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CrazieJoe's Card Corner

SPecial - We can start with something special - great trades with TCDB members, and today's is one with member Amagee. The baseball content is all 2024 Topps Archi...
Sports Card Info

Card of the Day: 1990 Universal Pay TV Inc. Kevin Costner Field Of Dreams Promo -
1960s Baseball

Julian Javier is 90 - Happy 90th birthday (8/9) to Julian Javier!
Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Series 2 - Once again I decided to knock out the set by getting it all at once, a collated box from eBay for $30, so less than a dime a card. As usual there is a l...
Sports Memorabilia News

Notes: Inside Shop That Pulled Flagg Debut Patch; National Theft Arrest; Scanner-Listing Combo; Caps’ Equipment Man on Ovie’s Generosity - A big week for a Rhode Island shop...a 61-year-old man is arrested for delinquency of a minor after an incident at the National...a scanning company is mar...
Mint Condition

Once Again Rewarding Ineptitude - Only in America can something suck for three and a half months and still win. Let's compare the Astros' sudden rise to other teams I don't like rising...
cards as i see them

time to sample the samplers again - 1952 topps is back in a binder! - while i don't have any topps flagship complete sets after 2009, i do have them from that point running all the way back to 1970, along with a couple more f...
Johnny's Trading Spot

Wacky Packages Wednesday - *Last week the winner was Damien again. I believe Damien is Dominic's brother, though I'm not 100%. Either way both of his winnings are on the way.* *...
The Official Panini America Blog

Grab the Checkered Flag With Panini 2026 Turn Four Racing - Written by: Connor Zimmerlee Collectors, get ready to rev up your engines for the release of Panini 2026 Turn Four Racing. Coming on August 6, 2026, at 11 ...
thefirstfiftyracesarethehardest

INDYCAR Announces Phase One of 2027 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Schedule - From IndyCar. I have some thoughts which will be shared later today. Action-Packed Season Starts with Three Straight Races Barber Motorsports Park Returns...
baseball card vandals

You’re welcome. - You’re welcome. Own this BCV original.
Nachos Grande

REVIEW: 2026 Topps Finest (mega box) - My Patreon group break is still going strong. This week, we ripped three mega boxes of 2026 Topps Finest. Since I haven't been opening new cards for my...
Padrographs; Abner to Zimmer

Fuji picks #482, Ricky Gutierrez - *The Player: *Ricky Gutierrez *The Card: *1993 Upper Deck #660, looks to be from Spring Training. *How I got the card: *I purchased the signed card fro...
Diamond Jesters

Repack Haiku #473 (Brian Fisher) - *His trade to Pirates* *Considered one of team's best* *(Teammate became star)* 1987 Topps Traded #33T Brian Fisher The 1986 trade that sent Fisher from t...
Daily Autograph

Garrett Cooper - I met him at BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater, Florida, in 2025 when the Atlanta Braves came to play the Philadelphia Phillies in a spring training game. ...
Go GTS

MLB Future Watch: Owen Caissie Baseball Cards, Miami Marlins - MLB Future Watch: Owen Caissie Baseball Cards, Miami Marlins - Outfielder, Owen Caissie has impressed in Miami. The post MLB Future Watch: Owen Caissie B...
bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog

Adventures in Selling: Wait...Not a Trade??! - Last week, I was perusing Facebook, as you do, and came across a post on one of the "Topps Facebook Trade/Buy/Sell" group page (not the actual name of th...
RED SOX FAN IN NEBRASKA

Donruss Blaster Break - I have mentioned before my affinity for Panini brands. The lack of a license is annoying, but I always do really well with Red Sox cards. So, I jumped ...
WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

REVISIT: "MISSING IN ACTION" 1974 WAYNE SIMPSON - Revisiting another 10+ year-old post from the blog for the newcomers! Here’s a “missing” 1974 card for former pitcher Wayne Simpson, who burst on to the Maj...
Cardboard Catastrophes

Finish What Ya Started - Two posts within the same week? Say it ain't so? It is so. I finished two sets this week! This card completes my 1974 Topps football set. I am not su...
Night Owl Cards

Losing track of my baseball facts - Someone on social media posed the question the other day regarding Rickey Henderson's domination of the American League stolen base title during the 19...
Droidtrader's Sports Memorabilia

August Vintage Bobbleheads Purchase - This months' bobblehead purchase included only four dolls, but they were pretty expensive ones. The most expensive one, which shattered my record for the...
Sportscards From The Dollar Store

Great Logo Alert! - That is one seriously demented looking penguin. Sadly, the logo on their wikipedia page has a far more noble looking bird. Blah. Give me something tha...
Puck Junk

Random Thoughts on the 2026 National - It was the best of shows – but not without its flaws Last month, I set up to sell at the 2026 National Sports Collectors Convention. I previously set up ...
Section 36

A Moment I’ll Never Forget: Singing the National Anthem at Fenway Park - By Jasslyn 7:00 PM on August 4th was truly one of those moments in my life that I know I will carry with me forever. I had the incredible opportunity to...
All Cardinals All the Time

