I Feel Like A Collector Again: Wil Myers

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Saturday, February 25, 2017

DBBD: 2015 Topps Chrome Refractors #53 Wil Myers

A refractor in a dime box? I will buy every one!

2015 Topps Chrome Refractors #53 Wil Myers

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foul bunt

TTM Success - Pico Kohn - The 2025 Bowman Draft TTM successes came in rapid fire succession, the next one being from Pico Kohn. He signed my base card and the above refractor. Kohn...
The Official Panini America Blog

Kids Crates and Case Breaks at the 2026 National Sports Collectors Convention - Written by: Kara Gates Every collector has a beginning. Maybe it was a favorite player pulled from a pack after school. Maybe it was opening a box with fam...
Johnny's Trading Spot

Oddball Panels: The PC edition: part one - *Time for the super stars albeit some have been seen already.* *Very happy to have gotten a couple of these Mickey Mantle panels. I cut one and kept t...
Blowout Buzz

Topps readies exclusive product for The National - The Big Show starts tomorrow -- and *Topps* will have exclusive cardboard up for grabs. This year’s *National Sports Collectors Convention* cardboard com...
All Cardinals All the Time

TCDB 2 for Tuesday #149 - Things did not start well for the Cardinals in their four game series against the Cubs last night. After a 90 minute rain delay, they forgot how to pitc...
The Chronicles of Fuji

Garage Sale Grabs #1: Private & Personalized - When it comes to shopping for collectibles locally... I prefer flea markets over antique stores, card shops, card shows, social media, or garage sales. Th...
thefirstfiftyracesarethehardest

New NTT INDYCAR SERIES Race Car Introduced for 2028 and Beyond - From IndyCar: My thoughts a bit later. NTT INDYCAR SERIES’ IR-28 Designed To Deliver Faster Cars with Chevrolet and Honda Powerplants, More Action, Improve...
baseball card vandals

I’m hooked! - I’m hooked! Own this BCV original.
Go GTS

NHL Future Watch: Keaton Verhoeff Hockey Cards, San Jose Sharks - NHL Future Watch: Keaton Verhoeff Hockey Cards, San Jose Sharks - Keaton Verhoeff has a bright future in San Jose. The post NHL Future Watch: Keaton Verh...
Daily Autograph

Dave Burba - I met him at Lew Wolff Training Complex, the Athletics spring training facility in Mesa, Arizona in 2025. Dave signed a 1995 Topps card #304. https://w...
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...
RED SOX FAN IN NEBRASKA

2025 Stadium Club Blaster Break - For awhile, Stadium Club blasters were pretty plentiful near me, so I bought a few. I almost had universally bad luck. I think I bought four or five of...
Mint Condition

Rodent to Nowhere - Here's how the Tigers' season is going: last night, all the action was upstaged by a bunch of field hands chasing after a squirrel. After that, the Ti...
CrazieJoe's Card Corner

In A Half Shell - Some MTG catch up today as I picked up some more packs from earlier this year. It came to my attention that the Play booster packs went back to multiple ...
Sports Card Info

Card of the Day: Kyle Schwarber 2014 Bowman Draft Prospects #DP2 -
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 Yount Collector

2026 Donruss Elite Baseball - Yount Checklist - I was out of town when this one came out and Robin is featured in the base set and that means all the parallels as well. 2026 Panini Donruss Elite #9...
cards as i see them

peas & carrots - i was taking a run through my scanned/unposted folder a while back and noticed a preponderance of cards featuring mookie betts and freddie freeman. that's ...
Night Owl Cards

Adding a little, losing (hopefully) a lot - Hey, it's another downsizing post. I didn't get to one of these in June and there are still cards that need to go out the door. I've been pretty lax in...
The Phillies Room

Philadelphia Phillies at Miami Marlins - 2026 Chachi 2006 Topps Missing Links #10 2006 Topps #578 *Monday, July 27th - 6:40 Tuesday, July 28th - 6:40 Wednesday, July 29th - 12:10* *loanDepo...
Droidtrader's Sports Memorabilia

Mike Garman and Don Lee TTM Returns and a Joe Mauer Consignment - I've been really busy lately with no time to send out requests, so things are going to slow down. I might take the opportunity to highlight some of my c...
Sportscards From The Dollar Store

