As expected due to the lawsuit, Upper Deck is out of baseball, at least for 2010. I just got a copy of an email from a distributor who had let me know that the four or so baseball products that UD was planning are no longer going to be available. This includes:
2010 Upper Deck Goudey Baseball
2010 Upper Deck SPX Baseball
2010 Upper Deck SP Authentic Baseball
2010 Upper Deck Exquisite Baseball
Although Exquisite isnt really a product, it was going to be included in all of the baseball products for the year. Sadly for a lot of the people who like quality high end products, all of these are done for the first time in almost a decade.
Listen, I get that there are a lot of people who HATE Upper Deck, but you have to admit that its pretty shocking to see a year go by without SPX and SPA baseball. Goudey was also a collector favorite that will not be produced, thus confirming how much collectors have really “won” per that uninformed and arrogant MLBP rep.
Regardless of how you feel about UD, its sad to see a year go by with no competition against Topps. So glad that products like the horrid high end sets they produce have no reason to get better. 2010 Triple Threads – Now more like 2009 Triple Threads! YAY!