Conference school::sports_memorabilia

    For you people who don't know how to get a free 1990 Proset Barry
    Sanders NFL Rookie of the year,and a Bret Hull NHL card just mail
    them your name and address. 
                                        Send to:
    
                                        Rookie of the Year
                                        NFL Proset
                                        15303 Dallas Parkway
                                        Suite 1300
                                        Dallas,Texas 75248 
                                                
    
    
    

    
    ...for the Hull and Sanders, do you have to send a SASE to get them
    to send them to you, or do they just want your address?

    They just want you address. It only takes a couple of weeks also.
    
    John

    The package they sent me includes the two cards, some advertising
    sheets, and a Pro Set newsletter with a checklist for the 1989 football
    set.

    Once your on the mailing list,they will send you the NFL PRO
    Gazette. The issue goes for a $1.95,but you get it as a frrebee.
    It only costs you the price of a $.25 stamp and thats it,there are 
    no gimicks,and the litterature they send is great.
    
                                         John
     

    I didn't get any...
    
    Included (apparently) in some Pro Set II packs.
    
    Photo of Andre Rison on the front.  Info on the back.
    
    For Final Update (753-780) send 50 play points + $2 or $5 to
    
    Pro Set Final Update
    15303 Dallas Parkway Suite 1300
    Dallas, TX 75248
    
    To get this card, send a SASE to Pro Set Andre Rison at above address.
    Limit 2/request.
    
    P.S.  Look for new Pro Set Bubble Gum with a spectacular and exclusive
    Super Bowl commemorative collectible series this December.

    A couple of clarificaions on the previous note:
    
    1) The front looks like the Rison -Colts card (#134) with the Traded
    Stripe.  The real Traded strip card will be added to the Final Update
    set.
    
    2) The cost for the set is 50 points + $2(postage/handling), OR  
    $3 + $2 (postage/handling) per set.  So it's either 50 pts. + $2
    OR $5 total.
    
    No mention of if the points had to be from this year or not.
    
    I paid $1.50 for the stupid thing.  The dealer looked shocked when I
    told him I bought a box +  and hadn't seen one of these....
    
    -Walt
     

    
    
    	Can anyone who has received the SANDERS promo card from PROSET 
    	know what the difference is between it and the regulard card ?.
    	According to the SPORTS CARDS TRADER magazine, there is a big
    	difference in the price of these two cards.  Thanks
    
    							Juan

    
    
    	For the answer to 193.12, see entry 149.79
    

    I got my Cincinatti Reds Ticket info brochure yesterday.  The following
    freebies are offered:
    
    Sun. Aug 4 vs. Giants (A free set of limited edition 1991 Reds baseball
    cards will be given to all fans in Attendance - courtesy of Kahns)
    
    Sun April 28 vs. Cubs (A free Kenner Starting Lineup figure to the
    first 12,500 fans 14 and under)
    
    Also, on Jun 23, Former Reds stars take on the Upper Deck Heroes of
    Baseball (!!!???) prior to the Reds-Expos game.  Anybody heard of the
    UDH?
    
    Steve

    for a free skybox nba logo card, send your name, address and birthdate
    to:
    
    SkyBox
    PO Box 2600-A
    Salisbury, MD 21802

    
    1991-92 Hoops has a freebie offer on the pack of the packs.
    Send for your free Official Basketball Centennial Card feturing
    the red, white and blue Basketball centennial logo.  One free
    per household, $.50 each additional card.  To order send your
    full name, address, ZIP code, and date of birth to:
    
    Centennial Card Offer
    P.O. Box 884
    Kearneysville, WV 25430-0884
    
    While supplies last, offer expires Aug 31, 1992.
    

    Has anyone else filled out and sent in that card which came in Jumbo
    packs of UpperDeck Baseball for a free issue of some magazine? I sent
    it in about 2 months ago after reading the card once and I'm kinda
    fuzzy about what it was for. Anybody hear or recieve anything?              
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    I sent in one of those $.10 cards from Proset Hockey last year and
    since then I've recieved 2 or three catalogs and 2 sample cards sets.
    One I recieved in Jan. '91 with 2 golf cards and 2 silver anniversary
    football cards and last August I recieved a sampling of cards including
    a hockey, racing, rock star, little mermaid, and Bill and Ted's bogus/
    excellent adventure cards. 
                         

>    I sent in one of those $.10 cards from Proset Hockey last year and
>    since then I've recieved 2 or three catalogs and 2 sample cards sets.
>    One I recieved in Jan. '91 with 2 golf cards and 2 silver anniversary
>    football cards and last August I recieved a sampling of cards including
>    a hockey, racing, rock star, little mermaid, and Bill and Ted's bogus/
>    excellent adventure cards. 

Just last week I received another ProSet Gazzette.  The cards included
a Tom Barrasso (hockey common), auto racing, music (Gibson? I think), Bill
and Ted something, and a special ProSet FB Emmit Smith card...  The hockey
card was the same as in the 91-91 Series I set.  As for the Emmit Smith the
card number was PS1 or something like that...and said Proset Commemorative?
in the front upper left corner.  I don't know if this is the same card in
the regular set.

Dan

The Smith card was a Proset Gallery Card #1.

    
    The Emmitt Smith was a "Pro Set Gazzette" card, and on the back it
    said "Pro Set Gazzette Special Collectible 1".
    
