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Mindless card accumulation, football edition - Baseball season is essentially over, and football season has begun in my household. See: Sunday afternoon, when the Bills game dominated the TV and we t...
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Just Another Maddux Monday - *Hey, last week got a few more commenters and thus spreading the odds. However, LOL RJ wins again. I think he secretly owns random.org....Just kidding ...
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I'll Allow It - While I'm not really a fan of signers abbreviating their name, at least Lorenzo Taliaferro gets away with it because trying to fit that onto a card wou...
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1953 Northland Bread Labels: Al Rosen - I used to heavily chase Al Rosen vintage cardboard and collectible-related stuff like it was going out of style. I built a very respectable Hebrew Hammer...
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Time Travel Trading Update #118 - I purposely scheduled my card giveaway the Friday before this Time Travel Trade Update - less trips to the Post Office, right? I'm excited to show of...
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Portland Trail Blazers 2026-2027 Season Preview - The Portland Trail Blazers also had a good season surprisingly winning 42 game and had a playoff play-in win over Phoenix. They lost in the first round t...
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The Japanese Jackie - Back on September 1st, 1964... Masanori Murakami became the first Japanese baseball player to play in a MLB game. His time with the San Francisco Giants o...
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The 1989-90 OPC Hockey Sticker Album Project: Packs 25–30 - *We're going back to the 1989-90 NHL season, where young Gregory Ninepockets has been bitten by the hockey bug and is attempting to complete the current ye...
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Good Luck Ducks, Week 7: Post-Disaster Recovery - *Oregon tries to pick up the pieces after a brutal loss where nothing went right.* There was a point last week where I told my partner (who definitely do...
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Gavin McKenna Surprise “Draft Pick” Card Found in Upper Deck Series One - A Little Bit of History Repeating Itself The 2026-27 Upper Deck Series One hockey card set hit hobby shops last week. Naturally, fans were looking forwar...
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2026 McDonald's KPop Demon Hunters Photocards - Greetings! Hope everyone is doing well. Posts are not coming together as quickly as I planned. When my home laptop was working, I would be able to at l...
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Cleveland Rocks - Of the 4 remaining teams this postseason, I guess I'm rooting for the Guardians to go all the way, though really I'll be happy as long as it isn't the Do...
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Time Traveling - Another trade with Matty K. - 500 Home Runs is really impressive. - English was a 1x First Team All-Pro and 4x Pro Bowl selection. ...
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Disney/Not Disney: Muppets From Topps Chrome Disney - A couple of weeks ago I was at a card show where few dealers had anything I was interested in. There was one dealer that I almost passed by until a bit of...
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September 2026 New People - September was a very light month for card stuff. VERY light. I did very little scanning, and I got even less new cards. I scanned 9 new people, includi...
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OUTSIDE THE BOX - Baseball In Full Swing - I'm sure I was one of many who were swept up in the drama and excitement of the 2025 MLB Playoffs - and a World Series for the ages. I hadn't watched muc...
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This Week In Mail - 3.8.26 - For the most part, it was a boring week via the mail. The top two items didn't show up until Friday and Saturday. Part of the "boring" start to the wee...
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Hall of Fame and Hall of ... Mirrors? - OK, I didn't have a good way to tie these cards together with a nice title, but I tried. But I am giving them away!!First up is a strange card of recent ...
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Merry Lynchmas! - *And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round them: and they were sore afraid.*
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18-Inning Heartbreak and the Hunt for Young Guns - Game 3 was another fun matchup. I watched it until maybe the 8th inning and had to hit the hay. You know, work in the morning. I figured I’d save the hig...
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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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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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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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