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Should I go for three? - So I grabbed a blaster of 2025 Heritage when I was at Dave and Adam's last week. I know they're not called "blasters" anymore but it's still the word I ...
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Scoring from My Dealer - Bought a blaster box of 2025 Topps Baseball from Barnes & Noble. - I feel like Jose Ramirez keeps showing up. Not just this season, b...
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High numbers mess - While visiting my brother in Boise a few weeks ago, he insisted that we buy some baseball cards. We went down to a store called Scheels, which is kind of...
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TCDB Trade Recap: Cards From Napersville, IL - Today is officially the 8th Anniversary of this blog! What a wild ride it's been. I had planned to do something bigger in terms of a celebratory post, but ...
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2025 Adventures in Repacks - Part 13 - Dollarama Duals - 'tis the perfect Sunday for a couple baseball repacks from Dollarama. This one is up first. That 1996 Donruss design with the foil square just seems like it ...
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2000's Braves: the second half. - *Well here we are. I did find myself perusing the Tampa card show (let's hope I don't get sick again). I didn't get a lot, but I did get a little bit. M...
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Random Wax: 2023 NASCAR Donruss - 2023 Donruss: NASCAR is back on the track this week after taking a week off. They'll be at the Talladega Superspeedway. Chase Elliott is on this Race Ki...
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A Baseball Card and a Baseball Glove - What do you think about when you look at the player on this card? If you grew up a baseball fan in the '70s or '80s, you might think of a slick-field...
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Unexpected Expenses & Surprises - Life is full of unexpected expenses and surprises. Last month it was repairing my AC unit. Yesterday it was replacing the alternator in my daily driver. ...
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Random Draws From The 2025 COMC Box, Part 7 - The general idea behind this series of posts is that I literally draw cards out of a box I got from COMC, and then I write about them. I’m tagging each of...
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2025 Topps Series 1 Retail - Greetings! Hope everyone had a nice Easter. Opening Day Part Deux has passed and the National Pastime is back in full force. The Chicago Cubs blasted a...
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hey nineteen - I've been having a rough go of it since my last post. I had a doctor visit a couple weeks ago, just a check-up and to get the ball rolling on scheduling ...
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Featuring Alan Foster - *Another nice set of Cardinals, tobacco-style minis, and other ephemera.* If I was smart enough to have tagged everyone in every trade post over the yea...
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Are you a parallel? - I love parallels. I know most of the hobby does not, but I do. What I absolutely hate- and would eliminate from existence if I could - are different car...
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Clemente’s Corner: Alex Ovechkin’s Record-Breaking Goal Fuels Demand for His Memorabilia - Alex Ovechkin’s historic achievement of becoming the NHL’s all-time leading scorer has not only captured the attention of hockey fans around the world – ...
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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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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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Merry Christmas to you too Shane! I love that card and own like 8 of them. I even pulled a French version recently in a repack and love it that much more!
Hope you had a great day with you and yours and I look forward to another year of great posts. You are one of our community's best!
Thanks Dave! Hope you enjoyed your holiday as well, and looking forward to exchanging more cards with you and reading more Wax Stain Rookie posts in 2015!
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