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2024 Card-vent Calendar: December 22 - December 22, 2024: *2023 Panini Instant #39 Dare Ogunbowale (#/87)* This is a really cool card numbered to a small amount of copies that I'm really glad I g...
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Shlabotsylvania Mall Show, December 2024 - I’ll be honest with all y’all, in my current state of mind I’m pretty much only good for “Show & Tell” posts. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just a thing. For...
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A Smorgasbord! 1977 Burger Chef Fun Meal Discs - *From the 1970s through the 1990s, it seemed like you could find your favorite baseball stars on food product packaging everywhere you looked: supermarkets...
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Highs and Lows - Today has been one helluva emotional roller coaster. Woke up excited to kick off my holiday break with a trip to the Branham High School Flea Market. How...
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Yes, he was the best - You are going to see, or you have already read, many tributes to Rickey Henderson today. A lot will discuss his mind-blowing skill on the base paths a...
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MY COLLECTION - A Couple Linden Nuggets - As we head into the final few days of 2024, I spent a little time updating my Master Checklist of Trevor Linden cards. It's been a slow year - on more th...
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Scoring from My Dealer - Stopped at Barnes & Noble and got a couple boxes of baseball cards. First, a 59-card box of 2024 Topps Baseball Update Series. - Skenes is the guy ...
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Puck Junk Podcast: The Re-Sold 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee Hockey Case - Plus: The Return of Fanatics Fest NYC Episode #207: December 20, 2024 In the last Puck Junk Podcast of 2024, the guys talk about the 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee H...
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George Washington's Plastic Tomb - Here's an update to a post from 12.5 years (!) ago. I recently sent off a small non-sports sub to the fine folks at SGC. I can drop off at a local show h...
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Christmas: Misc. A short post - *Just a hodge podge of over-sized misc. Christmas cards. A short post to get you into the weekend. Real quick on this week's giveaway: Fuji wins. And to...
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Random Wax: 1990 Donruss (3 Packs) - 1990 Donruss: This card is one of my favorites. I love the Diamond Kings from this era and this one hits all the marks. I love the Dave Stewart smile/a...
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I'm not a blogger - That's a strange title for a post on a blog, I guess. I'm blogging right now! It's more accurate to say that I'm not a good blogger. That much should b...
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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...
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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 ...
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Mark on History Indeed: 1999 Upper Deck Challengers For 70 - It was 1999, a year after the whirlwind season wherein Roger Maris’ long-time single-season home run record of 61 was shattered by not one but TWO differ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Pandemic Pretender; or, Cards for Sale! - Hey everyone - well, yeah, it has been quite a few months since I last spoke up in this space, and during that time I pretty much came to the conclusion ...
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Born in 1993 - Max Power - *You're watching the Simpsons with your daughter the other day...* "Oh! I bet you'll like the Max Power episode." I said to my daughter. "Let's see....
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Five Months of Mail Roundup! - 2021 and the start of 2022 has been busy for me and I've once again neglected the blog. I've still been buying, selling, and collecting, and I've got som...
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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...
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Sports Leagues Need to Give Out More Trading Card Licenses - Night Owl Cards published a post over on his blog talking about Target's decision to eliminate most trading card sales in their retail stores. In case yo...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Recent pickups - Look - if I don't get something posted soon, I will never do it. I spent the past two days organizing my desk, and sorting out more mailings I need to g...
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Nick’s Super Stuffed PWE of Super Stuff - It seems like Thursday is becoming my regular posting day. I hadn’t really intended it to be that way but with work being incredibly busy right now, it’s...
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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...
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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...
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Kick Up Your Feet - Here's another look inside my recent collecting habits. I've found that there has been a fair share of hockey cards featuring guys warming up on the bench...
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Meet the Brewers #44: Wayne Twitchell - As is usual in September for teams going nowhere, the 1970 Brewers called up a few guys from the minors to give them an opportunity to be around the big cl...
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HOBBY FAMILY – HELP OUT MILITARY MISSIONS IN ACTION - Yes, I'm still alive and kicking. It's been a busy start to 2019 and I don't see the rest of the year being any different. I've written three posts on Be...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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