A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts: Merry Christmas!

Deep Thinkers

Droidtrader's Sports Memorabilia

Kyle Farmer Signing Return and Purchases - Banks, Oliva and Oswalt - I had a couple days' worth of mail waiting for me when I returned home today. I sent in a couple 2023 Topps Heritage cards to a Kyle Farmer signing. Wh...
Number 5 Type Collection

Baseball Backgrounds : Reggie Jackson's Glasses on 1982 Topps #300 - Last week, I got into a Bluesky chat over the reflection in Reggie's glasses on 1982 Topps card #300. New York often wore these pregame warmup tops, so i...
Cardboard History

pretty big hockey milestone - Although I have not had much motivation to write, I am still doing card stuff almost every day. And that stuff is mostly in the form of scanning, which ...
My Sports Obsession

Happy Birthday - Steve Carlton - Steve was born on this day in 1944, making him 80 today. MLB Debut - April 12th, 1965 (Cardinals) Years Active - - 1965-1971 (Cardinals) - 19...
Too Many Verlanders

2024 trade package #20: Baseball Card Breakdown - Christmas is just a few days away but tonight I'll be showing off cards I received from someone born the day before the big holiday. Longtime friend Gavi...
cards as i see them

tier one three ways - birthday boy steve garvey was included in the 2024 topps tier one release with some sticker auto/relic cards. the most basic one has one plain road swatch ...
Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Too Many Great Cards - Recently Dennis of Too Many Verlanders acquired a huge collection including a whole lot of trimmed 1960s cards. I asked him to take a look at my wantlist...
Topps cards that never were

A bunch of McClanahan’s and Caminero’s - I had a pretty busy last few days. It all started Wednesday. I rushed through work so I could get out at a decent time and meet Karen at her work. She had...
Cardboard Catastrophes

New Blair Item - After my little hissy fit about cut signatures a few months ago, my player collections went into early hibernation and I resigned myself to only adding ...
Japanese Baseball Cards

First Sets Of 2025 - The first three sets of the new year have been announced so let's do a quick overview of them... - Ichiro Suzuki retired in 2019 but apparently missed th...
The Angels, In Order

Lots of Trade Mail Coming In - Trade with *borosny* Here is a sampling of the 23 cards Bo sent over. I wanted a copy of each of the scratchers with Bonus Runs 1-5. Just lacking the...
WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

WTHBALLS CUSTOM SET SPOTLIGHT: 1890 "BASEBALL CHAMPIONS" SAM THOMPSON - On the blog today, we profile my card for Hall of Famer and RBI-machine Sam Thompson, from my 2018 "19th Century Base Ball Champions" set: Thompson wa...
CrazieJoe's Card Corner

Another October Box Trade - A smaller trade that I can cover in one post, as this one went across the border with US TCDB member shredtacular who was able too send me a bunch of To...
The Shlabotnik Report

Shlabotsylvania Mall Show, December 2024 - I’ll be honest with all y’all, in my current state of mind I’m pretty much only good for “Show & Tell” posts. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just a thing. For...
2 MINUTE TOY BREAK!

All Work And No Play.... - I really had high expectations for the blog this Christmas. New header image, countdown posts, childhood Xmas memories and lots of holiday themed imagery. ...
Nine Pockets

A Smorgasbord! 1977 Burger Chef Fun Meal Discs - *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

Finalizing #2 (2020 Heritage) - My recent COMC delivery included a certain "keystone" card in that the card was the final card to place on a binder page, allowing me to declare a col...
Sport Card Collectors

Rodney's Cardboard:2023 Topps Composite Resurgence Amped Up Auto Jersey Purple /99 - For the first time in the history of Rodney, he had his very FIRST autograph jersey card featured in 2023 Topps Composite.It took me a long time just to ac...
Cards Over Coffee

12 Cards Of Christmas - The first card around Christmas that Oren traded to me,A Rob Moore Prime Target ChromeeeThe Second card around Christmas that Oren traded to me,A heavy hi...
The Chronicles of Fuji

Highs and Lows - Today has been one helluva emotional roller coaster. Woke up excited to kick off my holiday break with a trip to the Branham High School Flea Market. How...
My Cardboard Life

Target Runs, Cinnamon Buns and Young Guns - Happy Holidays! - Happy Holidays blog friends! 🎄 Last week, my wife sent me out to Target to pick up a toy for our youngest son for Christmas. It was a dinosaur that shoots...
Sportscards From The Dollar Store

2024 Adventures in Repacks - Part 37 - Just Another Value Pack - To be specific, a value pack that contained these items: All cards, no supplies. First up, the Superstar pack. Is Kris Letang the promised Superstar? He's...
Night Owl Cards

Yes, he was the best - You are going to see, or you have already read, many tributes to Rickey Henderson today. A lot will discuss his mind-blowing skill on the base paths a...
Fan-Attic Sports Cards Blog

