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Legends for less - It's almost nothing to own cards of retired players, so-called "legends cards," these days. Thanks to the MLB-Topps agreement, legends are included in v...
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2025 Adventures in Repacks - Part 13 - Dollarama Duals - 'tis the perfect Sunday for a couple baseball repacks from Dollarama. This one is up first. That 1996 Donruss design with the foil square just seems like it ...
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Random Wax: 2023 NASCAR Donruss - 2023 Donruss: NASCAR is back on the track this week after taking a week off. They'll be at the Talladega Superspeedway. Chase Elliott is on this Race Ki...
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A Baseball Card and a Baseball Glove - What do you think about when you look at the player on this card? If you grew up a baseball fan in the '70s or '80s, you might think of a slick-field...
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Unexpected Expenses & Surprises - Life is full of unexpected expenses and surprises. Last month it was repairing my AC unit. Yesterday it was replacing the alternator in my daily driver. ...
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Random Draws From The 2025 COMC Box, Part 7 - The general idea behind this series of posts is that I literally draw cards out of a box I got from COMC, and then I write about them. I’m tagging each of...
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2025 Topps Series 1 Retail - Greetings! Hope everyone had a nice Easter. Opening Day Part Deux has passed and the National Pastime is back in full force. The Chicago Cubs blasted a...
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SHADOW SHOTS plus a RANT - *Let's get the rant out of the way. Topps did it again. Yep.... just like the Topps Flagship release the 2025 Bowman is out at the Bowman Chrome Prospec...
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Scoring from My Dealer - Grabbed two fat packs of 2024 - 25 Donruss Basketball from Wally World. Let's look at some highlights. - Maybe Joel Embid will stay healthy next s...
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Trapped In Time: Remnants Of The 121st - 125th Trades - It's time to cull some more poor wayward cards who have failed to generate interest amongst the time travelers. I have 8 cards whose fate is in your ha...
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Serial lot winner - The winner of the serial numbered cards is...With a guess of 72,222...Jeff B!!!!!The actual correct total of the serial numbers was 71384....Jeff also got...
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hey nineteen - I've been having a rough go of it since my last post. I had a doctor visit a couple weeks ago, just a check-up and to get the ball rolling on scheduling ...
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Featuring Alan Foster - *Another nice set of Cardinals, tobacco-style minis, and other ephemera.* If I was smart enough to have tagged everyone in every trade post over the yea...
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Are you a parallel? - I love parallels. I know most of the hobby does not, but I do. What I absolutely hate- and would eliminate from existence if I could - are different car...
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Clemente’s Corner: Alex Ovechkin’s Record-Breaking Goal Fuels Demand for His Memorabilia - Alex Ovechkin’s historic achievement of becoming the NHL’s all-time leading scorer has not only captured the attention of hockey fans around the world – ...
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Organizing and Reorganizing - Watching card content on social media and YouTube these days, I feel like a total Old Guy. So many folks got back into collecting during COVID--at the sa...
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Trade Me Anything XVIII: #6 - Trades like the one I'm about to share are actually my favorite. A few cards sent, a few cards gained, and I get to delete a little bit from my want list....
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WALLET CARD - A Mello-Minty Smile - I've said it before and I'll say it again....my Oscar Gamble PC is the most fun project I've ever worked on in this hobby. Smile on my face - brimming wi...
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Updating a 10-Year-Old Post: My Roy Campanella Rookie Looks Different - Ten and a half years ago I posted about acquiring a grail Roy Campanella card: his 1949 Bowman Rookie. I was absolutely thrilled to land it and since I hav...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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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As a Tigers fan, I hate the Yankees....but as a Tigers fan, I am fearful of the O's in the next round....very torn on this one!
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