A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts: 1985 Topps Cyndi Lauper

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Saturday, November 4, 2023

An Unusual Bat Around

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Deep Thinkers

Diamond Jesters

Repack Haiku #460 (Jedd Gyorko) - *Once upon a time,* *Was Padres' home run leader* *For second basemen* 2019 Topps #261 Jedd Gyorko Gyorko played 3 seasons in San Diego (2013-2015). In j...
Nachos Grande

Hitting the Road with more Vintage 1953-1955 Topps World on Wheels Cards! - Today, I'm ready to show off more cards from the lot of 1953-1955 Topps World on Wheels cards that I bought on eBay. I've decided to try and collect the f...
CrazieJoe's Card Corner

Tempting Stadium - Before we get to some more cards from the 2026 Lot, a share of a trade with someone I have done a number of trades with, fellow Ontarian Tdorsay from TCD...
Sport Card Collectors

You've Got Mail - You've Got Mail Well, thirteen of you will. I finally sat down and packed up some cards to go out. I have been wanting to do this for weeks but with sch...
Baseball Cards Come to Life!

1986 Renata Galasso Mattingly #17 - Don Mattingly and his fellow Oneonta Yankees! I would guess these were the eight regular position players on the team. Other future major leaguers on tha...
Shot Not Taken

Random Pack Break: MTG Streets of New Capenna - I kind of overlooked the Magic the Gathering Streets of New Capenna set when it first came out. I was collecting mostly Pokemon at the time and in my mind,...
Droidtrader's Sports Memorabilia

Jim Kaat Return - It can take a few months, but Jim Kaat is a reliable signer through his agent, Mike Maguire. I sent a couple Twins team cards and his 2025 Allen & Ginte...
Not Another Baseball Card Blog

Cards I Like Of a Team I Do Not Pt2 - Hello Friends! Today I'm going to show cards I like from the other team I really don't like.. The Atlanta Braves. I'm only using Atlanta here since the o...
Johnny's Trading Spot

Four dollars - *Last Monday (not yesterday) I drove my neighbor to the hospital for an outpatient surgery. It was supposed to be a short trip so I figured I'd kill an ...
Baseball Card Breakdown

women and children - I haven't really gotten into the blog-posting groove yet here in the first half of 2026, but hey, just finally got the "we're packing your order" email f...
Sportscards From The Dollar Store

2/14 on the Diamond - Back to the 2/14 collection today, and I'm showing off all the new baseball additions to the collection. Here's the most recent additions to the collecti...
Nothing If Not Random

Random Wax: 1992 Triple Play (4 Packs) - 1992 Triple Play: In George Brett's 1980 MVP season, he led the league in average, on base percentage, slugging, OPS and WAR. Reggie Jackson and Rich Go...
WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

1981 DRAKES BIG PITCHERS: PHIL NIEKRO - The next card from my wildly successful 1981 "Drake's Big Pitchers" custom set released last year to get the spotlight here on the blog is the one for Hall...
Detroit Tigers Cards and Stuff

365 Albums from 1986 - Side 1 - I was in a little bit of a mental rut at the end of last year as I was recuperating from two hip replacement surgeries. I decided I wanted to set som...
Too Many Verlanders

4/3/26 card show report: $25, no foolin' - Well this should be a pretty quick one, even if it took me too long as usual to get to. I headed over to my usual monthly show in early April only to fin...
cards as i see them

daves to be different - i happened to be adding cards to my sportlots inventory, and it's a pain when the new cards are of older stature. i have to go into the monster boxes on th...
Night Owl Cards

C.A.: 1992 Topps Pre-Production Gold Tom Lasorda - * (Hey, fellow Northeasterners, are you enjoying the special edition two-month long March this year? I hear things are going to turn around in a matter of ...
Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle

Barry, Or Other Barry. Who Can Say. - The cardboard gods were shining upon me recently when I spotted the below up for auction on eBay and my winning bid not only held but held up at about ha...
The Chronicles of Fuji

The Run is Complete! - The ball is finally starting to roll again... as I try to start hammering out semi-regular posts on this blog. I've been busying scanning and stock piling...
Weird Fantastic Toy Adventures

