A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts: R.I.P.

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Sunday, August 30, 2020

F*#%

Damn, another childhood hero passes on.

Safe travels, Uncle Cliffy!

Deep Thinkers

Johnny's Trading Spot

Wacky Wednesday - *Hump day and trivia night once again. Hoping for a repeat (at trivia) as we won the last time. Braves got shut out last night for the 9th time this yea...
Padrographs; Abner to Zimmer

Fuji picks #408, Christian Friedrich - *The Player: *Christian Friedrich *The Card: *2017 Topps #24 *How I got the auto: *I bought it on eBay earlier this year, receiving on July 1. *About C...
Diamond Jesters

Repack Haiku #479 (Ed Whitson) - *Fought Billy Martin* *Both kept hotel fight going* *Broke manager's arm* 1989 Fleer #321 Ed Whitson Whitson and Martin got into a hotel brawl that stated ...
CrazieJoe's Card Corner

Basketball Coming Back - Before getting to my post today, an important (and helpful) nudge! So, my son is trying to start up a YouTube channel and I figure that the least I can d...
Cards Over Coffee

Not Going To "Wine" Over These - Has it really been almost a month since my last post?Apparently so.Life has just been busy with sports, "life stuff" and college that I haven't really had...
Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Wallet Card with another Albatross Fence - Older looking metal fences are great places to look out for old-style telephone exchanges. This is the second time I've found one from Albatross Fence, w...
In My Own Words

Trying to Articulate.... - Hello I have had a lot going through my head lately. I'm actually amazed at how maddening it is trying to articulate what's going on and what I'm feelin...
My Sports Obsession

Happy Birthday - Denard Robinson - Denard was born on this day in 1990, making him 36 today. NFL Debut - September 7th, 2014 (Jaguars) Years Active - - 2013-2016 (Jaguars) Cards o...
Night Owl Cards

How Topps handled the designated hitter, the first 10 years - When you hit 60, even if you look and feel pretty good for you age, there are constant reminders, whether they are physical, mental or social, that you...
Stuff Nobody Cares About

The Future “Gay” King of France 1894 - Louis Philippe Robert d’Orléans – In Line To Be King OF France While paging through the New York Evening World of October 4, 1894 this portrait and blurb...
2 MINUTE TOY BREAK!

SEPTOBER FEELS - Every time the month of September rolls around I get the Septober Feels. What are the Septober Feels you ask? It's the combination of my favorite season...
Shot Not Taken

Pokemon TCG 30th Celebration: Eevee Knockout Collection & Lucario Tech Sticker Collection - The 30th Celebration is probably the most hyped Pokemon TCG set since probably 151. I looked for packs at so, so many stores but I ended up having to pay m...
WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

CAREER-CAPPER: 1984 BOBBY MURCER - Up on the blog today, from my next WTHBALLS custom set, we finally get around to creating a 1984 "Career-Capper" for one of the nicest men to ever take the...
Japanese Baseball Cards

RIP Brian Wolfe - Retired pitcher Brian Wolfe tragically passed away last week at age 45 after fighting leukemia. Wolfe spent parts of nine seasons in NPB with three diff...
cards as i see them

the rickey henderson memorial patch - it still seems very surreal that rickey henderson is no longer with us. rickey passed away on december 20, 2024 - just a few days shy of his 66th birthday...
Nachos Grande

Set Complete! (Nearly 20 Years in the Making!) - Back in 2009, I was in the midst of a full-blown collecting revival. I had discovered baseball card blogging, and between blogging, buying cards, and lots...
Sportscards From The Dollar Store

May I Never Mature - If your last name was Butts, why would you name your child 'Randy'?
Nothing If Not Random

Random Wax: 2021 Score Football - 2021 Score: Josh Allen and the Bills have high expectations again this season. Hopefully some of the small tweaks and coaching change can get them over t...
Nine Pockets

A Smorgasbord! 1990 Starline Long John Silver's Baseball Superstars - *From the 1970s through the 1990s, it seemed like you could find your favorite baseball stars on food product packaging everywhere you looked: supermarkets...
Base Set Calling

Getting ready for 2027 Heritage - I have read it typed that all Topps designs "grow on you eventually." One that took longer than most for me was/is 1978 Topps - the very first set of Bas...
Dawg Day Cards

Frontier League - 2026 Ottawa Titans - This year I wasn't able to go out of town to see any MLB games, or down to Syracuse or Binghamton, NY to see one of the Mets minor league teams, but I have...
Kirk's Knook

Groceries Delivery Goof - I often have my weekly groceries delivered to me as I find it difficult lugging the bags up the stairs to my apartment. If requires several trips espec...
The View from the Third Floor

The Irony - Locked out of my TwiX account because I don't have a machine to scan a code to verify that I'm human.
Cards on Cards

Good Luck Ducks, Week 3: Expectations - *Oregon looks to regroup on a short week against an in-state FCS opponent.* I'll be honest. I didn't actually watch last week's debacle at Oklahoma State...
bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog

2026 Topps Update...Ready for Round 3??! - Image of the 2026 Topps Update Series Retail Box It won't be long now before the 2026 MLB season comes to a close and the hype over the Update Series b...
John's Big League Baseball Blog

Freehan on Friday- Custom fom Cigar Box - *Cigar Box Cards *on TweetX, has made some awesome cards for me over tye years. His latest is easily my favorite. My new addition to my Bill Freehan c...
Not Another Baseball Card Blog

What's In a Name? and BBA - Hello friends! I was looking through cards recently and wondered a) How many players used nicknames on their cards and B) How often they showed up.. ...
Baseball Card Breakdown

