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The Mountaineer Mine

The Mountaineer Mine (An Intro) 9/14/17
The Mountaineer Mine #1 - Kevin Pittsnogle
The Mountaineer Mine #2 - Major Harris
The Mountaineer Mine #2.2 - Major Harris
The Mountaineer Mine #3 - Owen Schmitt
The Mountaineer Mine #3.2 - Owen Schmitt

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My Blog List

  • Too Many Verlanders
    2025 trade package #4: Chronicles of Fuji - It's the last day of March so of course I'm still covering trade envelopes I received back in January, but that's what happens when you slack on posting...
  • Night Owl Cards
    The underlying reason - From the beginning, I was not impressed. Trying to collect three sets was a lot. This was the new world in 1981, after collecting nothing but Topps fo...
  • Johnny's Trading Spot
    Cards from Clearwater - *As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I did manage to drag myself south to the Clearwater show. I'd say this go around was 50/50 Pokemon/Sports. I made...
  • The Chronicles of Fuji
    Not Your Ordinary Boring Monday - Mondays usually suck. Today was a huge exception. First up... no work in honor of Cesar Chavez. If that weren't amazing enough... I became the proud o...
  • Go GTS
    BCW SafeSort Card Sorting Tray - BCW SafeSort Card Sorting Tray is the ultimate tool for collectors looking for a stable, durable, and efficient way to organize their cards. The post BCW...
  • Droidtrader's Sports Memorabilia
    Finally, a Big Day at the Mailbox - Since I have so many requests outstanding, I had anticipated a big day with lots of returns instead of the 1-2 per day I have been receiving. I guess to...
  • The Official Panini America Blog
    One Big Bang: 2024-25 Panini Origins NBA is Full of Stars - Written by: Kara Gates Get ready to step into a universe where basketball meets the cosmos, where every card is a star, and every pack holds the potential ...
  • All Cardinals All the Time
    First Sportlots Order of 2025 - While I have not been trading much lately, I have found time to fill in some holes in my collection another way. I wish it was going to card shows, but ...
  • Sports Card Info
    2024 Topps Finest MLS Soccer – MLS Debut Patch Auto Checklist - 2024 Topps Finest MLS Soccer brings along a new round of MLS Debut Patch Autographs. These cards include the “MLS Debut” patch that each player wore on the...
  • Beckett News
    Graded: 2002 Pokémon Legendary Collection Reverse Foil #18 Venusaur Holo R - One of the cool things about trading cards is that it is never too late to get them graded and slabbed, and the older the better, in most cases. 2002 Pok...
  • Sports Card Radio
    Beyond the Bleachers: How Sports and Trading Cards Define Fandom Today - **The Old Days – 1950s-1970s*As you sit in front of a wide-screen TV, re-watching last night’s football game while checking tennis results on your phone, d...
  • Baseball Cards Come to Life!
    1974 Topps Deckle Dating - Jon Matlack - Mets pitcher Jon Matlack at spring training. April 2, 1973 in St. Petersburg. The back image comes from Kevin Savage Auctions. This went for only $14, b...
  • The Phillies Room
    Colorado Rockies at Philadelphia Phillies - 2025 Home Opener - 2005 Topps Retired Signature Autographs #TA-CDH 2005 Topps Retired Signature Autographs #TA-BD * Monday, March 31st - 3:05 Wednesday, April 2nd - 6:45...
  • Mint Condition
    An Even Start - The way the schedule works now, with every team playing each other and less weight put on divisional matchups, there's far less that feels deliberate ...
  • Sports Memorabilia News
    eBay Offering Direct to Grading Option for Raw Card Purchases - Buy an ungraded card on eBay at a certain price level and you can now pay to have the seller ship it directly to PSA for authentication and grading.
  • 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...
  • Blowout Buzz
    Buzz Break: 2025 Topps Series 1 baseball cards (hanger) - *From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and post the results here. Like this and want to see more? Or maybe there's a box you'd want to se...
  • Diamond Jesters
    Ranking 50 Years Worth Of Topps #330 Cards #51 - #41 - In honor of my 50th birthday, I'm ranking all 51 Topps base cards numbered #330 since 1975. Why #330? Because my birthday was on 03/30. Why 51 cards when I...
  • Daily Autograph
    Brycen Mautz - I met him at a Minor League game at BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater, Florida in 2023, when the Palm Beach Cardinals came to play the Clearwater Threshers...
