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SAGE Autographed Football 2010 Released
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, April 22, 2010.
SA-GE Collectibles, Inc., the industry leader in draft pick trading cards is ecstatic to announce the release of its flagship brand SAGE Autographed Football 2010 just in time for the football draft. The sold-out product is arriving at distributors today, April 22, 2010 on the eve of the first-ever Thursday, prime-time draft day. Collectors will be able to pull authentic autographs of the top three projected picks – Sam Bradford, Ndamukong Suh and Gerald McCoy along with other great names such as Colt McCoy, Jimmy Clausen and C.J. Spiller direct from packs. SAGE Autographed Football 2010, as with all SA-GE products contains no redemption cards, which means every card is inserted directly into the packs.
“The draft today will start the professional careers of some fantastic players” said Tom Geideman, President of SA-GE Collectibles, Inc. “A look back ten years from now you’re going to see the foundation of the next ten championship teams, at least. This draft is so deep and so talented.”
Collectors will be able to pull rare autographed cards including the extremely scarce triple autographed cards. Only five different combinations were produced – including the top 3 QBs from this draft Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy and Jimmy Clausen – and are numbered to only 5. Every box will contain a mix of 54 different players’ authentic autographed cards ranging from the Platinum Level (numbered to 50), Gold Level (numbered to 200), Silver Level (numbered to 400) and Red Level (not numbered).
SAGE Autographed Football 2010 contains fifty –five of the finest amateur football players embarking upon their professional careers. Each player is classified as a rookie for the 2010 season, and is eligible for the 2010 football draft that starts today. This product is not licensed, endorsed, approved, associated or in any way affiliated with any collegiate institution.
SAGE President Tom Geideman Interviewed by First & Goal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SA•GE Collectibles, Inc. President Tom Geideman was was interviewed by First and Goal Sportscards on April 12, 2010. The interview (An Interview with SAGE President Tom Geideman) can be read in it's entirety on their website or a local copy saved here.
The wide ranging interview touches on topics such as Tom's personal collections, his thoughts on owning and operating a card company, and the future outlook and plans for SAGE Collectibles. The interview is considerably longer than many other typical posts on their site and shows the time and attention both parties paid to the discussion.
Be sure to check it out!
Are You Ready For The 2010 Rookies?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, January 18, 2010.
The underclassmen declaration date for the 2010 football draft was just this past Friday, but that hasn't slowed down SA•GE Collectibles, Inc.'s pursuit of the top rookies of perhaps the greatest draft class in decades.
SA•GE is very proud to announce that Colt McCoy, the Texas Longhorns' award-winning and record-setting quarterback and C.J. Spiller, the all-around dynamic running back who is the front-runner to be the first back taken in the 2010 draft are just two of many great names headlining it's HIT 2010 Football - Low Series product.
SA•GE is also enthusiastic to report that HIT 2010 Football - Low Series' early March release will again make it the first fully-licensed product issued featuring these rookie standouts. Spiller, McCoy and the other rookies will be personally autographing trading cards for HIT that will feature a jaw-dropping average of 6 autographed cards per box. Unlike the competition, each autographed card features SA•GE's patented autographed process to help ensure its authenticity.
Be sure to check back as more names are announced for inclusion in HIT 2010 Football - Low Series including a Heisman Trophy winner and a recent Heisman Trophy runner-up.
Update 1/30/2010: Sam Bradford and Toby Gerhart have been added to the HIT 2010 Football - Low Series!
SAGE President Tom Geideman Highlighted in Sports Illustrated
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SA•GE Collectibles, Inc. President Tom Geideman was highlighted in a Sports Illustrated article in the August 24, 2009 issue entitled "The Last Iconic Baseball Card."
Among the highlights in the article SI notes that Geideman was responsible for putting Ken Griffey Jr. on what "could very well be the last iconic rookie card ever made."
After many successes in the industry like the above, Tom Geideman and Robert Sadlak became fed up with the overproduction and over-proliferation of products in their beloved hobby,and decided to put their money where their mouths were. In 1998, backed by creative determination, a patent pending process, and nearly every penny they had to their names the two formed their own card company. Borrowing the first two letters of their last names they incorporated SA•GE in June of that year.
As Sports Illustrated points out, "sets are defined by their rookies, and the Griffey pick was a defining set... After making the Mariners out of spring training in '89, Griffey was an immediate sensation."