2024 Topps All Star Rookie Selection !!!!!! - Since 1959, Topps has selected players for their annual All-Star Rookie Team. It usually consists of C, 1B , 2B, 3B, SS, 3 OF, LHP, RHP. In 2010 they...
The View from the Third Floor

Scoring from My Dealer - Stopped at Barnes & Noble and got a couple boxes of baseball cards. First, a 59-card box of 2024 Topps Baseball Update Series. - Skenes is the guy ...
The Topps Archives

Orbital Mechanics Mate - I regret I don't have any Christmas-themed *objet's d' Topps* to share this year but have no fear -a whole buncha of product updates from Friend o'the Ar...
Not Another Baseball Card Blog

2024 Update - Hello Friends! I wanted to share with you a few cards and thoughts about 2024 Update Now.. I haven't been collecting new sets for a while. But, I reall...
Tenets of Wilson

Super Bowl LIX Projection, Week 16, Thursday - Detroit over Buffalo The LA Chargers beat Denver to take both teams to 9-6 on Thursday. Neither has clinched a playoff spot but both are very close. They w...
Stuff Nobody Cares About

Old New York In Photos #175 – Fifth Avenue From 57th Street - Fifth Avenue Looking North From 57th Street c. 1914 From the Detroit Publishing Company comes this lightly trafficked view of Fifth Avenue. By 1915 horse...
In My Own Words

Some Thoughts - Some things I want to get out while I'm thinking about them. I've been thinking about the recently forced back to work Canada Post employees. I wonder i...
Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle

George Washington's Plastic Tomb - Here's an update to a post from 12.5 years (!) ago. I recently sent off a small non-sports sub to the fine folks at SGC. I can drop off at a local show h...
Diamond Jesters

Trapped In Time: Remnants Of The 111th And 112th Trades - I know I've said this many times before, but it amazes me at the cards I've been able to acquire through Time Travel Trading. When I started this projec...
Nachos Grande

Board Game Friday: My Top 50 Games of 2024 (#20 - 11) - Welcome to part 4 (of 5) of my Top 50 Board Games of 2024! Today, we move into my Top 20 as we look at games ranked #20 through #11. Next week, we'll finis...
Johnny's Trading Spot

Christmas: Misc. A short post - *Just a hodge podge of over-sized misc. Christmas cards. A short post to get you into the weekend. Real quick on this week's giveaway: Fuji wins. And to...
The Collective Mind

Night Owl Sends Classics, Favorites, Icons, and Sensations - Got some return fire from the Night Owl camp today. Started small with a '23 insert and a 2008 Baseball Icon from Allen & Ginter sets. Then the penul...
Cardboard Junkie

1953 Topps Smoky Burgess - I BLEW IT YESTERDAY AND I'M ABOUT TO FALL ASLEEP TODAY SO HERE'S A 1953 TOPPS CARD OF SMOKY BURGESS FIREMAN! DAMN I LOVE THIS SET
A Pack To Be Named Later

2024 Parkside Indycar - Known for producing women soccer cards, Parkside produced Indycar's first set since 2008 (Rittenhouse). Released in their hanger pack form there are 25...
Baseball Card Breakdown

some COMC highlights - Showing off some various pickups from my latest COMC order. I was happy to hear Dick Allen and Dave Parker got the "Call to the Hall" the other day, thou...
Weird Fantastic Toy Adventures

Review: Science & Technology Beauty Mask - In today’s adventure, Paula tries out the Science & Technology Beauty Mask. We review and rate it via IFTTT © 2021 Weird Fantastic Toy Adventures. All R...
Nothing If Not Random

Random Wax: 1990 Donruss (3 Packs) - 1990 Donruss: This card is one of my favorites. I love the Diamond Kings from this era and this one hits all the marks. I love the Dave Stewart smile/a...
The Diamond King

I'm not a blogger - That's a strange title for a post on a blog, I guess. I'm blogging right now! It's more accurate to say that I'm not a good blogger. That much should b...
Padrographs; Abner to Zimmer

Hey It's Me - I am still here and reading your blogs and plotting how to get cards to y'all after Christmas. I finished the 1969 Topps Football set and am currently ...
Dinosaur Dracula!

Dino Drac’s December Funpack is here! - Dino Drac’s December Funpack is here! Actually, most of them have already been shipped, and some have already arrived! (With the holiday insanity at the US...
Cards on Cards

Break Goodies and a Contest Reminder - *Our almost quarterly review of Affordable Group Breaks cards. * *Before we get into it, here's the big reminder:* the 15th (!) annual Cards on Cards co...
Royal Card Review

About That Time Again - The other day my sister asked me if I was going to sign up on Bluesky. The talk on Elon's Money Pit (aka X, aka Twitter, aka the birdy app) was this ne...
Starting Nine.