TCDB 2 for Tuesday #151 - Quick post today before my son and I leave for St. Louis for a father son trip. He moves to college next week, so this is our last opportunity to watch ...
Card Buzz

Card show trip - picking through odds and ends - *These card find were from the big summer card show on the West Coast* - for better or for worse, paying $35 to get into the door for an afternoon of mostl...
John's Big League Baseball Blog

McGonigle Monday- Card Update - The Detroit Tigers beat the San Francisco Giants yesterday, 8-0, at Oracle Park , and, are returning home after a very successful 7-2 a saw road trip. ...
foul bunt

2026 National VIP Free Signer - Gregg Jefferies - Gregg Jefferies was one of the VIP party signers on Wednesday at the National. Nate and I went through the line initially and got one card signed, each. L...
The Phillies Room

Philadelphia Phillies at St. Louis Cardinals - 2006 Topps #139 2006 Topps #555 *Monday, August 10th - 7:45 Tuesday, August 11th - 7:45 Wednesday, August 12th - 2:15* *Busch Stadium - St. Louis, M...
The Chronicles of Fuji

A Whale of a Sort - Summer break is over. Technically I don't need to report until Thursday, but I've been working in my classroom since early last week. It takes me a few d...
Oilpressure

Random Thoughts on Portland - What do you get when you combine a track with a history of one good race per decade, and a driver with talent we haven’t seen in more than a decade? A slee...
The Yount Collector

2026 Topps Dynamic Duals - Yount Checklist - If you missed this release, or even the announcement for this release you can be forgiven it sold out quick and was only available on Topps' website. R...
My Sports Obsession

Happy Birthday - Aidan Hutchinson - Aidan was born on this day in 2000, making him 25 today. NFL Debut - September 11th, 2022 (Lions) Years Active - - 2022-current (Lions) Car...
The Greatest 21 Days

Mike Fermaint saw 2 pro seasons, good slide at high-A - [image: Mike Fermaint 1991 Peninsula Pilots baseball card] Mariners minor leaguer Mike Fermaint picked up his base coach in this May 1991 game and charge...
The Real DFG

COMC Shipping Is Broken...a haiku - A tale in four pictures... Go to the COMC help section to find out exactly how the shipping is set up currently for pricing. Cool...it's still $19.99 to ...
Japanese Baseball Cards

Card Of The Week August 9 - I'm on the road this weekend so instead of posting about something that happened in this past week, I thought instead I'd highlight a book I recently fin...
Number 5 Type Collection

1886 Allen & Ginter "Polka Dot Nine" Lady Baseball Players (H807 cabinets and N48 cards) - *Introduction* I enjoy solving card mysteries and picking apart curious decisions by gum companies of different eras, in particular when it extends beyon...
A Pack To Be Named Later

2025 Topps Stadium Club Fat Pack - Greetings! Hope everyone is doing well. Apologies for the lack of quasi-regular posts here. I attribute it to plenty of working both jobs, plus the smal...
Dawg Day Cards

Sportlots purchase - 2007 to current - This post is continuing a selection of cards from my recent Sportlots order. This one will show cards that I purchased for my Browns collection from 2007...
Blowout Buzz

First Buzz: 2026 Panini Prizm WNBA basketball cards - *What:* 2026 Panini Prizm WNBA basketball cards *Arrives:* Sept. 25 *Box basics:* Two autographs per 12-pack box (12 boxes per case) *Order: Click here* *...
Cardboard History

New People July 2026 - July was a very light month for scanning. The only cards I scanned, edited and labeled were the 16 card Knicks championship set, the 4 card Knicks Champ...
Pre-War Card Magazine

World-Class N173 Old Judge Cabinets Up For Bid - Four N173 Old Judge Cabinet Cards ranking as PSA's highest-graded now available in the REA Summer Catalog Auction. The post World-Class N173 Old Judge Ca...
SABR Baseball Cards

Cardboard Stories, Part One…2001: A Card Odyssey - My earliest memories of card collecting are rooted in the indoor malls of my youth that are slowly yielding to open air corporate marketplaces. Somewhere i...
Not Another Baseball Card Blog

A Topic Done to Death - Hello Friends! Today's post comes from a conversation on a discord server, where people were talking about Eric Young Sr, who played for the Rockies amo...
Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

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

6/20/26 card show report: meetup mania! - It took me until early August to post this but tonight I'm finally giving you a recap of the much-hyped June show and meetup! It was another amazing one, ...
Baseball Card Breakdown

Barter trade with a former Topps employee - I recently swapped a pair of CDs for a box of various cards. I love those rare times when I can swing a barter trade, as they just seem more *special* or ...
COMC Blog

That’s a Wrap: Highlights from COMC at the 46th National - The doors have officially closed on the 46th National Sports Collectors Convention in Rosemont, Illinois, and it is safe to say this was our biggest and be...
Tim Wallach

2025 Topps Shoebox Treasures #15 "Paint Splatter Autograph" #/15 - *Card Review: 9.0* This is the 15th variation of this card that I've posted, and I have another variation in hand that I haven't posted yet. There is...
Sport Card Collectors