The same can be said for many of the rookies included in SAGE2, SAGE Autograph, HIT 2009 Football High Series, and HIT 2009 Football Low Series, the very first authentic Draft Football issues to be released in 2009. Don't miss out on the action!
SAGE2 and SAGE Autograph Sets Hits Shelves!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SA•GE Collectibles, Inc. announces the launch of SAGE2 and SAGE Autograph, featuring over 200 elite 2009 rookies including Matthew Stafford, Mark Sanchez & more! With three autographs in every pack, including one dual autographed card in SAGE2 packs, these cards are sure to go fast. Here are just a few of the product features:
- All cards are inserted, NO REDEMPTIONS!
- Patented autograph process assures authenticity
- SA•GE Collectibles, Inc.’s smallest print run ever!
SAGE2 and SAGE Autograph are the perfect compliment to HIT 2009 Football High and Low Series products!
Football’s 2009 Rookies Get HIT This March
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SA•GE Collectibles, Inc. is proud to announce HIT 2009 Football High Series and HIT 2009 Football Low Series, the very first authentic Draft Football issues to be released, which hit the shelves in March 2009 - one and a half months before the actual draft! Collectors are able to get the first officially licensed trading cards and authentic autographs of the top 2009 rookies including Matthew Stafford (QB, Georgia), Knowshon Moreno (RB, Georgia), Chris "Beanie" Wells (Ohio State - RB) , and Graham Harrell (QB, Texas Tech), Mark Sanchez (QB, USC), and Jeremy Maclin (WR, Missouri).
HIT 2009 Football Low Series is loaded with authentic autographs – an amazing 6 per box (on average). Collectors will be on the lookout for the very popular Write Stuff and Write Stuff Autographed Inserts, numbered to only 25! Plus they’ll be busting packs to find the new Game Breakers inserts and Game Breakers autographed Inserts, numbered to only 100.
With 50% more autographs per box in the HIT 2009 Football High Series, the packs are sure to go fast. "Making quality collectible products is our main goal," stated Tom Geideman, President of SA•GE Collectibles, Inc. "With such a talented draft class in 2009, both the HIT 2009 High and Low Football Series are sure to impress."
SA-GE.com Is Redesigned!
SA-GE Collectibles, Inc. is excited to ring in the new year with a redesign and relaunch of its SA-GE.com website. The new layout has a fresher, cleaner design, more interaction and most importantly is easier to navigate. We’ve made it even more convenient to find out about SA-GE’s innovative and highly desirable product releases including the upcoming 2008 releases of HIT Football (April), Aspire Football (early May), and SAGE Autographed Football (May) product releases while also storing an archive of checklists from our past products. SA-GE.com is also the place to find out about SA-GE’s corporate updates including, an exciting partnership with the Hula Bowl college All-Star game, played January 12, 2008 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
”Ten great years have come and gone so quickly“ stated SA-GE president Tom Geideman on the company’s recent 10th anniversary, ”We thought it was a great time to start off the new year with a new, more updated look to SA-GE.com.“ To achieve that goal SA-GE retained the services of Envisiondustry Media Concepts. ”Being a long-time SAGE collector,“ stated Jerry Higdon, lead webdesigner for Envisiondustry, ”I’ve never had as much fun as designing the new SA-GE.com webpage. It was an honor to highlight SA-GE’s great products in a newer, fresher look.“
SA-GE.com also includes a card gallery as well as a collectors gallery in which we ask collectors to send in photographs and information about their great pack-breaks and card-pulls. If you want to have your image & great card pull shown on SA-GE.com please submit your photo and a description of your pull to collectorgallery@sa-ge.com. Soon you too can be a part of SA-GE.com.
We’ve already received some great feedback from collectors, dealers & distributors about the new look of SA-GE.com and HIT, Aspire, and SAGE Autographed brand products. We would love to know your thoughts as well, including any improvements you’d still like to see email support@sa-ge.com. Thank you for your continued support of SA-GE products.
SA•GE Collectibles Announces SAGE HIT 2008 Football
Low & High Series Releases
SA•GE Collectibles realizes how much collectors look forward to the first SAGE Football draft product each April. Well, imagine how excited they will be when they discover that SAGE HIT 2008 Football will arrive a month early? Well, you can stop imagining.
