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Johnny Canuck! - Nothing much for this post - just a pair of cards featuring the full-time Abbotsford Canucks sweater logo, and occasional Vancouver Canucks one as well...
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Saturday Shadow Shots - *I hope everyone is enjoying the start of the 2025 baseball season. I'm not as my Braves are off to 0-2 start. I can't say I'm surprised, but still I ha...
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Big, Bigger, and Biggest - Opening Day has come and gone. I've been working on a post related to it for about a week. Hope to finish it up over the weekend and publish it in a few ...
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Contest Winners - There was a tie between Bo and Poison75, with 4 points. (9 - 5) Kind of surprised there wasn't more variance in the number of picks people made. But it...
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2024 Upper Deck Marvel Studios Series 2: Cinematic Blaster - Studios Cinematic 2024: Chris Hemsworth does a great Thor. I've always been a fan of his character though I do believe his character went too far with the...
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A Look at the Culture of a Boston University Hockey Game - It is well known that college football is almost like a religion in the southern United States and in Texas. In the Midwest and the Carolinas, college ba...
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Dodger fan to Dodger fan - A couple of housekeeping things before I get to the topic tonight. First, I've figured out the issues I've had with commenting on some other blogs as we...
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6 Degrees Of Raffy: The Roger Clemens Connection - It's time for another installment ("aka filler post") of 6 Degrees Of Raffy, where I connect a beloved card from my collection and connect the player depi...
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Dead Parrot Frankenset: Enter The Coyotes - This is the latest in a sporadic series on an ongoing project, a “Dead Parrot” Frankenset which features cards of NHL and WHA teams which are no more, whic...
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COMC haul misc - Happy Opening Day, everybody. I recently got another shipment from COMC and I've been meaning to show off some highlights. Some refractors that caught m...
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2024 Panini Prestige Value Pack - Greetings! Hope everyone is doing well. Yes, baseball season and March Madness is upon us, but I had taken pictures of this pack of football cards with th...
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Set Build(?) 1991-92 Score Canadian Bilingual Hockey Series 1 - Last month I shared my first couple of experiences buying cards on Facebook Marketplace. Things went well, and now I'm three junk wax boxes richer. What ...
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Cards from Oren and a Final Contest Reminder! - *Don't forget to fill out your bracket! And let's check out some terrific cards from Oren. * We're less than 24 hours away from the start of the big NC...
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Unexpected mail days are the best mail days! - With the wrist injury I've been dealing with for 2+ years now I haven't been trading so mail days are pretty few and far between. I wasn't expecting any...
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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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Tom Silardi? A show recap. - The recent card show produced some pretty fun stuff. Here's a sampling:1 Beltre refractor, #d /660. This kind of card I would take all day long.2 Teddy ...
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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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