Afternoon Delight: Enter Largo’s Lair! - Bill and Largo dive into toys, comics, movies, TV, and whatever other geeky madness crashes into the livestream. Largo's Lair: @LargosLAIR42 Royalty Free...
Stuff Nobody Cares About

Old New York In Photos #195 – 125th St. West From 7th Ave. c. 1910 - Harlem 125th Street Looking West From Seventh Avenue This undated, circa 1910 Detroit Publishing Co. photograph of Harlem’s main stem of 125th Street sho...
Cardboard Catastrophes

Fleer Autograph Project - 1960 Part 20 and 1961 Part 52 - It is coming up on a month since my last post. I should probably do a little dusting around here. Recently, I partnered up with two other people to bid ...
Japanese Baseball Cards

Card Of The Week May 10 - Last week the SSG Landers of the KBO announced the signing of another Japanese pitcher, Ginjiro Hiramoto. Hiramoto is not being signed as an "Asian Quot...
The Shlabotnik Report

Love Dem Batting Cage Cards - A little over a week ago, when poking around online, I saw this card and it made me smile. It wasn’t about Ken Reitz, the San Francisco Giants or even Cand...
Nine Pockets

These Binders Were Too Cool for School - Back in the 1980s, there was a particular type of binder that schoolkids everywhere wanted. I mean, *really* wanted. The Trapper Keeper. In fact, if yo...
Cards Over Coffee

Six - *coffee is brewed and ready for this momentous occasion!**takes a sip* Six years ago, I said, "hey, this is Covid, we are stuck at home, we have nothing el...
My Sports Obsession

Happy Birthday - Maurice Hurst - Maurice was born on this day in 1995, making him 31 today. NFL Debut - September 10th, 2018 (Raiders) Years Active - - 2018-2020 (Raiders) - 202...
The Topps Archives

Topps Topics: Studies in Uncut Sheet Arrays - 1961 to 1964 - Presenting part three of an ongoing series examining the use of short prints and double prints by Topps in their vintage era; part one can be found HE...
Cardboard History

New People April 2026 - After a crazy high number of cards scanned in March, April was much slower with only 445 cards scanned. New additions were up though with 819 new cards....
bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog

Insert Sets Not Talked About Enough: 2023 Topps Japan Edition Strength In Numbers - On April 15, 2026, the Cubs were mired in last place within the NL Central Division. They were 9-9 at that point, taking 2 of 3 from the Phillies and wer...
Padrographs; Abner to Zimmer

Update - Well it's been awhile since I posted anything. I have divested of most of my extra cards, I've seen them on some of your blogs. I have decided to conce...
Sylvia Plath Info

Published Today: The Poems of Sylvia Plath edited by Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil - Congratulations to Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil, as well as to Faber & Faber and Frieda Hughes, on the publication, today, in the United Kingdom, of Th...
In My Own Words

Work and Thoughts On It - Hello! As you may or may not know, I've been unemployed and on disability since 2021. I had a near death illness, that being septic shock. The trauma fr...
2 MINUTE TOY BREAK!

MOTU Origins Buzz-Off -
Number 5 Type Collection

Cinco de Mayo team lots giveaway - It's been a while since sending out cards and I'm doing a spring cleaning of all 1980 cards from my collection, reflecting on my ongoing shift to find ne...
A Pack To Be Named Later

2026 Topps Heritage Fat Pack - Greetings! Hope everyone is doing well. We're a month into the baseball season, the NBA and NHL playoffs are moving into the second round, and the NFL dra...
The View from the Third Floor

Quick Poll - Was the last year of the junk era for baseball cards 1994 or 1995?
Dinosaur Dracula!

The Purple Stuff Podcast tackles TMNT! - Well guys, it’s finally time. This episode of the Purple Stuff Podcast is more than ten years in the making. For the first time ever, it’s an entire show a...
Topps cards that never were

Cards, cards, and more cards. - Lately, I had made a number of purchases on eBay of random grouped stuff. It has varied from Rays team sets, Topps box bottoms, favorite player relic/auto...
The Collective Mind

Tale Of The Tape: TCDB - Well, if not for the Ephrata show, I'd have slacked off here for another whole month. Too much going on with the new house, the old house, trades and ev...
Cards on Cards