SA•GE Collectibles announces a hobby first: The very first authentic Draft Football issue to be released in March - one whole month before the actual draft! That's right, now collectors can obtain their favorite collegiate player in the 2008 professional draft, a month earlier than they ever could before.
Here are some of the HIT 2008 Football details:
HIT BASE CARDS: The first 50 cards of a 100-card set are featured in the low series. The high series, which will feature many of the top players not included in the low series (including such names as Sedrick Ellis & Malcolm Kelly) will appear in late April, prior to the April 26-27 draft.
Additionally, there will be gold autographed cards of each player, numbered to 250 plus un-numbered silver & base versions.
SATURDAY COLORS INSERT: Each Saturday Colors insert will have an autographed card version numbered to 100.
WRITE STUFF INSERT: Each Write Stuff insert will have an autographed card version numbered to 25.
To top that, the all new SAGE HIT 2008 Football High Series will follow one month later, in April of 2008. Those players who aren't featured in SAGE HIT 2008 Low Series Football, are slated to appear in the SAGE HIT 2008 High Series Football release.
Additionally, a current checklist for SAGE HIT 2008 Low Series Football is included below, along with a couple of HIT 2008 Football sample images for collectors to drool over.
SAGE anticipates that the combined number of player cards in the two issues will total 100. SAGE HIT 2008 Football low series will feature 50 players (numbered 1-50), with the remaining cards being featured in SAGE HIT 2008 high series (numbered 51-100).
In 2002 HIT Football became the first-ever product to ship prior to the draft. HIT 2008 Football low series takes it further, releasing nearly one month prior to when a product loaded with top rookie players and their authentic autographed cards, has ever shipped before.
SA•GE HIT 2008 Football High Series Releases April 23rd
SAGE HIT 2008 High Series Football Debuts Before Draft!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SA•GE Collectibles has announced that it will release HIT 2008 Football High Series April 23rd – Just days before this years draft takes place. HIT 2008 Football High Series features some of this year’s best players in the upcoming draft (see below for player checklist).
SAGE president, Tom Geideman sees HIT 2008 High Series football, being just as exciting as HIT 2008 Football Low Series: ”The hobby loved HIT 2008 Low Series. We know this because we sold out and the collector feedback we’ve been getting has been tremendous. To be able to continue the excitement for collectors of SAGE Football Cards is our only focus, and we’ve accomplished this with HIT 2008 Football High Series.“
Here are some of the HIT 2008 Football details:
HIT 2008 FOOTBALL HIGH SERIES BASE CARDS: The second 50 cards of a 100-card set are featured in the high series. The High Series features top players not included in the Low Series (including names like Darren McFadden, Rashard Mendenhall, Jonathan Stewart & Felix Jones to name a few) who will appear in this latest SAGE release.
Additionally, there will be gold autographed cards of each player, numbered to 250 plus un-numbered silver & base versions.
SATURDAY COLORS INSERT: Each Saturday Colors insert will have an autographed card version numbered to 100.
WRITE STUFF INSERT: Each Write Stuff insert will have an autographed card version numbered to 25.
The combined number of player cards in the two HIT Football issues totals 100. SAGE HIT 2008 Football Low Series features 50 players (numbered 1-50), with the remaining cards being featured in SAGE HIT 2008 High Series (numbered 51-100).
In 2002 HIT Football became the first-ever product to ship prior to the draft. HIT 2008 Football low series took it further, releasing its first series nearly one month prior to when a product loaded with top rookie players and their authentic autographed cards, has ever shipped before. Now the hobby can enjoy HIT 2008 Football High Series and can enjoy the professional football draft even more!
SA•GE Collectibles Announces SAGE HIT 2008 Football
Low & High Series Releases
SA•GE Collectibles realizes how much collectors look forward to the first SAGE Football draft product each April. Well, imagine how excited they will be when they discover that SAGE HIT 2008 Football will arrive a month early? Well, you can stop imagining.
SA•GE Collectibles announces a hobby first: The very first authentic Draft Football issue to be released in March - one whole month before the actual draft! That's right, now collectors can obtain their favorite collegiate player in the 2008 professional draft, a month earlier than they ever could before.
Here are some of the HIT 2008 Football details:
HIT BASE CARDS: The first 50 cards of a 100-card set are featured in the low series. The high series, which will feature many of the top players not included in the low series (including such names as Sedrick Ellis & Malcolm Kelly) will appear in late April, prior to the April 26-27 draft.
