A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts: Merry Christmas!

Deep Thinkers

Japanese Baseball Cards

More Topps Now News - I wanted to do a follow up post about the Topps Now NPB cards I wrote about the other day along with some other Topps Now related news: - I had asked mr fr...
Cardboard Catastrophes

Another One Two in the Books - Or, perhaps more accurately, the binder. This is the last card I needed to complete the 1958 Topps baseball set. And this is the last card I needed to co...
Cardboard History

Sticky Gold - I've said before how much of a fan I am of the Topps Now NHL stickers. They have had a Serial numbered to 10 parallel since they started, but this year ...
cards as i see them

my retired number collection - 26 - this is the 26th post in a series that shares the cards i have in my retired number mini-collection. you can find the links to the previous posts down at t...
Night Owl Cards

The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 220-201) - Before 2024 Heritage came out, commenters would reassure me during my 1975 Topps buyback posts that there would be buybacks accompanying Heritage in 20...
Johnny's Trading Spot

More Batman - *We've made our way to the Topps Blue Bats. Unfortunately I only own 11 of the Topps. Odd for me to unknowingly acquire all but three of the OPC cards.*...
Thoughts and Sox

The Last Blogger To Get a 2023 Card - Today I held my first 2023 baseball card. Five years ago I stopped building current Red Sox team sets. I didn't stop collecting Red Sox cards (even tho...
Droidtrader's Sports Memorabilia

Aspromonte and Colavito Returns - Today I received a couple more ttm returns. Ken Aspromonte signed his 1960 Topps, a checklist from the 1961 Topps set, and a couple Indians team cards. ...
The Collective Mind

Three Shows In A Month - Part 3: Gettysburg, PA - This one will be rather brief. I heard about this show a mere two days before it took place. My buddy Stuart said I needed to go, but I was hesitant si...
Cardboard Junkie

2023 COMC BINGE - PART 10: MOLDY FOOTBALL - IT'S NOT A BLACK FRIDAY BINGE IF I DON'T PICK UP A MOLFY OLD SOCCER CARD OF A PLAYER I'VE BARELY HEARD OF FROM A COMPANY THAT IS COMPLETELY ALIEN TO ME. ...
Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Vintage trade with Baseball Card Breakdown - Gavin of Baseball Card Breakdown has relaxed his condition requirements on his 1970s setbuilds, so I was able to send some cards his way to help him on t...
WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

WTHBALLS GUM PACK CUSTOM SET: HANK AARON - On the blog today, we spotlight my Hank Aaron mini card from my recent custom "Gum Pack" special set: Again, just a fun little card to create and pri...
Nothing If Not Random

Random Wax: 2023 Topps Baseball Blaster - 2023 Topps: Jose Ramirez is an excellent hitter that seems to fly under the radar in Cleveland. He's a 5X All-Star and 4X Silver Slugger. He was also to...
CrazieJoe's Card Corner

Continued Hockey Heroes - More assorted hockey cards from the COVID lot today. I was never a big Brett Hull fan. I don't know exactly why. Could be rooted in his being American v...
Nachos Grande

Board Game Friday: Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Begins - REVIEW - Today, I have a bit of a strange review of a board game to go over. I'll skip to the punch line right away and then work my way back to the same conclusio...
Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

Checklist time! - I printed off a checklist for the 2024 Calbee set yesterday and last night after work my daughter and I sat down with the pile of cards we've accumulat...
Dime Boxes -- The Low-End Baseball Card Collector's Journey

Not so common after all - Here's a card I finally welcomed into my collection after damn near (I kid you not) a *decade *of searching. One has big ideas for cards they've been wan...
The Collector

Blog Bat Around, Mystery RAK, and a Franchise Farewell - Our resident Diamond Jester Matt started a Blog Bat Around last week, giving us all the opportunity to discuss our greatest pack-pulled cards. I was relu...
The Chronicles of Fuji

Flea Market Finds #162: Some Nice Surprises - Clear skies and fresh air have a way of drawing people out of their homes. That's why the De Anza Flea Market was packed two weekends ago. Not exactly a ...
Topps cards that never were

Sticker shock at the LCS - I have never had an instance where I went to a card shop, pulled a bunch of cards, and then put them back because the price was just so high. That is, unt...
Sportscards From The Dollar Store

