Article: Is There a Comeback 'In the Cards' for Former Celebs?: Upper Deck Launches Baseball Card Set That Includes Autograph Inserts Featuring - Among Others - Barry Williams, Lou Gossett Jr, Corey Feldman.

LOS ANGELES, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Trade you Padres pitcher Greg Maddux for Greg Brady? Marlins all-star Dontrelle Willis for that guy who used to answer to "What you talkin' about, Willis?"

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Later this week, Upper Deck is launching its latest sports trading card set, Spectrum Baseball 2007. In those packs along with cards featuring Major League Baseball stars: autographed inserts of celebrities from the 1970s and '80s, actors and musicians whose fame -- like the speed of a Maddux fastball, despite his continued greatness -- has arguably faded in recent years.

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