, Autothreads, Masked Men, and Logo Cards.

5.) 2009 Press Pass Football Hobby Box

With 5 on-card autographs in every box, football card collectors are getting an early taste of the 2009 rookie class. So far the hottest rookies include Matthew Stafford, Mark Sanchez, Knowshon Moreno, Chris Wells, LeSean McCoy, and Shonn Greene.

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