How Are Those Bats? (Heating Up) - *More cards from Padrographs!* This is a dizzying time of the year to be following sports. We're already four weeks into the MLB season, soccer is soccer...
John's Big League Baseball Blog

Tigers Card Tuesday-Topps Now Kevin McGonigle - * Tigers Card Tuesday * Opening Day, March 26, 2026 Detroit Tigers rookie Keving McGonigle had a big league debut ...
Dawg Day Cards

Sportcards From The Dollar Store Got Me to Join the Joyride - I opened my mailbox on Monday night, and was pleased to find a bubble mailer from Sportcards From The Dollar Store inside. Along with a bunch of Browns c...
Cardboard Junkie

2026 NBA PLAYOFF PREFERENCES PART 2 - 8TH SEED GAMES ARE PLAYING WHILE I WRITE THIS SO THERE'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE ONE OR TWO TEAMS ON HERE GETTING BOUNCED BEFORE I POST. I'M LESS GRUMPY TO...
Bump and Run Football Card Blog

Cards on Cards Contest Winnings--and a Well-Timed Trade - It has been well over two years since my last post. I have several reasons for putting the blog on hiatus, and I don't anticipate that I'll be coming bac...
Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Collector

Pat Zachry Autograph Baseball - I recently purchased another baseball for my collection. I'm glad to own this autograph official major league baseball of the 1976 NL Rookie of the Year ...
My Cardboard Life

Can’t take it with you - My wife’s grandfather passed away in September at the age of 95. It was a sad time, but we got through it by recalling memories and supporting each other. ...
Collector's Crack

Collecting out of Spite - Have you ever collected a set or insert set simply out of spite? I've been collecting Topps' Stars of MLB since they were introduced in 2022 as a retail...
I Feel Like A Collector Again

This Week In Mail - 3.8.26 - For the most part, it was a boring week via the mail. The top two items didn't show up until Friday and Saturday. Part of the "boring" start to the wee...
$30 a week habit

it's already been two weeks - It's been two weeks since I last posted, and a lot has happened. The stye in my right eye has decreased some, which does not require surgery. Thank g...
Curly W Cards

14th Curly Blogiversary! - Today marks the 14th Blogiversary of "Curly W Cards". Some readers might be a little confused because just last week I celebrated the 20th Blogiversary a...
Kirk's Knook

The Latest Hollywood Squares - From time to time I do like TV game shows. I like the current incarnation of Hollywood Squares with Drew Barrymore as the center square (as well as being...
Base Set Calling

Happy 2nd Baseball Card Day! - We've had one, yes. What about 2nd Baseball Card Day? It's true. For me, there are 2 big Baseball Card days every season. Today, for me, is the 2nd o...
Fan-Attic Sports Cards Blog

RIP Maz - The man who will forever be known for hitting the greatest home run in baseball history - a game 7 walk-off in the World Series - Bill Mazeroski, died Fe...
The Diamond King

Hall of Fame and Hall of ... Mirrors? - OK, I didn't have a good way to tie these cards together with a nice title, but I tried. But I am giving them away!!First up is a strange card of recent ...
Starting Nine.

Things Seem To Be Changing. - I am not a small hall guy, you know they type that thinks Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle should be the line at which the standard is drawn. Nor am I ...
Infield Fly Rule

Ceremonial First Penguin - We're slightly closer to Opening Day than we are to Game 7 of the 2025 World Series. Baseball will soon return, and this year we have the World Baseball ...
The Euclid Boo Blog

Burger Chef Halloween Bag - Burger Chef Halloween Bag Giveaway: A Snapshot of Fast-Food Halloween in the 1970s During the late 1960s through the 1970s, fast-food chains leaned heavi...
Royal Card Review

2025 Book Review (Mostly) - A couple years ago a fellow blogger named Jon told me I should read more. It wasn't a demand or anything, but I mean I had a lot of books, so why not r...
Cardboard Collections

Box Break: 2025 Topps Allen & Ginter - 12/03/25 saw the release of the annual Allen & Ginter set. For me this was a long awaited day as Ginter is one of my favorite sets. Outside of Stadium ...
Thoughts and Sox

New Hobby? - Sorry all, once again a post with no cards, or at least minimal cards. I haven't acquired any new cards lately and since I just did a giant reorganizati...
Not Pulled From Packs

New Blog, New Location - For everyone who still has me on whatever lists I may be on, I am starting to blog again. I'm starting back up with my new blog, called A Most Adequate C...
Wax Pack Wonders

A Special 1955 Bowman 100th Birthday: Bobby Shantz - After a long hiatus, this is the 6th installment of my series featuring players from the 1955 Bowman set that would have turned 100 this year. Players fe...
I need new hobbies.

