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WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

REVISITING A "MISSING" 1976 CARD: WAYNE SIMPSON - On the blog today, we revisit my "missing" 1976 card for pitcher Wayne Simpson, which was originally created for my buddy Jim for his "1976 Project". The...
CrazieJoe's Card Corner

A Sad Reminder - With the couple MVP hockey card packs today, a sad reminder of the tragic events from this past August. Johnny and his brother passing away, victims of...
Nachos Grande

Board Game Friday: The WORST 20 Games for 2024! - Happy Friday, everyone. This week has been a rough week for yours truly, among other issues is the fact that I've been sick all week (including missing tw...
Nothing If Not Random

2023-2024 Panini Revolution Basketball Winter Tin - 23-24 Revolution: These tins have been on the shelves for some time, but I didn't bite until now. We'll kick it off with Steph Curry. He and the Warrior...
My Sports Obsession

Happy Birthday - Nick Eubanks - Nick was born on this day in 1996, making him 28 today. NFL Debut - n/a Years Active - n/a Cards on TCDB - 74 cards (2024), 70 cards (2023), 69 cards...
cards as i see them

still scratching that 17 year itch - it wasn't too long after i had completed the 2007 topps chrome dodger team set that i decided to go after the blue refractor parallels. the base chrome car...
Night Owl Cards

A lot dumber than I thought - First off, thanks to those who showed me the way on TCDB for the 1977-79 Sportscaster cards. I received responses via the comments, email and on social ...
Johnny's Trading Spot

Isn't Ormond beautiful? - *At least the cards I bring back from over there? Here are some more PC gets, and while I am at it might as well update on my PC progress. Been out of p...
The Chronicles of Fuji

Flea Market Finds #166: Cards, Cards, & Chicken - I was able to take two quick trips to local flea markets the week before and the week after my trip to Hawaii. Neither produced any super deals, but I did...
Shot Not Taken

Random Pack Break: One Piece Card Game Two Legends - Honestly I don’t know too much about the One Piece card game. I watched the anime way back in high school but I know the game is super popular right now. A...
Number 5 Type Collection

Top 5 Deep Cut Cards for Immaculate Grid - The Immaculate Grid encourages you to remember all kinds of team-specific trivia otherwise lost to the sands of time. When you're steeped in card history...
Baseball Card Breakdown

Vintage Frankenset Page 5 - Back in 2020, I got the idea for a frankenset to give purpose to many of the random old cards that didn't really have a solid "home" in my collection. Pl...
Sportscards From The Dollar Store

Everything Football (Almost) - Expo Post #6 - The run of Expo posts draws to a close as I kinda, sorta wrap things up with football content. I love cards with a weather element to the photo. For foot...
John's Big League Baseball Blog

Tarik Skubal- 2024 Cy Young Award Winner - *UNANIMOUS! * Tarik Skubal received all 30 first place votes in the 2024 Cy Young Award balloting the *Baseball Writers Association of America. * *T...
Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Wallet Card at Hoboken Furniture - Not the oldest sign ever, but I like this quirky sign for the long-defunct Hoboken Furniture. After WWII this location was a diner called City Queen. The...
The Shlabotnik Report

Let’s Pretend I Went To A Sportscard Show This Past Weekend - I’ve been trying to post something here at least once a week, but this week I’m having trouble getting my thoughts squared away on a couple of posts I’ve b...
Japanese Baseball Cards

1934 All American Tour 90th Anniversary - Shizuoka - 2023 BBM Fusion #86 On November 20th, 1934 - 90 years ago today - the All American tour reached Kusanagi Baseball Stadium in Shizuoka. The ballpark was ju...
My Cardboard Mistress

Shoebox Card #76 - Da-boom-da-da-mmm-dum-na-ee-ma
Stuff Nobody Cares About

Book Review – “Brothers” Alex Van Halen - The Quiet Van Halen Speaks Of Family, Music, Life, Love And Loss The band Van Halen share their name with its two founding members. So when speaking of V...
Diamond Jesters

Repack Haiku #386 (Dan Walters) - *Officer Walters* *Died from injuries received* *During a shootout* 1993 Topps #273 Dan Walters (RC) Walters joined the San Diego Police Department after...
The Angels, In Order

Junk Mall Junk Wax Wednesday - The junk mall hasn't had anything different in a while, so I just grabbed another pack of 1989 Pro Set, which by the way, will probably be the last pack ...
Dinosaur Dracula!

