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Embracing the villain - For the second straight year, and the fourth time in five years, the Dodgers have reached the League Championship Series. Many fans -- I have been made...
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A Cheap Storage Alternative Find - When you're a low-budget collector like myself, sometimes you need to think outside the box. I found something that I personally thought was worth sharing ...
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Slender Man (2018) - Slender Man came out in 2018. When I saw it pop up on my horror search, I wanted to give it a try. It is alright. Not great. Fairly easy watch but for so...
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1996 Collect-A-Card The Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The McDonaldland 500 - Greetings! Hope everyone's doing well. Yesterday was the 14th anniversary of my first post here on APTBNL and as per tradition, I go with a non-sports pac...
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The Saturday visit - *In case you missed it, Saturday before last I changed my plans from attending a card show in Tampa to back to back visits to my LCS: Grand Slam Collect...
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Memoirs of a Hoarder: Catching Gators - Some athlete's deaths hit harder than others. When I read about Mike Greenwell passing away on Thursday, it took me back to the late 80's. There was a ...
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Cheapo show - I finally found a show with an interesting cheap box. Now I wouldn't say that this was a 'good show'. No, it was about 2/3 Pokemon of similar, which is o...
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Resume Fire - Canada Post has switched from a complete walkout to rotating strikes, meaning that things will take longer, but will arrive eventually. So, send away! O...
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Reuschel Brothers - It's 1975. And here you are, pitching at Triple-A Wichita, pushing hard to get to the big leagues. Your little brother Rick made it to The Show a couple ...
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Set Completion Carousel - I wanted to jog through a couple sets that I've recently completed, as well as a couple other sets I've started with help from near-complete starters. *Joy...
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MY COLLECTION - Sitting Down With Purpose To Do Some Blogging - Happy Saturday all....long time. Hope all is well. I woke up this morning and in the midst of scrolling through some social media and eBay listings, stum...
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Good Luck Ducks, Week 7: Indy Vibes - *Oregon is back on their home turf in another Top Ten battle.* The Ducks are coming off of a much needed bye week today, but the goal ahead of them isn't...
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Time Traveling - Another trade with Matty K. - 3x All-Star. 3 Gold Gloves. - Phillies legend. 3x All-Star. 16 Gold Gloves. Hall of Famer. - 19x Al...
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Clemente’s Corner: Revisiting the 1985-86 7-Eleven Hockey Card Set - The 1985-86 7-Eleven “NHL Collectors’ Series” hockey card set is a distinctive and nostalgic release from the mid-1980s, produced during the start of wha...
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Down The Rabbit Hole Of Mid-70s Topps Uncut Sheets - I’ll warn you up front… This post is nerdy, rambling, fairly pointless and doesn’t come to any real conclusions. It’s largely about “Oooh, look at these u...
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New People September 2025 - September was a pretty light month for me card wise. I spent most of the month doing model stuff. The season is almost over for painting, by the end of ...
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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...
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CC: CMYK - We're still doing this, huh? Any by this, I mean this blog, which hasn't been updated since January. And by this I also mean that I'm finding CC Sabathia...
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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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