* A card set of every Yankees home game? Holy Cow!

September 23, 2008

To borrow a phrase from the late Phil Rizzuto.

From AmericanChronicle.com:

…the Upper Deck Company has released the largest baseball trading card set ever assembled in tribute to the world-renowned sports shrine. The “Yankee Stadium Legacy” (YSL) collection is a 6,661-card compilation chronicling every single New York Yankees home game ever played at the current venue. It began its official debut in February by being inserted in random packs of Upper Deck´s 2008 Series 1 Baseball release. Since then, seven of the nine additional Upper Deck baseball launches including YSL insert cards have packed out.

As a basis of comparison, an entire year’s run of Topps cards in the 1970s was typicaly around 600 cards.

Depending upon how ambitious a collector is, there is certainly the possibility of putting together the entire Yankee Stadium Legacy Collection. But it will take patience and some luck to achieve. Since Upper Deck´s YSL set includes only Yankee home games through the 2007 MLB season, the first five lucky collectors who put together the entire set and have it validated will also receive each of the insert cards chronicling the 2008 season (82 cards, including this year´s All-Star Game) to complete their sets. The YSL cards representing 2008 will appear in 2009 Upper Deck Series One Baseball next February and thus put a close to the Yankee Stadium Legacy promotion.

No word in the article about how much something like this would cost. For more infor, visit the Upper Deck Website.

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