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

Saturdays Suds: Baseball & Beer #106 – Scorched Earth HEY CHICAGO WHADDYA SAY! - The Baltimore post got me some mojo last week – and today I’m taking my son and 2 friends to the Cubs game for his 14th birthday. Pretty crazy to think – ...
The Topps Archives

Topps Topics: Studies in Uncut Sheet Arrays - 1973 to 1992 - Presenting the concluding part six of an ongoing series examining the use of short prints and double prints by Topps in their vintage era; part one ca...
Cards on Cards

Topps Hoops - *A look at Topps in their first year of their new NBA deal.* I have to admit that I didn't have a ton of nostalgic feelings for Topps basketball cards wh...
LV's TTM autographs and Baseball Cards

July TTMs - * Finally! * I got a return! I've been skunked most of the summer, so this is a nice return! Eli Morgan Signed 1/1 Sent c/o Omaha Storm Chasers 39 days
Torren' Up Cards

I Dared to Dream, It Became a Reality - A few years ago I predicted that if I ever were to finish the T206 New York Highlanders team set, it'd be done across several years when the mood struck...
The Collective Mind

Retro Box Break: 1999 Collector's Edge Triumph Football - This box was the last unopened package from the basketball (storage) hoard. Everything else was already opened when I got it all, except for that hideo...
fivecardguys

Is The Shohei Ohtani Market Completely Unhinged? - If you're walking into the National thinking you'll find Ohtani cards at or near recent eBay comps, stop.
soxnerd

JULY 28TH @SOXNERD WHITE SOX RANDOM QUICKLIST: LAST 10 SOX HOME TRIPLES VS. THE YANKEES - The White Sox last five home triples vs. the Yankees: DATE—PLAYER 7-27-26: Braden Montgomery 7-31-15: JB Shuck 8-7-13: Alejandro De Aza 8-21-12: AJ Pierzyn...
Snagging Cardboard

Single Card Mail Day:2025 Panini Certified Mirrors Blue Autograph Hakeem Nicks - It must feel like to you guys that I am on a Hakeem Nicks tear right now, well, maybe I am.But, when I can find autographs of a Giants legend can be found ...
The Shlabotnik Report

Stuff Found During Organizing, July 2026 - I confess, I’m in a major blogging funk. Over the past couple of months most of my hobby time has been spent organizing rather than acquiring, which puts a...
Upper Deck Blog

Upper Deck, NHLPA, and NHL to Bring Top NHL Prospects to The National Sports Collectors Convention - Upper Deck, the NHLPA, and the NHL are teaming up to bring collectors and hockey fans as close to the action as possible this year at The National Sports...
Clyde's Stale Cards

Hobby Archaeology: 1994 Chicago Tribune Cubs Scrapbook - After a decade, the Chicago Tribune brought back their Cubs Scrapbook feature for the 1994 season. As with the 1984 series, these were presented in...
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, ...
Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle

Triple Trouble - Another day, another *Archer* sketch card. I somehow scanned this in six weeks ago but totally whiffed on writing it up and posting it. I guess it feels ...
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....
The Writer's Journey

Fun Cards: 2026 Topps All-Star Sal Stewart - Your lone 2026 All-Star for the Cincinnati Reds, Sal Stewart!
Eamus Catuli!

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...
Junk Wax Gems

1988 Topps Mark McGwire RB #3 THIRD Variation aka the Transitional Magenta Triangle Version - A recent discovery has turned up on a fairly well-known, error-affected card from 1988 Topps. Mark McGwire’s Record Breaker subset card has long been known...
Blog - WaxPackHero

2013 Press Pass Parks and Recreation: A Definitive Guide - 2013 Press Pass Parks and Recreation includes a Star-Studded Autograph checklist and a host of show worn costume relics for fans to collect.
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...
Hockey Ink In The Mail

Months of Mail - April, May & June - A total of 19 new NHL player autographs added these past 3 months. The grand total of unique NHL player autographs in my collection now stands at 7,859 fo...
Beckett News

Magic: The Gathering TCG Hot/Cold List for the Week of June 22 - *Magic: The Gathering Hot/Cold List for the Week of June 15, 2026 Welcome back to our weekly look at the movers and shakers in the Magic: The Gathering m...
Sports Card Radio

For 70 Cents a Day: An AI Assistant That Finds and Bids on Sports Cards For You - A step-by-step tutorial for collectors who’ve never used AI before. You collect sports cards. You’re good at it. You know your players, your sets, your yea...
Vintage Hockey Cards Report

NHL 3 Star Time Warp: February 8, 1975 - This is a transcript from the “NHL 3-Star Time Warp” video series on Facebook Reels. Each episode features the 3 stars from games on a random date in Nat...
Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Collector

One more binder AI post - I decided to try my luck one more time with creating binder labels with AI, this time for my Reds team set binders. For the background images I wanted to...
Tan Man Baseball Fan

11 Years Later: From Cupcakes at Canseco’s House to the Steroid Collection Series Two Reveal - Talk about a full-circle moment! Eleven years ago tomorrow, I was embarking upon easily the craziest moment of my baseball card journey. I was pulling ...
Wax Pack Gods