For Sale or Trade! - This is just a placeholder post, until I start posting things for sale or trade. I’m going through a lot of my stuff at the moment, so the first couple of ...
Heartbreaking Cards of Staggering Genius

1962 Topps Mars Attacks Needs List - 1962 Topps Mars Attacks Needs List Last updated: 08-31-25 *Bold* = Awaiting arrival/pending trade 1. The Invasion Begins 2. Martians Approaching 3. At...
The Angels, In Order

Added Two This Week - Just two cards incoming this week. TCDB trading is on again off again. I think I have two more incoming next week. I miss getting mail. Small trade with ...
Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

2024 Topps Stadium Club NPB complete set for $3.40 - As I mentioned last week one of my new collecting hobbies is buying complete sets that I find for insanely cheap prices. This week's installment is th...
Off Hiatus Baseball Cards

A Milwaukee Card Show!? - Am I too late to talk about a trip I took in June? Well, I am going to talk about it anyway. My wife had decided to go to an out-of-town event in Charlot...
A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts

Extending my leave - I said in my last published post that I would be taking a break until March, or April, at the latest. Seeing as how it's now July, I was obviously a bit of...
Adventures of a Baseball Card Collector

A Fordham college leather from the 1910s - Hi y'all! It's been awhile since I've posted, but I haven't stopped collecting. In February 2024 I joined the collecting group Old Baseball Cards, which ...
Royals and Randoms

My Son's One Pack - Last night at my Son's end-of-year Little League team party, one of the coaches handed out one pack of 2025 Topps to each player. My son pulled thi...
Waiting 'til Next Year...

My First Rip In Quite Awhile - I had an unexpected envelope arrive in the mail the other day, and I finally found a minute to dive in. There was a nice, handwritten note from a good b...
Hockey Kazi

Bulldogs Meet & Greet/Autograph Signing - Back again y'all. On Feb 26. Brantford Surplus held a meet & greet/autograph signing with the OHL Brantford Bulldogs from 14:00-15:30. Odd time during t...
Tenets of Wilson

Super Bowl LIX Projection, Divisional Sunday - Philadelphia over Buffalo I didn't realize until just now that I only had 3 teams on top of the NFC all regular season, and it only transitioned twice, fro...
Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary

2025 Wallet Card Junior Ortiz - Here's the new Wallet Card for me in 2025: Ortiz was a member of the Twins' 1991 World Series winning roster, in the role of a backup catcher, and the p...
CaptKirk42s Trading Cards Blog

2024 Some Sales YAY! - This past year for my card sales over at Ebay I only sold one item an Adrien Peterson relic card. In attempts to get things to sell on Ebay a few time...
Random Thoughts From A Random Guy

Update - After the holidays, I'm trying to get back to the exercise bike. It hasn't been the greatest couple of months for that. I rode it most days up until the ...
Dime Boxes -- The Low-End Baseball Card Collector's Journey

Closing the doors (for now) - This is a post I knew was coming, but dreaded writing. Let's take the band-aid off: I've decided to close up shop on "Dime Boxes" for the foreseeable fut...
John's Baseball Blog

Some quick KBO notes: Do-yeong Kim is a phenom; Ryu not doing great - It's fun to spot foreign phenoms early on. Recently-posted KBO 2nd baseman Hyseseong Kim is in the news right now, but I just stumbled upon another star K...
The Snorting Bull

106. - Blake Snell number 106 is just a red herring to make two other announcements. Announcement #1- I have not written very often in this space during t...
The Collector

Out of Ideas - A few months ago I saw a sell sheet for 2023-24 Skybox Metal Universe hockey. I've never been a fan of the Fleer/Skybox Metal Universe sets (though I do ...
It's all in the cards

Trough the looking glass - Some of you here I have know since before google , going all the way back to my first days on the internet in 1998 others I haven't met yet but you like...
The All-Time Portland Beavers Project