2024 Adventures in Repacks - Part 11 - Not Surprising - It looks like that the Surprise Bag era of the Dollarama repacks is gone, and these are the replacements: So, a price increase up, but now there's four i...
A Pack To Be Named Later

2022 SAGE Artistry - I picked up this mysterious pack out of a repack thing at Walgreen's the other day. I'm mostly familiar with SAGE's "Hit" brand of cards, but apparently ...
The Shlabotnik Report

2024 Heritage – A Quick Look (Yeah, Right) - I know plenty of blogs and other online card resources have already shared their 2024 Heritage cards, but I figured that I spent so much time looking forwa...
Sport Card Collectors

My First Soto - As many of you know, I am not much of a baseball card collector anymore. There are only specific things I really chase.Group 1:90's Inserts/Parallels from ...
Dinosaur Dracula!

Purple Stuff Podcast: The Frankenstein Show! - We’re a few weeks late with this podcast, but what can you expect from an episode that’s 206 years in the making? The latest Purple Stuff Podcast is all ab...
My Cardboard Life

This used to be a really BIG card.. - We probably all have these types of cards in our collection. Either a card we pulled when it was too late to capitalize via trade or sale, a card we trad...
Cards Over Coffee

Coffee With Craig T. Nelson - Good morning!!Well, it could be better. I ran out of coffee this morning and will need to make a run at some soon, but first, thought I would drop a quick ...
Diamond Jesters

Repack Haiku #354 (Aaron Wilkerson) - *Twenty-six straight wins* *Set N.A.I.A. record* *Now in Korea* 2018 Topps #378 Aaron Wilkerson (RC) Wilkerson led the Cumberland Bulldogs to the 2010 Na...
Shot Not Taken

Lorcana: Into the Inklands Amber and Emerald Starter Deck - Honestly, I was really high on Lorcana but I have significantly cool off to it. Lorcana’s third set Into the Inklands is kind of forgettable in my opinion....
In My Own Words

Favourite Songs - Greetings! I'm feeling oddly good today.. Though part of it is also feeling antsy. But anyway. I've been in a deep hole for a while and I know it's bee...
Cards on Cards

Big Time - *A look at the new Topps Big League set. * In the current production schedule, there aren't a lot of new baseball cards to look at this early in the sea...
Stuff Nobody Cares About

Radio As Effective As Morphine According To Beth Israel Hospital – 1925 - Better Than Drugs – Radio Is Good For Patients Radio As Effective As Morphine This photo shows several young patients at Beth Israel Hospital, N.Y. liste...
Too Many Verlanders

2024 trade package #2: Scribbled Ink - My next trade package from January arrived courtesy of another longtime buddy of the blog, Paul, who can be found on Twitter now that he no longer blogs ...
The Diamond King

A *rare, and I missed it - Super quick post tonight...If you caught one of my recent posts, you might remember that there was a decent table with most cards priced at 50 cents or low...
The Snorting Bull

Around The Card Room, Take 17 - I got my first job was pushing in carts and bagging groceries at the Dierbergs in Manchester, Missouri during my junior year of high school. Bagging groc...
2 MINUTE TOY BREAK!

GI Joe Classified - Shockwave - The original vintage Shockwave figure released right about the time I stopped collecting as a kid. 1988 I believe. I think the lack of cartoon appearances ...
Weird Fantastic Toy Adventures

Sunday Hangout - 20240407 - 🎉 Tick & Goon Unleashed: A Toy-tastic Sunday Hangout 🎉 - Join us this Sunday for an epic adventure on Weird Fantastic Toy Adventures! 🚀 We’re diving into the whimsical world of ‘Longbox Heroes’ with a special ...
My Sports Obsession

Plymouth Pickups - Geez, I didn't realize how far behind I was. Yesterday we did the Fort Wayne show. Last weekend we did the South Bend Show and the Saturday before that w...
Nine Pockets

Golf Season! (Softball Season!) Golf Season! (Softball Season!) - Remember this classic argument? Well, replace those two phrases with *golf season* and *softball season*, and you'll get an idea of what's going th...
A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts

Sender Unknown - Back in 2020 I received my first ever envelope from a person, or persons, unknown. Now, a little over four years later, I've received my second. I've re...
The Topps Archives

Chew 'Em If Ya Got 'Em - The origins of Topps directly relate back to the American Leaf Tobacco Company, founded by family patriarch Morris Shorin (Chigorinsky at the time) in 19...
Not Another Baseball Card Blog