Additionally, there will be gold autographed cards of each player, numbered to 250 plus un-numbered silver & base versions.
SATURDAY COLORS INSERT: Each Saturday Colors insert will have an autographed card version numbered to 100.
WRITE STUFF INSERT: Each Write Stuff insert will have an autographed card version numbered to 25.
To top that, the all new SAGE HIT 2008 Football High Series will follow one month later, in April of 2008. Those players who aren't featured in SAGE HIT 2008 Low Series Football, are slated to appear in the SAGE HIT 2008 High Series Football release.
Additionally, a current checklist for SAGE HIT 2008 Low Series Football is included below, along with a couple of HIT 2008 Football sample images for collectors to drool over.
SAGE anticipates that the combined number of player cards in the two issues will total 100. SAGE HIT 2008 Football low series will feature 50 players (numbered 1-50), with the remaining cards being featured in SAGE HIT 2008 high series (numbered 51-100).
In 2002 HIT Football became the first-ever product to ship prior to the draft. HIT 2008 Football low series takes it further, releasing nearly one month prior to when a product loaded with top rookie players and their authentic autographed cards, has ever shipped before.
SAGE DECADEnce Highlights Company's 10th Anniversary
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LAKE ELSINORE, CA -- To help celebrate SA•GE Collectibles, Inc.'s 10th anniversary the company has announced plans to unveil an extremely limited release of SAGE DECADEnce Football. The product will be loaded with Printer's Plates from all of the company's 2006 and 2007 football products including rare 1/1 autographed Printer's Plates & Jersey Swatch Printer's Plates from both years. Among the notable players from both series are: Vince Young, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart, Jay Cutler, Joseph Addai, Lawrence Maroney and Brady Quinn, Calvin Johnson, JaMarcus Russell, Adrian Peterson & Marshawn Lynch.
Packs of SAGE DECADEnce are also loaded with autographed cards of the top 2007 football draftees as well as limited edition jersey swatch cards. As usual with any SA•GE product every card is inserted directly into packs, there are zero redemption cards.
"We've been having such a blast making SAGE trading cards that it hardly even seems like 10 years have come & gone." stated Tom Geideman, president of SA•GE Collectibles. "We wanted to thank our great customers for their support of our love of the hobby & our products by issuing SAGE DECADEnce."
SAGE DECADEnce is an extremely limited product that was allocated to each of SA•GE's great distributors. It is recommended that collectors contact their local dealers & distributors in order to reserve their product before it's all gone.
Calvin Johnson, JaMarcus Russell, Brady Quinn & Troy Smith Headline HIT 2007 FB
LAKE ELSINORE, CA -- SA•GE Collectibles, Inc. is proud to unveil the much anticipated release of HIT 2007 Football, the first product to feature the officially licensed trading cards, authentic autographs & jersey swatch cards of the 2007 football draftees including Brady Quinn, Calvin Johnson, JaMarcus Russell, Adrian Peterson & Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith.
As in previous years HIT will not only be the first product released, but it will contain the best value in trading cards - an average of 5 authentic autographed & 1 swatch card per box. Plus, as with any SA•GE product every card is inserted directly into packs, there are zero redemption cards.
HIT 2007 Football brings back popular inserts including The Write Stuff, where the top players have their handwriting analyzed to give a true insight into their personalities & the most popular preseason insert, Autographed Write Stuff Cards, #'d by hand to 25. The popular Premium Swatch jersey cards, #'d to 50, also return.
New to 2007 are Draft Diary insert cards. These special inserts will feature the top 3 players from the '07 draft including Quinn & Russell where the players themselves comment about milestones during their draft process such as the combine & pro day. The first two cards per player will appear in HIT 2007 Football with two additional appearing in SA•GE's upcoming Aspire Football 2007 (late April release) & SAGE Autographed Football 2007 (mid-May). To take it even a step further, the actual letters written & signed by the athletes will be cut up & inserted into a very unique Draft Diary Swatch insert.
"Being collectors ourselves, we're always striving to make the collecting experience as satisfying as possible." stated Tom Geideman, president of SA•GE Collectibles. "We believe the uniqueness of the Draft Diary Swatch insert really achieves that goal, and we're excited to be the first to ever to deliver this concept."
Collectors are encouraged to contact their favorite hobby stores & distributors in order to reserve their product before it is sold out once again.
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