Dino Drac’s November Funpack is here! - Dino Drac’s November Funpack is here, and actually, if you’re a subscriber, you might already have it! All subscriber boxes have been shipped, because this...
Base Set Calling

Expressions - Baseball action photography fascinates me. I have always enjoyed this 'stop-motion' aspect for a game normally watched in live action. I could totally g...
Droidtrader's Sports Memorabilia

Art Lopez Return - It looks like I forgot to post this return. Art Lopez signed his 1965 Topps for me. Apparently, this is a pretty tough signature to get, but his record...
Cards Over Coffee

What Am I Doing?! - What am I doing?!Well, I am drinking midafternoon coffee while blogging on here. But shouldn't this be the last post with all of the recent ones and the co...
Tenets of Wilson

Super Bowl LIX Projection, Week 11, Sunday - Detroit over Buffalo I wasn't looking ahead very much last week and didn't realize Buffalo and Kansas City were playing this week. Those two have been jock...
Topps cards that never were

Surgery update, Caminiero cards, and completed sets - It has been a stressful but nice time since I have posted last. Karen went in for one kind of surgery on Tuesday, but came out with a different one, and w...
Nine Pockets

A Smorgasbord! Kraft Dinners (Hockey) - *From the 1970s through the 1990s, it seemed like you could find your favorite baseball stars on food product packaging everywhere you looked: supermarkets...
Weird Fantastic Toy Adventures

Thoughts on the Road - Some thoughts about my collection and collecting habits while driving via IFTTT © 2021 Weird Fantastic Toy Adventures. All Rights Reserved. Except whe...
Cards on Cards

Good Luck Ducks, Week 12: More Like... - *Oregon faces their final road test of the season in their penultimate conference game. * I probably say this every year at this time, but man, this col...
The Topps Archives

Doors Of Imperception - Topps was chugging along with all sorts of esoteric non-sports issues as the odometer rolled over from 1969 to 1970. This was about year four of an inter...
The Collective Mind

2024 A&G Box 3 of 3 - Measure Twice, Cut Once - Now for the third and final installment of my A&G breaks. Hoping for at least a hit of someone I actually really like... Box topper is an N43 this time....
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...
The View from the Third Floor

Scoring from My Dealer - Was in the area of Walhalla, so I stopped in for some cold brew coffee. Grabbed a "pack" of Score-A-Treat football cards while there. - A lot o...
2 MINUTE TOY BREAK!

Happy Veterans Day -
Cardboard History

Major, Major Milestone - I knew it was coming but I didn't know when it would be. It was a long journey to get to this point, starting all the way back in February 1996. I knew ...
Too Many Verlanders

Free for the taking: well-loved vintage! - I'll be back soonish with more trade posts, but for now I'm in a fall cleaning mode getting ready to dump a lot of unwanted stuff on Facebook Marketplace...
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 Diamond King

Serial Stack 2 - the Winner! - **First things first... I recently had a generous fellow blogger contact me to ask if I had received a PWE he had sent me. Unfortunately, I did not, the c...
Dime Boxes -- The Low-End Baseball Card Collector's Journey

Top 15 from COMC - In news that should surprise no one, I received another COMC order last week. This haul was a bit smaller than my usual massive (but still north of 100 ...
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...
A Pack To Be Named Later

2023-24 Panini Haunted Hoops - Greetings! Hope everyone enjoyed Halloween 2024. Back in 2022, Halloween-themed Pokemon cards were released, which caused a mini-frenzy amongst collector...
Not Another Baseball Card Blog

