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SPORT CARD VIRTUAL EDITION EXPO JUNE 19-20 | 2020 POWERED BY Be a part of the very first virtual sports card and collectibles show! Buy, Sell, and trade in real time with collectors and dealers from across Canada and the USA and beyond. Check out the Sport Card Expo – Virtual Edition, Powered by eBay from the comfort of your own home or shop. Sports fans, unite! INDEX Mark your WELCOME 4 calendars THE GOLDEN YEARS 8 - 10 Story by Bobby Burrell for the New SPONSORS 11 Fall dates GUESTS 12 SCHEDULE 13 EXHIBITOR LISTS 15 - 19 THE 10 BEST HOCKEY CARDS FROM 1988 - 89 21 - 22 Story by Sal Barry SHOW Friday 11 am - 7 pm (EST) HOURS Saturday 11 am - 7 pm (EST) WELCOME What a long, strange trip this has been indeed! While none of us could have predicted that we would be hosting a “virtual expo”, I am thrilled and grateful to all for having embraced the idea and helped make it a reality. Thank you to my incredible team that has gone above and beyond to execute this in a very short time. To my dealers and valued partners; for your flexibility and resilience in adapting to the current normal – in particular the good people at eBay for sharing their knowledge, resources and commitment to the hobby to co-create an amazing Expo. Finally, to the community of fans and collectors (now more than 4,000 strong) who have signed up to attend this first ever Virtual Expo – it’s great to see how much passion fuels the collectibles hobby. Let’s all enjoy this unique experience and have fun buying and selling with old and new collector friends from Canada, the USA and beyond. Look forward to “seeing” you all this weekend! Steve Menzie 4 @sportcardexpo FOLLOW US @sportcardexpo www.NhlhockeyStickers.com 716-550-2946 DO YOU ★★★ ★★★ Search over 1,000,000 pieces in stock by: COLLECT favourite player, team or country. Chris Worczak Buying All Semic, Mint Gretzky stickers, 5154 Townline Rd. Sanborn NY 14132 boxes, mint albums (1981, 1994 and 2006) Vintage to Modern Sports & Non-Sports Cards and Mem. Call me with what you have Always Buying Pre 1975 Sport & Non-Sport We do BULK Submissions 1-888-872-0054 I’ll be in Toronto May 1-3, 2020 www.niagsportscards.com [email protected] Email me at: [email protected] STICKERS Interact with your favourite sports celebrities see page 12 for details! 6 @sportcardexpo FOLLOW US @sportcardexpo Worker Bees Produce New Book THE GOLDEN YEARS By Bobby Burrell There is quite a buzz over a new book in the “The Bee Hive hockey picture promotion ran for a vintage collectibles hobby that will see its premier span of 35 years and in terms of longevity, it was at the Sport Card Expo & Memorabilia Expo this spring. undeniably the most successful consumer promotion in Canadian history. Clearly the promotion is deserving of being chronicled for that accomplishment alone, but that’s not why we wrote this book. The simple truth is, as passionate Bee Hive collectors, we wrote this book more for ourselves than for anyone else. We simply wanted to piece together everything that we’ve learned about the Bee Hive picture promotion and to share it with like-minded collectors.” Some background about the co-authors: Don Pillar: “Growing up in suburban Toronto, I collected virtually everything—pop bottle caps, stamps, coins, comic books, chewing gum cards, CHUM charts, matchbook covers, hockey coins, etc… Like many of my childhood pals, I also collected Bee Hive pictures. Being a devout Leafs fan, my collection was limited to pictures of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Dick Duff was my favourite player and I considered his picture to be the centrepiece of the collection displayed on my bedroom wall. “The Golden Years”, a long overdue and much anticipated book, is about the St. Lawrence Starch It wasn’t until more than three decades later in the Company and its Bee Hive Golden Corn Syrup late 1980s that Bee Hive pictures unexpectedly hockey picture promotion that ran from 1934 to 1968. re-entered my life. While ordering a new battery for my tractor at a farm equipment dealership, I Venerated Ontario natives and “hockey-tenured” happened to glance at the notice board where there Bee Hive historians, Don Pillar and Aubrey Ferguson, was an advertisement for Bee Hive hockey pictures. have been “busy bees” for years, buzzing around My curiosity piqued, I learned that the owner of the accumulating all the myriad of information to help dealership wished to sell his approximately one pollinate this book. hundred Bee Hive pictures. I left the dealership with a new tractor battery and a small, reclaimed piece The monumental task