A Run of Stiebs - Hello Friends! Today I want to do something I've seen on the Twitmachine. A career run of a player... Obviously from the title, it's Dave Stieb. Stieb...
Base Set Calling

A 23 year wait... - Opening Day had nothing on today. I have been waiting for this day since I first discovered the Baseball Card product known as "Heritage," the very firs...
The Raz Card Blog

Four More Mega Boxes of 2024 Topps UFC Chrome - A couple of days ago I showed off the results from 4 Mega Boxes of 2024 Topps UFC Chrome. In a bid to make progress on the base set, I ordered 4 more of ...
The All-Time Portland Beavers Project

His name was Drew, John Drew - As you can see from the screenshots above, the two primary sites for baseball statistics have an unknown "Drew" listed as having been with the Beavers ...
The View from the Third Floor

Scoring from My Dealer - Another COMC haul. The shipping is a b*tch, but the inventory is huge. Anyway, 80 cards this time. Let's look at a few. - The Sue Bird is a sh...
The Angels, In Order

One Page Of Hillis Layne - *This series highlights "one page" at a time **from my binder of correspondence and autographs from former players and personnel.* Hillis Layne Washin...
Cardboard Collections

Oh My! How the local card shows have changed! - The other weekend I noticed a card show was being held a small church, hosted by the closest LCS to me. For once I didn't really have any plans so my oldes...
Sylvia Plath Info

A Key to Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and more - For the Arvon course on Sylvia Plath's Prose that I co-taught with Heather Clark in June 2023 in Yorkshire, I re-read The Bell Jar making note of the event...
Padrographs; Abner to Zimmer

1992 Padres Stadium Club Team set - There seem to be a lot more action shots in the 92 set and fewer posed shots. There are 33 cards in this set, which is up 9 cards from 1991. Wit...
John's Baseball Blog

- Newt Parker, listed as William Parker on BR, was a big, big-hitting first baseman in the low minors of the South from 1939 to 1953. Most of his seasons we...
Baseball Card Breakdown

The card show comes to me - Saturday was a first for me, having not one but *two* fellow cardbloggers hand-deliver boxes of cards to my door. How great is that?! First was Kevin fro...
Number 5 Type Collection

1956 Topps baseball #171 "Jim Wilson, if that is your real name" - I researched game situations for several 1956 Topps cards in my 17-March post, including #171 Jim Wilson. This post revisits and revises my initial take....
John's Big League Baseball Blog

Good Morning, Baseball is back and Im up - ⏰️ Woke up at 6:30 this morning to watch the Dodgers and Padres "officially" open up the 2024 Big League Baseball season. 🤔 Why am I up, when I haven't do...
Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle

Oddball Mike Trout Slabbed Tickets - While I have not been collecting tickets with the same fervor I did a couple of years ago, I still have plenty from that time period to scan in, write up...
Random Thoughts From A Random Guy

Getting better - I did a little better this week as far as working out some. Here's a little look into last week. *Monday* I had over 10k steps and 10 zone minutes, all a...
CaptKirk42s Trading Cards Blog

Project Purge: COMC and Other Fun - *PROJECT PURGE:* *COMC Submission* *The Four Major Sports Groups* *Updated: 29 FEB 2024* A little background: I've been on COMC (Check Out My Cards) since ...
Kirk's Knook

Random Ramblings Maybe Even A Rant - MMMKAY I got to thinking of things I could blog about and one of my thoughts was about recent changes to my life due to decluttering and several month...
Curly W Cards

Happy Blogiverary To Curly W Cards - *HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY!* Today marks the 11th Blogiversary for *"Curly W Cards"*. I think I might have missed posting last year for the 10th Blogiversary...
Can't Have Too Many Cards

Franklin High Star Ron Santo - Fandom and it's associated collecting is a strange thing. When I first became a Ron Santo fan I was young boy. Ron was in his prime, smashing home runs...
Random Toy Reviews

Just Trucks: 1999 Chevrolet Silverado Dually (Wave 38) -
Adventures of a Baseball Card Collector

More menkos from COMC! - I have some more lovely menkos to share today. A few of these are cards I got in my last COMC order and forgot to include in my Japanese post, but I got m...
Waiting 'til Next Year...