Some New Cards - Hello Friends! I know I've been slow to get back into this. I'm working on getting my hobby room set up more so I can get back into the hobby part again...
In My Own Words

Election Fatigue - Greetings Today I want to go over a feeling that's hit me recently, other than the wanting to no longer be on the planet anymore (again) That feeling...
Cardboard Junkie

2023 COMC BINGE - PART 20 FORRY 5000 - IT'S SPOOKY SEASON! A GOOD TIME TO POST A CARD OF A SKEERY MONSTAR. I DIDN'T MEAN TO TAKE A TWO MONTH HIATUS SO I COULD POST A MONSTER ON HALLOWEEN BUT S...
A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts

The horror of it all - Like most years since starting this blog, I had planned on doing on something special here for Halloween. But, as is so often the case these days, lack o...
Cardboard Catastrophes

Alternate Collection Update - For any of you who were around for the golden age of baseball card blogging (peace be unto you) you may remember San Jose Fuji asking a question: My re...
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...
Royals and Randoms

Remember Puig-mania? - These would have fetched a pretty penny back then...circa 2013/2014 when it was all Puig all the time in "the industry". These are some more cards f...
Hockey Kazi

Puck Junk - A little late posting this about a package I received from Sal at Puck Junk. Sal launched his blog on Oct 5, 2007 and I somehow found his site on Oct 8,...
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...
Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Collector

I Normally Don't Collect Heritage... - But I had to make an exception. When I first saw this card a few weeks ago I immediately knew that I needed to pick one up. This is the 2022 Topps Joey Vo...
My Cardboard Life

He played there? Baseball Edition: Part 2 - It seems the first "He played there?" that was posted was a success (views wise), so here is installment #2. When thinking about who I should start this...
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...
Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle

Allen & Ginter: Arms of All Nations - I picked up another random 1800s Ginter card to add to my small PC of O.G Ginter Goodness. The Twitter group I belong to which focuses on non-sports and sp...
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...
Royal Card Review

Odds And Ends, and Emails - Did you know emails are still a thing? I don't mean getting junk mail, or even work emails. I mean actually writing an email and waiting for a reply? ...
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...
Sport Card Collectors

Goodbye Old Friends - Thank you readers for the last 12 years!!
Starting Nine.

RIP Ed Kranepool 1944-2024 - I am so saddened by the passing of the Original Original Met that I felt compelled to post here for the first time in far too long. I never got to s...
The Dutch Card Guy

Throwing in the towel, everything is for sale ! - Hi all, small update from my side as it has been a while since I last posted. I have made the hard decision to "throw in the towel" and stop collecting. ...
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 ...
Padrographs; Abner to Zimmer

Hello Again, I got a bobble card today. - I am still reading blogs and collecting. I started a set build, 1969 Topps football. I had two cards from the set, Brian Picollo and Gale Sayers, so ...
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...
John's Baseball Blog

These are the saddest of possible words: Romero to Kittredge to Helsley - On April 24 the Cardinals led the Diamond Backs 3-1 after six good innings from starter Kyle Gibson. After that, JoJo Romero threw a scoreless seventh, An...
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...
Waiting 'til Next Year...

But, that's my guy! - 2024 Topps Flagship is starting to find its way to the interwebs and I finally found a picture of this collector's most coveted card from Series 1. Be...
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…
Fan-Attic Sports Cards Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2022 Rockies Want List - Completed Team Sets - 216/1372 = 15.7% COMPLETE red = pending arrival *2022 Bowman - COMPLETE* 2022 Bowman Sky Blue 23, 100 2022 Bowman Neon Gree...
The Sexy Armpit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Placeholder for Not Blogging Enough: Various Top 10 Wantlists - UPDATED: September 2024 *Top 10 Phillies Modern Cards (non-serial numbered)* 1. 2012 Allen & Ginter Framed Relics Mike Schmidt 2. 2008 Documentary Upd...
Talking Heads: The Topps 1958 Baseball Set

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas!

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