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Podcast: Sports Cards Live
Episode: Unveiling The Hobby Spectrum + Tough Love for Upper Deck + The Gretzky 1/1 That Never Should Have Packed Out
Description: Attention turns to Upper Deck and Jeremy does not hold back. He walks through the story behind the 2003 Exquisite Tribute Wayne Gretzky 1/1 from the new Cup release, comparing the slick solicitation image to the actual card that surfaced: a different patch and a badly smudged, weak gold autograph on what should be one of the key cards in the entire product.
Jeremy explains why he thinks this is a failure at multiple levels. He questions why the mockup used a fantasy level patch that does not exist in the production run, why the autograph pen was not...