On the heels of announcing that Topps had signed an exclusive agreement with 2010 Number 1 Draft Pick, Bryce Harper, Topps announced today their plans for including Harper in some of their upcoming products.
2011 Bowman
Harper will make his first appearance as a Washington National in 2011 Bowman. In addition, Harper will sign autographs for this release.
2010 Bowman Chrome
Harper will be added to the recently-announced Autographed 2010 Bowman Chrome USA BUYBACK program. Cards will be sequentially numbered with foil stamping to 100 and will also include James Taillon, Yasmani Grandal, Drew Pomeranz, Michael Choice, Christian Colon, Manny Machado and Bryce Brentz. These on-card autographs will be available via redemption.
2010 Bowman Draft Picks & Prospects
Harper’s 2009 AFLAC Autographed cards will be inserted into packs of 2010 Bowman DP&P. Each of Harper’s on-card autographs from the 2009 AFLAC All-American Game will be sequentially numbered with foil stamping.
Topps has been keeping Stephen Strasburg busy.
Topps recently sent out a bunch of redemption only Strasburg autographed cards, and they are slowly finding their way to the secondary market. Most notably are the 2010 Topps Tribute cards, which feature Strasburg’s auto along with relic’s from his first MLB game. These seem to come in single and dual relive forms. With variations of numbered to both 99 and 75.
Along with the Tribute autos, Strasburg was the cornerstone of the Topps Million Card Giveaway promotion. Collectors who were lucky enough to redeem a Strasburg were given the opportunity to have their cards autographed prior to receiving them. It was reported that there are only 299 of these autographs issued.
On the heels of the 2010 NFL season, Topps is set to release their first football product for the year. Designed much like it’s baseball counterpart, the 2010 Topps Football product will be sharing much more the design characteristics.
The Topps Million Card Giveaway has been such a success, that Topps has also included the Gridiron Giveaway in their products this year. Packs will randomly contains a code card (1 per pack in Jumbo, 1:6 in Hobby) that can be redeemed online for original vintage Topps Football cards and other prizes including signed memorabilia from the fabled Topps archives.
With 1 autograph or relic card per Hobby box, and 2 autographed and 1 relic card per Jumbo box, consumers have some outstanding odds at finding some great cards packed away in their boxes. The most sought after of these each year is the Rookie Premiere Autographs. The Rookie Premiere Autographs appear in single, dual, and quad autographs. This year Topps has introduced on-card serial numbers, in hopes of alleviating the counterfeit issues that have plagued the product in the past. Several have already shown up on eBay for Sam Bradford, Jahvid Best, Colt McCoy, Jimmy Clausen, and many others.
Once we receive the entire Rookie Premiere Auto checklist, it will be posted on the web site.
Much like the hype surrounding Stephen Strasburg in baseball, football has their own golden child for 2010. Tim Tebow has been one of those publicized players throughout most of his collegiate career and that has not changed since being drafted. Tebow appears to have SP card as well as a few autographed cards available in the set. Tebow is also featured on a dual autograph with former Bronco great John Elway.
Once we receive the entire SP checklist, it will be posted on the web site.
An exclusive 2010 Topps football break will be posted later this week.
While, we’re not exactly sure how they all ended up on in the sellers hands, over 2,400 2008 Rene Tosoni Bowman Chrome Auto’s have been placed up for auction on eBay. The seller, who deals in “buying lost freight shipments, unclaimed freight, manufacturer and distributor overstocks, and close-out merchandise”.
The seller currently has auctions for 2,412 of the cards, that were originally inserted as redemptions from Topps in their 2008 Bowman Chrome product:
The lot of the Orange refractors also contains 24 of 25 Tim Bascom Orange Refractors autographs too. If you ever wanted to own a near entire print run of an card, here is your chance.
This has to make you wonder what Topps will do to replace the redemptions currently in circulation or which have been redeemed?
Topps has signed an exclusive deal with Major League Baseball, and starting 2010 will have an exclusivity on MLB, club trademarks, logos and other intellectual property for use on baseball cards, stickers and other product categories featuring MLB players.
What does this mean? Basically that no other card manufacturers will be able to show photography of players in their actual MLB uniform or use team logos on their product. Topps is hoping that this exclusivity will appeal to a new generation of enthusiasts and restore their reign as the crown jewel of the sports collecting world.
he exclusive arrangement ends MLB’s 30-year relationship with Upper Deck, the other main player in the market, which retains licensing rights from the MLB Players Association. That enables Upper Deck to continue producing cards with players’ images, but team logos and such are out.
The 20-year-old New York Mets phenom, Fernando Martinez, made his major league debut last Tuesday (5/26/2009) making him the youngest player in the MLB today. Today, Topps announced that F-Mart would be their first Red Hot Rookie redemption player. These redemption cards were randomly insert one-per-box in the 2009 Topps Series 2 Baseball packs. The cards can be redeemed online at topps.com.
In total, there are 10 Red Hot Rookies in the set, which will be announced throughout the rest of the baseball season.
Fernando also was featured in the 2007 Bowman Chrome Prospects Auto set, as well as, the 2008 Bowman Chrome Draft set. While this 2009 Topps Red Hot Rookie may not be his first produced card, it will definitely be a sought after card due to the expiration of the redemption and the attractiveness of the card.
Topps confirms that there are several short printed autographed cards, relic cards and base cards in the recently-released 2008 Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball. In addition there are RED INK autograph variations limited to just 10 copies each. The subjects and quantities are as follows.