Rod to the Rescue - Rod from Padrographs, who's also my NE Portland neighbor, kindly swung by last weekend with another box of miscellaneous cards for me. Instead of tucking...
Droidtrader's Sports Memorabilia

Carlton Fisk Rookie Cards - I received a couple 1972 Topps Red Sox Rookie stars cards back from Carlton Fisk, who completed them nicely after having previously been signed by Garman...
Cardboard Catastrophes

Finish What Ya Started, September Edition - Here it is: The last card I needed to finish my 1967 Topps set. It is the 18th Topps vintage set (pre-1980) that I have completed. Next up is 1966, if...
The Shlabotnik Report

Yay Me, I Completed 1988 Score Baseball - 1988 had been a good year for baseball cards in my book. Both 1988 Topps and 1988 Score are among my favorite sets of the 1980s. I knew for a number of ye...
The Chronicles of Fuji

Another Sort, Another Blogger Issue, & Another BBA - Another Sunday. Another sort. Another issue with Blogger. This time... blog posts aren't popping up in Blogger reading lists. Hopefully they resolve thi...
Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Collector

Still Able to Find an Amazing Deal Every Now and Then! - I'm still around on the blogsphere, I just haven't had much time to post with a lot of things going on in my life. Hopefully now that things have settled...
Topps cards that never were

I finally joined 'The Club'!! - It's been a little while since I've last posted. Nothing too earth shattering has happened since then. I did, however, get to join a select club. In 199...
A Pack To Be Named Later

2026 Topps Series 2 Retail - Greetings! Hope everyone is doing well. First off, 60th years ago today, Star Trek premiered on NBC. I was going to post something Star Trek related to ...
CaptKirk42s Trading Cards Blog

Niche PC 003: Niche Collections And Stuff - *Niche PC 003: Niche Collections and Stuff* *Curt Young and Kirk Dressendorfer* Niche Collections | *Last Niche PC Post:* 002 In a February (2024) mailday I...
Cardboard History

August 2026 New People - I accomplished a bit more scanning in August than I did in July...sort of. I actually scanned most of these cards during July, but didn't get them cropp...
Dinosaur Dracula!

Dino Drac’s Gloom Bags & Frightening Flats! - Okay guys, I have TWO count ‘em TWO surprise merch drops for ya today. (Well, “merch” doesn’t feel like the right word for what I do, but whatever, let’s r...
Detroit Tigers Cards and Stuff

365 Albums from 1986 - Side 2 - It's that time again! Quick summer recap: I went to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. I went to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Sprin...
Weird Fantastic Toy Adventures

Weird-Ohs Digger | The Way Out Dragster - Loud engines. Cartoon monsters. Catchy records. There was a time when model kits came with as much personality as plastic. Don't forget to Like, Subscrib...
Too Many Verlanders

2026 TCDb trade roundup: May through August smaller trades - Happy September, all! School is back in session for many or will be soon. As far as my interests the Tigers...uh...well they don't matter, but Michigan F...
The Collective Mind

Sneaking One In - Well, I feel like a liar again. Or at least a cheesy salesman. And sales is the last thing I ever want to do. I've gone another month without a single...
The Topps Archives

Winner's Choice - Just when you thought we were done with looking at the 1971 Topps *Winners *set (which is actually from 1972) some additional information has come to ligh...
Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle

Owning 15% of A Print Run: Archer! - I recently found an incredible PC piece up for auction on eBay. I knew from the moment I laid eyes on it that unless it soared to an astronomical price I...
Number 5 Type Collection

My limited edition Cleveland "Notable Baseball Subjects" card set - This year SABR held its summer conference in Cleveland, one of my favorite baseball cities for various reasons. I used that impetus to research, design, ...
Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

1984 - Today I decided to haul down my 1984 Calbee set from way up on the closet shelf in my kids' toy room where it sits in a hockey card album. It was sunny...
Sport Card Collectors

Rodney's Cardboard:2026 Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson Battle Arena Hot Rod (more) - Well, I have a long ways to go with these, but didn't want to give up quite yet. They aren't the most exciting Rodney Hampton cards ever, some look cool...
Sylvia Plath Info

The Writing Life of Sylvia Plath on BBC Radio 4 - The BBC's Radio 4 has made a three-part series on Sylvia Plath entitled The Writing Life of Sylvia Plath. The first episode airs today at 1600 GMT in Londo...
The Euclid Boo Blog

Dollar Tree Halloween 2026: The Best Spooky Finds This Year - Dollar Tree Halloween 2026 has officially arrived at Dollar Tree, and if you’re planning to decorate on a budget, now is the time to shop. Stores across ...
Royal Card Review

2026 Mid Year Review - Same old song and dance. "I planned on doing more blogs...". I really did, and I don't know why I stopped. I try to at least do one every 1-2 months, ...
Fan-Attic Sports Cards Blog

Another Great Poor Ole Baseball Card for My Collection !! - Over at X (twitter) Jeff @jtteaxasaggie ran a giveaway and I was the lucky winner! 👏 It's a poor ole looking card. But I like poor ole baseball cards....
Waiting 'til Next Year...

Quick Redirect for an Update - My blog posts are becoming more and more infrequent, but if you're interested in an update please head on over to Baseball Card Breakdown. Thanks, Gavin...
Infield Fly Rule

Star-Spangled Sunday - Every year, I have a birthday. It's in March. So that means that I've had a handful of cards on my desk since March, as this blog has really slipped dow...
Wax Pack Wonders

Happy 250th From Some Presidents - A quick recognition of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, brought to you by these (mostly) U.S. presidents: Happy 4th of July!
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 - 130/885 = 14.7% 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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