No, the ’2010′ in the title above is not a typo. It’s just taken me this long to round up the entry fees (a $25 bv card from any sport) from last year’s COTTF team managers–my bad. And truth be told, I still haven’t been able to secure one 2010 COTTF team manager’s entry fee. But thanks to Joe (owner of HobbyKings.com and team manager of last year’s C’MON SON! team), we do now have 11 cards in the prize pool (remember that one 2010 team manager, AtlantaSportsCards, provided a $100 gift certificate rather than a $25 card to the prize pool). Joe was nice enough to send two different $25 bv UD Bill Walton autos even thought he was unable to join this year’s Clash of the Trading Forums fantasy baseball league on Yahoo. Hopefully Joe will be able to join us again next year.

There’s also another little wrinkle about the 2010 prize pool. Two of last year’s COTTF team managers sent last year’s and this year’s entry fees together in their same respective envelopes (see #2 and #10 in the list below). What I will do is initially put both entry fees from both managers into the 2010 prize pool but when one of those manager’s cards is chosen, the other card will be removed from the 2010 prize pool and placed in the 2011 prize pool. Thus only one of the cards listed in both #2 and #10 will be awarded here and the other listed in #2 and #10 will go into the 2011 prize pool. Here is the initial list of 13 cards in the 2010 prize pool:

1. 2009 Upper Deck Ballpark Collection Jersey Autographs #JA-ZG Zack Greinke
2. 2007 UD Exquisite Collection Rookie Signatures Reflections Autographs #REF-HG Rich Hill/Sean Gallagher #’d/40 or 2005 UD SP Reflections Dual Sigs Blue #JVMG Jose Vidro/Marcus Giles #’d/35
3. 2003 Donruss Signature Legends of Summer Autographs Century #LS-7 Bob Feller #’d/100
4. 2008 Stadium Club #162 Justin Masterson Auto BV
5. 2007 UD Premier Patches Dual #VG Vladimire Guerrero #’d /75
6. 2010 Bowman Stephen #BP1 Stephen Strasburg
7. 2002-03 UD Honor Roll Triple Warm-ups #TM/KB/JR Tracy McGrady/Kobe Bryant/Jason Richardson
8. 2010 UD Ultimate Collection All-Time Team Signatures #AT-BW Bill Walton #’d /25
9. 2010 UD Ultimate Collection Personal Touch – Movie #M-BW Bill Walton #’d /25
10. 2009 Press Pass Eclipse Solar Swatches #SSKH2 Kevin Harvick #’d /299 or 2009 Press Pass Eclipse Solar Swatches #SSCE4 Carl Edwards #’d /299
11. 2008 Playoff Prestige Prestigious Picks Red #10 #’d /250 Matt Ryan GU

Each card in the list above has been scanned exactly the way it was received–still in its holder (which will result in the actual card being a bit out of focus). I have not removed the cards from their holders. Click images to enlarge:

So now that we have 13 cards initially in the prize pool, here’s how the 2010 COTTF prize distribution will go:

1st Place – SCH Sluggers: First choice of two cards (Ryan also won the $100 gift certificate and will also be receiving a special surprise bonus prize)
2nd Place – Harner’s Heroes: Choice of two cards
3rd Place – AtlantaSportsCards: Choice of two cards
4th Place – Forum of Dreams: Choice of one card
5th Place – team name here: Choice of one card
6th Place – Showdown: Choice of one card
7th Place – Stinking Badges: Choice of one card
8th Place – Dirty Sanchez: The last remaining card

In order to ensure that the winners choose in an orderly fashion and to minimize misunderstandings, I will notify each winner in order and after the previous winner has chosen their card(s). After receiving prize notification from me, winners can simply post their choice of card(s) in this post’s comment section below. I still have the original mailers that the cards arrived in, so I will use these to confirm mailing addresses.