  • soxnerd
    MARCH 31ST @SOXNERD WHITE SOX QUICK LIST: SOX LEADOFF DHs - Most games by White Sox DHs batting first (Nick Maton did this on Sunday and homered to start the game): Games—-Player 89—Pat Kelly 37—Tim Raines 28—Bob Mo...
  • Sportscards From The Dollar Store
    Unfortunate Hairlines - While a photo from the post-game 3-Star announcements is interesting due to its rareness, I'm sure the player in question isn't too crazy about looking ...
  • The Writer's Journey
    Fun Cards: 2025 TWJ Dylan Crews - Dylan Crews was the second overall pick of the 2023 draft. The Nats called him up at the end of August last season but he is still considered a rookie this...
  • CrazieJoe's Card Corner
    Just One Card - I don't usually do trades for a single card, but if it's an auto or memorabilia card, I will almost always make an exception. I traded a couple 1972 O P...
  • Nachos Grande
    It's Another (TCDB) Monday! - Loyal blog readers may have noticed a declined output from yours truly over the last week or so. Unfortunately, I expect that trend to continue for most o...
  • LV's TTM autographs and Baseball Cards
    March TTMs - Jared Oliva Signed 1/1 Sent c/o Brewers ST 17 days Jack Armstrong Signed 2/2 Sent c/o Home address 11 days He did include a note requestin...
  • The Greatest 21 Days
    Tom Nevers made 1st round, saw 13 seasons, AAA, coached - [image: https://www.tcdb.com/Person.cfm/pid/17534/Tom-Nevers] The Louisville Courier-Journal checked in on Louisville RiverBats veteran top picks in June 2...
  • foul bunt
    TTM Success - Mike Dimmel - Another 1991 Crown Orioles card was added to the album when this Mike Dimmel signed card came in TTM. Dimmel (b. 1954) played in the majors from 1977 to 1...
  • Japanese Baseball Cards
    Card Of The Week March 30 - NPB's Opening Day was Friday and Hiroya Miyagi of the Buffaloes came within six outs of making history. He took a bid for a perfect game into the eighth i...
  • Baseball Card Breakdown
    new cardart: Silhouette Cards - I haven't really shared any new art projects of mine so far this year, but I've been tinkering on a project for the past few months. All the Christmas tr...
  • The Fleer Sticker Project
    Opening a Unopened 1973 Fleer Baseball Decals Box! - Friend of the Fleer Sticker Project Ray recently purchased an unopened box of Fleer Baseball Decals, likely produced in 1973 or perhaps 1972. Ray was ki...
  • baseball card vandals
    You win some, you lose some. - You win some, you lose some. Own this BCV Original.
  • WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!
    REVISITING A POST FROM 10 YEARS AGO: 1974 "THEN AND NOW" MILT PAPPAS - From exactly 10 years ago, we revisit my 1974 "Then and Now" card for pitcher Milt Pappas, who had himself a very nice Major League career before he hung...
  • Sport Card Collectors
    Rodney's Cardboard:2024 Finest Autograph - 2024 Topps Finest football hasn't been on the market long, but one day when checking in on my Rodney Hampton eBay searches, I saw someone had listed a pla...
  • My Sports Obsession
    Happy Birthday - Will Johnson - Will was born on this day in 2003, making him 22 today. NFL Debut - N/A Years Active - N/A Cards on TCDB - 470 cards (2025) Cards I have - 3 cards (...
  • Padrographs; Abner to Zimmer
    Ripping boxes - I recently opened some boxes. A hobby box and a blaster of Series 1, two blasters of high number heritage and a mega box of Celebration of series one. ...
  • 1960s Baseball
    RIP - Bob Veale - Long-time Pirates' starting pitcher Bob Veale passed away on January 5, 2025 at age 89. *(best glasses this side of Arn...
  • thefirstfiftyracesarethehardest
    Thermal was a ‘Fine’ Race After All - Following last Sunday’s IndyCar race at the Thermal Club, IndyCar issued penalties and fines to two teams. Colton Herta’s number 26 entry failed post race ...
  • The Topps Archives
    A Dicey Situation - There is some seriously interesting Topps test material popping up in uncut form of late. The latest entry in the clean-out-your-checking-account sweeps...
  • Puck Junk
    A Look at the Culture of a Boston University Hockey Game - It is well known that college football is almost like a religion in the southern United States and in Texas. In the Midwest and the Carolinas, college ba...
  • Cardboard Catastrophes
    Close Enough, Part 2 - For the few of you that have been long-term readers of my modest little blog, you may be wondering when I did "Close Enough, Part 1." I didn't, at least...
