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The Babe Featured Heavily in TriStar Promotion
Some lucky fan who purchases a 99-cent pack of vintage baseball cards will come away with a trio of Babe Ruth items worth more than $100,000. Most everyone else will walk away with five common cards from over-produced sets.
In the latest round of the TriStar’s celebrated “Hidden Treasures” promotion, the grand treasure will be The Babe Collection: a Babe Ruth rookie card, the famed #151 published by The Sporting News in 1915 (when Ruth was pitching for Boston), along with a Ruth game used bat and a Ruth signed baseball, all items properly authenticated.
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The packs will be available beginning in late November with the Grand Treasure Ceremony scheduled to be held in the summer of 2008. Ruth World's Greatest Card Chase packs will be available at WalMart and other retail outlets nationwide.
Tristar will deliver 99-cent packs of vintage cards throughout the country, each pack containing five licensed, out of production cards (Editor's warning: you get what you pay for.). Randomly inserted Diamond Tickets in the packs provide an invitation to the Grand Treasure Ceremony and a chance to uncover The Babe Collection.
At the Grand Treasure Ceremony, each ticket holder will receive one of four randomly selected authentic Babe Ruth cards – or, for one of them, the Grand Treasure. (The other cards include a Ruth 1933 Goudy #144, a Ruth 1933 Goudy #149, a Ruth 1935 Sports King #2, and a Ruth 1948 Leaf #3).
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the Grand Treasure winner will receive the rookie card, the bat and
ball, which carry a value of more than $100,000.
© Ryan Cracknell, Trader Crack's; November 12, 2006.