2/14s in the Mail - Part 2 - And now, the sportlots stuff. And if you have the opportunity to start with a standalone Stadium Club card that increases one player collection by a sing...
Cardboard History

Return to 'Tender - Ever since going to the Rhinebeck car show early in May, I've been on a 60s music kick again. (as an aside, car shows play the best music) And of course...
Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Wood vs. Wood #347 - Last time it was a 7-0 win for 1962. Will 1987 get on the board here? Chuck Hinton poses with his bat at Yankee Stadium, with the big flag in centerfield...
Diamond Jesters

Climbing The Ranks With Manny Ramirez - Johnny (Johnny's Trading Spot) has been culling through his collection and shortening the list of players he collects. He's been generously sending out tho...
Padrographs; Abner to Zimmer

Ohio Tim picks #614 - *The Coaches: *Jack Krol, Harry Dunlop, Deacon Jones, Galen Cisco and Ozzie Virgil, Sr. *The Card: *1985 Mothers Cookies, #27 *How I got it: *By sending i...
Nachos Grande

TCDB Monday: Another New-to-Me Larkin Card (from a Confusing Set)! - Last week was a slow week on the trading front. I completed one sale and one trade. For the trade, I sent away a Barry Larkin short print, plus a few more...
John's Big League Baseball Blog

McGonigle on Monday - The Tigers bullpen blew up in the last two games vs KC at home. Rookie shortstop/3rd Baseman Kevin McGonigle collected two base hits and a walk yesterday....
WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

AS REQUESTED: NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION: 1969 DICK KENWORTHY - Fun card to create based off a short discussion on "X" the other day, a 1969 "not so missing" card for Dick Kenworthy, which has a bit of a twist: You see...
Torren' Up Cards

Enough Beating Around the Bush - There are certain things that seem "wrong" to say. Saying that one bought multiple T206es in one swoop is probably one of them. Or at least that was alw...
Lifetime Topps project

Saturdays Suds: Baseball & Beer #105 Monument City Simply A.J. - Man, it’s been forever! And I don’t know when I’ll get back to regular posting – but I had to jump on now. I just got back from our annual trip to St. Mi...
Japanese Baseball Cards

Card Of The Week July 26 - The big news this past week is that Samurai Japan has picked their new manager - former Fukuoka Daiei Hawk and Chiba Lotte Marine Tadahito Iguchi. Iguch...
My Sports Obsession

Happy Birthday - Brad Hawkins - Brad was born on this day in 1998, making him 28 today. NFL Debut - n/a Years Active - n/a Cards on TCDB - 42 cards (2026), 42 cards (2025), 42 cards (2...
The Greatest 21 Days

L.V. Powell ran to first fast, saw 2 pro seasons, high-A - Long Beach Polytechnic's L.V. Powell impressed scout Ray Griffin in June 1988, according The Los Angeles Times. In a feature on Griffin, The Times spoke ...
Dawg Day Cards

New Sportlots shipment - pre-expansion cards - I recently received a nice Sportlots shipment of some orders that had been stored for box shipment. The next couple of posts will cover some of the cards...
Sports Memorabilia News

Notes: Signed Jackie RC Brings $1.86M; Soccer Sales; New Wilt Warmup Owner; Neal deGrasse Tyson and Clyde’s Shoes; More - Record prices for a Jackie Robinson rookie and a Lamine Yamal rarity...the owner of the Wilt Chamberlain warmup bought for $3 at Goodwill is revealed...Nea...
Too Many Verlanders

6/5/26 card show report: the appetizer - I'm back from a quick vacation down south (possibly more on that in a future post as it did involve a baseball game and related card purchase), and tonig...
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...
Sport Card Collectors

Rodney's Cardboard:2026 Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson Battle Arena Hot Rod - Out of all of the Rodney Hampton chases I have done, this may be the most insane one yet and the most confusing one. I recently discovered that in the new ...
A Pack To Be Named Later

1988-89 Pacific MISL - Here we have a pack of 1988-89 Pacific MISL soccer cards. The wrapper is traditional wax of the time and the most obvious feature is the sticker they pi...
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...
Puck Junk

Video: 2025-26 SP Game Used Hockey Box Break - Sal Barry of the Puck Junk Podcast opens a box of 2025-26 SP Game Used Hockey cards. Each box contains nine cards – including four hits, which can be aut...
Oilpressure