SHORT PRINTED AUTOGRAPHS
Ryan Howard
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90
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David Ortiz
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90
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Manny Ramirez
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90
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Matt Holliday
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90
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Prince Fielder
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90
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Jose Reyes
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90
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Hunter Pence
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90
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Bruce Jenner
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190
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Andrea Farina
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190
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Allen Fisher
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190
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Andrew “William Ocean” Litz
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190
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Bonnie Blair
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190
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Bob Motley
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190
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Billy Mitchell
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190
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Dan Jansen
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190
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Dean Karnazes
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190
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Frank Morris
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190
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Joey Chestnut
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190
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Jeff King
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190
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Jeanette Lee
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190
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Kerri Strug
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190
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Kevin Van Dam
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190
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Lisa Leslie
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190
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Les Miles
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190
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Matt Biondi
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190
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Mark Spitz
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190
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Pete Weber
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190
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“Rampage” Jackson
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190
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Serena Williams
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190
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Todd Clever
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190
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Takudzwa Ngwenya
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190
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Adriano Moraes
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190
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Deep Blue
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190
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David Wright
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240
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Brad Penny
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240
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Hanley Ramirez
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240
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Travis Hafner
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240
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Carl Crawford
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240
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Torii Hunter
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240
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Nicky Hayden
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240
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Stevie Williams
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240
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AUTOGRAPHED RELICS
Marcus Henderson 100
SHORT PRINTED RELICS
Aaron Pryor
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100
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Andre Ward
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100
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Danny Green
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100
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Edison Miranda
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100
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Jeff Fenech
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100
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Joel Casamayor
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100
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Kelly Pavlik
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100
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Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini
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100
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Samuel Peter
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100
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Archie Moore
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100
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Nicky Hayden
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250
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Stevie Williams
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250
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Bonnie Blair
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250
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Dan Jansen
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250
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Kerri Strug
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250
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Matt Biondi
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250
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Todd Clever
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250
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Takudzwa Ngwenya
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250
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Lisa Leslie
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250
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Serena Williams
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250
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Joey Chestnut
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250
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Billy Mitchell
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250
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Mark Spitz
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250
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Frank Morris
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250
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Andrea Farina
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250
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Dean Karnazes
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250
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Kevin Van Dam
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250
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Jeanette Lee
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250
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Andrew “William Ocean” Litz
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250
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Pete Weber
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250
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Allen Fisher
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250
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Les Miles
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250
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“Rampage” Jackson
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250
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Jeff King
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250
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Bruce Jenner
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250
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Bigfoot
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250
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Adriano Moraes
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250
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SHORT PRINTED BASE CARDS (1: 2 packs)
301
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Felix Pie
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Chicago Cubs
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302
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Brad Lidge
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Philadelphia Phillies
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303
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Jason Bay
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Pittsburgh Pirates
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304
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Victor Hugo
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Poet/Playwright/Novelist
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305
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Randy Johnson
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Arizona Diamondbacks
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306
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Carlos Gomez
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Minnesota Twins
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307
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Pat Neshek
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Minnesota Twins
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308
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Jed Lowrie
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Boston Red Sox
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309
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Ryan Church
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New York Mets
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310
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Michael Bourn
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Houston Astros
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311
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B.J. Ryan
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Toronto Blue Jays
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312
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Brandon Wood
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Angels
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313
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Author/Abolitionist
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314
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Mike Cameron
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Milwaukee Brewers
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315
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Tom Glavine
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Atlanta Braves
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316
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Ervin Santana
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Angels
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317
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Geoff Jenkins
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Philadelphia Phillies
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318
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Andre Ethier
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Los Angeles Dodgers
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319
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Jason Giambi
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New York Yankees
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320
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Dmitri Young
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Washington Nationals
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321
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Wily Mo Pena
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Washington Nationals
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322
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Hank Blalock
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Texas Rangers
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323
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James Bowie
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American Pioneer/Soldier
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324
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Casey Kotchman
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Angels
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325
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Stephen Drew
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Arizona Diamondbacks
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326
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Adam Kennedy
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St. Louis Cardinals
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327
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A.J. Pierzynski
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Chicago White Sox
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328
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Richie Sexson
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Seattle Mariners
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329
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Jeff Clement
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Seattle Mariners
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330
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Luke Hochevar
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Kansas City Royals
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331
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Luis Castillo
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New York Mets
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332
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Dave Roberts
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San Francisco Giants
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333
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Coco Crisp
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Boston Red Sox
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334
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Jo-Jo Reyes
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Atlanta Braves
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335
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Phil Hughes
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New York Yankees
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336
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Allen Fisher
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Arm Wrestling Champion
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337
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Jason Schmidt
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Los Angeles Dodgers
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338
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Placido Polanco
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Detroit Tigers
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339
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Jack Cust
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Oakland Athletics
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340
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Carl Crawford
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Tampa Bay Rays
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341
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Ty Wigginton
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Houston Astros
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342
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Aubrey Huff
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Baltimore Orioles
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343
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Bengie Molina
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San Francisco Giants
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344
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Matt Diaz
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Atlanta Braves
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345
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Francisco Liriano
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Minnesota Twins
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346
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Brandon Boggs
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Texas Rangers
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347
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David DeJesus
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Kansas City Royals
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348
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Justin Masterson
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Boston Red Sox
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349
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Frank Morris
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Rubik’s Cube Champion
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350
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Kevin Youkilis
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Boston Red Sox
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