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2009 Bowman Draft Picks are out, featuring two autographed rookie cards per box — one signed card and one autographed patch card. The signed cards and patches feature the top picks in the 2009 NFL draft. There’s a 220 base card set that includes 110 rookie cards. Packs come with a $3 suggested retail price.
Here is what the set looks like:
A base set of 220 cards.
PARALLELS

2009 Topps Baseball is on store shelves sporting the usual array of inserts, autographs and relic cards. There are 36 10-card packs in each hobby box with a $1.99 per pack suggested retail price. Legends of the Game returns with another 25-card insert set along with World Baseball Classic Relic, Autographed and Stamp Cards. There are also 17 variation cards that feature HOFers.

2009 Topps Heritage Baseball celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1960 set, the last set that featured all cards in horizontal design.

Topps has jumped into the battle to win over fans of mixed martial arts with “Topps UFC 2009 – Round One.” There’s a 99-card base, including cards of fighters in their debut battles. On average boxes with 16, eight-card packs have three autographed cards and three relic cards. They come with a $5 SRP.
BASE CARDS (99) Stadium Club style photography / full bleed photos

Once again, for what it is worth, here are some tips from Tim Fitzsimmons, who was the FBI agent in charge of the “Operation Bullpen” crackdown on sports forgeries a several years ago.
1. If the price is too good to be true, it is probably a fake.
2. Certificates of authenticity are not guarantees of authenticity.

In putting together a column on a ball that many experts and one of the signers, Harmon Killebrew, thought was phony, Da Babe asked lots of questions of the folks from STAT Authentic, At My Auction and the Army & Air Force Exchange Service. Here’s the complete e-mail responses received:

Ted Taylor, co-owner of State Authentic.

Donruss and Upper Deck have big plans for fans attending the NFL Experience in Tampa Bay Jan. 29-Feb. 1.

Once again Donruss has produced promotional packs that were handed out to fans attending Thanksgiving Day games in Dallas and Philadelphia.

The 28th edition of JOGO Canadian Football League cards are out. Once again the print run was limited.

For the 18th straight year, McDonald’s restaurants throughout Canada will be featuring hockey cards. There’s a 50-card Upper Deck Ice Heroes base set, a 50-card gold parallel set numbered to 100 along with 54 inserts. In addition, there are 4,000 “Instant Winner” cards offering autograph cards, jersey cards, jersey patch cards or complete sets of 2008 Upper Deck Ice Heroes.