of putting this publication of my childhood. I was about to re-enter the together in its unrelenting detail was a harrowing wonderful hobby of Bee Hive collecting”. exercise and the release of this book is nothing shy of a hobby milestone event. Cont’d 8 @sportcardexpo FOLLOW US @sportcardexpo Cont’d up in Rouyn, Quebec. She encouraged me to complete the set, or at least that’s how I remember Aubrey Ferguson: “Participation in the Bee Hive it now. My hunt for Bee Hives had been reawakened promotion offered this farmboy the ability to reach and continues today”. beyond the isolation of a 100 person hamlet in southern Ontario, unimaginably distant from Toronto This landmark publication of 300 pages is a 9” x 11” in the late 1950s. The general store in our village did coffee table style book with quality paper, high not sell packaged confectionery such as chewing resolution images and a hard cover format. The gum with trading cards so Bee Hive pictures offered book has individual pictures of all 1,025 “Bee Hives”. a unique window into the world of hockey. As a In addition, there are over 400 related images (ads, young boy, I would draft a letter to the St. Lawrence player lists, Company correspondence, redemption Starch Company requesting the picture of a favourite pieces, etc.) that complete the story of St. Lawrence hockey player that Foster Hewitt had mentioned on Starch’s 35 year Bee Hive picture promotion. a recent Saturday night radio broadcast in exchange Don and Aubrey will be in Toronto for the Expo for the required token from the Bee Hive corn syrup offering their book to the public. Be sure to drop package and the price of a stamp. by, meet the authors and purchase a signed copy ($50) as it is limited to only 750 copies. Be sure to Unlike so many other collectors, my collection was get a copy as “The Golden Years” book will be not discarded but carefully stored by my snapped up by collectors, and like proverbial bees grandparents until I was living on my own. After I to honey, it won’t last long! got married, my wife discovered my chocolate box full of Bee Hive pictures, identical to the ones that - B0bby Burrell her brother had collected when they were growing INTERACT WITH PHIL EXPOSITO - SEE PAGE 12 FOR DETAILS 10 @sportcardexpo FOLLOW US @sportcardexpo THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS INTERACT WITH REGGIE JACKSON - SEE PAGE 12 FOR DETAILS @sportcardexpo FOLLOW US @sportcardexpo 11 GUESTS AUSTON MATTEWS, GARY LEEMAN & RICK VAIVE FRIDAY 5 PM REGGIE JACKSON SATURDAY 2 PM PHIL ESPOSITO SATURDAY 3:45 PM BRANDON STEINER FRIDAY - 11 AM BUSHWACKER LUKE SATURDAY - 11:45 AM 12 @sportcardexpo FOLLOW US @sportcardexpo EXPO SCHEDULE FRIDAY JUNE 19 • 2020 TIMES LOCATION EVENT 11:00 AM MAIN STAGE OFFICIAL EXPO OPENING REMARKS Keynote Speaker - Brandon Steiner, The Steiner Agency 11:30 AM MAIN STAGE eBay CASE BREAK - POWERED BY DOLLY’S 12:15 PM MAIN STAGE ULTRA PRO - NEW PRODUCT SNEAK PEAK 12:30 PM SESSION ROOM ULTRA PRO KIDS BREAK 1:00 PM MAIN STAGE BECKETT GRADING SERVICES - David Poole, Sr. Grader Hosted by Jeremy Lee, SportsCardsLive 2:00 PM MAIN STAGE INVESTING IN SPORTS CARDS - Explosive Growth & Future Potential Geoff Wilson, YouTube show Sports Card Investor 3:00 PM MAIN STAGE UPPER DECK PRESENTATION 4:00 PM MAIN STAGE JSA W/ SUPER COLLECTOR GLEN PYE 5:00 PM MAIN STAGE PODCAST - SQUID & THE ULTIMATE LEAFS FAN Rick Vaive / Gary Leeman & Special Guest Auston Matthews 6:00 PM MAIN STAGE ULTRA PRO - FACTORY TOUR SATURDAY JUNE 20 • 2020 TIMES LOCATION EVENT 11:00 AM MAIN STAGE PUCK JUNK HOCKEY PODCAST with Sal Barry and guests TBA 11:45 AM MAIN STAGE VIP GUEST EXPERIENCE - BUSHWHACKER, WWE Hosted by Eric Norton - Beckett Media 12:15 PM SESSION ROOM BUSHWHACKER PRIVATE 1 ON 1 VIDEO CHATS 12:15 PM MAIN STAGE ULTRA PRO - FACTORY TOUR 12:45 PM MAIN STAGE eBay CASE BREAK - POWERED BY DOLLY’S 1:30 PM MAIN STAGE VIP GUEST EXPERIENCE - REGGIE JACKSON Hosted by Brandon Steiner 2:00 PM MAIN STAGE DAVID ARRIGO Sports Artist - Live Painting Experience 2:00 PM SESSION ROOM REGGIE JACKSON PRIVATE 1 ON 1 VIDEO CHATS 2:30 PM MAIN STAGE BECKETT AUTHENTICATION SERVICES WITH STEVE GRAD Hosted by Eric Norton - Beckett Media 3:00 PM SESSION ROOM ULTRA PRO KIDS BREAK 3:15 PM MAIN STAGE VIP GUEST EXPERIENCE - PHIL ESPOSITO Hosted by Eric Norton - Beckett Media 3:45 PM SESSION ROOM PHIL ESPOSITO PRIVATE 1 ON 1 VIDEO CHATS 4:00 PM MAIN STAGE THE COLLECTIBLEXCHANGE by Brandon Steiner 6:00 PM MAIN STAGE ULTRA PRO - New Product Sneak Peak 6:30 PM MAIN STAGE FINAL DRAW AND VIRTUAL EXPO OFFICIAL CLOSING NOTE: Schedules are correct at press time, and are subject to change.