Announcements

Pack Wars Prize is Chest Loaded with Prizes!!! ATTACK TALK by Steve Mandy... WEEKLY ATTACK NEWS & GOSSIP ...ATTACK OF THE BASEBALL CARDS is now celebrating our 28th year in the hobby...TOPPS SPECIAL NIGHT AT ATTACK ON THURSDAY, JULY 29th!!! Topps Officials To Attend & Hold Q&A Session!!! Attack of the Baseball Cards has been selected as the site of a Special Topps Night on Thursday evening, July 29th. The event will run from 7:00pm though 8:30pm. John C. Buscaglia, Vice President Sales at Topps & David Reel, Director of Topps Hobby Sales will be at ATTACK and will hold a questions & answer session. There will be contests, FREE PACKS and prizes as well as discounts on purchases....NY Yankee All-Time great DON MATTINGLY made a visit to the complex our store is located in recently. "Donnie Baseball" was at the site filming an instructional video. He did stop by ATTACK & signed some autographs for us!...A BOX BREAK is held every Saturday or Sunday at 1:00pm...Former NY Yankee/Mets pitcher AL LEITER has been a visitor to Attack recently...KIDS CARD DAY (or NITE) is held once per month. Kids get to play in three events (card flipping, Pack Wars, etc.). The kids get FREE PACK & can win prizes!!!......Our next PACK WARS will be on Sunday, May 2nd at 3:00pm. Admission Tickets are now ON SALE!!! A BIG THANK YOU to UPPER DECK for for providing Attack with tickets to the MICHAEL JORDAN BRAND ALL-AMERICAN BASKETBALL CLASSIC at MSG. Also thanks to Rob G. from Maplewood, NJ for providing Attack with tickets for RED BULLS SOCCER. Tickets to both these events were used as prizes at Attack's Box Breaks!!! A BIG THANK YOU TO LARRY JORDAN FROM UPPER DECK FOR HIS HELP GETTING SPONSORHIP FROM UPPER DECK FOR OUR SUMMER BASEBALL CARD CAMP SERIES!!! ...1986 World Champion NY Mets pitcher Bobby Ojeda became the first celebrity to visit Attack's new location...We are looking for some of our former customers: Bruce G. from Millburn, George R. from Union, Debbie B. & Sam from Westfield, Richard S. from Linden, Steve N. from Union, Dave C. from Belleville. If any of you read this, we have a FREE PACK WARS TICKET for you good for the MAY 2010 PACK WARS...Former NY YANKEE & NY METS pitcher AL LEITER stopped by a couple of weeks ago. He became the forth former player to visit ATTACK's Milltown Road location. ATTACK promoted 1st first ever NJ signing back on January 16, 1988. It was great seeing him again!!!...Attack will hold a our 2nd FREE APPRAISAL DAY soon. Nationally known autograph expert Mike Kushner will help by giving free verbal appraisals of autographs, cards, card collections & memorabilia that day...we now have an EBAY STORE! You can checkout everything we have in our weekly auctions & our new BUY IT NOW items all on Ebay in the ATTACK OF THE BASEBALL CARDS ...Attack will run our Annual Trout Fishing Fantasy this spring...Attack will hold the 7th Annual Summer Student Essay Contest this summer. Ou winner last year was ROBERT P. from Mountainside. Read about our winner on the Contest Page of this website. Attack is also taking suggestions on subjects for this years essay contest......BEST MUSIC ON THE RADIO (sorry, it's NOT RAP or HIP HOP) is on Everything Old Is New Again. It's on WBAI at 99.5 FM every Sunday night from 9pm-11pm. Radio personality is David Kenney who grew up in Iselin. David plays Jazz, Swing, Standards, Showtunes & Cabaret and does great Give-a-ways. Great singers like Nancy LaMott, Tom Andersen, Michael Feinstein & Judy Garland. It's the best way to end your long weekend. I listen every week! You can look at his website at: http://oldisnew.org/ (cut & paste). Check him out, you won't be sorry!...2009 NCAA Basketball Tournament Fantasy now underway. Sign-up now through to the play in 64th team game...My thanks to Rich Davis, Sami J & Steve Covino from The Covino & Rich Show on SIRIUS SATELLITE MAXIM RADIO. I've had a great time when they've asked me to appear on their radio show three times (follows Howard Stern in the mornings) to talk about the sportscard & memorabilia industry. Thanks also to all the listeners who called in to ask me questions. Also thanks to all the listeners who have since called me or emailed me about the appearance...Best Italian food in NJ still is at MARIO'S and down the shore on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights it's MARIO'S SOUTH...For GREAT take out & deli try NAPOLI ITALIAN DELI at 5 Points in Union...Kids, don't forget about the Good Student Redemption Program, now currently in it's 17th year. You can be in it by bring in your good grades and get great free merchandise...If you've never seen a Box Break Party, check out the Case Break party from my friend Alan Narz's store (Big League Cards) in Florida. It's featured on Topps website at www.topps.com and has his own autographed cards along with his Rip Girls in 2008 Finest Baseball...Send Topps an email & ask them to bring Alans Box Break Party to our store!!!...Had a great visit at Attack from famed sportswriter Eddie Lucas. A great national sports columnist, Eddie was a close friend of the Yankees & Phil Rizzuto. His wedding to Allison was the first wedding ever held at home plate in Yankee Stadium. Word is that Penny Marshall is doing a screenplay for a major motion picture based on Eddie's life. Eddie has been blind since a baseball injury (accident) when he was a child...We Miss You Scooter - Rest Peacefully as the heavens now hear the echo of "HOLY COW"...We're now doing Ebay Consignment. Get chance to get some extra cash to spend in the store & get rid of cards you don't want. Bring in your cards & we'll check them out...Don't forget our good buddy BILL DAUGHTRY now on ESPN Radio and can be heard weekdays evenings doing his postgame show from 10:00pm (or after the game) to midnight...our website is closing in on the 65,000 viewer mark. The first person who notices when we go over 70,000, send us a email and receive a free prize...check out our great selection of vintage cards. Also checkout our Ebay Store named Attack of the Baseball Cards!...for GREAT MEXICAN FOOD try BEANA'S at 988 St. George Ave. in Rahway. Tell the Gina that we sent you. Before you leave don't miss the desserts...READ YOUR E-MAILS!!!...Always keep those 9/11 heroes & victims in your hearts...Do you like collecible memorabilia from radio, TV, stage, reconditioned 30's & 40's radios and TV sets from the 40's & 50's? Check out AMEDEO'S Vintage Radio. It's a great store, easy to get to. Located at 558 Franklyn Ave. in Belleville, NJ. Not far off the NJ Parkway, call 973-450-4446. The place is open only on weekends and is loaded with great stuff. Tell them we sent you. We stumbled on it & really glad we did... If you would like to add to or comment on this column, please contact Steve at attacksteve@aol.com or call 908-687-8107 during store hours.