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The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 20-1) - This is it. The final episode of the 1975 Topps worst-to-best countdown. This series lasted a little longer than I had intended. Those who wanted me to...
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LISTEN UP. What I was supposed to do this weekend and didn't. - *CONTEST PIMP FOR THE DIAMON KING* *CONTEST LINK* *Many of us (card collector's) know that the reality of ever attending a NATIONAL is close to nil. ...
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Getting a jump on the Holidays - Christmas decorations typically don't go up at my house till mid December, but this year I'm getting an early infusion of holiday spirit thanks to focusi...
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Serial stack contest - part 2 - I had a lot of fun with my previous mini-contest to give away a stack of serial numbered cards. So much so that I have been accumulating another stack for...
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Hockey Sticks - A few months ago I shared some baseball cards from the 1980s and 1990s that clearly showed various bat brands of the era, along with some players who wer...
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Saturday Night Five: The 2024 World Series Champions - Last night was our first dance of the year. About halfway through it... one of my students came up to me with tears in her eyes. She was absolutely heart...
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Good Luck Ducks, Week 10: Quack in The Big House - *Oregon heads to Ann Arbor to take on the defending champs. * The Ducks bolstered their #1 standing with an impressive takedown of Illinois last Saturda...
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The All-Time Red Sox/Dodgers Lineup 2.0 - One good thing about the Dodgers winning the first three games of the World Series is that I got to work on this post earlier than expected... First of a...
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2023-24 Panini Haunted Hoops - Greetings! Hope everyone enjoyed Halloween 2024. Back in 2022, Halloween-themed Pokemon cards were released, which caused a mini-frenzy amongst collector...
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Breaking Down the Breakdown Box - I finished listing the cards I showed in the previous post from Gavin of Baseball Card Breakdown. I'll take anything, and he had some stuff he wanted to ge...
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Nothin’ Shakin’ But The Leaves On The Trees - The baseball season effectively ended for me when the Mets lost game 6 of the NLCS to the Dodgers. On a very high level I’m rooting against the Yankees in...
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Puck Junk Podcast: 2023-24 O-Pee-Chee Platinum Hockey Cards - Episode #203: October 19, 2024 In this episode of the Puck Junk Podcast, the guys talk about the 2023-24 O-Pee-Chee Platinum Hockey set. At almost $300 p...
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The Joyless Collector - If there's one thing I never want to become, it's The Joyless Collector. I see them all the time at card shows: the people who walk around grumbling, fl...
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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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Allen & Ginter: Arms of All Nations - I picked up another random 1800s Ginter card to add to my small PC of O.G Ginter Goodness. The Twitter group I belong to which focuses on non-sports and sp...
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MY COLLECTION - Celebrating 15 Years Of A Blog Called "My Hockey Card Obsession" - It was 15 years ago to the day that I sat down in front of my computer to type the first blog post for My Hockey Card Obsession. I probably spent hours a...
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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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Packs That Just Showed Up #5 - It's time for another one of these packs, and next on the pile is a pack of *2015 Topps Update Series*. Like my pants after Thanksgiving dinner, it's a goo...
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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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Still Kicking - Figured it was time to throw something up here to stop the blog from being sent to the abyss. I will say that I use the blog a lot more for research pur...
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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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Top 30 NHL Players of All-time: #27 - So what you don't know is this is round 2 of this post. As a flash back to the early days of this blog, Blogger decided to vomit out my post when I hit pub...
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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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Back, With Buybacks - It's been awhile, so who knows if anyone will even see this. I'd been posting everything on my other site, Bean's Ballcard Blog, for awhile. Then there w...
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PWEs, Accompanied by Song - I decided to write a post tonight comprised of recent PWEs that I've received in the mail lately accompanied by songs that have been randomly going around ...
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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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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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