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10 Posts, 10 Cards, 10 Books, 10 Songs (#3) - My wife has been out of town most of the week so it was the perfect time for a crack party. Now hold on. It wasn't what you just thought. You see I've ha...
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Saying goodbye to the '90s one set at a time - While I was posting all those wonderful cards shipped my way by Jonathan, I was undergoing a separate project on the side. You see, almost one entire col...
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Just one more. - Just one card tonight. I mentioned this card was en-route earlier this month. Another Braves T206 card. Have a great night!
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Signature Required - And Another Contest! - I made a big order from COMC just after the New Year, and for the first time ever a signature was required to get my mitts on it. I was a little sheepish...
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The lifespan of a blogger - When I think of my blogging life, I often recall the evolution map that was in every science textbook I had during my grammar school years. You know the ...
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Cards Every Day: February 2016 - *After getting through January, February saw the project fail. I got too overconfident, and was sure I did NOT have a card I pulled out of the exact same s...
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The Mind Works in Mysterious Ways - When I taught fifth and sixth grade, my students and I would sometimes play the Word Association Game. It's simple. A student would pick a word like " *ho...
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No Name on Front - No Name on Front cards are some of the coolest error cards out there, I'd say. There was recently some talk on Twitter of an eBay seller with a nice sele...
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COMC Haul and HOF voting: Todd Helton - The 2019 Baseball Hall of Fame voting results will be announced next week ( *finally!*) and a bunch of baseball bloggers have made a list of who would recei...
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Buyback Franken-set: 0-fer! - Time for another batch of buybacks for my Buyback Franken-set project. This time around I grabbed ten at random from my "to be processed" stash just to se...
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Too Many Hockey Cards - Looks like it is back to the recent mailer from Dennis @ Too Many Manninghams/Verlanders today. This is post #3 featuring content from it, with at least tw...
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Dead Parrot FrankenSet: Shoebox Legends Edition, Part 2 - This is the second post about the contributions that Shoebox Legends has made to my “Dead Parrot” Frankenset, a project featuring NHL and WHA teams which a...
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Review: 2017-18 Upper Deck Las Vegas Golden Knights Boxed Set - The Las Vegas Golden Knights had a very successful inaugural season, first winning 51 regular season games, then powering its way to the Stanley Cup Fina...
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LINDEN WOW OF THE WOW!!! - No Really.......WOW!!! - I've been collecting Trevor Linden cards for well over two decades now and I can say with great certainty that it is ABSOLUTELY a passion for me. Why? We...
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Poor Timing, Or Would It Even Matter? - As many of you know, two weeks from now I'll be a married man. Even though we're doing a private ceremony (my bride-to-be, her son and I), it still costs ...
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2018-19 Panini Prizm NBA - Panini's Chrome'd up NBA product really caught fire last year, and it took me awhile to talk myself into buying a blaster from this year's set considerin...
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Baseball Book Review - Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic - I just finished Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic - Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's by Jason Turbow over the weekend. It was a ...
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2017 Topps WWE Women’s Division Wrestling Cards Blaster w/Relic - I was so happy with the 2018 WWE Women's Division Women's Wrestling cards that I grabbed this 2017 WWE Women's Division Women's Wrestling blaster with my ...
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Cards and Snow - It snowed this weekend .... a lot. According to the local National Weather Service office, my town received 8 inches officially. I felt every bit of that...
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Bo Knows Street Trades - Bo Jackson? No, but close: Bo from *Baseball Cards Come to Life!* I contacted Bo last month to let him know I had a few vintage cards from his want lists....
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(Zack) Wheat Wednesday: 1925-31 W590 Strip Card Hand Cut, Slabbed an SGC 2! - I recently added a tough strip card to my Zack Wheat Collection via a hard-fought eBay auction held by one of the bigger consignors on the site. I didn't r...
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Why Collect at all? - Reading back my previous post on my collecting goals for 2019 got me thinking about not just what to collect, but also why I collect. I wrote the previous ...
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Top Pulls of 2018 : #1 - Card: *2018 Topps NXT #A-AB Aleister Black AUTO Bronze Parallel (58/99)* From: Hobby Box Why I Like It: This stereotypical Holland-born WWE wrestler (Wait,...
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Be True To Your School - I don't mean to sound braggadocios, but I have had some pretty good luck when it comes to autograph hunting at my local thrift stores and other secondhand ...
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When You Don't Pay Attention to Those Pesky Details - A few years ago, when I was in the middle of a pretty dumb idea that turned out pretty well, I stumbled across a Steven Stamkos card that I had no idea exi...
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Singing The Blues - I've been really into the IIHF World Juniors; because of my brief venture in collecting 2017 NHL Draft autographs a while back, I'm familiar with a lot of ...
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Happy Holidays - Whatever you celebrate, if you do, may it be a good time. I will be posting soon, I swear.
