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The View from the Upper Deck: SportsPickle Presents the Funniest Collection of Sports Satire Ever
$12.95
Personally I think DJ Gallo is one of the best things to happen to sports "journalism." I find just about everything he writes about sports to be downright hilarious. This book is no different. If you are a big sports fan in general (rather than just a fan of one team in one sport), then you will likely find this to be very enjoyable.

I mention that qualifier because if you are not aware of certain things in sports (e.g. the Yankees being willing to pay anyone who has played a good game $100mm) then you might not find the jokes as funny. Look at the jokes on the cover and see if you like them.

2009 Upper Deck Football Trading Cards
$71.99
Product Highlights: 24 packs with 18 cards per pack. One (1) Memorabilia card in every box! Look for rare autographs like: Same Day Signatures, featuring hard signed Rookie cards from the day of the Rookie Premiere Photo Shoot! Signature Shots, featuring the top veteran NFL stars! Two (2) Star Rookies in every pack! Uncover lenticular 3D Stars! Continue the collection of America's Team Inserts, at least 2 per box! Collect the entire 325-card set!

2007 Upper Deck Series 2 Baseball Cards
$71.99
Product Highlights: 24 packs with 8 cards per pack. Look for 1989 Rookie Reprints, Star Signings Autographed Cards and Rookie of the Year Predictor Cards. Collect the huge 500 card base set! Product Ships the Week of June 27th, 2007.

2009 Upper Deck Series 1 Baseball Trading Cards - Blaster Box
$19.99
** EDIT **

Upper Deck 2009 baseball is fun in every box.

you get 10 total packs loaded with stars and subsets like team leaders, season highlights, and team checklists.

There are several dozen or so inserts, but in my about 4 blasters, i've been constistently pulling out O-Pee Chee (old school baseball card design), Team USA, Team USA Retrospective, and Starquest.

Starquest has several different variants including, purple, blue, emerald, gold, etc.

Upper Deck predictors is back, but with a twist such as the NL winning an All-Star game, or the DOW Jones hitting over 15,000, etc.

There is also Historic Firsts, wich includes a Sara Palin "first women vice-president" card and a Barack Obama card as well.

Each blaster carries 1 jersey card, and this is the neat thing. Upper Deck produced over 91 different jersey cards, so they are really hit or miss depending on what you're looking for.

through now updated 7 total box blasters i've gotten...

-J. Willingham, Florida
-R. Ankiel, Cardinals
-A. Pujols, Cardinals
-C. Buchholz, Red Sox
-J. Weaver, Angels
-J. Hamilton, Rangers with blue swatch (my personal favorite)

and

-Derek Jeter, Yankees with a pinstripe!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Series 1 has 30 total rookie cards and on average, you'll get about 3-4 per box, but the most coveted one of course if Tampa Bay Rays left handed gun slinger, David Price.

it eludes me.