Dave, Dick, and Dump Trucks of Money. - Word came in baseball this week of two things I am very happy about, to the point that I am posting about it. Firstly, that Dave Parker and Di...
Shot Not Taken

My 2024 Pax Unplugged Haul - Every year I say Pax Unplugged is my favorite convention and this year is no different. In fact, this year’s Pax Unplugged ranks among the best for me. I g...
Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Collector

Sometimes I still feel like a rookie collector - I haven't made much progress lately on my wantlist as it relates to my Reds team sets. I'm still sitting at needing two more 1951 Bowman cards and one mo...
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...
Waiting 'til Next Year...

A Pair of Cubs from the Far East - It's not very often these days I feel the motivation to check in on the blogosphere, and even more rare that I feel the itch to scratch out a post. Ther...
John's Big League Baseball Blog

11 Days of Freehan-Day 11 - *11 Days of Freehan * *Day 11* * Happy Birthday! * * William Ashley Freehan* * 1941-2021* ...
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...
A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts

Thankful - I don't know if it's still the same with today's kids or not, but when I was growing up we were still taught that this was the time of year to reflect on...
I need new hobbies.

Time for one of these… - Most of the people who constituted my core readership when I gave people something to read probably know this already, but I am still alive, as of this m...
Random Thoughts From A Random Guy

Christmas is coming, thankfully - I love Christmas. I always have but this year, I'm really looking forward to it. Not because of the gifts, not because I'll get to see the majority of my...
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...
Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

Bleh - Your team sucking can make you collect less, which can make you blog less about baseball cards if that is your thing. I haven't been posting on here m...
The Euclid Boo Blog

Red Barn Trick/Treat Bag - Remember Red Barn Restaurants? They were a fast food joint that served burgers, chicken, and fish. Red Barn Restaurants opened in 1961 and went out of bu...
Kirk's Knook

When To Blog Or Post - From time to time on social media and in various internet forums, and those rare occasions in real life, I sometimes find myself saying (typing, writin...
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 ...
Adventures of a Baseball Card Collector

Two huge Quisenberry acquisitions: 1975 and 1976 TCMA Waterloo Royals - I guess I'm not a very good Dan Quisenberry super-collector. I decided to start chasing all his cards almost three years ago, and I just have 45 of his 25...
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...
Infield Fly Rule

Home Run Parade - It’s September. The evenings are getting cooler. The leaves are showing their first signs of changing. The Halloween candy is stockpiled. And the Rockie...
Sylvia Plath Info

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath - The publishing history of Sylvia Plath's books has been one of time (duration) and improvement. It is an endlessly fascinating subject, how Sylvia Plath ha...
Thoughts and Sox

The Little Differences - I wonder how many times I passed by a variation of card that I needed because they were so close to each other. Recently I found not one but two variat...
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 ...
Cardboard Collections

2024 Topps Now #114 - Max Fried - *04/23/24 / Tosses 3rd 'Maddux' of Big-League Career* Southpaw Max Fried put the Atlanta Braves on his back, going the distance to silence the Miami Marl...
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...
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 ...
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...
Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary

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

2018 Rockies Want List - Completed Team Sets - 267/891 = 30.0% COMPLETE red = pending arrival *2018 Bowman - COMPLETE* *2018 Bowman Sky Blue - COMPLETE* 2018 Bowman Purple ...
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...
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...
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?
Hockey Kazi

Buchberger vs Sanipass 1-16- 89 - Hello everyone. I'm back with another fight photo from my collection. This one from Jan 16, 1989 when the Edmonton Oilers and Chicago Blackhawks tied 2-2. ...
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. ...
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...
Royals and Randoms

Jason Giambi - Jason Giambi He's really cleaned himself up since his days with the A's.
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...
Detroit Tigers Cards and Stuff

1980 Topps Football - I was perusing Twitter today and saw a discussion about favorite football sets. I was going to respond & post why, until so many reasons came to mind th...
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...
Off Hiatus Baseball Cards

Meet the Brewers #44: Wayne Twitchell - As is usual in September for teams going nowhere, the 1970 Brewers called up a few guys from the minors to give them an opportunity to be around the big cl...
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...
I Feel Like A Collector Again

HOBBY FAMILY – HELP OUT MILITARY MISSIONS IN ACTION - Yes, I'm still alive and kicking. It's been a busy start to 2019 and I don't see the rest of the year being any different. I've written three posts on Be...
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.
Not Pulled From Packs

Autographs after 3/7/19 Arizona Coyotes Game - My family and I made our annual trip to Arizona at the beginning of March, and as usual, we had to go to a few games. Of course, March in Arizona means Spr...
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...
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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 ...
bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog

New Year Pack Break: 2018 Topps Fire - I had this pack with me the last couple of days, but never got around to opening it. But it's Monday, a bit late in the afternoon, and I forgot to pack a l...
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.
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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...
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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...
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A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas!

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