A Larry Andersen Card for the Good Times - In the list of “worst trades in baseball history,” few names draw more ire than Larry Andersen. Line up the longtime reliever with the likes of Ivan de Jes...
Dave and Adam’s Sports Card Blog - News and Information on Sports Cards

Dave & Adam’s Top 10 Buy List – Week of April 17th - Dave & Adam’s Top 10 Buy List for the Week of April 17th Dave & Adam’s Buying Team is paying top dollar on the hobby’s hottest boxes and cards — from Bow...
Cardboard Junkie

2026 NBA PLAYOFF PREFERENCES PART 2 - 8TH SEED GAMES ARE PLAYING WHILE I WRITE THIS SO THERE'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE ONE OR TWO TEAMS ON HERE GETTING BOUNCED BEFORE I POST. I'M LESS GRUMPY TO...
Bump and Run Football Card Blog

Cards on Cards Contest Winnings--and a Well-Timed Trade - It has been well over two years since my last post. I have several reasons for putting the blog on hiatus, and I don't anticipate that I'll be coming bac...
Hell's Valuable Collectibles

Jonathan Quick Jersey Card - (team and product links go to sponsored *Amazon* products, player links go to related pages on my blog, news links go to source pages) Tonight, *Jonathan Q...
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...
MY HOCKEY CARD OBSESSION

OUTSIDE THE BOX - Baseball In Full Swing - I'm sure I was one of many who were swept up in the drama and excitement of the 2025 MLB Playoffs - and a World Series for the ages. I hadn't watched muc...
ENOUGH ALREADY

Alex Ovechkin hunting again in a box of 2025-26 UD artifacts hockey - https://youtu.be/9DfqJFfSTCM
$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...
90's Niche Football Card Blog

1996 Upper Deck SPX Football – All of it! - While 1997 SPX football is my all-time favorite set, 1996 is the original and ranks way up there for me, too. If you look closely, they actually use the ex...
Run-Fore!-Kelloggs Baseball Cards

1979 and 1983 Color Variations - I have a few sets in factory boxes that are not sealed, so I checked them out recently. In general, I've seen 1983s with clean, white borders and other...
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 ...
Sports Card Blogroll

2026 Topps Design Has Been Released! - Topps released an image of the 2026 Topps Baseball Card design. Initial reaction: LOVE THIS!!! Large picture, easy to read nameplate, love the use of tea...
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 ...
Coast To Posts - A Hockey Card Blog

18-Inning Heartbreak and the Hunt for Young Guns - Game 3 was another fun matchup. I watched it until maybe the 8th inning and had to hit the hay. You know, work in the morning. I figured I’d save the hig...
Card Boarded

Collection Update 2025 - Wow, it's been over three years since I posted on here. Time flies, I guess. This blog had been my primary passion project going back to 2009 and even th...
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...
Cardboard Conundrum

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...
The Fleer Sticker Project

They Still Work! 1970 Fleer Iron-Ons - I came across a video on Youtube from Rob Opens Wax opening a pack of *1970 Fleer Iron-ons*. It was fun to see Rob not only open the pack but th...
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...
ikissedthebricks

Justin Wilson- 10 Years - It breaks my heart to write this post. How in the world can it be ten years since we lost Justin? We still talk about him every race we attend. I wear a ne...
Look! An Airplane!

Mid-Way Regional Pancake Breakfast Fly-In, Midlothian, TX 2025 - June 7, 2025 Mid-Way Regional Airport, Midlothian, TX I'm
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...
Welcome to Oreopolis!

Alex Palou, Smiling Assassin - Given the inflated sense of importance that many American racing fans place on the Indianapolis 500, a victory on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval wa...
The Cardboard and Me

Joe Paterson: Q&A - First post in a long time, but I have a very good reason for returning to the blog. Former NHLer Joe Paterson reached out to me after reading my post ab...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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…
Sports Cards Uncensored

The Main Event II – What to Expect When the Biggest Night of Wrestling Cards Returns! - Coming into the NSCC last year, our planning committee for the Main Event was nervous. We had a number of reservations, we had an incredible space to do ...
The Hopeful Chase

Trading to Completion: Part 2 - So, after a couple of months, how is this project going? Eh, like most of the projects around these here parts, slowly (still haven't finished any of ...
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...
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…
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 ...
Lingua Sports Cards

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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

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...
1994 Collector's Choice - Card By Card

148 - Gregg Jefferies - 148 - Gregg Jefferies Front: Sliding Back: Running. Better side: I do like the horizontal photo with the arms outstretched to the side, but the runni...
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...
Condition Sensitive

RLC Custom Card Project: Andrew Brown - Andrew Brown was selected off waivers by the Rockies after playing one season with the Cardinals. In his lone season with Colorado he would play 46 games...
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...
Jason's Sports Card Blog

AMSTERDAM SIGHTS - No neighbourhood in Amsterdam is more 'Amsterdamish' than the Jordaan. Besides the legendary Johnny Jordaan Square, there's so much more that Amsterdam has...
Stadium Fantasium

I’m So Excited (Super Bowl Delighted – Part 1) - [image: Super Bowl LVI pin]
Miles from Miller