The difference that six weeks can make - Highly touted prospects that ultimately don't end up panning out is nothing new in baseball. It's been happening for a long time, and will probably continu...
Random Toy Reviews

JoeFest 2024 - Hot on the heels of attending the annual HeroesCon in my home town of Charlotte, NC, the next weekend the family headed down to Atlanta for a quick trip ...
The Raz Card Blog

Recent Meanderings - I mentioned in my last post that I was going out of town for a bit. The short version is that my dad and I went to Russia to hunt bears. We were successf...
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...
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...
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…
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…
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." ...
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...
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...
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...
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

2023 Rockies Want List - Completed Team Sets - 129/885 = 14.6% COMPLETE red = pending arrival *2023 Bowman - COMPLETE* 2023 Bowman Sky Blue 15, 74 2023 Bowman Neon Green 15...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cardboard Greats

The Series 1 Highlights - With Topps Heritage set to come out a week from this Wednesday, the 3 blasters I purchased of 2020 Topps Series 1 will likely be my only sampling of the ...
THE RIPPIN' AND THE TRADIN'

A Box And Some Banter - I got hammered and went and opened a box on Facebook Live. Do you have an hour to throw away?
Dodger Cardboard & Other Random Finds

I wanted these when I was a kid... - Don't act like you know how much I wanted LJN's SportsTalk when I was a kid. Because you have no idea. I saw all the commercials. Saw them at the mall. ...
2 by 3 Heroes

Throwback Thursday - 02.06.2020 - Every Thursday, I post a card showing a ballplayer wearing a throwback uniform from my collection. Hopefully, he will be wearing it well, with proper pants...
Pack War

Sports Card Super Bowl X - It is Super Bowl Sunday and once again the cards are going to make their prediction. Surprisingly the cards are 6-3 predicting the winner of the last 9 Su...
My Cardboard Habit