  • cards as i see them
    almost free stuff friday is back! - it's friday! just as it has been every seven days for millennia. today, however, i am bringing back "almost free stuff friday". i am going to post a bunch ...
  • Torren' Up Cards
    I Tend to Overthink, I Tried Fixing it by Just Doing Stuff and Seeing What Happened - One of the funnest but also hardest parts of playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! (YGO) Official/Trading Card Game for me is deck building, the part where you put toge...
  • Card Buzz
    Blog bat around - junk wax favorites - *1990 Upper Deck* - I don't know if I thought Upper Deck was anymore special than the other sets of the day, but it had nicer production quality than Topp...
  • COMC Blog
    The 2025 COMC Frozen Frenzy Hockey Auction Event is Here! - COMC is thrilled to celebrate the return of the NHL’s Stanley Cup Playoffs with our 2025 COMC Frozen Frenzy Hockey Auction Event! This hockey-exclusive eve...
  • The Shlabotnik Report
    Dead Parrot Frankenset: Enter The Coyotes - This is the latest in a sporadic series on an ongoing project, a “Dead Parrot” Frankenset which features cards of NHL and WHA teams which are no more, whic...
  • The Yount Collector
    2024 Leaf Vivid Baseball Yount Checklist - Robin has a few cards to chase in this Leaf . I'm going to do my best to try and figure out the released checklist. 2024 Leaf Vivid - Pop Art #PA-RY...
  • Not Another Baseball Card Blog
    Fleer's Lookin' at You Kid - Hello Friends! I apologize for not writing that much so far this year. I'm honestly at a loss for ideas. I do have my projects like the Ballpark bios an...
  • SABR Baseball Cards
    The Name on the Card. - Many people share names with popular athletes. This creates a special connection with certain players and their cards. A quick Facebook search brings up a ...
  • Upper Deck Blog
    Champions of Meridell-Teasers | Neopets Battledome TCG - We are excited to start sharing previews for the upcoming set Champions of Meridell, so we put together some hints (in a familiar style) while you wait. ...
  • A Pack To Be Named Later
    2024 Panini Prestige Value Pack - Greetings! Hope everyone is doing well. Yes, baseball season and March Madness is upon us, but I had taken pictures of this pack of football cards with th...
  • Oilpressure
    Random Thoughts on Thermal Club - Note from George: I thought I would share my thoughts on yesterday’s race and give a quick update on my wife Susan. She did not go home from the hospital ...
  • The Collective Mind
    Blog Bat Around: [Overproduction Preferences] - Time to jump into another Bat Around. This one was perpetuated by three of the all-time top bloggers. DimeBox Nick started it in 2023 with a post call...
  • Tan Man Baseball Fan
    Jose Canseco’s FIRST EVER Pack Pulled Autograph!? - Any jersey serial # card collectors out there? I don’t typically seek them out, but for this one, I made an exception – it is a MONSTER! For higher numbe...
  • ENOUGH ALREADY
    one hobby box of 2024-25 Upper Deck hockey series 1 with.....ahem..... 1... -
  • Section 36
    Ready For My Fantasy? - Fantasy Baseball team, I mean. Yup. It’s time for your least favorite post of the year. The one where I discuss the fantasy team I drafted for this seaso...
  • Cards on Cards
    Cards from Oren and a Final Contest Reminder! - *Don't forget to fill out your bracket! And let's check out some terrific cards from Oren. * We're less than 24 hours away from the start of the big NC...
  • Starting Nine.
    Happy St. Paddy's Day. - While the Reds were the first team to wear the green on St. Patrick's Day in the 1970s, it was that 1990 Classic card with Mike Schmidt in the middl...
  • fivecardguys
    What Sports Cards Are Worth Money? - Collecting sports cards has been a popular hobby for a long time, but if we're honest, many of us at one point hoped to make some serious money off of spor...
  • Blog - WaxPackHero
    2025 Topps Hobby Rip Night Set Review and Checklist - The 2025 Topps Hobby Rip Night promotional set contains a mix of 15 rookies, stars, and Hall of Fame legends.
  • Clyde's Stale Cards
    2023-2025 San Francisco Giants Fan Fest photo cards - It has been a few years, but the Giants have produced a new series of black & white photo cards for their yearly Fan Fest events. This design show...
