Posts Tagged ‘Miracle on Ice’

Again, from Dr. Brian Price’s blog

Stay tuned for a playoff contest…

Just read this on Dr. Brian Price’s (of In The Game fame) blog:

PROUD AS A PEACOCK

I think the title of my post today says it all.

I have accomplished something that I am very, very proud of. It has taken close to a year but I got it done. Can’t wait any longer to hear what it is? OK!

Mark Wells has just signed his Decades cards and that means that we will have hard signed autographs for every player on the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team – The Miracle On Ice team.

Bill Baker, Bob Suter, Buzz Schneider, Dave Christian, Dave Silk, Eric Strobel, Jack O’Callahan, Jim Craig, John Harrington, Ken Morrow, Mark Johnson, Mark Pavelich, Mike Eruzione, Mike Ramsey, Neal Broten, Phil Verchota, Rob McClanahan, Steve Christoff, Steve Janaszak and now Mark Wells.

All twenty players have signed hard-signed autographs and they will be inserted into packs of Decades-The 80s hockey. This product will be released in early June 2011.

I couldn’t settle for getting 19 of the 20. The collector in me took over, I just had to complete the set and did.

The 80s was a great decade for hockey and hockey cards and our product will pay tribute to that decade.

More information on the product will follow, if you have not subscribed to our Newsletter, you should.

But for now, I just wanted to bang on my chest and say “I gott’em all”  the Miracle On Ice Team.

Brian Price

I’d like to see what they look like and the print-run, but I am already giddy with excitement.

At first, I tried to build the ’04-’05 Upper Deck Miracle Men set, but with two players missing and three others super duper short-printed, I bailed. It’s unfortunate, too, because the cards looked beautiful.

Then I moved onto the 1995 Signature Series Miracle on Ice set. Overall, the set isn’t the prettiest and suffers from quality control issues, BUT it will always be the only 100% complete Miracle on Ice set because it features an on-card autograph of Herb Brooks. The cards are relatively cheap and I’ve been fortunate enough get each player and Craig Patrick; still on the hunt for Brooks.

I am hoping the ITG Miracle on Ice set will combine the best of the two previous sets: nicely designed cards at an affordable price featuring all of the players.

We shall see…