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Best Day Ever! - Three months ago... I won the Banana Ball Ticket Lottery and purchased tickets for my friend and her mom. A few weeks ago, the plans changed and I was g...
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6 Degrees Of Raffy: The Charlie Moore Connection - It's time for another installment ("aka filler post") of 6 Degrees Of Raffy, where I connect a beloved card from my collection and connect the player depic...
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Define the design: 25T, 94F, 93F, 90F, 86F - It's time for my annual Define the Design post, in which I look to name the newest Topps flagship set and take a go at some past sets, too. Last year I...
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Eric Dickerson Card Lot - I picked up a lot of Eric Dickerson cards off eBay. Only 15 cards but still fun. I love this classic look for Dickerson in that great Rams uni. We also...
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Completed Set: 1991-92 Score Canadian Bilingual, Series 1 - Well, that was fast. Back in March, I posted a story here on the blog about a box of hockey cards I received as a "throw-in" with a facebook marketplace p...
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Saturday Shadow Shots: An interesting way to look at baseball cards. - *I opted to stay home again this weekend. Finished up the Randy Johnson PC, and now I am mid sort of my Andruw Jones cards for the PC. I should finish t...
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Two White Whales - These new 2/14 cards weren't white whales in the usual way collectors use the term. But these were a pair of non-specific additions that I wanted. I jus...
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Puck Junk Podcast: Interview with Paul Zickler of Upper Deck - Plus: UD’s New RPA Authentication Episode #218: May 30, 2025 Sal Barry talks with Paul Zickler, the Director of Sports Brands at Upper Deck, about Upper ...
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Frankenbest Friday - A card from each page in my completed frankensets. If not the best, one that stands out to me for whatever reason. Getting basketball done before the se...
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Random Draws From The 2025 COMC Box, Part 10 - Bet you were thinking – perhaps hoping – that I was done with these posts. Nope, not quite… but I’m almost there. The general idea behind this series of p...
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Sometimes you just miss stuff - My enjoyment of scanning has returned this month, after burning myself out in January scanning 2100+ cards. I normally pay very close attention to the ...
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Cheesin' It - *Cardinals box break cards featuring Nolan Arenado (still a Cardinal!) and more.* I've slowed down lately in my participation in group box breaks for a ...
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2024-25 Panini NBA Hoops Value Pack - Greetings! Hope everyone is doing well. We're right in the middle of the NBA Playoffs, and it's been quite surprising so far. The Lakers didn't benefit ...
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2001 Topps Chrome "Before There was Topps" refractors - Y'all know I like refractors. Well, one niche that especially interests me are guys' *1st Refractor*, specifically talking about old-timers who played be...
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Oversized 2 - no theme - With as many items as I recently purchased from some bins of oversized collectibles, there is bound to be a lot of random. This post is kind of a catch a...
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Organizing and Reorganizing - Watching card content on social media and YouTube these days, I feel like a total Old Guy. So many folks got back into collecting during COVID--at the sa...
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Trade Me Anything XVIII: #6 - Trades like the one I'm about to share are actually my favorite. A few cards sent, a few cards gained, and I get to delete a little bit from my want list....
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WALLET CARD - A Mello-Minty Smile - I've said it before and I'll say it again....my Oscar Gamble PC is the most fun project I've ever worked on in this hobby. Smile on my face - brimming wi...
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Updating a 10-Year-Old Post: My Roy Campanella Rookie Looks Different - Ten and a half years ago I posted about acquiring a grail Roy Campanella card: his 1949 Bowman Rookie. I was absolutely thrilled to land it and since I hav...
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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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Kick Up Your Feet - Here's another look inside my recent collecting habits. I've found that there has been a fair share of hockey cards featuring guys warming up on the bench...
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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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