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Welcome to the Sports Store!
Hockey Cards for 2006/7 - Available in Packs or Boxes.
2006/7 Upper Deck Victory – Now In Stock
2006/7 Fleer Ultra Hobby – End of September 2006
2006/7 Upper Deck Series 1 – Mid to end of November 2006
More sets coming in early 2007!
We also carry products from other leagues like the Canadian Football League and the Major Junior Western League Hockey (WHL). Re-live or make your own memories of the events and moments that helped shape sports history.
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  | 2006-07 UPPER DECK SERIES 2 HOCKEY | | |   | | 24 PACKS 8 CARDS PER PACK.Look for (2) Game-Used Memorabilia Cards and (6) Rookie Cards per box on average!! Find randomly inerted UD Masterpieces Press Plate Cards, Autograph Cards, and Game-Used Patch Cards!!
Key Rookies: Evgeni Malkin, Mark Stuart
Click for More... |  | | | |  | Dany Heatley - 2001/2 ITG Private Stock | | | | | | Dany Heatley - Atlanta Thrashers - 2001/2 In The Game insert Rookie Reserve Card. Click for More... |  | | |
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A Little History
Most enthusiasts get their start by collecting sports cards when they were young. In 1933 the bubble gum cards were introduced when several companies began selling baseball cards with their gum. Through this period, although there was a small group of serious collectors, the majority were kids who would collect and trade with other kids to get the cards they wanted. The autographed collectibles and memorabilia became more popular with jerseys, caps, pucks and balls. For the serious collector there are many Limited Edition autographed and authenticated lithographs and photos in a wide price range.
Most enthusiasts get their start by collecting sports cards when they were young. In 1933 the bubble gum cards were introduced when several companies began selling baseball cards with their gum. Through this period, although there was a small group of serious collectors, the majority were kids who would collect and trade with other kids to get the cards they wanted.
The autographed collectibles and memorabilia became more popular with jerseys, caps, pucks and balls. For the serious collector there are many Limited Edition autographed and authenticated lithographs and photos in a wide price range.
By the early 1970s, a few card dealers began to set up shop. Many operated through mail-order only, and most did it as a supplemental income to their "day job." Some dealers were collectors who sold their own extra cards and used the profits to buy more cards for their own collection; other dealers were businessmen who saw that there was a great deal of money to make. It appears TOPPS was the first major manufacturer and dealer of collectible cards in the late 60’s. Fleer and Donruss issued their first cards in 1981 and the competition revitalized the industry. Upper Deck produced it’s first offering in 1989 with full color pictures and limited editions. During the 1990’s autographed card and redemption cards began to appear and the main focus of collecting shifted from the younger kids to the adult collector. Other collectibles began making an appearance. Team jerseys, baseballs, bats and caps were popular. The ones that were worn by the stars and autographed would demand a good price on the open market and auctions of sports collectibles and limited editions began springing up. An example is the recent auctioning of the 700th home run ball hit by Barry Bonds which was acquired for over $800,000 through auction.
In Canada, hockey cards were the collectible items for kids. Whether you were from Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Halifax or points in between you had your favorite team from the original six, the Toronto Maple Leafs or the Montreal Canadians. In the 1950s and 60s the cards were possibly the only way you could get to see your favorite players that you heard about on Hockey Night in Canada. That is before it switched from radio to television. With the expansion of the league into the US and across Canada, the new marketing scheme included souvenirs of sweaters, caps, pucks, sticks and other merchandise, most recently the bobble head.
The history of the NFL is reflected in the history of the college draft. Since 1936, what happened in the draft room would set the stage for what happened on the gridiron, shaping the destiny of teams for years to come. 1981 thru 1990 many of the decade’s elite teams, like so many franchises before them, have built through the draft. There may be no greater example than the Dallas Cowboys, who used multiple picks to go from a 1-15 team in 1989 to winning three Super Bowls in the 1990s. In back-to-back drafts in the 2000s, an NFL team made trades in order to select three players in the first round. In 2000, the Jets drafted in the number 12th, 13th, and 27th spots of the first round. One year later, the St. Louis Rams had the 12th, 20th, and 29th overall picks of round number one.
The NFL's ultimate game has brought fans some of the greatest memories from Joe Namath in Super Bowl III to Tom Brady in Super Bowl's XXXVI & XXXVIII. Along with it’s history and storied moments, merchandise for the fans now includes replica and authentic jerseys, caps, footballs, jackets, sweatshirts, T-shirts and headwear for young and old, male and female.
Other sports such as golf and auto racing have also contributed to the collecting market. Card sets for the PGA and racing leagues such as NASCAR and Formula One are available as are a wide variety of other merchandise. One of the most popular one being the limited and numbered editions of NASCAR die-cast cars driven by the most popular drivers. Another popular item is the limited edition signed prints for both racing leagues as well as the PGA past and present stars.
Throughout the 53-year history of NASCAR, its race cars have been transformed from road-going, lumbering true "stock" cars into the sleek, technologically advanced machines that we see today on ultra-modern speedways. In tracing the evolution of the cars that we know today as the Winston Cup Series, it's necessary to go back to the beginnings of NASCAR and its "Strictly Stock Division."
When NASCAR was formed in 1948, there was a definite shortage of new cars in the post-war era. The feeling was that race fans wouldn't stand for new cars being beat up on a race track while they were driving a rattletrap pre-war automobile, so "Modified" cars were the early staple of NASCAR racing.
However, in 1949, NASCAR president Bill France Sr. re-visited the idea of racing the cars that people actually drove on the street -- late model family sedans. Since no other racing organization had seized the idea, France figured it might take root and create added interest.
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