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In Which I Become a White Sox Collector - Not officially, mind you. But I was looking through my COMC to-be-posted box, and noticed there seemed to be a lot of White Sox content in there. And th...
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The best thing about Donruss for the first 14 years - Going back to Donruss' baseball beginnings, I always ranked them near the bottom as far as card brands. Though I like specific sets (1984) and others gi...
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Off The Beaten Path, April 2026 Edition - Still haven’t finished a number of posts I’d started, so it’s back to “Show & Tell”, this time featuring some new acquisitions which are all unusual in som...
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Dollar box finds. - *The last purchase from the show in The Villages came from the seller across the aisle from that great seller. He had nothing but dollar boxes out, and ...
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Elliptical Man: Fashionista! - Ranking the best players for throw-back jerseys: Phillies 1. Mike Schmidt 2. Steve Carlton 3. Garry Maddox 4. Chase Utley 5. Lenny...
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Puck Junk Podcast: 2025-26 Upper Deck Series Two Hockey Cards - Plus: Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane Episode #244: April 15, 2026 Sal Barry and Clemente Lisi give their review of 2025-26 Upper Deck Series ...
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Repack Haiku #456 (2022 NL Home Run Leaders) - *Consistent hitters:* *Two make Top-3 the next year* *New Brave tops the list* 2023 Topps #178 NL Home Run Leaders 2023 NL Home Run Leaders: - Matt ...
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Jackie Robinson Day with a Beautiful 1950 Sporting News Dope Book Baseball Guide Full Page Piece - Jackie Robinson Day is upon us once again. I feel so many currently don't support what Jackie stood for and will root for athletes from other places whil...
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An Exquisite find - Back in the end of the 2003-04 NBA release season, Upper Deck announced a new set called Exquisite Collection. You got 5 cards per pack, and each pack c...
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Flea Market Finds #188: A Classic Set & A Fidrych Food Issue - Spring Break has come and gone. I already wrote about my road trip. Now it's time to recap my trip to the De Anza Flea Market that took place two days ea...
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Random Wax: 2024 Topps Update Hanger Box - 2024 Update: Can't say enough about Paul Skenes. He's a great pitcher and easy to root for. He already has a Cy Young, Rookie of the Year and ERA title...
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The 1989-90 OPC Hockey Sticker Album Project: Packs 1–6 - A few weeks ago here on the blog, I shared the newly acquired sticker album you see above, along with a box of 48 packs of stickers from that same seas...
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Contest Results! - *Another March Radness contest is in the books. Let's check the results!* With Michigan holding off UConn last night, we have some winners to announce i...
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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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Ballers FIFA World Cup - This caught my eye during a trip to Target. I decide to purchase the blind ball pull to check it out. After peeling the wrapper..... .....I got anoth...
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plain white envel-NOPE - Heads up for users of the online card marketplace *Sportlots* that "Loot" (seller-specific store credit) now expires after 90 days, and in case you haven...
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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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