But, that's my guy! - 2024 Topps Flagship is starting to find its way to the interwebs and I finally found a picture of this collector's most coveted card from Series 1. Be...
Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Collector

Closer to the End of the Rainbow - Last week I received a notice on one of my eBay saved searches that I card I had never seen available for purchase in almost 10 years was finally listed....
Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary

Joe More Mr. Nice Guy - Congrats to Joe Mauer, Hall of Famer.
Tenets of Wilson

Super Bowl LVIII Projection, Divisional Sunday - Baltimore over San Francisco Both teams I rooted for won on Sunday, and they'll both travel to play some juggernauts in the Conference championships. *Kan...
Infield Fly Rule

The Trading Post #174: Dime Boxes (Part 3: Shiny) - One year later, I'll finally be wrapping up the longest post series ever. I've had this last little pile of goodies set aside from Nick's 10th anniversar...
It's all in the cards

Pop Culture League Challenge: Toony Terrors! - This weeks challenge from the Pop Culture League over at Cool and Collected : My top 10 picks for character's who need to be made into Toony Terrors f...
Royal Card Review

As You Can See - If you read my last post you remember me mentioning about doing a refresh on the blog. If you look at it currently, you'll see that it hasn't happened ...
It's like having my own Card Shop

Am I crazy for giving these cards away? Probably! - Hey there everyone! Just wanted to let everyone here know of a contest I am doing right now through my YouTube channel. @case.loaded (Cases Loaded with Dan...
Remember The Astrodome

So This is the New Year - Alright, we made it to 2024. And hey, look! It’s an actual post on this darn blog! As far as goals go, I’m throwing all…
Marc Brubaker

So This is the New Year - Alright, we made it to 2024. And hey, look! It’s an actual post on this darn blog! As far as goals go, I’m throwing all…
I need new hobbies.

My Year in Hobbies 2023 - Hahahahaha, nope. Probably not doing a long (by my standards, not yours) read if I can help it. Didn’t keep track of first and last card of the year (and...
Fan-Attic Sports Cards Blog

2023 Topps All Star Rookie Selection !!! - [image: History of the Topps All-Star Rookie Cup] Here are the 2023 Topps All Star Rookie selection ...... - Yainer Díaz, C, Houston Astros - Spen...
Dawg Day Cards

Sharing customs from a friend - Ryan's minis - A while back, Chris, from the Nachos Grande blog, posted about his friend's passing, and offered to share custom minis that his friend had made. I receiv...
The Euclid Boo Blog

Popular Mechanics Christmas 1963 - Popular Mechanics Christmas 1963 woodworking series brings us “Make your yard a Christmas card”. Catchy title! The magazine claims that you can win some ...
Hockey Kazi

RIP Ryan - Hello everyone, I'm posting here in one of my infrequent times. I'm kept pretty busy with the cat rescue my wife and I run. I'm still buying and selling o...
Royals and Randoms

Trick or Treaters.... - ...I got my bowl ready. We got Fun Dips, too!
Bump and Run Football Card Blog

Grandes Nachos (and More!) from the Third Floor - Even though I haven't been very active on the blog and I put my trading on hiatus, I've still got a few cards from my fellow bloggers delivered into my m...
FOR LOVE of THE CARDS

Recent Pick Ups - *Three great new pickups for me recently.* As some of you already know, I collect certain stamped back T206s. These purple number back stamps rarely se...
Collecting Cutch

Is this thing still on? - It has been nearly a year since my last post. Over the past year a lot has happened both personally and in terms of collecting. For those of you that fo...
Rebel Random Rants

Bray Wyatt - "He got the whole world in his hands. He got the whole wide world in his hands. He got whole world in his hands. He got the whole world in his hands." ...
$30 a week habit

Another '59, and is the Niekro an accidental upgrade? - Took a couple of evenings away from the blog, was getting a bit tough writing after 10PM each night. I have had a couple of cards I wanted to show for a...
Bob Walk the Plank

Still Kicking - Figured it was time to throw something up here to stop the blog from being sent to the abyss. I will say that I use the blog a lot more for research pur...
Wax Pack Wonders

A 1955 Bowman 100th Birthday: Marion Fricano - Welcome to the fifth installment of my series featuring players from the 1955 Bowman set that would have turned 100 this year. Players featured thus far:...
Swing And A Pop-Up