2022 Topps Series 1 - *2022 Topps Series 1Base, Rainbow Foil (1:10), Royal Blue (1:10), Gold #/2022, Green Foil #/499, Advanced Stats #/300, Orange Foil #/299, Red Foil #/1...
This Card Is Cool - My Life in Baseball Cards

Seven Bucks Went a Long Way (The Finale) - Okay, let's wrap this up. Through 11 packs, we've had ups and downs. Looking over at the piles of cards from this endeavor, I'm pretty happy so far. Sur...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
Cardboard Hogs

Slingin’ Sammy Baugh - Today is St. Paddy’s day, but really…it’s the birthdate of the greatest Quarterback of all-time. Samuel ‘Slingin Sammy’ Adrian Baugh. Well, the greatest ...
Shoebox Legends

Weekly Round-Up - A New Endeavor & a Legend Takes a Break - Boy it's been a rough and challenging week on the work/professional front. Glad I have cards, this blog, this hobby and this great community to keep me ...
Project Pedro...My life in cards

Cheap Wax Wednesday - Episode 306 - 2013 Pinnacle Baseball - Pinnacle rises from the dead, at least for one year.
the cardboard review.

2020-2021 Upper Deck Artifacts Review - *Upper Deck Artifacts has long given collectors a beautiful set filled with hockey memorabilia to enjoy. Through the years, Upper Deck has changed the pr...
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...
Horizontal Heroes: The 1960 Topps Set

#290 Jerry Lumpe - *Jerry Lumpe Kansas City Athletics* *Career:* Jerry Lumpe was a Yankee prospect who put up impressive minor league numbers but wasn't quite good en...
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...
Korean Cardboard

Gravure Idol: Anri Sugihara autographs - I have made many purchases recently in different areas of my hobbies. I have become more serious with my aquariums, selling off some of my Mattingly cards ...
Dodgers Blue Heaven

Blog Kiosk: 9/15/2020 - Dodgers Links & News - Some Odds and Ends - I missed this recent release from Topps yesterday. Featured here is a Topps *2020 Turn Back the Clock* online exclusive card made available yesterday, an...
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...
A guy and his Pavel Bure collection (and other stories)

This is the end guys here... New website! - This is the end guys! As you can see, it's been a while since I posted here. For some of you who didn't know, but I build a new website for my collection. ...
onemillioncubsproj

An Ernie Banks Slab and Roosevelt Brown Autograph in a NAFTA Trade - NAFTA in the hobby world is an ongoing free trade agreement with @TheHobbySpyder. We have traded packages back and forth for well over a year. Let him know...
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 ...
Andrew Henry

2006 Topps Jeff Francoeur #445 - Braves Card of the Day ⚾ - I had this fear that after a year or so in the league, Frenchy would hit a wall. I was afraid that his free swinging ways would lead to him striking out ...
Wayland The Smith And The Feathered Shirt – Pioneers Of Aviation

Ruth Law & Pioneer Aviator - Ruth Bancroft Law aka Ruth Law Oliver aka Ruth Law: born March 21, 1887 at Lynn, Massachusetts, United States of America – died December 1, 1970 in San Fra...
Collecting Sandy Alomar Jr.

Again? - Yep. This one was added because I tried to get the same one in years past. I absolutely love this action shot. And seeing Alomar's signature right at ...
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...
Jenny's Card Collecting

Another Focus to my Hobby - Sometimes with my collection, ok majority of the time, I feel like I am all over the board in what I want to collect! I pretty much want to do it Pokémon s...
Tony's Sports Pub

Starting Lineup Figure Of The Day - Barry Bonds
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...
Mets Baseball Cards Like They Ought To Be!

>>>>>The Curtis Granderson Collection - *Hearing the news that Curtis Granderson retired my first thought was, "Damn, I thought he would play forever." He never seemed to age or lose a step. But...
DocHoloday.com

2020 - Honestly, I’m not even sure where the fall went. I guess I was a little burnt out on posting the High Heat set and after I finished I just said “I’m going ...
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...
All About Cards - Sports Card Reviews, Box Breaks, Checklists and News

2020 Topps Million Card Rip Party Details and Complete List of Breakers and Breaks - Imagine taking delivery on 363 cases of 2020 Topps Baseball Series 1 Jumbos and ripping them all open in one day. Well, you don’t have to imagine what...
CMMDTO