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2000 Ultra: More Stadium Club Than Stadium Club - In 1991 Topps gave us the first Stadium Club set and Fleer the first Ultra set. In 2000, amid bankruptcies and acquisitions and a whole lot of scaling ba...
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An Ugly Hockey Card - Peter at Baseball Every Night is holding an "Ugly Sweater" Ugly Baseball Card Contest. This 1969-70 Topps Hockey card was the first I thought of. Topps pu...
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Group Break Scammed? Cool Story, Bro. - If you’re reading this, you know I have a website. You can also find me on YouTube and sometimes on other hobby related sites like Continue reading The ...
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Why I Like Repacks Better - You must have seen these at WalMart. For $19.99 you get ten "Factory Sealed Packs Inside!". Plus that's not all. You thought "The Exorcist" was scary...t...
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Hello Neighbor - Hard to believe its been close to four months since I announced my blogging retirement. I do miss it, but the work reasons I cited for leaving are still v...
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Page 2: Topps Binder Project - While I am naming this post “Page 2”, it necessarily won’t be the second page in this binder, that is reserved for something later. The page numbers above ...
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Big League Surprise - For several weeks, I've been hot on the trail of retail Stadium Club and each time I've searched another Target or Walmart for those elusive blasters/jumbo...
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Parade of 53-54 Parkhurst Day 6 - Bert Olmstead - Next up is Dirty Bertie. The one award that was always out of reach for Bert Olmstead was the Lady Byng and I am more than sure he was fine with that. Ever...
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Cardboard Jones Sends Out Dairy Cards and Autographs - One of the first guys I ever interacted with and traded with is Steve a/k/a Cardboard Jones f/k/a The Chop Keeper. I especially appreciate his interaction ...
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Vintage Fridays: Pat Dobson, 1973 Topps #34 - Poor Pat Dobson. He pitched for the Orioles for two seasons, and had three Topps cards as an Oriole...and they were all highly unflattering. Since the O's...
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1994 Milwaukee Wave Promo Pack - This pack was likely received as an arena giveaway. It's one of those things that my parents find in a shoebox when they're doing some cleaning, and they...
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Moving On - Sad to say, but the sands in my blogging hour glass are dwindling. I've barely got the time to sit down and compose anything worthwhile, and I've become...
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The What Was I Thinking Files - 1994-95 Be A Player Autos - Have you ever forked over your hard earned money for cards you don't even really like? Odds are if you're a player or team collector you're familiar with ...
My Pack Rips
- 1977-78 Topps Hockey
- 1978-79 Topps Hockey
- 1982 Donruss The Dark Crystal
- 1982 Topps Baseball (Rack Pack)
- 1982 Topps Football
- 1983 Topps Football
- 1984 Topps Masters of the Universe
- 1987 Topps WWF Wrestling
- 1988-89 O-Pee-Chee Hockey
- 1989-90 Topps Hockey
- 1990-91 Topps Hockey
- 1991 Fleer Football
- 1991-92 O-Pee-Chee Hockey
- 1991-92 Upper Deck Hockey
- 1992 Upper Deck High Series Baseball
- 1993-94 Fleer Ultra Series 1 Hockey
- 1995 Topps Embossed Baseball
- 1996 Upper Deck Collector's Choice
- 1996 Upper Deck Series 1 Baseball
- 1997 Topps Stadium Club Series 2 Baseball
- 1997 Upper Deck Series 1 Baseball
- 1998 Topps Stadium Club Baseball
- 1998 Upper Deck Collector's Choice Series 1 Baseball
- 1998 Upper Deck Series 3 Baseball
- 2000 Skybox Metal Baseball
- 2002 Donruss Originals Baseball
- 2002 Topps Ten Baseball
- 2007-08 In the Game Between the Pipes
- 2008 Goudey Baseball
- 2008 Upper Deck A Piece of History Baseball
- 2008 Upper Deck Heroes Baseball
- 2008 Upper Deck Spectrum Baseball
- 2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Hockey
- 2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Hockey (Rack Pack)
- 2008-09 Upper Deck Champs Hockey
- 2008-09 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey
- 2008-09 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey
- 2009-10 Fleer Ultra Hockey
- 2011-12 Upper Deck Victory Hockey
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The "Golden Treasure" repack box that my parents gifted me on Christmas has been fun to rip through, and has provided me with cont... -
Last month I was the recipient of a wonderful and completely unexpected batch of cards from my hobby friend Kin Kinsley. Kin included a wi... -
Time for the third installment of pack rips from this Golden Treasures repack I was gifted courtesy of my parents on Christmas. You can v... -
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I've been going strong with the 1989-90 hockey autographs in the early part of the year, and this Sunday I have yet another to feature..... -
A while back now I did a series of three posts where I selected my top 60 hockey cards. I had a lot of fun putting the list together, and t... -
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Let's take advantage of a rainy Saturday here at Shoebox Legends World Headquarters, and look at the next three packs from the "Gol...
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