How To Fight Cancer One Baseball Card At A Time

I was recently contacted by The Bench in reference to helping out a great cause – Fighting cancer one card at a time! Many of us are familiar with family, friends, and neighbors who have been diagnosed or lost a courageous battle to cancer. In honor of these people RBI Magazine asks you to reach out in and donate a few baseball cards. This is a great way of combining the efforts to fight cancer using the game of baseball and the fans that love the sport.

As an online trading community ( www.thebenchtrading.com ) our goal is to collect the entire 6600+ 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).

Information about our benefiting charity:

www.jimmyv.org

How can I help?  I am glad you asked!  As we are collecting this to donate 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 receive for cards we need, however we will be unable to buy single cards form members.  The cards will be 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, 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!

I have already been in contact with 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 committed to donating any cards they pull as well!

Here is the MySpace page created for the project:
http://www.myspace.com/thebenchyankeestadiumset

Here is the link to the official project website.
http://www.thebenchtrading.com/thebench/yankeestadiumset.html

Again this is a huge 6600 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 baseball card collectors can do and help make a nice donation to a worthwhile charity.

Tim Danielson
taliasen@charter.net