The Bench 2008 UD Yankee Stadium Tribute set charity drive



Fighting cancer one card at a time


As an online trading community, The Bench's goal is to collect the entire 6500 base card 2008 Upper Deck Yankee Stadium Legacy set. We will then auction the set on eBay and donate the proceeds to the "The V Foundation" (for cancer research). For anyone that does not know about the set, here is the sell sheet(click on Ruth pic) and the UD article:



Information about our benefitting charity:  


You must be asking yourself....How can I help?

We are glad you asked! As we are collecting this to donate 100% of the proceeds to charity, we ask that any members who are interested in helping to donate any cards they pull to the cause. As a site we hope to eventually be able to trade duplicate cards we recieve for cards we need, however we will be unable to buy single cards. The cards are seeded 1 in every 4 packs of Upper Deck cards across all 8 UD brands this year. Even if you personally do not open any UD product this year, you can still help. As we all make trades with each other and across the internet and card shops if you have a deal where your trade partner needs a little more in trade to make the deal even but they have nothing else of your wants, pick up one or two of these cards for The Bench!

Once we get going we will have a wantlist for this set, but we will take any card since we will use the dupes to trade.

Our official MySpace for this set project is here:
http://www.myspace.com/thebenchyankeestadiumset

We have contacted Upper Deck, Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and the V Foundation about cross promoting the project and hopefully gaining us some national exposure! We also have a couple of card shops commited to donating any cards they pull as well!




Download this FLYER, print it out and ask you local hobby shops to display it.


Tim Danielson is the official media contact for the project. Please contact him with any media inquiries.




I want to donate, where do I send my cards?

Matt Nyman is the holder/organizer of the cards. Any card donations can be sent directly to him.

Matt Nyman
922 Lebanon Street
Aurora, IL 60505

Again this is a huge 7500 card set and we need your help in completing it! If you have any questions or you would like to help beyond donating cards please contact me. Lets show the world what The Bench can do and help make a nice donation to a worthwhile charity.


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Donations received from the following people

All*Star Sports
616-247-1330
2035 28th St SE-B
Grand Rapids MI,49508
allstarsportsgr[AT]yahoo.com
http://stores.ebay.com/ALL-STAR-SPORTSCARDS-MEMORABILIA