Upper Deck sued AGAIN? That is what I heard. No, not Topps or Konami, but rather the MLB/MLBPA. This is by word of mouth, so I don’t have much credibility to if this is true or not.

So I have heard, that Upper Deck was using MLB Logos in their new 2010 baseball set. This poses a bad state for them… because Topps is the only one that can do that. I was right… A base, baseball set cannot survive without logos, apparently UD thought the same thing.

But aside from that, something more disturbing has crossed my path…

According to some people (again I don’t know if this is true,) but through the grapevine someone has found out that Upper Deck’s jersey cards are fake, or a great portion of them at least. Over half is said to be store bought jerseys instead of game used. 

If that isn’t the most shocking thing…

Think you have an Upper Deck Babe Ruth cut autograph? Think again. It is also said that Upper Deck is forgeing some of the games greatest stars and putting them on cardboard. I haven’t heard so much on the living players who sign on card and who sign stickers, but some of those may be fake as well, if everything I am hearing is true.

My personal opinion on the fakes? I have done some simple research, and nothing I found has come up saying “Upper Deck fakes cards” but I honestly don’t know. I watched a short video on fake memerobilia, and in that video, a well-known autograph forger, had thought something was fishy about a Babe Ruth autograph. PSA confirmed it was fake, but according to the guy who ran the ring that forged it, it was one of his guys. So I believe fakes are floating out there, but it might not be UD’s dirtywork. This is the third time Upper Deck has been in trouble in not too short a time. Remember the Topps lawsuit? Over O-Pee-Chee designs? Maybe a more recent one. Konami. Both trials have ended and I have never heard what the settlements were.

People are again chanting bankruptcy, but will it actually happen? It might. I cannot say if it will or not, because this is at least the second time in a year (as far as time span goes) that we have all heard it. I am honestly pulling for UD.

Why would I say that?

If UD goes, the only company holding Topps back is Panini-America, which is a rookie company in America. Topps has poor customer service/quality control, and they use the same ideas over and over. The only way to keep them contained is keeping the other big boy in there with him. Razor, TriStar, Just Minors, and Press Pass could care less what happens to the big boys, let alone stop them.

So yeah. It is a windy road that has come upon UD, but hey… I get to practice writing everytime this happens…

I will try and keep the readers posted… but for know this is what I know