The next issue of Tuff Stuff's Sports Collectors Monthly to hit newsstands and mailboxes will have a focus on the World Series, since it's the October issue. So I bring out the call - what's the great World Series moment?

I offer a few suggestions:
- Don Larsen's perfect game (and no, he's not in the Hall of Fame)
- Kirk Gibson's Game 1 walk-off home run
- Joe Carter's Game 6 walk-off home run
- Bill Mazeroski's Game 7 walk-off home run
- Babe Ruth's called shot
- Bill Buckner's ball-through-the-legs error
- Carlton Fisk's Game 6 foul-pole home run

My personal favorite is Gibson's home run because I remember it so vividly and because it propelled the Dodgers to a sweep of the mighty A's. It didn't happen in Game 7, but I just remember being stunned that it happened.

Now, the bigger question - how did Gibson win MVP that year if the voting was supposedly done BEFORE the postseason?

Feel free to post thoughts here and in the forum.

The fireworks have fizzled out, the athletes are on their way home and the U.S. led the world in medals attained. And while the gold medal count went to China, one team that needed to bring home the gold and did so was "The Redeem Team," better known as U.S. NBA players.

The comparisons have already begun between this team and the original Dream Team, though Jordan, Bird, Johnson, etc., were no where to be found in this round. And while this team was far and away better than some of the arrogant teams that have played in the Olympics in the past and failed to achieve gold, no one was better than the original Dream Team.

But what about when it comes to collectibles? Will The Redeem Team have as much clout as the Dream Team? Well first off, I don't think you'll have the counterfeits of team balls with this year's squad as with the original Dream Team. I don't think there is a lot of clamoring for Michael Redd and Carmelo Anthony - at least not as much as for Jordan, Bird, etc.

Plus, all of these guys already have collectibles flooding the market. It's a different ballgame than when NBA players first played in the Olympics. Game-used collectibles, autographs, etc., have grown leaps and bounds in the last 16 years.

Will I still go out and get my Olympic All-Star Vinyl figures? Sure, but I won't be searching for team photos this time around. If you're the best players in the world playing in the best league, shouldn't you win?    

I was chatting today with some of the guys in the office about the Olympics, and Joe Clemens, one of the pricing analysts for Tuff Stuff's Sports Collectors Monthly, shot over the following information regarding Michael Phelps cards:

Just came across these Phelps cards while pricing 2004 Leaf Rookies & Stars
Football. He has two cards in the product: 2004 Leaf Rookies & Stars Fans of the Game and Fans of the Game Autograph.

One of the regular cards actually sold for $150 but most of the recent ones
are in the $50-$75 range.

Some of the autographs cards have brought $800.

It always amazes me what prices can be had when a figure is in the public spotlight. See me now - cash in now.

So if Phelps is the Golden Boy, what about the Golden Girls? Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh rolled through the Olympics, stretching their matches won streak well past triple digits. When are they going to become stars of cards - especially when they relayed they would be in London in four years?

If sports cards can continue to filter in political and entertainment cards in its baseball sets, etc., why aren't the Olympians added more often. What would you rather have  - guitar heroes or Olympians?