2022 Topps Heritage Minor League Hobby Box - Looking for something cheap and new to open (this obviously is one of those older unfinished posts), I chose 2022 Topps Heritage minor league. It was $59.0...
Wax Heaven

2023 Bowman Baseball Review - Back in my day … oh boy, you know when someone starts off a sentence that way, you’re in for a grumpy, “old head” review. Let me rephrase that a little bet...
Angry Card Collector

- The reason why I started AngryCardCollector as a site was because of this letter below. There was such a great reception from the letter ten years ago that...
Rekindling the Cardboard Flame

Hey Now! Hey Now! Hey Now! - IT’S A WALK-OFF! THE MARINERS ARE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS! pic.twitter.com/VNGkrpDgXZ — ROOT SPORTS™ | NW (@ROOTSPORTS_NW) October 1, 2022 It feels like a...
Cardboard Clubhouse

I'm Back ... with a New Blog! - Hey there, friends! It's been a while. Probably longer than I wanted it to be. Anyway, I've decided to make a comeback (yet again) and you can find m...
Collector's Crack

Le Renaissance - Oh hello there. It's been a minute hasn't it? About a year, actually a little over a year, since my last post. I'll be honest I didn't intend to take...
Waxaholic

So this just happened.... - There was the monthly local trade night at the local shop this past Thursday evening. Frivolities were had, poor life choices were made, the usual. Fol...
Detroit Tigers Cards and Stuff

Soccer Stickers? - Who knew that soccer stickers would end up being my favorite release of 2022? I never saw it coming. I’ve long been a fan of the Panini sticker releas...
20 Years Before 2000

This isn't Goodbye. - Many of you have noticed that my posts here on 20 Years Before 2000 have not been as frequent as they used to be. It's not that I've lost my love for re...
Starting Nine.

I Think That I Shall Never See. - O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree! How are thy leaves so verdant! O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, How are thy leaves so verdant! Not only in the summer...
Card Hemorrhage

Pandemic Pretender; or, Cards for Sale! - Hey everyone - well, yeah, it has been quite a few months since I last spoke up in this space, and during that time I pretty much came to the conclusion ...
Bill's Baseball Card Blog

Still on Break - Once again, I’m just trying to keep blogger alive (does it ever die?). I continue to collect, but am not motivated yet to post. Hopefully I will someday...
The More You Bo

2009 Topps Magic #19 - *Type: Base Card* *Acquired: Bought Online*I love this card! Again, we have another retro based set, but it works with the Auburn college vibes. The imag...
Brad's Blog

2000 Upper Deck Ionix -- Master Set Complete - Several years ago I decided I wanted to chase a true master set. I wanted all the parallels and inserts and autos. I wanted something attainable but hard...
Heartbreaking Cards of Staggering Genius

'We need your stinking patches!' Showing off Topps manufactured patches through the years - I've seen some hot takes that people aren't happy with the commemorative batting helmet cards included as bonuses in 2022 Topps Series 2 blasters. I've ...
The 1993

Born in 1993 - Max Power - *You're watching the Simpsons with your daughter the other day...* "Oh! I bet you'll like the Max Power episode." I said to my daughter. "Let's see....
OFF THE WALL

All-Decade Kansas City Royals - | TOPPS SHOEBOX LEGENDS | The 1970s One of the cornerstone themes of the Topps Shoebox Legends binders is the all-decade team pages. It paints a snapshot o...
Japanese Sumo Wrestling Cards and Menko

Shohei Ohtani - Japanese BBM 2013 1st Version "Wing" Rookie Cards - Shohei Ohtani is having another great year and I thought it might be a good idea to dust this post off and update it slightly for accuracy. Ohtani's Japa...
Base Card Hero

200 Trades - It has been approximately 735 days since my last blog post. That is just over two years. My absence was mostly due to the pandemic with an eight year old a...
Comatoad on Cards

It all works out for the best - Have you ever had something happen that seemed like somewhat of a bummer at the time, but in reality, turned out to be a good thing at that particular m...
Stadium Fantasium

I’m So Excited (Super Bowl Delighted – Part 1) - [image: Super Bowl LVI pin]
The Lost Collector

Thanks for the ride - Today is my blog's 11th anniversary. It's also my last post. I've been thinking about this for some time, but it has become increasingly clear to me over ...
The Bucs Stop Here