    They also mailed out (again) a 91-92 Barasso Hockey card.
    
    I also received "Nelson" RockMusicWhatever card.
    
    Another golf card.
    
    And I think a racing card.
    
    
    Also, Hoops is giving away 100th anniversary centennial cards.  See
    back of wrappers for details.  First one free, additional ones, .50�
    each.
    
    -rjk

    Did you guys send in a new card recently or is this still from last
    year or so?
    I'm wondering if they purge thier mailing list or at least addresses
    which have been on it a while. Do I need to send in another card?
    
    Bill
    

    
    This all came about (originally) because I wrote in for their (PS)
    xlist for the '89 FB cards.
    
    Then I wrote in for the free Sanders ROY card last year (and got
    three of them 8^).  I then wrote for the Sanders card from my
    parent's address (and got three more! 8^).
    
    Oh yeah, and I've ordered the FB final update both years, so ...
    
    -rjk

    
    Really limited?  Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...
    
    I saw a dealer at a show with an entire display case full of 'em.
    
    Must've been AT LEAST 50-100 of each card.  Amazing how those dealers
    have so many phones and addresses huh?  Must be big money in cards.
    
    The only time I got through was on a rotary-dial phone ... and it
    auto-selected me to the option for "UD's Collecting Cards Book".  8^(
    
    -rjk

    For a free Disney Collector card Checklist, send name, address and age
    before March 31, 1992 to:
    
    		Disney Collector Card Checklist
    		c/o Impel Marketing Co.
    		P.O. Box 1280
    		Church Hill, MD 21690
    

    
    Is it a card-sized checklist, or is it a typed piece of paper
    checklist?
    
    -rjk

    I checked the wrapper over the weekend and all it says is, "for a free
    Disney Collector Card Checklist, send........
    so your guess is as good as mine. The price is right.
    
    Bill
    

    
    Here's an incredible offer for you guys.
    
    Last night I picked up a complete set of the 1990-91 Hoops
    Collect-A-Books.
    
    I pulled the ones I needed for my collections, and have all of
    the remaining ones left.  I have *NO* interest in them, other than
    for the players who I collect.
    
    I will give these away, one per noter.  All you have to do is send
    me a SASE, or make arrangements to meet me.  Send me mail to reserve
    your choice ahead of time.  List alternates.
    
    	Send your SASE to:
    
    		Roy J. Karlson
    		PO BOX 224
    		Clinton, Mass. 01510-0224
    
    I have the following Collect-A-Books available:
    
     1. Sam Bowie            2. Tom Chambers         3. Clyde Drexler
     5. Karl Malone          7. Reggie Miller        8. Mark Price
    10. Doc Rivers          11. Rony Seikaly        12. Wayman Tisdale
    14. Terry Cummings      15. Patrick Ewing       16. Terry Porter        
    18. Larry Nance         20. Chuck Person        21. Ricky Pierce
    25. Michael Adams(2)    26. Mugsy Bogues(2)     27. Joe Dumars
    28. Hersey Hawkins(2)   30. Bernard King(2)     31. Chris Mullin
    32. Charlies Oakley(2)  33. Alvin Robertson(2)  35. Dominique Wilkins(2)
    36. Buck Williams(2)    38. Rolando Blackman    39. Mark Eaton
    41. J.R. Reid           42. Xavier McDaniel     43. Hakeem Olajuwon
    45. Pooh Richardson     46. Dennis Rodman       47. Charlies Smith

    
    
    	RE: .27
    
    	I just received my free Disney Checklist yesterday, it's one page
    	typed checklist, and it did not include the Holograms.  It has,
    	however, 4 color pictures at the top of the page; one for the
    	wrapper, and one for each of the 3 different categories: favorite
        stories, family portraits, and world tour. It looks very nice,
    	and it was free.
    	
                        

    At a show last night I saw a dealer with the latest Classic promotional
    cards for sale.  These are the ones that I get from the address I 
    obtained in this notesfile.  First the guy tells me that ONLY dealers
    get these things......NOT!  He had the one with the 4 #1 picks in each
    sport (Lindros,Maryland,Johnson and Taylor) sellng for $40 and told me
    he had sold the one with Lindros alone on it for $50!  I saw other
    freebies I have been getting, mostly from Classic from anywhere between
    $15-$40.  I should have asked him what he would be willing to pay for
    these things.....I probably would have run home and brought all of mine
    to him.
    
    How can they sell these if they say "for promotional purposes only" on
    the back of them?  Who's going to stop them....is probably the answer.
    
    Has anyone else seen this stuff for sale anywhere?  And who else is
    still getting these freebies?  I know in the latest mailing they did
    make mention that they knew I hadn't purchased anything from them yet.
    It says on the order sheets that you need some sort of dealer ID number
    in order to get what they are trying to sell....which I obviously don't
    have.
    
    Pat

    
    Pat-
    
    	If you want a real shock sometime, ask them what they're paying
    for the promos.  Better yet, offer them for sale.
    
    	Betcha find out how much these guys really think of them.
    
    -rjk

    for a free San Jose Sharks merchandise brochure, send name+address to:
    
    				SAN JOSE SHARKS
    				P.O. BOX 1240
    				San Jose, CA  95113
    
    the stuff is kind of expensive but there is a large selection
    (The shark zubas are kind of neat and for you optimists there is a
     shark shirt with the Stanley Cup on it-->they're currently 6-22-3)
    
    Bill