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Catching Up - I'm back! Did you miss me? Alright, first things first - my wife is doing excellent! The surgery went smoothly and she was home the following day. The path...
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Minding my p's and q's ... and r's and s's - I'm long overdue in showing off the latest card bombing from Johnny's Trading Spot. Per usual, he's been updating his collection alphabetically and fin...
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Shall we dance? - *Let's not and instead I bring you the remaining Braves cards from the Sport Lots box order. * *these heritage tells you just how long I had these c...
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2026 Adventures in Repacks - Part 15 - More Giant Tiger Cards - Time for another one of these! Your contents! The promised HOFer usually turns out to be a junk wax era card, so differing from that norm is a good sta...
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Puck Junk Podcast: Carolina Hurricanes are Stanley Cup Champs! - Episode #249: June 16, 2026 The Carolina Hurricanes are the 2026 Stanley Cup Champions! In this episode, Sal Barry and Clemente Lisi talk about the 2026 ...
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Random Wax: 1991-1992 SkyBox Basketball - 3 Packs - 91-92 SkyBox: Karl Malone was nothing short of a beast. The Mailman played 19 seasons and had career averages of 25/10/3 with 2 MVP trophies and 14 All-N...
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Summer Goals - It's been a few years since I have sat down and hammered out some hobby goals. But since I won't be teaching this summer, I wanted to get three hobby rela...
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2025 Series Custom Cards: PRINTED (Plus a Giveaway) - Did you think all of the "2025 year in review" content out there on the internet was finally over? Well, think again! You're looking at a collage of t...
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Vagabond Binder: Kenny Lofton - Man, my previous post-- re: the "We Didn't Start the Fire" binder-- was very well received. Felt great getting congratulatory comments from lots of folks...
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World Cup - U.S. addresses only. Deadline: 9:00 AM California time, June 11. Playing for: Two PWE of baseball, basketball, football, or hockey. Pick the fol...
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Bloody Ferlin - Multi-character Archer sketch cards hold an even more special place in my heart now because single-character sketches have jumped in price. I can justify "...
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He Played For The Braves?!? - A post on BlueSky featuring Garret Anderson in an Atlanta Braves uniform reminded me of a common complaint I’ve had over the past few years: “Ever player ...
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The largest team upload ever! - Being that it's the first of the month, that means it's upload day, and I knew as of May 1st that the June upload would be the largest team update ever....
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Mid-Week PWE Round-Up - *A long lost Whitey and more from a couple of familiar Dodger-loving faces.* There have been a couple of old-school '80s variations on my want list for q...
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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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