Five Months of Mail Roundup! - 2021 and the start of 2022 has been busy for me and I've once again neglected the blog. I've still been buying, selling, and collecting, and I've got som...
Cards from the Quarry

2020 Rockies Want List - Completed Team Sets - 236/1140 = 20.7% COMPLETE red = pending arrival *2020 Bowman - COMPLETE* 2020 Bowman Sky Blue 82 2020 Bowman Purple 82 20...
My Cardboard Mistress

Ragged Rookie Review Randall - I'm writing this on my phone. I didn't have to say that, but it seems to have become a liability statement these days. "I wrote this on my phone so plea...
The Sexy Armpit

Purple Stuff Podcast: 1989 Thanksgiving Parade! - CLICK HERE TO LISTEN! After a year that has flown by, it’s time to kick back and enjoy ourselves. There’s only one way to celebrate Thanksgiving, aside f...
A Cracked Bat: Baseball Cards and a Hot Dog

SHE'S ALIVE!!!!! ALIVE!!!!!! - If anyone out there still cares, I'm alive and well in this world and hope the same for you! Whew, the time away has been quite relaxing. My spring an...
Sports Cards Ate My Brain

I Think I'm Done - I'm at the point that I am not feeling the trading card hobby anymore. It is too much. The ridiculousness of people fighting over cards at Target or W...
Baseball Every Night

Willie Mays: Topps Living 2020 - This summer my father got the Topps Living card for Willie Mays. He got two of them and gave me the extra one. Note: he's knows full-well how I feel abou...
The Card Papoy

Junior WOAH (this is not an acronym) - My new BFF Greg sent me a new batch of cards. Just like that. Because I'm a pretty cool guy And also because we're both pretty excited to be able to talk...
Continued on the 2nd Page Following

Alterna Comics Back Issue Sale pick ups - Just going through my recent Alterna haul from their back issue sale.
Not Pulled From Packs

TTM Return: Week Ending 5-15-21 - I just had one TTM return last week. This one came from former Dodgers outfielder Ralph Bryant and took 28 days to and from a home address.
Wrigley Roster Jenga

A Thunderous New Addition, Pt. 2 - Been a while since I checked in here. Life's been busy, lots of big life changes, figuring out this whole parenthood thing, the Cubs have been a whole b...
The Hobby Love