I'm Still Here - It has been six months since I last posted. Six. Months. When I started this blog, I intended to post three or four times a week. Now it seems that I'm lu...
~~~~~ Scribbled Ink ~~~~~

I am an Idiot; Ebay Quid Pro Quos and Such - Long story short; I won a Corbin Martin Chrome RC /250 for 99 cents on ebay. I recieved the base Corbin RC along with another Astros player card. I chec...
The Dutch Card Guy

Topps Redemption - Yesterday I received a nice envelop from Topps in the mail, a nice Topps redemption card. Although I was happy with the card I did realize that apparently ...
From a 1980s Baseball Card Collector

New to my unopened collection: 1986 Sportflics - I said that I've purchased a bunch of Sportflics, and am continuing to post them. There are two main thrusts of this: the 1986 Sportflics Decade Greats set...
Talking Heads: The Topps 1958 Baseball Set

#67 Joe Ginsberg - New York-born Joe Ginsberg was raised in Detroit and signed with the Tigers in 1944 at the age of 17. He soon found himself in the Army and playing serv...
Cardboard Clubhouse

Night Owl Sends Cards - I found an unexpected package in my mailbox the other day that arrived from the one and only Night Owl. Somehow, I find it very appropriate to get cards f...
The Weekly Rubbish

Four PWEs - Watching: Southern Miss vs Alabama on ESPN2 I have done everything in my power today to avoid watching today's Michigan game. I have not seen a single se...
Scale Modeling History

Finished: 1932 Ford Sedan - I finished another model today. It was going very well, then turned to garbage at the end. I messed up the original trunk lid- the one I scratchbuilt a hin...
The Card Papoy

Classic 4 sports - The nice thing about holidays is that I have time on my hand. The problem about holidays, is that I have time on my hand and end up checking Ebay listings a...
David Does Deltiology

Love the Drake! - How does one begin a blog? Well, I guess this one has already begun. My first post was of a Ron Santo postcard. Not only does it express my love of spor...
Continued on the 2nd Page Following

TKO Presnets - Garth Ennis' Sara: A Review - A few months ago I started seeing mentions of Garth Ennis' Sara on some comic book groups on Facebook. I'm a huge Ennis fan and pretty much if it's got...
Too Many Manninghams

2018 COMC purchases: PC potpourri - It's almost time for me to say goodbye to 2018 and the purchases I made last year on this fine evening in...MAY?! Yeah, it's taken me far too long to post...
Baseball Kev

Book Review: Rickwood Field (Allen Barra, 2010) - “It was vivid and green in a particular hue, and it shows up in my dreams periodically.” – Courtney Haden Sunday afternoon baseball, in written form. This ...
Bob Walk the Plank

Boo - Well hello there old friends. Didn't mean to scare you. It's your old friend Matt providing a proof of life. Thought it was an appropriate time to provide...
My Cardboard Mistress

2006 Topps Allen & Ginter #250 - This might be the worst looking card in the entire set. Just kidding that belongs to Gustavo Chacin.
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...
AREA 40

CLOSING TIME - Well, the time has come. The final mega break packages made it to the post office today. Today is the last blog post I will be making. It's also the end ...
Twitch Collects Cards

Out - This... has been a long time coming. If you follow me on any of my social medias (well, my side account on Twitter, my main one was suspended for saying f...
Mark's Ephemera

Edward Vila Glicée of Orel Hershiser - 11 months ago I hit up ebay and purchased this limited edition (numbered to 50), giclée card of Orel Hershiser. It was less than half the cost of a blaste...
The Other World

Phillies Inkquest: A Re-Introduction and an Autograph Dead Zone List - The Phillies Inkquest is defined the quest to find certified autographed cards of Phillies for the following categories: World Series participant, HOFer...
Cpt. Caveman's TTM Autographs

Cpt. Caveman's TTM Autographs #178 - Welcome back for another weekly TTM success post. This week I wanted to share a few websites that will help all you TTM and In Person graphers with your ...
Rekindling the Cardboard Flame

2018 Card of the Year - It's that time of the year! P-Town Tom of Waiting Til Next Year is again holding a contest for bloggers to show off their favorite card of the year. Last ...
Comic Book History

Back to reading again! - I've taken a bit of a vacation from comics. Reading them, anyway. I've never been far from the hobby- I've read Back Issue and Alter Ego regularly, and I'm...
Bleedin' Brown and Gold

The bitter-sweet, mixed emotions of retirement - Plank-owner, shell-back, radioman, public affairs specialist, Citizen-Soldier, mentor, first sergeant. Now, I can finally add retiree to the list. After 3...
Bubba's Bangin' Batch of Baseball Bits

2018 Allen & Ginter Box 1-3 Recap - Here's a nice big long run down of what I found in my first three boxes of this year's Allen & Ginter. This year's base cards. They're fine. I really lik...
Schmidt Happened!

Hello, is this thing still working? - Hello my friends. How is everyone doing these days? I've been really slacking on the posting front, but have kept up with a lot of your posts, commenting h...
Summer of '74

The Next Great Flagship Set Will be the One We Make Ourselves - The Topps Series II checklist came out today and - of course - it is the same old garbage we've all come to expect from Topps. My first outrage was seeing ...
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...
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...
Waxaholic

Italy Fails To Qualify for 2018 World Cup - with a draw today versus Sweden, Italy has failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1958. That is all.
Sometimes You're the Dog, Sometimes You're the Fire Hydrant - Life in Parkinson's Wake

Our Dog Tomo - Uncondiional Love Or Conditional Kibble?? - It would be an understatement to say that my late dog Tomo was complicated, and a “ tough nut to crack”. Please take careful note of that last sentence, a...
Wish They Still Came With Bubblegum

Flea Market Card Show - Went to my monthly flea market card show last weekend and got stuck in one vendor's boxes. He had a bunch of 2017 Stadium Club for 5/$1. I loaded up as I...
Action Figure History

Simpsons Bases & Y-Wing - I can't believe I have not posted here since May. I need to get better at posting to my non-card blogs. I'm making an effort in 2017 to finish photodocumen...
The Autograph Boss

TOM HARDY - Purchased Autograph - Tom Hardy 11x14 Photo Purchased PSA DNA Certification An autograph that I have been wanting for a while now that I finally said the hell with it and s...
Bob Lemke's Blog

Holmgren didn't make either the Cardinals or Topps cuts - This is the fifth in a string of "football cards that never were" that I've created in December. It's likely to be my last football custom for a while; ...
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...
Cross Checking Cards

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