2019 Topps Museum Collection Meaningful Materials - I picked up this 2019 Topps Musuem Collection Meaningful Materials Paul Goldschmidt Copper Relic numbered to 35 in December for $1.99 plus $3.26 shipping (...
~~~~~ 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...
dmntakeover

*Takeover Rules* Updated 1/6/2020! - Rules for the takeover: -If you see a card you want, simply tweet "sold", or some word along those lines at it. If you got it, I'll favorite your tweet-Sta...
The Press Box Sports

Nationals Sign Asdrubal Cabrera to a one year deal - Press Box Sports Net Nationals Sign Asdrubal Cabrera to a one year deal The Washington Nationals decided to bring back infielder Asdrubal Cabrera. The de...
Autographed Cards

1952 Topps, Carl Erskine - #250 Carl Erskine For no apparent reason, I haven't posted a card on here for two weeks. It is Christmas time and my weekends off have been dealing with ...
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 ...
Adventures in 1952 Topps

#314 Roy Campanella - #314 Roy Campanella Progress: 1st of this card 310 of 407 76.2% complete How acquired: Sent as an *extremely* generous gift from a reader Condition: Poo...
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...
Indians Baseball Cards

Cards are in the Mail! - If you signed up for my Pack A Daily do-over mailouts, the first round has been mailed!! Note that I had (and still have) mailers that were already put t...
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 Rollie Fingers Collector

2002 Fleer Greats Autograph - Year: 2002 Manufacture: Fleer Set: Greats Card Number: NNO Card Type: Insert, Autograph Insert Set: Autographs Card Attributes: Autographed (on card) Ther...
That T206 life

Upside-Down T206 Sweet Caporal 150 Factory 649 Overprint Discovered - On August 23rd, 2019, a net54 member made a post about this Nap Lajoie (Throwing) with an upside-down Factory 649 Overprint that he recently acquired. He ...
Long Way from Lambeau

2019 Panini XR Ultimate Packers Checklist and Gallery - 2019 Panini XR Football *Base, Red #/249, Blue #/199, Orange #/99, Purple #/25, Gold #/10, Green #/5, Black 1/1, Printing Plates 1/1* 9 Aaron Rodgers 37 Aa...
A Cardboard Problem

Trading Cards: Where do you get your checklists? - We need checklists for our collections. It's the guiding post that let's us sort through the cards we are looking for. But one thing I've learned is there ...
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...
Stories by Card Bored Dad on Medium

Baseball Dog Days of Summer - Back in 1993, Milk-Bone made player and pooch trading cards for some reason. Like lots of pop culture from the early ‘90s, the result was brightly colore...
Preserve The Hobby

Tips For Getting Autographs Through The Mail (TTM) - Obtaining autographs through the mail (TTM) is something I’ve done for over 20 years. Since I realize many collectors may not know exactly where to begin, ...
Infield Grit

#hobbylove - This post is just going to be about the joy or collecting. It’s about the fun of the hobby and why I got into it. It can be easy to get wrapped up in dram...
Supporting The Minnow

So much stuff - So I traded some tools I wasn’t using to a guy who had a “bunch” of cards and stuff to trade. I was mostly after some O-Pee-Chee Hockey cards, but got a lo...
1985 Topps

#132T - Checklist, Cards 1T-132T - *What a card: *Welcome to the final card in the 1985 Topps Traded set, the final card of this blog. *My observation on the front: *For the Traded sets o...
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...
Collection Connections

20% OFF for Newsletter Readers - This discount is only available because you signed up for our monthly newsletter! Spread the word. We’ve put together some of our favorite products and m...
Steel City Scoop

Inside Scoop: 2019 Panini Donruss Elite Football Hobby - 2019 Panini Donruss Elite Football Hobby Release Date: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 Configuration: 5 cards per pack, 20 packs per box, 12 boxes per case. Ins...
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.
Thorzul Will Rule

Pull the Trigger 20.20 ($30) - *1970 Topps Luis Aparicio* This is one of the cards I picked out of a dollar box a couple of weekends ago. Turns out I already had it, so now I'm happy to...
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...
Wax Stain Rookie

Anyone interested in a box break? - Hey all! Like I have mentioned previous I have been very active on Twitter in lieu of posting on here which has been both good and bad. I am still working ...
Now and Zen

Waiting on a Second Opinion - Is anyone still checking on Now and Zen? I haven't died, but I'm working on it. << joke Yeah, this is awkward. First things first- Do NOT set up a GoFu...
Jaybarkerfan's Junk

CLOSING TIME - Well, the time has come. The final mega break packages made it to the post office today. Today is the last blog post I will be making. It's also the end ...
1988 Topps

552nd Place - Rene Gonzales - *Card #98* I think Topps missed a golden opportunity to let Rene's card number (98) match his jersey (88). So close! 2019 is off to a rough start relate...
My PCs--one card at a time

Joe Sakic card #312 1998-99 Topps Gold Label Class 1 #65 - - If there is one set I'd love to see come back for hockey, it's this one. Love the dual photo on the front, the cards aren't flimsy and look ...
Topps

2019 Topps WWE Road to WrestleMania Checklist -
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...
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 ...
#BackyardDiamond

