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Merry Christmas! - *Have a * *It's the best time of the year!**I don't know if there will be* *but have a * * of* Merry Christmas to all of you out in blogger-land!...
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Wacky Wednesday. - *Merry Christmas everyone. My shared meals and present swapping started yesterday and "wrapped" up today. On Christmas day, the only thing for me to do ...
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The First Noel - Christmas greetings. My very first -- and, so far, only -- 2025 Topps Holiday card arrived in the mail a few days ago. I've said a few times that this...
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2025 Card-vent Calendar: December 24, 2025 - December 24, 2025: *1992 DC Cosmic Cards #137 Mr. Nebula * Yeah, it doesn't sound great on paper, but the Eiffel Tower decorated to resemble a Christmas tre...
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NBA Advent Calendar Day 24 - Today is Christmas Eve, and the final day of the Advent Calendar! It was fun and if they do it again next year I will definitely do it again. Today's p...
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Puck Junk Podcast: “Sudden Death” Movie Retrospective - Episode #236: December 23, 2025 In the last episode for 2025, the guys take a long look back at the 1995 hockey/action film “Sudden Death.” The movie cam...
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Mets In The Baseball Hall Of Fame - With the recent election of Jeff Kent to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I thought “Well, there’s another Met in the HOF!” …Not that Kent’s time with the Mets i...
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A Mike Trout Debut Ticket, Signed and Slabbed and Inscribed and All Mine - Today's post is such an old addition I had to double-check that I did not post it some time between now and acquiring it while Covid was still strong and...
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Bowl Season - Pick the winners of these 6, 7 games: Hawai'i Bowl: Cal vs Hawai'i, December 24 Fenway Bowl: Connecticut vs Army, December 27 Pop-Tarts Bowl: Geor...
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Are Mike Schmidt and Chuck Norris the Same Person? - Look at Mike Schmidt, sporting a beard and toting some hardware on his 1982 Fleer card. 1982 Fleer Mike Schmidt #637 Now look at this picture of Chuck ...
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Good Luck Ducks, Playoff Edition: Home and Uncharted - *Oregon hosts James Madison in the first round of College Football Playoff madness.* We're in uncharted waters here as the Fighting Ducks play host to a ...
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Pick me a Player #11 - Barry Larkin - I have 137 different players in my keepers with at least 10 cards. The players are listed at the end of this post. In an effort to get myself posti...
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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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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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5 comments:
MVP of the Olympics...Period.
best goalie to not win the gold?
Ironic the parallel is called gold medallion.
A star has arrived....now is the time to gobble up Ryan Miller cards.
Jeremy, that's exactly why I picked the card! Too bad it didn't pan out, but what a game nonetheless.
Cardboard pucks, nice picture!
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