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2023-2024 Panini Revolution Basketball Winter Tin - 23-24 Revolution: These tins have been on the shelves for some time, but I didn't bite until now. We'll kick it off with Steph Curry. He and the Warrior...
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A lot dumber than I thought - First off, thanks to those who showed me the way on TCDB for the 1977-79 Sportscaster cards. I received responses via the comments, email and on social ...
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Isn't Ormond beautiful? - *At least the cards I bring back from over there? Here are some more PC gets, and while I am at it might as well update on my PC progress. Been out of p...
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Flea Market Finds #166: Cards, Cards, & Chicken - I was able to take two quick trips to local flea markets the week before and the week after my trip to Hawaii. Neither produced any super deals, but I did...
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Vintage Frankenset Page 5 - Back in 2020, I got the idea for a frankenset to give purpose to many of the random old cards that didn't really have a solid "home" in my collection. Pl...
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Everything Football (Almost) - Expo Post #6 - The run of Expo posts draws to a close as I kinda, sorta wrap things up with football content. I love cards with a weather element to the photo. For foot...
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Let’s Pretend I Went To A Sportscard Show This Past Weekend - I’ve been trying to post something here at least once a week, but this week I’m having trouble getting my thoughts squared away on a couple of posts I’ve b...
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Repack Haiku #386 (Dan Walters) - *Officer Walters* *Died from injuries received* *During a shootout* 1993 Topps #273 Dan Walters (RC) Walters joined the San Diego Police Department after...
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A Smorgasbord! Kraft Dinners (Hockey) - *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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Good Luck Ducks, Week 12: More Like... - *Oregon faces their final road test of the season in their penultimate conference game. * I probably say this every year at this time, but man, this col...
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Puck Junk Podcast: Fall 2024 Sport Card Expo Toronto Recap - Episode #205: November 15, 2024 Sal and Clemente talk about going to last weekend’s Fall 2024 Sport Card Expo in Toronto – including what they saw, what ...
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Trade Me Anything XVIII: The Keepers - As you probably know, not every card from my annual Update box is available for trade. It's been a while since getting anything really good (remembering a...
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MY COLLECTION - Finally Disposing Of This Piece Of Paper - Cleaning off my desk last night and I (once again) came across this faded, barely sticky Post-It note reminding me of some very valuable information abou...
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Scoring from My Dealer - Was in the area of Walhalla, so I stopped in for some cold brew coffee. Grabbed a "pack" of Score-A-Treat football cards while there. - A lot o...
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Major, Major Milestone - I knew it was coming but I didn't know when it would be. It was a long journey to get to this point, starting all the way back in February 1996. I knew ...
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Serial Stack 2 - the Winner! - **First things first... I recently had a generous fellow blogger contact me to ask if I had received a PWE he had sent me. Unfortunately, I did not, the c...
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Top 15 from COMC - In news that should surprise no one, I received another COMC order last week. This haul was a bit smaller than my usual massive (but still north of 100 ...
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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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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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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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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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