Sports Leagues Need to Give Out More Trading Card Licenses - Night Owl Cards published a post over on his blog talking about Target's decision to eliminate most trading card sales in their retail stores. In case yo...
~~~~~ Scribbled Ink ~~~~~

Watching COMC like a Hawk, I'm the Fool - Like a Hawk Dennis is such a damn troublemaker, man. Back in December I was fine living my hobby life getting all my cards from TCDB, Ebay, Card Shows and...
The Five Tool Collector

Closet Discoveries - I've been on a cleaning/reorganizing/purging binge lately and I attacked my hobby closet earlier this week. I opened four boxes from the upper shelves a...
Chavez Ravining

Heritage from 2020 but not 2020 Heritage (well, one) - This week I received a few trade packages from fellow friends and bloggers, my first of 2021. Considering it's been nearly six months since I last saw card...
Old Red Sox Cards

"The Card Closet" YouTube Episode #49 - My ballot for 2020 for the YouTube Sportscard Channel Hall of Fame!!! The Card Closet #49
THE RIPPIN' AND THE TRADIN'

One Door Closes, Another Opens - Set four is in the books after my second try at a 59 for 59 blockbuster.
George 'Moon' Gibson

J=K Gibson Confirmed! - My days of collecting George Gibson cards go back to about 2006 or so. Since then I've tried to maintain a checklist of every Gibson card out there. At s...
From a 1980s Baseball Card Collector

Reprints: 1940 Play Ball Philadelphia A's Team Set - The Athletics left Philadelphia long ago, and the Phillies maintained their history in the city for many years through their inclusion on the Philadelph...
Collecting Cards (Again)

Luis Tiant TTM Success - Sent: 11/13/2020 | Received: 11/20/2020 | 7 days 1/1: 1982 Topps Address: Home (Wells, ME via SportsCollectors.Net) Best known for his time toeing the sla...
Bean's Ballcard Blog

Quarter Box Sale TONIGHT Live on my YouTube Channel - Just a quick note to my readers that I’ll be running a quarter box sale tonight on my YouTube channel (click for link to my Continue reading The post Qua...
2 by 3 Heroes

Recent pickups - Look - if I don't get something posted soon, I will never do it. I spent the past two days organizing my desk, and sorting out more mailings I need to g...
All Trade Bait, All The Time...

Joan Jett Custom Cards From Baseball Card Breakdown - Aloha, everybody, Check out these beautiful custom Joan Jett baseball cards from Baseball Card Breakdown. There were also a couple of other surprise cus...
The Dutch Card Guy

Hope everyone is doing well ! - Hi all, I realized again that I have been mostly absent from the blog in the last 6 months and only updated my collection pages (mostly Glavine and Blyle...
Pack War

Marshawn Lynch Rainbow Done - After 4 years of hunting I have completed the 2013 Chrome Marshawn Lynch #6 rainbow when the Gold parallel reached my doorstep today. Here are all 14 card...
I Love the Smell of Cardboard in the Morning

The End of the 7 Day Trading Card Challenge Road - Here I am, I've come to the end of the line for my 7 Day Trading Card Challenge. There have been twists and turns...planned and unplanned pauses, but the j...
David Does Deltiology

Happy Independence Day! - A couple of pieces for you on the 4th of July, 2020. I'm staying in. If you go out, be safe. This card is circa 1940. First Day Cover 1976 The history...
Baseball Kev

Book Review: The Bird: The Life & Legacy of Mark Fidrych (Doug Wilson, 2013) - “Whatever you do, just do it with joy.” – Mark Fidrych And this was a joy to read, and not just because it was a baseball book. The story of Mark Fidrych w...
ARPSmith's Sportscard Obsession

The Joy of a Completed Team Set - 1996 Flair Giants - Every so often I go on a streak of trying to pick up Giants base cards to fill in gaps in my collection. I recently made a list of almost 700 base cards I...
Scale Modeling History

1956 Buck Baker Completed - Today was a major accomplishment for me...I completed my first build since 2013! After being essentially forced out of the hobby for health reasons at ...
AREA 40

5/1/20 - The Last PC- Where the Big Boys Play https://thelastpcwcw.blogspot.com/
Cardboard Greats

Upon Closer Inspection - My last blog post, which was far too long ago if you ask me, was a 1-pack preview of 2020 Topps Gypsy Queen that provided a brief insight into this year'...
Hoarding Cardboard

Post #152 - Pickup Man - Been a while since I posted - that's one of the negatives of being essential. Not that I'm complaining too much, however. I'm quite blessed to still be emp...
Comic Book History

Project Firsts - It's really happening! The project is really coming true. With the start of any project, there's some firsts...here they are. First book scanned: First boo...
Dodger Cardboard & Other Random Finds

Valentine's Surprise from my Better Half - The last week and a half have been a blur. I took a promotion at work a few weeks back and it has really taken its toll on my free time. I haven't been p...
The Other World

Placeholder for Not Blogging Enough: Various Top 10 Wantlists - It has been more than a year since I put virtual pen to paper on this fading site. So, in that state of mind, as I continue to organize and become the ...
Talking Heads: The Topps 1958 Baseball Set

#68 Daryl Spencer - Spencer played 10 years in the National League with the Giants, Dodgers, Cardinals, and Reds. He grew up in Kansas where his father was an oil field dr...
My Cardboard Habit

Can We Talk About the Price of Bowman Draft? - In the 2019 MLB Draft, the Texas Rangers selected Josh Jung out of Texas Tech with the #8 overall pick. For me this was huuuuge. Not only was Jung (pronoun...
