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C.A.: 1994 Topps Kevin Wickander - *(Welcome to what's annually my favorite week of the year, a week where all the things I like converge within seven glorious days. Maybe we'll get into mor...
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The Contest - *The Contest* is one of the funniest and most popular *Seinfeld* episodes of all-time. And it's the perfect lead-in for today's Sunday Sort topic: cont...
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2021 Rittenhouse Game of Thrones Iron Anniversary Series 2 Arya Stark Subset - Yesterday, I posted my Game of Thrones thoughts and Arya Stark was my favorite character from the show. I really like how Maisie Williams played the char...
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6 Years of Mischief - My little troublemaker turns 6 today, so as with the past few years, I'm highlighting the newest cards in her 7/12 slider box. As before, please don't ...
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The 1989-90 OPC Hockey Sticker Album Project: Packs 13–18 - *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 ...
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P-town Tom - Where Are They Now? - Here's an idea I've been kicking around for a while: A blog series checking in with some of my favorite former/dormant cardbloggers. To me, the glory day...
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The Red Sox Free Agent All-Stars! (2026 Update) - Over the weekend, MLB announced the full AL and NL squads for this year's All-Star game. Three Red Sox players made this year's team: starting pitcher Ra...
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Looks like we made it! The Last Day! Finally here, we did it! - *We made the week or at least through it. As a reminder there is no telling what all you will find here tonight in this 4th Celebration post for America...
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(Zack) Wheat Wednesday: El Principe De Gales, The Sexiest of T206s Backs! - Today's Zack Wheat pickup was an auction house score a couple of years back. I don't recall which auction house, but I felt the price was fair for a toug...
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Clemente’s Corner: The Pros and Cons of Fanatics Buying Upper Deck - As Fanatics continues its rapid expansion across the sports collectibles market, speculation about potential future acquisitions have become a regular to...
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New People May and June 2026 - When I went to compose the June new people post, I realized that I forgot to write a post for May. Oops. I can't remember if I have forgotten in the pas...
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World Cup Contest Update - Through the Group Stage: John Sharp: 11 Batting Out of Order: 10 bbcardz: 10 Jafronius: 10 Everybody slept on Switzerland.
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New and Old Wave - *A surprise mailer of cards from the spring.* Back in April I was the lucky recipient of another interesting package of cards from Padrographs. I've been...
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Pack Animal: 2026 Donruss Fat Pack - Recent Donruss sets have been a mixed bag… Last year’s design was painful, but I liked previous sets well enough to bust some wax when I found some ‘Value ...
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2026 Topps Heritage Fat Pack - Greetings! Hope everyone is doing well. We're a month into the baseball season, the NBA and NHL playoffs are moving into the second round, and the NFL dra...
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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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5 comments:
I'm going to try and get all the Sox now cards this year. Being the first year. Next year will be a different story
Nice job. I regret not pulling the trigger on this one. Even my wife is like, Why didn't you buy that?? Now they're way too expensive on eBay. Oh well, live and learn!
Nice! Time will tell if I regret not pulling the trigger myself.
I like this idea from Topps, great marketing move, taking advantage of that collecting bug.
Wow... can't believe how much these are selling for. Kudos to all of those who ended up grabbing these when they had the chance.
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