  • Vintage Hockey Cards Report
    Hockey History Snippets: 3 Tales From The NHL’s Past (Maurice Richard, Marcel Dionne, Grant Mulvey) - The following short stories from the NHL’s epic history are included in our book for Amazon Kindle: 169 Stories From The Epic History Of NHL Hockey . The...
  • Pre-War Card Magazine
    Featured Five: REA’s March Auction - Featured Five: REA's March Auction runs through March 23rd The post Featured Five: REA’s March Auction appeared first on Pre-War Cards.
  • Infield Fly Rule
    Bees? - Remember that Diamondbacks game where a swarm of bees decided that the backstop would be a great place to set up shop? And they had to bring in a local b...
  • The Angels, In Order
    Knocking Down The Stack, Again - Still scanning and posting the numerous trades and incoming mail from recent weeks. Return fire from *S.R.'75* I sent Stuart one or two Tim Salmon car...
  • Cards of Future Fenway Stars
    Cardboard Season: Pre-Spring, March 6, 2025 - It has been years since I've followed college football closely. But when I was younger, I could have told you every starting quarterback and leading r...
  • Cardboard History
    Unexpected mail days are the best mail days! - With the wrist injury I've been dealing with for 2+ years now I haven't been trading so mail days are pretty few and far between. I wasn't expecting any...
  • RED SOX FAN IN NEBRASKA
    Red Sox in Cooperstown Pt. 48: Billy Wagner - BILLY WAGNER Years in Boston: 2009 (1-1, 1.98 ERA, 13.2 innings pitched, 22 strikeouts, 7 walks) Best Year in Boston: 2009 (1-1, 1.98 ERA, 13.2 innings pit...
  • ikissedthebricks
    IndyCar is Back!!! - After a long off season we are finally back to racing. While there was movement among the teams the biggest story of the off season was the move from NBC t...
  • Hockey Ink In The Mail
    Months of Mail - January & February 2025 - A total of 7 new NHL player signatures added to start 2025. The grand total of unique NHL player signatures in my collection stands at 7,638 for 94% of e...
  • Number 5 Type Collection
    1949-50 World Wide Gum NHL Ice Stars Wrappers #5, Milton "Milt" Schmidt - My main goal remains to finish a collection of *baseball* #5s, but *Oh Boy*, some other sports prove too interesting to ignore! Many prewar collectors con...
  • Tim Wallach
    2024 Topps Archives Fan Favorites Auto #95FF-TW Superfractor #/1 - *Card Review: 8.7* This is it, the 2024 Topps Archives one of one "Superfractor." And,...I guess it's okay. I paid nearly three as as much as I ever h...
  • 1995 Skybox E-Motion
    Emotion Recap - Page 26 - Masters #4 Tony Gwynn Masters #5 Kenny Lofton Masters #6 Greg Maddux Masters #7 Raul Mondesi Masters #8 Cal Ripken Masters #9 Frank Thomas Masters #10 M...
  • John's Big League Baseball Blog
    First Tigers Baseball Card of 2025 - Hanger Box from Walmart here in Battle Creek. First Detroit Tigers Card from 2025 Topps is....Matt Vierling. Hope all is well, as always, Play BALL! 🐅⚾️
  • Run-Fore!-Kelloggs Baseball Cards
    There are Still Kellogg's Cards That I Haven't Seen - Here is Something - This showed up today. Kellogg's distributed this basketball set of five cards in Canada during the 1995-96 season. I have four of the cards in the...
  • Off Hiatus Baseball Cards
    Organizing and Reorganizing - Watching card content on social media and YouTube these days, I feel like a total Old Guy. So many folks got back into collecting during COVID--at the sa...
  • Curly W Cards
    Test post - Hmm it seems that this blog has been hijacked. I am writing a test post to see it that makes a difference. UPDATE: (Monday 10 Feb 2025) Hmm seems to be ...
  • Lifetime Topps project
    Lost in 2024 – RIP Willie Mays, 1931-2024 - My oldest (now 12-year old) son is in the thick of travel baseball. I’m one of 2 assistant coaches on his team, which is kind of funny because 12 is aroun...
  • Cardboard Collections
    Pack Break: 1992 Topps Gruesome Greeting Cards - If you're visiting this site then you are a fan of trading cards and know that Topps especially has released their fair share of non-sports sets. I can...
  • Royal Card Review
    Late Night Musical Postings - I'm losing my wit. When I started this blog my titles had a little more umph to them, now its just like... uhh, something. I have no idea what to titl...
  • Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Collector
    Congrats Ichiro! - I'm a little late for this post as the Hall of Fame results were announced a few days ago, but better late than never. While I knew that Ichiro was a loc...
  • 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...
  • MY HOCKEY CARD OBSESSION
    WALLET CARD - A Mello-Minty Smile - I've said it before and I'll say it again....my Oscar Gamble PC is the most fun project I've ever worked on in this hobby. Smile on my face - brimming wi...
  • Snagging Cardboard
    Eli Countdown to 1.5K: #1,131 - As we approach the 1,150 mile mark for Eli's, I thought I would start to post them again and keep you up-to-date on my chase to taking over TCDB's number o...
  • Cardboard Junkie
    2025 Topps -
  • Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle
    Updating a 10-Year-Old Post: My Roy Campanella Rookie Looks Different - Ten and a half years ago I posted about acquiring a grail Roy Campanella card: his 1949 Bowman Rookie. I was absolutely thrilled to land it and since I hav...
  • Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary
    2025 Wallet Card Junior Ortiz - Here's the new Wallet Card for me in 2025: Ortiz was a member of the Twins' 1991 World Series winning roster, in the role of a backup catcher, and the p...
  • CaptKirk42s Trading Cards Blog
    2024 Some Sales YAY! - This past year for my card sales over at Ebay I only sold one item an Adrien Peterson relic card. In attempts to get things to sell on Ebay a few time...
  • Baseball Happenings
    How Tom Qualters Went From Moneybags To Satchel Paige's Protegé - Tom Qualters, pictured here on his 1955 Topps card, passed away February 15, 2024. In 1953, the Philadelphia Phillies gave pitching phenom Tom Qualters a...
  • A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts
    I'm not ready to call it quits just yet... - ... but I am gonna be taking a break from blogging for a bit. Considering how infrequent my posts are these days, I probably could've not said anything, an...
  • 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...
  • Dave and Adam’s Sports Card Blog - News and Information on Sports Cards
    1/1 Caitlin Clark Ghostwrite WNBA Game Face Bounty - *** Bounty Update – December 30th, 2024 – The 1/1 Cailin Clark ghostwrite has been pulled! This is no longer an active bounty.*** In 2024, the WNBA broke...
  • 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...
  • Eamus Catuli!
    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...
  • 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 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 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 ...
  • Wrigley Wax
    Five Random Cubs Cards - I've got 21,904 Cubs cards from 317 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past severa...
  • The Real DFG
    Back Stories: Statistically Speaking - "Jaromir played in both the world junior and senior championships. He led Kladno in goals and points and was the first Czech player to attend an NHL draft...
  • Dub Mentality
    How Much Is That Sheffield In The Window? - When I was a kid, we got all of our toys from local stores. We had a Western Auto and Wal-Mart for “local” local. We had a Toys R Us about 30 miles up the ...
  • Dave's World
    Doug Mientkiewicz - Douglas Andrew Mientkiewicz (/mɪntˈkeɪvɪtʃ/ mint-KAY-vitch; born June 19, 1974) is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played…
  • Hell's Valuable Collectibles
    Viktor Stålberg Signed Puck - (team and product links go to sponsored *Amazon* products, player links go to related pages on my blog, news links go to source pages) Three years ago toda...
  • Sports Cards Uncensored
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  • The Hopeful Chase
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  • 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
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  • It's like having my own Card Shop
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  • Remember The Astrodome
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  • Junk Wax Gems
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  • 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...
  • Trader Crack's
    2023 zerocool Stranger Things 4 Checklist, Trading Cards Info - 2023 zerocool Stranger Things 4 checklist, trading cards details, box info, odds, autographs, inserts, buy and check values and more. The post 2023 zeroc...
  • 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...
  • Scott Crawford On Cards!
    John Hemmingson Gonzaga Center (JHGC) and Technology Infrastructure - The John Hemmingson Gonzaga Center (JHGC) serves as a cornerstone for Gonzaga University, offering a multitude of services, amenities, and spaces for both ...
  • $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...
  • Lingua Sports Cards
    Test 2 - ewcececcccecc
  • cardboardicons.com/
    Cardboardicons turns 15; a list of 10 tips for veteran collectors to stay positive with new hobbyists - This week I unceremoniously celebrated the 15th anniversary of this blog. It feels a bit disingenuous to celebrate such things since I’ve been relatively s...
  • 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
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  • Angry Card Collector
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  • 1994 Collector's Choice - Card By Card
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  • Collector's Crack
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  • Wax Pack Gods
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  • Card Boarded
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