Twitch Collects Cards

It's a Christmas Miracle! - This wrapping paper is simply... Marvelous.Me. Me posting to the blog is the Christmas miracle. Sorry I've been away so long. It uh... It has been a year....
I Feel Like A Collector Again

Back, With Buybacks - It's been awhile, so who knows if anyone will even see this. I'd been posting everything on my other site, Bean's Ballcard Blog, for awhile. Then there w...
The Weekly Rubbish

Alive and Kicking - Did you miss me? I took a few days off work last week and I took our daughter on a little trip. I turned my trading off on TCDB and did my best to ignore...
Bleedin' Brown and Gold

New certification, new collecting craze - Well, summer's almost over and the biggest thing I can say I've accomplished over the past few months is earning my Paraeducator certification. Since retir...
Cpt. Caveman's TTM Autographs

Cpt. Caveman's TTM Autographs Special News - Guess who's back! Stay tuned for new posts with plenty of TTM and IP autograph collecting goodness coming soon. You can also get your Cpt.Caveman's TTM Au...
Off Hiatus Baseball Cards

PWEs, Accompanied by Song - I decided to write a post tonight comprised of recent PWEs that I've received in the mail lately accompanied by songs that have been randomly going around ...
Too Many Manninghams

2018 COMC purchases: 10 years later... - [image: Related image] At long last I'm finishing up my 2018 COMC pickups with my favorites--my PC guys from the 2008 draft class! It's this here blog's an...
Summer of '74

2019 Brewers NOW is LIVE - My most anticipated release of the 2019 card season was the return of my own Brewers NOW brand and... with a fresh blanket of goddamn snow on the ground......
bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog

A Three Pack, Progress, and a Wantlist - *Before I begin, I'd like to dedicate this blog post to my grandmothers, Leonor Anama (nee Filoteo) and Gloria Y. Nichols. Both were born in February, Leon...
The Daily Dimwit

A Little Trip to the Monthly Card Show - Hey everyone, last weekend we had our monthly card show at the Radisson here in Colorado Springs. It's a pretty small show, with one or two big vendors. On...
The Daily Dimwit

A Little Trip to the Monthly Card Show - Hey everyone, last weekend we had our monthly card show at the Radisson here in Colorado Springs. It's a pretty small show, with one or two big vendors. On...
83 Bats

Jack Brohamer - Sy Berger of Topps Chewing Gum fame must have suffered from a serious case of writer's block when it came to lettering the mini cartoons on the back of Jac...
Mark's Ephemera

1990 Socko Juice Orel Hershiser set - This is one of those food premiums that doesn't pop up too often for a reasonable price. I think I pulled the trigger for about $10 a few months ago. Inter...
Bubba's Bangin' Batch of Baseball Bits

2018 Allen & Ginter Box 4-8 Recap - Boxes one through three were pretty good to me. Since I got my case a day later than I thought I would, I actually didn't have time to open and really app...
Schmidt Happened!

More "toy cars" - This little obsession started anew in late 2013 when I spied the Mystery Machine while my wife and I were shopping at the local Farm Fresh of all places! ...
Sometimes You're the Dog, Sometimes You're the Fire Hydrant - Life in Parkinson's Wake

Blair Puts It All On The LIne - Riding The Branch Out Foundations 80 km Fundraiser on a Tandem With Wife Judy - Gee Blair, you sure don't shy away from risk, do you? After all, wasn't it you that rode your bike up the Yukon's Dempster Highway without bear spray d...
Toronto Blue Jays Collection

Apparently they called this guy 'Earache' - Well, I'm pleased to announce that my C46 collection has doubled in size! I haven't been aggressively pursuing this set (there are some pretty high grade C...
Wish They Still Came With Bubblegum

It's and there's still pack searchers at Target. - Cards are back! Baseball is almost back! So yeah found some 2018 Topps last Tuesday a day early. I didn't pull this card, Tony L of Off Hiatus sent it t...
Collating Cards

USS Mariner Project #2: Participation Trophies - Shortly before the beginning of my first year in 'midget major' baseball (10 years-old, I believe), my dad was faced with a dilemma: the sponsor for the te...
Action Figure History

Star Wars figures (and one DC Direct) photogrpahed 4/4/17 - Found a large ziplock of Star Wars figures that didn't get put away with the others when I made my excel collection file in circa 2010. Also one DC Direct ...
The Autograph Boss

BILL PAXTON - Through The Mail (TTM) Autograph - Bill Paxton Signed (2) 8x10 Photos and sent an extra signed 8x10 photo Sent: 02/22/16 Rec'd: 02/13/17 I guess better late then never with this return ...
Bob Lemke's Blog

Ranew survived 1966 bat attack - *Uncommon commons:* In more than 30 years in sportscards publishing I have thrown hundreds of notes into files about the players – usually non-star play...
Baseball Picture Cards

Closing Chop, Opening Another - It's been a little over months since I've posted anything here on the blog, but that doesn't mean I've been away from the hobby. It's been a draining summe...
Twitch Collects Cards

Topical Trade Bait Post! - Gavin is 100% correct. I’ve got tons of stuff to move, though barring unexpected commission money or eBay sales or something, I’m already pretty tapped ou...
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A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas!

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