The First IndyCar Charter Has Sold - For the first time in the short history of the charter era of the NTT IndyCar Series, a charter has been sold. No, it’s not to PREMA or some new team you’v...
Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

Four cards for Three sets - As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm getting back into baseball cards (TM!) this year via 1970s Calbees, which have been my favorite kind of cards si...
The Collective Mind

Retro Blog Bat Around: Who Do You Think Of First? - NFL Edition - Was just perusing my old posts (as I did quite often...at work. LOL) and realized that I had done the Bat Around for the MLB on which player comes to mi...
COMC Blog

Direct 2 eBay Live: The Fastest Way to Turn Your Cards into Cash! - Selling sports cards should be exciting, not a second full-time job. The time it takes to sort, image, identify, list, and ship individual cards can quickl...
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...
Not Another Baseball Card Blog

Duane Ward - Hello Friends! Today I have a sad topic. Over this weekend, Duane Ward passed away while in Toronto for the celebration of the 92/93 teams. Above is...
Cardboard Catastrophes

New Collection - I am still struggling with the Bob Feller post, though it is no fault of the commenters on my previous post. There were good suggestions there. I am mor...
1960s Baseball

RIP - Ron Hunt - Ron Hunt, a 2nd baseman for the Mets, Dodgers, Giants, and Expos, passed away on July 15, 2026 at age 85.
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, ...
The Topps Archives

Topps Topics: Studies in Uncut Sheet Arrays - 1969 to 1972 - Presenting part five of an ongoing series examining the use of short prints and double prints by Topps in their vintage era; part one can be found HER...
bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog

Adventures in Trading: Would This Count as a Trade, or a Giveaway??? - We just returned from our trip to San Antonio, TX. Let me tell you, the heat that we were expecting showed up for one day, but the rest of the time, it rai...
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...
Baseball Card Breakdown

P-town Tom - Where Are They Now? - Here's an idea I've been kicking around for a while: A blog series checking in with some of my favorite former/dormant cardbloggers. To me, the glory day...
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...
Card Buzz

Busying myself up with my cheat sheet leaderboards updates - *Maybe a summer project is to get control of the bulk cards I hoard by players* - to give me the illusion I am still doing a thing, especially when some d...
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...
Cards on Cards

New and Old Wave - *A surprise mailer of cards from the spring.* Back in April I was the lucky recipient of another interesting package of cards from Padrographs. I've been...
SABR Baseball Cards

Cardboard Crosswalk: 1933 Goudey and 1952 Topps - One of my favorite baseball card trivia questions concerns the four subjects with cards in both the T206 and 1933 Goudey sets, issued more than 20 years ap...
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...
Tim Wallach

Bulletin Board Material - *Bulletin Board Material* The above is a photo of the bulletin board in my office. For years I've wanted to pin a Topps card from every year since '52...
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...
fivecardguys

PSA vs CGC Grading: Is the Charizard 151 SIR Better Bet with CGC in 2026 - You just pulled a clean Charizard ex #199 Special Illustration Rare (SIR) from Pokémon Scarlet & Violet 151. It looks flawless. Naturally, your first insti...
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 ...
Number 5 Type Collection

Cinco de Mayo team lots giveaway (almost done by June 22) - *June 22 update:* MLB teams are down to Astros and White Sox, plus several SI for Kids sports. *June 10 update:* MLB teams are down to Astros, White Sox,...
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...
Section 36

Was All That Really Necessary? - I've heard of teams firing their manager. They even sometimes fire their hitting coach. Or the assistant hitting coach. They don't fire their bench coach ...
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...
Pre-War Card Magazine

Prewar Premiums: REA Spring Catalog Auction Highlights - Explore top highlights from the 2026 REA Spring Catalog Auction, including a newly discovered playing-era Ruth, and iconic Gehrig & Cobb examples. The po...
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...
LV's TTM autographs and Baseball Cards

March TTMs - Will Wilson Signed 2/2 Sent c/o Mariners ST 13 days Matt Brash Signed 2/2 Sent c/o Seattle Mariners 241 days
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 ...
The Real DFG

The Thrill Of The Chase - A version of this article originally appeared on Puck Junk Aug 6, 2024 As Marvin Gaye once pined, "Life Is A Gamble". If you know that obscure song (more o...
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:...
Baseball Happenings

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