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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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Rangers Round-Up - Just a bunch of Kitchener Rangers alum acquired cheaply at COMC thanks to e-packs. I'm leading with this Mandelbrot Fractal parallel, for the sole reason...
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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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