CONTROVERSY! (part 1) - For the last week the entire hobby has been marred with a controversy that many believe is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. It all started with a ca...
Collecting Wax

An Unexpected Signing - It’s 11pm on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and we still need to buy everything besides the turkey. We made a decision to go to the store at that time t...
Tridents and Trading Cards

Steal a Base - Thanks to the amazing Mookie Betts, America didn’t have to wait long for Taco Bell’s Steal a Base, Steal a Taco promotion to be realized. Swiping second ba...
Home Run Hockey

Terry Sawchuk - *Terry Sawchuk* - Played senior baseball and had interest from the Majors before becoming an NHL star. *The card:* 1954/55 Topps *What it says about base...
Autograph Blog - News, Tips, and Tricks of In-Person and TTM Autograph Collecting

TTM Address of The Day - Olivia Newton-John (Actress/Singer - Grease) - Olivia Newton-John PO Box 2710 Malibu, CA 90265 USA
Battlin' Bucs

The National, Part 1 - So things have been a little quiet on the blog. It's been a busy summer and my stacks of cards from the big Pittsburgh show in May are still waiting to b...
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...
Brewers 792

Thoughts on recent Topps Now and Living Set purchases - It's been awhile since I've posted anything here and I know better than to say I'll post more actively, but I am still collecting and I tend to stay more c...
St. Louis Cardinals' Cardboard

Still here! - Hi Everyone, I am still here and will be back in the saddle after I go incognito for a couple of more weeks. I am missing the Serramonte show today-but for...
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 ...
Once a Cub

Wroad to Wrigley Wednesday - Mark Zagunis and Justin Hancock - Just after last week's Wroad to Wrigley post went live, I found out that the Cubs were doing another roster shuffle that included outfielder Mark Zagunis ...
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...
the Conlon Baseball Card Collector

The Conlon Books - *For Conlon baseball card collectors, or for those who do not want to invest in a baseball card collection, two books about Charles M. Conlon are worth th...
21st-Century Topps Baseball (1990-Present)

For Sale: Everything on my 21st Century Blog Site - After the pains of trying to move from a big house on a small farm to a much smaller house and yard, I will begin to sell off my 21st-Century Topps co...
Vintage Twins

Bowman State & Home Town - A few years back(2013/2014) Bowman had a parallel wherein the player’s home state or country’s flag was featured in the background – something also they di...
Hangin with Chuck

2014/15 Court Kings Box Break - I picked up this box during Black Friday last year and some how had the patience to not open it until this last week. I was chasing a Jabari auto for my PC...
Topps 1971

no. 752 - dick drago - *Who is the man:* Dick Drago pitched 240 innings for the Royals in 1970 as one of their starting staff mainstays. He won 20 games for K.C. in its first ...
Byron “Whizzer” White’s cardboard options aren’t all that supreme – BlowoutBuzz.com

Board Buzz: Must-read threads on the Blowout Forums (Feb. 8) - The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collec...
S.V. Lloyd's Nostalgic Baseball Cards Revived

1951 Topps red back Bob Kennedy #29 - 1951 Topps Bob Kennedy I finally bought my first card apart of a project I’m working on, it’s where I’m trying to buy one card from each year from Topps Ba...
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...
The Roberto Clemente Card Project

45 Years - It has been 45 years to this date that our hero, Roberto Clemente, passed away in a tragic plane accident off his home shores off of Puerto Rico on New Yea...
beauspencer826

Merry Christmas Memories (1991): My First Wax Box - Merry Christmas Eve. The holiday season always brings back great childhood memories of looking at my baseball cards. This Christmas marks the 26th Annivers...
plain gray swatch

trading stains with p-town Tom - I started kicking around here a few months back, and after my previous tenured with plentiful trades, I wasn't exchanging any cardboard with y'all. Tha...
Tomahawk Chop

2017 Predictions - How did I do? - Howdy folks, it's been awhile. I've been really inactive with my blog this year, having not posted since the end of May, though I do still read many of yo...
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.
Voice of the Collector

Have You Heard? December 9th is National Hobby Shop Day!! - Many of you may know *Michael Fruitman*. Mike is the owner of *Mike's Stadium Sportscards* in *Aurora, Colorado*. You can follow him on *Twitter* here. A...
Pulp ephemera

World Series 2017 in Seven Baseball Haiku - VII. Game One’s October heat waves the air as LA pitching fans bright stars. Two games: strikes stunt bats through seven—before the shelling of Chavez Ravi...
Blog - .

September 20 Goodwin Auction - On September 20, 2017, Goodwin sold a whopping seven signed T206 cards. Four of the cards - Doyle, Snodgrass, Leifield & McBride - originated from the 20...
15 Cent Cards One at a Time

1975 #20 Topps Card is of New York Yankees’ Thurman Munson - Thurman Munson started the 1974 season after coming off his best year to date. Considered by most to be the “heart and soul” of the Yankees in 147 gam...
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...
Nothing But Nets

Nets cards traded for in July - Not really happy with my team right now. They traded away my favorite player, and the best player on the team to boot. (Brook Lopez, of course). But I did ...
Inception Baseball: A Very Simple Idea

