Upper Deck has released an awesome set of cards in honor of the last year at Yankee stadium, and the kind folks at UD have given me a heaping helping of the cards to give away to YOU! Here are the details about the set:

The Upper Deck Company, the industry leader when it comes to creating innovative card sets, is releasing the largest baseball trading card set ever produced. The “Yankee Stadium Legacy” collection, a 6,661-card compilation celebrating every single New York Yankees home game played at the famous “House That Ruth Built,” began its official debut in February by being inserted in random packs of Upper Deck’s 2008 Series 1 Baseball release.

With the old Yankee Stadium playing out its last regular season this year before the Bronx Bombers move to a new ballpark in 2009, Upper Deck decided it was a terrific opportunity to acknowledge the incredible history and happenings that have occurred at Yankee Stadium since its doors opened in 1923. Besides chronicling 85 seasons’ worth of Yankees home games (this season’s games will be included in Upper Deck’s 2009 Series One Baseball release next February to complete the set), this enormous compilation also includes some of the most famous sporting events that have taken place at Yankee Stadium including: legendary Notre Dame Football coach Knute Rockne’s famous “Win one for the Gipper” halftime speech inside the Yankees locker room (Nov. 10, 1928); the Baltimore Colts’ 23-17 overtime victory against the New York Giants in the NFL Championship game, which is often referred to as “the greatest game ever played” (Dec. 28, 1958); and Muhammad Ali’s title defense against Ken Norton (Sept. 28, 1976).

In addition to the enormous accomplishment of collecting the complete set, Upper Deck is giving fans and collectors another reason to find cards from the historic set! Consumers can register the codes on the back of the Yankee Stadium Legacy cards at www.OwnTheLegacy.com to be entered into a sweepstakes for a chance to win once-in-a-lifetime Yankees prizes. Some of those include a trip for two to this year’s MLB All-Star Game; trips to the last regular-season game in 2008 at Yankee Stadium; and trips to the first 2009 regular-season game held at the new Yankee Stadium. The more card codes entered, the better one’s chances are of winning.

The www.OwnTheLegacy.com website includes a card management system that allows collectors to track their progress on completing the set, as well as message boards where collectors can share their personal Yankee stories with fellow YSL card-collecting enthusiasts. The site also includes the comprehensive YSL Checklist, which shows all 6,661 game cards within the set as well as seven “special moments” cards from Yankee Stadium that Upper Deck has included.

What dost thou have to do to win, you asketh me? It's easy as pie, lovelies. Simply send me an email with the answers to the following trivia questions by Thursday, May 22nd at 11:59pm PDT and you shall be entered to win! On Friday I will put all the respondents with correct answers into a randomizer to pick 5 winners.

The questions!

1. Who was the pitcher that served up A-Rod's 500th homer last year?
2. Where did the Yankees play their games while Yankee Stadium was being revamped in the 1970's?
3. Which Yankee feuded with Joe Torre in1996, calling him a "liar," but came back to the team in 2003?
4. Which Yankees (past and present) were named in Senator "Politics Smolitics; My Goal Ain't to Represent My Constituents But to Out Juicers!" Mitchell's report?
5. What other site does YC blog for?
6. What nickname has YC given Shelley Duncan?

The super groovy prizes are as follows:

• 2008 Baseball Spectrum Set:
• 20 packs of 5 cards
• 2 autographs and two memorabilia cards in the box
  

• 5 Yankee Stadium Legacy cards:
  1. Kevin Maas; 5/7/1991 against the Mariners
  2. Herb Pennock; 8/23/1924 against the Tigers
  3. Johnny Mize; 5/12/1953 against the Indians
     
  4. Derek Jeter; 5/7/2000 against the Orioles
  5. Whitey Ford; 9/9/1923 against the Red Soxbase
     

• 5 Yankee Stadium Legacy cards:
  1. Moose Skowron; 7/6/1961 against the Indians
  2. Jim Leyritz; 8/25/1990 against the Brewers
  3. Yogi Bera; 7/3/1960 against the Tigers
     
  4. Derek Jeter; 5/6/2000 against the Orioles
  5. Kevin Maas; 5/14/1991 against the Angels
     

• 5 Yankee Stadium Legacy cards:
  1. Joe DiMaggio; 8/30/1950 against the Indians
  2. Lou Gehrig; 6/20/1925 against the White Sox
     
  3. Paul O'Neill; 11/1/2001 against the Diamondbacks
     
  4. Andy Pettitte; 5/12/2002 against the Devil Rays
     
  5. Kevin Maas; 6/28/1990 against the Brewers
     

• 3 Yankee Stadium Legacy cards:
  1. Don Mattingly; 4/27/1990 against the Angels
  2. Joe DiMaggio; 6/5/1950 against the Indians
     
  3. Whitey Ford; 7/28/1962 against the White Sox

Let's do it, my friends and foes! Send your emails to info@yankeeschick.com by next Thursday and win yourself some great collectibles. I look forward to hearing from y'all!