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This is how it's going to get done - Several years ago I announced on this blog that I wanted to complete all of Fleer's 1980s baseball sets. After Topps, Fleer featured my favorite '80s c...
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It took a year - But I finally have a Carolina Hurricanes card of Nikolaj Ehlers. This comes from this year's MVP release, and is from the blaster-exclusive gold packs. ...
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Happy Birthday Charlie: RIP - *Rest in Peace my brother. One day we'll walk side by side. You make the biscuits I'll bring the Caro Syrup....we'll sop biscuits...mmmh mmmmh good.* ...
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Repack Haiku #482 (Pedro Guerrero) - *World Series hero* *Shared the M.V.P. Award* *With Cey and Yeager* 1988 Donruss - Bonus MVPs #BC-16 Pedro Guerrero Guerrero had one of the greatest games...
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) - IKWYDLS: I'm always in the mood for an old school slasher film. I liked the original from 1997, and I didn't remember this one coming out. It follows n...
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Puck Junk Podcast: 2026 USA Hockey Juniors Cards - Episode #258: October 13, 2026 Plus: Alex Ovechkin & Igor Shesterkin Sal Barry and Tim Parish take a thorough look at the new 2026 USA Hockey Juniors hoc...
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Find Me A Vending Machine...Stat! - Oddball vintage always puts a smile on my face even though I don't chase it as often as I once did. Combine it with one of my main PCs and it's even cool...
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2026 McDonald's KPop Demon Hunters Photocards - Greetings! Hope everyone is doing well. Posts are not coming together as quickly as I planned. When my home laptop was working, I would be able to at l...
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Cleveland Rocks - Of the 4 remaining teams this postseason, I guess I'm rooting for the Guardians to go all the way, though really I'll be happy as long as it isn't the Do...
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Time Traveling - Another trade with Matty K. - 500 Home Runs is really impressive. - English was a 1x First Team All-Pro and 4x Pro Bowl selection. ...
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1982 Topps Baseball: A Redesign - A couple of months ago, I completed the 1982 Topps baseball set. And I've got to say, looking through all those cards as I wrote the set completion post ga...
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Good Luck Ducks, Week 6: Bruin Time - *Dylan Raiola gets his first Oregon start as the Quack Attack hosts the other team from California.* It's great that the Ducks had their bye week after t...
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Disney/Not Disney: Muppets From Topps Chrome Disney - A couple of weeks ago I was at a card show where few dealers had anything I was interested in. There was one dealer that I almost passed by until a bit of...
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Flea Market Finds #192: Nothing Too Crazy - Sorry for the lack of flea market related posts. It's not for a lack of trips or even purchases. The big change is the amount of time I dedicate to wri...
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September 2026 New People - September was a very light month for card stuff. VERY light. I did very little scanning, and I got even less new cards. I scanned 9 new people, includi...
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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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Merry Christmas to you too Shane! I love that card and own like 8 of them. I even pulled a French version recently in a repack and love it that much more!
Hope you had a great day with you and yours and I look forward to another year of great posts. You are one of our community's best!
Thanks Dave! Hope you enjoyed your holiday as well, and looking forward to exchanging more cards with you and reading more Wax Stain Rookie posts in 2015!
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