2015 Colin Moran - Welcome back! I know I apologized last week for doing two Minnesota Twins in a row, but that actually inspired me for what’s to come these next few we...
Dodger Penguin

Card of the Day - 2016 Topps Now : Clayton Kershaw 1st Ever MLB Save Base Autograph (145/199) BGS Graded Gem Mint 9.5 - I couldn't possibly only own the relic version of this card and not pare it up with the non one right? Nope I couldn't and finally one of these popped u...
Capewood's Collections

Mike Schmidt - The Wall - I'll get back to the 30-day Baseball Card Challenge on Monday, but first this... A few days ago I saw the movie "Pink Floyd The Wall" on TV. I wasn't buyin...
A Pack A Day

2016 Topps Allen & Ginter Retail - Repack box pack time. Let's tear in. Top to Bottom: 141 Colin Rea 144 Matt Holliday BL-11 Ted Williams Baseball Legends 142 Jake Arrieta Mini 310 Patrick...
Trading John Elway

ANOTHER NEW TO ME ELWAY - HAVEN'T HAD A NEW ELWAY IN 6 WEEKS. SPEED VARIATION.
Rey Ordonez Super Collector

1996 Pinnacle Aficionado - *1996 Pinnacle Aficionado #191* Aficionado was a one hit wonder for Pinnacle in the mid-1990's. Well, I'm not sure it was exactly a hit. The base set fea...
Cleveland Sweet Spotting

New Arrival: Mike Flanigan, sp, Baltimore Orioles - Mike Flanigan was drafted by Houston in the 15th round of the 1971 draft. He did not sign. Baltimore took him in the 7th round of the 1971 draft out of the...
Paul's Random Baseball Stuff

I have too many hobbies… - I miss blogging. I do not miss blogging about baseball every day. My reasons for going into semi-retirement remain: I don’t get to go to enough Atlantic Le...
Summer of '74

A Warren Spahn Story and a Trade Offer - It was 14 years ago this month that Warren Spahn, one of the greatest lefties the game has ever known, passed away. Mr. Spahn was a pretty good TTM signer ...
Scott Crawford On Cards!

So, yeah, this is happening. - [image: http://emojuanuribe.tumblr.com/] Yeah, I know. But change is good sometimes. As you've probably figured out, I have begun migrating my active post...
Catching up with collecting

Starting a New PC - Well things have not settled down as much as I thought they would. We moved in early December, and two months later, it is still chaotic around here. I hav...
Trading Card Preservation Society

Episode #14 Is Out Now! - Today on the podcast, Dave the Cardboard Junkie and Matt F. talk about their thoughts on 2017 Topps Series 1 after opening the product, the Stranger Thin...
addiction as therapy

2017 Collecting Goals & an A&G Rip Card - 2016 is long gone and the new year will bring several new sets. I’ve broaden my collection from the Topps Main release and Topps Heritage to now include Gy...
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; ...
Collating Cards

47-Card Knockout - No, it’s not some new card game- it’s a feature on one of my more recent purchases… I’ve never spent the day after Thanksgiving shopping in retail stores. ...
Just A Bit Offside

Perhaps the best ever.... 1956 Montreal Canadiens - This is the last in the three part series of my card show team photo buying spree. Today's shows the Publicity shot given out to celebrate the 1956-57 Mont...
Ain't Nobody Got Time For Cardboard!

Tyler Naquin is my spirit animal - And a new PC, if for nothing other than his celebration after his walk-off inside-the-park home run. My collection of him is just starting out, and sin...
MY BASEBALL CARD COMEBACK

- *MOOKIE BETTS COLLECTION* *Anything not on this list I need. * *2013* *PANINI * 2013 Panini Prizm Draft Picks #46 Panini Classics #169 *2014 * *BOWMAN...
The BEST Season of the Year

The College Football Playoffs Rankings and Unpleasant Truths - Is it possible that it's not a conspiracy theory? Continue reading →
sportscardreference.wordpress.com

Topps Offers Special Edition Ben Zobrist Card - October 22, 2016 Jason Dean Martin Topps released a special edition Ben Zobrist card today available only on the Topps website. The card, although similar...
Diamond Cuts and Wax Stains

The top 100 (soon to be 110) Leafs of all time - It’s centennial time! (Not really.) (Well, sort of – if you’re feeling kind of generous with your definitions.) (The 100th anniversary of the first game in...
Buck and Blackhawks

2015-16 Panini Select Basketball Ultimate Milwaukee Buck Checklist and Gallery - *2015-16 Panini Select Basketball* *Base, Concourse Parallels: Silver Prizms, Tri-Color Prizms, Blue Prizms #/249, Red Prizms #/149, Orange Prizms #/60, Tie...
The Baseball Card Blog

The History of The Baseball Card Blog - Ten years seems like a good time for a recap. Here goes nothing. The Baseball Card Blog was born in January 2006. My friends and I had been kicking around...
Hockey Card Geek

Iowa Wild Crash OYO Giveaway - During a recent Iowa Wild hockey game, they gave these Iowa Wild Crash OYO figures to the first 1,500 fans. Crash is the Iowa Wild mascot and Lazer 103.3, ...
Hockey Card Heaven

2015 Leaf Best of Hockey Case Break - Part One - I've always been a fan of re-packaged products so I thought I'd take a chance on a 4-box case of 2015 Leaf Best of Hockey. The product contains one slabbed...
1975 Topps (it's far out, man)

#640 - Harmon Killebrew - *Card fact: *This is the final Topps card issued of Harmon Killebrew during his playing career. He had appeared in just about every Topps flagship set f...
Small BallFields

Clark Field - WHERE: Woodland, California WHERE EXACTLY: Grand Avenue and West Beamer Street WHEN VISITED: July 3, 2011 while visiting family. From the Davis Enterprise:...
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