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Flea Market Finds #183: Binders & Sets - Saturday's trip to Branham Flea Market was cancelled due to poor weather. On the surface that kind of sucks, because I potentially missed out on some flea ...
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Random Wax: 2024 Topps Baseball Hanger Box - 2024 Topps: He's like "what, no more baseball until 2026?". Randy Arozarena is now in Seattle and put up a career-high 27 home runs for the surprising M...
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Not licensed to drive - A couple weeks ago reports came out that Panini America is looking to sell. While this barely causes me to shrug my shoulders, considering its output in...
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Hooping for the Holidays - Christmas Day is associated with cards for me. Ever since I can remember, my family has given me cards for Christmas, and I usually spend most of Christ...
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The Greatest Red Sox To Have Played With Clayton Kershaw - 2025 Topps Now #734 Clayton Kershaw While doing my last post, I did some research and discovered that Dodger great Clayton Kershaw played with exactly...
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I Am Nearly 50% Complete On My 1962 Mars Attacks PSA 4 Set Build! - It's been too long since I posted an update for my 1962 Mars Attacks PSA 4 Set Build, and I just so happen to have two sitting patiently in my "to deal wit...
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This is a first. 2024 Dream Order. Japanese baseball trading card game in the cheap boxes. - *Last week I posted about me dropping in my LCS for a quickie. I had mentioned that I found some interesting cards in the quarter boxes. Cutting straigh...
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Topps Minus 50: November 17-22, 1975 - This is the latest in my Topps Minus 50 series which addresses transactions and other events within Major League Baseball which might have had an affect on...
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Bulky cards for the Holidays - Isn't it nice to go to the mailbox and find unexpected cards from a friend waiting for you there? I'm thinking that there should be more cards being sent...
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Fun With Licensing - I amuse easily. I note that Panini was aware enough to realize that they didn't have the license for the Belmont Bruins, so they were forced to Photosh...
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Completed Set: 1980 Topps Baseball - What is Pete Rose thinking about here? That he and his Phillies—Schmidt, Luzinski, Trillo, Maddox, Carlton, and company—have a shot at the World Serie...
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Good Luck Ducks, Week 12: Gopher Guts - *It's a Friday night party as Mighty Oregon hosts some greasy and grimies.* We're already three-quarters of the way through the college football schedule...
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Puck Junk Podcast: 2024-25 PWHL Hockey Cards - Plus: Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2025 Episode #230: November 12, 2025 Sal, Tim, and Clemente give their review of the 2024-25 PWHL hockey card set. Plu...
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Time Traveling - Another trade with Matty K. - 3x All-Star. 442 Home Runs. A few Strike-Outs as well. - Dominant. - Won 5 consecutive Grey Cups wit...
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Topps Retired Triad: Refractorless Edition - Time now for another trio of Topps Retired pickups. Often when I do one of these "Triad" posts, it consists of 3 refractor autographs. But no rainbow shi...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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