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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

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Deep Thinkers

Nachos Grande

TCDB Weekly Recap: So Many Packages! - Another week has flown by, and with it, the mailman visited multiple times with baseball card packages from TCDB trades! I've got quite a few cards to sho...
CrazieJoe's Card Corner

Rudy1078 Wrestling Additions Plus - Whatcha gonna do when you get wrestling cards in a trade? Share with all of you of course! Yes, a couple non-wrestling cards that cover Toronto needs, b...
Cardboard History

Hitting 1000 - Earlier this week I received yet another trade package from the Trading Card Database. It was the 55th trade I've received in 2026 and I hit the 1000 n...
My Sports Obsession

Happy Birthday - De'Veon Smith - DeVeon was born on this day in 1994, making him 32 today. NFL Debut - December 3rd, 2017 (Dolphins) Years Active - - 2017 (Dolphins) Cards on TCD...
Japanese Baseball Cards

Card Of The Week November 8 - The 2026 Korean Series wrapped up today in Daegu with the Samsung Lions being crowned KBO Champions. The Lions, who finished in second place during the ...
Night Owl Cards

The old neighborhood isn't the same - This time of year is always a cold realization for this baseball fan. Especially on the weekend, I'm at a loss. There are no baseball games to watch. C...
Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Cake or gum? 1977 Tom Grieve - Last time was a 6-2 win for gum. Will this be closer? Lots of activity behind the Oakland batting cage on these cards. Is that a pitching machine in the ...
Droidtrader's Sports Memorabilia

Josh Winder 2025 TTM Return - I was pleasantly surprised to see a sase in my Informed Delivery email yesterday morning that had a stamp in it which I haven't used for quite a while. ...
2 MINUTE TOY BREAK!

TMNT X GIJOE - A.W.E. Shell -Striker ( In Box) - Looking forward to unboxing this! Stay tuned for loose pics! ????
Nothing If Not Random

Random Wax: 2026 Donruss NASCAR Blaster with Autograph - 2026 Donruss: Last race of the season is today, and NASCAR will crown the 2026 Champion. Ryan Blaney is the 2023 NASCAR Champion. Loudon the Lobster is ...
WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

"CLASSIC BASEBALL" CUSTOM WTHBALLS SET: PHIL RIZZUTO - Up on the blog today, we're going to add "The Scooter", Phil Rizzuto to my long-running WTHBALLS "Classic Baseball set, celebrating the great game's rich h...
The Shlabotnik Report

Fifteenth Anniversary: My 15 Oldest Cards Numbered 15 - Today is this blog’s 15th anniversary, and even while I’ve been uninspired and let things slide too long, I still felt like I should observe this anniversa...
Nine Pockets

A Smorgasbord! 1990 Wonder Stars - *From the 1970s through the 1990s, it seemed like you could find your favorite baseball stars on food product packaging everywhere you looked: supermarkets...
cards as i see them

damages paid - you might remember that back in march, i opened some 2026 topps heritage, and was subjected to the fairly common quality issues with that release. one card...
Padrographs; Abner to Zimmer

A day early, nothing new - Nothing new this week. I am posting a day early because I have to take my computer in to have some work done and don't know when I will get it back. ...
Cards on Cards

Good Luck Ducks, Week 10: That One Team - *A big game under adjusted expectations.* Today's game against Ohio State has been marked on the calendar for a long time. The teams were ranked #1 and #...
Sportscards From The Dollar Store

Isn't it Ironic, Don't you Think? - Thank you, Anthony Smith, for your advice of "don't kill other people". About that...
Sport Card Collectors

Random Cardboard:2025-2026 Metal Universe Outer Limits Logan Stankoven -
The Topps Archives

The Ring's The Thing (Unless It's Not) - Not too long ago I took a look at Bowman's attempt to launch a baseball themed comic in the early days of 1948. As we've seen, *Roger The Rookie Dodger* ...
Johnny's Trading Spot

Incoming - *Closing out the week with a few incoming Braves.* *First up was a surprise from Mr. Keppel. Matt sent 6 Braves cards and hit with these two, thanks M...
Shot Not Taken

MTG Reality Fracture Packs - I was looking at the Magic the Gathering Reality Fracture spoilers and the set looked really fun to draft and to brew with. I especially wanted to play aro...
Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle

Gentlemen, We Can Rebuild Him. - I few weeks back I posted about an *Archer* addition that was outside of what I have usually collected over the last decade plus of my time in the hobby....
Diamond Jesters

The Last Red Sox Gold Glove Winner By Position - The 2026 Gold Glove Award winners were recently announced, and surprisingly, three members of the Boston Red Sox won! Boston has never been known as a defe...
The Euclid Boo Blog

St. Martin’s Day: A Forgotten November Holiday Known as Old Halloween - Old Halloween? The Forgotten November 11 Celebration of St. Martin’s Day Did you know Halloween wasn’t the only autumn celebration involving bonfires, la...
bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog

Adventures in Trading: Diving Headfirst into the 2026 Topps Insert Card Pool - I've been slowly, but surely, opening the packs and retail blasters that I bought a few weeks ago now, building the 2026 Topps Update Series set and inse...
Stuff Nobody Cares About

1970 – AT&T Introduces A Phone With Video – Picturephone - AT&T and The Bell Company Develop Modern Video Phone Calling WIth Picturephone For nearly 20 years, hundreds of millions of people have been using Faceti...
John's Big League Baseball Blog

Boydsmas 2026 - I know, it's barely November. My wife bought me a box of 2026 Topps Holliday Baseball. This card was in there. *Merry Boydsmas 2026! *
Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Collector

Getting a card I've been wanting for the past 35 years - Yesterday I was finally able to land a card I've been wanting for a long time. When I first saw this card in the late 1980s I knew I wanted to add this t...
The View from the Third Floor

They Fell off the Truck - The grift is working. In this latest edition, I scored some free cards off Matty K. - I used to own an old school Broncos helmet. Morton finis...
Not Another Baseball Card Blog

TTM and Card Show - Hello Friends! I have a couple things to talk about/show today.. First is a TTM return that I got back today. I sent it out in March. Denis Boucher! I...
The Collective Mind

Capturing The Flag(ship) Via Trade - Chapter 1 - I do most of my trading on the TCDB. I have several sets that are in progress that I don't list on this website because they're easier to trade for than...
Cards Over Coffee

5 Things I Did In The Hobby Last Week - *coffee is ready and so am I for another new post on Cards Over Coffee**waiting for you to get coffee in hand**takes sip, gets ready to post*Welcome to th...
Detroit Tigers Cards and Stuff

October 1987 - October of 1987 was a dick punch of a month. The Tigers pulled off one of the greatest late season comebacks of all-time and then promptly fell on t...
Dawg Day Cards

Today's local card show purchases - I went to my local monthly card show this morning before suffering through watching the Browns game on tv this afternoon. The Browns just didn't seem to ...
Too Many Verlanders

2026 other stuff purchase: Shuck yeah! - It's November and the World Series has come and gone--congratulations to the Brewers!--but as we enjoy the brief fall weather before the usual descent int...
AREA 40

Slow Halloween traffic and some Wrestling fun - A little bummed out I only had 1 trick or treaters last night. Guess most folks take their kids to trunk or treats nowadays. Earlier in the day I did ha...
Cardboard Catastrophes

Shows and Reminiscence - Last weekend, my wife was off to Minneapolis for her annual weekend with her freshman year college friends. I have never been good about maintaining fr...
Baseball Card Breakdown

Haunted Round Up - Time to catch up with some recent non-purchased additions to my collection. (Still sorting a nice haul from Rod last weekend which will get its own post ...
In My Own Words

Thoughts of a Lonely Person - Greetings Today I want to scream into the void about something that I've been feeling lately.. As anyone who knows me or follows my blogs knows, I su...
The Chronicles of Fuji

Flea Market Finds #193: Older Periodicals, Cards, and a Stack of 45's - There were a pair of card shows in San Jose on Saturday, October 17th. One was about 20 to 30 minutes away. The other was less than 3 miles from my doo...
A Pack To Be Named Later

2026 Topps Now Card 810 - Yount Checklist - What the what?? Robin Yount get's his first Topps Now card!!! I'm glad I just happen to pop over to Topps.com and notice this was up. I think I had le...
My Cardboard Life

He played there? Football Edition: Part 1 - This "Cards for Blog" box that is sitting next to my computer has been taunting me lately. I know, I know, I need to write stuff for everyone to read while...
Topps cards that never were

Good luck, Rays!!! - On the eve of the 2026 World Series, I figured I would post about the Rays. They are making their 3rd Fall Classic, losing in 2008 against the Phillies an...
Dinosaur Dracula!

Dino Drac’s Halloween Funpack is here! - Dino Drac’s HALLOWEEN 2026 Funpack is here! The last of this season’s three all-spooky Funpacks has the biggest surprises, starting with this one: All subs...
Base Set Calling

Limited Edition - I've been looking forward to this day; though it isn't a "Release Day." It was just the first day I could get down to the Big Box, -after- the known Rele...
Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

The Agony of Defeat - I like cards that exhibit a specific emotion in the photo. This is card 54 from the 1977 Calbee set. Its the best "agony of defeat" card photo I've y...
Weird Fantastic Toy Adventures

The Battle for Eternia | Evil Lyn and the Beastmen | Weird Fantastic Vinyl - Evil-Lyn and Beast Man are ready to shake Eternia to its foundations, but not everyone fighting for evil is on the same side. In the world of Skeletor, b...
Cardboard Junkie

2026 MLB PLAYOFF PREFERENCES - WHEEEE PLAYOFF TIME AGAIN. A NICE DISTRACTION FROM ALL THE SOCIETAL COLLAPSE. GET THAT MUTE BUTTON WARMED UP FOR THE POLITICAL COMMERCIALS! WE GOT A FUN...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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!
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...
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...
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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