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Upper Deck Teases Up New Cards Containing Hair
Published 5/27/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... Upper Deck will soon be coming out with a new set of card collectibles - featuring select strands of famous follicles . And it’s not just ballplayers getting the scalp treatment. In addition to well-known sluggers such as Babe Ruth , Upper Deck will also be selling sets containing cards that have the hair & autographs of other historic figures - from George Washington to Geronimo . The sets are set to hit shelves on June 11. We’re not so sure selling such sets is a sane idea. What if some crazed scientist or even some crazed lab assistant were to extract DNA from the ...

Sports Hair Trading Cards? What The Hell?
Published 5/27/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... Luckily, Upper Deck has answered the call. And by answered the call, I mean they're sticking strands of hair on to their cards, with an added bonus: they're from dead guys. Uh, what? ...

BASEBALL CARDS ARE GETTING WEIRDER
Published 5/28/2008 at With Leather - Sports news and gossip for your impressionable young children
... Upper Deck, in a futile effort to make baseball cards interesting and relevant again, has produced a new line of cards SO rare, SO valuable that your mind will be unable to fathom the creativity that led to this: cards of deceased players and historical figures featuring a piece of that person's hair.  For really real.  From the Upper Deck press release via SportsStuff at the Orlando Sentinel:   ...

You Can Own Babe Ruth's Hair [Hair!]
Published 5/28/2008 by Will Leitch at Deadspin
We don't know about you, but we've grown tired of your traditional baseball cards, with their stats and biographical details and pithy anecdotes. We would like our baseball cards to include actual human hair, so that we might clone our favorite players and raise them as pets. Is there any way that could be possible? Yes! Yep, you can have Babe Ruth's hair. Thanks, Upper Deck! Upper Deck Hair Cut Signatures cards will include a strand of hair along with a cut autograph for some of the biggest names in American history — ...

Upper Deck’s upcoming baseball card set gets a little hairy
Published 5/28/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Upper Deck’s upcoming baseball card set gets a little hairy Upper Deck strives to be a cut above the rest. After acquiring locks of hair from a variety of famous personalities along with extremely rare cut signatures, Upper Deck is pleased to bring “Hair Cuts” cards to the market beginning with 2008 SP Legendary Cuts Baseball. Ten cards that include a cut autograph and strand of the celebrity’s hair will be randomly inserted into the product. Each of these cards will be limited to only one and they will include personalities like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Geronimo, ...