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Japanese Baseball Cards

More Topps Now News - I wanted to do a follow up post about the Topps Now NPB cards I wrote about the other day along with some other Topps Now related news: - I had asked mr fr...
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Cardboard History

Sticky Gold - I've said before how much of a fan I am of the Topps Now NHL stickers. They have had a Serial numbered to 10 parallel since they started, but this year ...
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Night Owl Cards

The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 220-201) - Before 2024 Heritage came out, commenters would reassure me during my 1975 Topps buyback posts that there would be buybacks accompanying Heritage in 20...
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Johnny's Trading Spot

More Batman - *We've made our way to the Topps Blue Bats. Unfortunately I only own 11 of the Topps. Odd for me to unknowingly acquire all but three of the OPC cards.*...
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The Collective Mind

Three Shows In A Month - Part 3: Gettysburg, PA - This one will be rather brief. I heard about this show a mere two days before it took place. My buddy Stuart said I needed to go, but I was hesitant si...
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Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Vintage trade with Baseball Card Breakdown - Gavin of Baseball Card Breakdown has relaxed his condition requirements on his 1970s setbuilds, so I was able to send some cards his way to help him on t...
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WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

WTHBALLS GUM PACK CUSTOM SET: HANK AARON - On the blog today, we spotlight my Hank Aaron mini card from my recent custom "Gum Pack" special set: Again, just a fun little card to create and pri...
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Nachos Grande

Board Game Friday: Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Begins - REVIEW - Today, I have a bit of a strange review of a board game to go over. I'll skip to the punch line right away and then work my way back to the same conclusio...
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CrazieJoe's Card Corner

Continued Hockey Heroes - More assorted hockey cards from the COVID lot today. I was never a big Brett Hull fan. I don't know exactly why. Could be rooted in his being American v...
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Wrigley Wax

2024 Factory Set Me vs. Topps - There are five current Cubs players with cards in the factory set but were not included in series one. I did homemade cards of them for my opening day p...
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Presidential History Geeks

The Making of the President 2024: The Democrats - On April 25, 2023, President Joe Biden formally announced his intention to run for re-election. Ending speculation, he said that he planned on keeping Vice...
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The Chronicles of Fuji

Flea Market Finds #162: Some Nice Surprises - Clear skies and fresh air have a way of drawing people out of their homes. That's why the De Anza Flea Market was packed two weekends ago. Not exactly a ...
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The Shlabotnik Report

2024 Heritage – A Quick Look (Yeah, Right) - I know plenty of blogs and other online card resources have already shared their 2024 Heritage cards, but I figured that I spent so much time looking forwa...
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Sport Card Collectors

My First Soto - As many of you know, I am not much of a baseball card collector anymore. There are only specific things I really chase.Group 1:90's Inserts/Parallels from ...
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SABR's Baseball Cards Committee

A Newly Revealed Collection of T206s - Years ago, while still engaged in my academic career focused on information and influence campaigns, I got interested in Thomas Edison through his innovati...
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Diamond Jesters

Repack Haiku #354 (Aaron Wilkerson) - *Twenty-six straight wins* *Set N.A.I.A. record* *Now in Korea* 2018 Topps #378 Aaron Wilkerson (RC) Wilkerson led the Cumberland Bulldogs to the 2010 Na...
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Not Another Baseball Card Blog

A Run of Stiebs - Hello Friends! Today I want to do something I've seen on the Twitmachine. A career run of a player... Obviously from the title, it's Dave Stieb. Stieb...
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The Hopeful Chase

Trading to completion: Part 1 - Hello, happy trading card fans! It's been awhile, eh? With a cross-country move, a new day job, and the other site taking up a considerable amount of ti...
3 weeks ago
Baseball Card Breakdown

The card show comes to me - Saturday was a first for me, having not one but *two* fellow cardbloggers hand-deliver boxes of cards to my door. How great is that?! First was Kevin fro...
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John's Big League Baseball Blog

Good Morning, Baseball is back and Im up - ⏰️ Woke up at 6:30 this morning to watch the Dodgers and Padres "officially" open up the 2024 Big League Baseball season. 🤔 Why am I up, when I haven't do...
4 weeks ago
Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog

"All Dressed Up and No Place to Go" - a Tricked-Out History of the Expression - The expression, “all dressed up with no place to go,” has been part of American pop-culture and language since at least 1910, although it may have been ...
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CaptKirk42s Trading Cards Blog

Project Purge: COMC and Other Fun - *PROJECT PURGE:* *COMC Submission* *The Four Major Sports Groups* *Updated: 29 FEB 2024* A little background: I've been on COMC (Check Out My Cards) since ...
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Can't Have Too Many Cards

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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Eamus Catuli!

But, that's my guy! - 2024 Topps Flagship is starting to find its way to the interwebs and I finally found a picture of this collector's most coveted card from Series 1. Be...
2 months ago
Infield Fly Rule

The Trading Post #174: Dime Boxes (Part 3: Shiny) - One year later, I'll finally be wrapping up the longest post series ever. I've had this last little pile of goodies set aside from Nick's 10th anniversar...
2 months ago
Royal Card Review

As You Can See - If you read my last post you remember me mentioning about doing a refresh on the blog. If you look at it currently, you'll see that it hasn't happened ...
3 months ago
The Same Old Zen

Lost Cats and Buddhist Love - As I write this one of our cats, Finn, is sprawled across my lap. He is an all-white, American short hair with blue eyes and below average intelligen...
3 months ago
$30 a week habit

Another '59, and is the Niekro an accidental upgrade? - Took a couple of evenings away from the blog, was getting a bit tough writing after 10PM each night. I have had a couple of cards I wanted to show for a...
7 months ago
Bob Walk the Plank

Still Kicking - Figured it was time to throw something up here to stop the blog from being sent to the abyss. I will say that I use the blog a lot more for research pur...
8 months ago
White Sox Cards

When Teams Are Sellers - As I write this, Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez, Lance Lynn, Joe Kelly and Kendall Graveman have all been traded away. Others, like Tim Anderson, have bee...
8 months ago
Cardboard Clubhouse

I'm Back ... with a New Blog! - Hey there, friends! It's been a while. Probably longer than I wanted it to be. Anyway, I've decided to make a comeback (yet again) and you can find m...
1 year ago
Heartbreaking Cards of Staggering Genius

'We need your stinking patches!' Showing off Topps manufactured patches through the years - I've seen some hot takes that people aren't happy with the commemorative batting helmet cards included as bonuses in 2022 Topps Series 2 blasters. I've ...
1 year ago
This Card Is Cool - My Life in Baseball Cards

Seven Bucks Went a Long Way (The Finale) - Okay, let's wrap this up. Through 11 packs, we've had ups and downs. Looking over at the piles of cards from this endeavor, I'm pretty happy so far. Sur...
2 years ago
The Lost Collector

Thanks for the ride - Today is my blog's 11th anniversary. It's also my last post. I've been thinking about this for some time, but it has become increasingly clear to me over ...
2 years ago
A Cracked Bat: Baseball Cards and a Hot Dog

SHE'S ALIVE!!!!! ALIVE!!!!!! - If anyone out there still cares, I'm alive and well in this world and hope the same for you! Whew, the time away has been quite relaxing. My spring an...
2 years ago
Wrigley Roster Jenga

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...
2 years ago
The Five Tool Collector

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...
3 years ago
2 by 3 Heroes

Recent pickups - Look - if I don't get something posted soon, I will never do it. I spent the past two days organizing my desk, and sorting out more mailings I need to g...
3 years ago
All Trade Bait, All The Time...

Joan Jett Custom Cards From Baseball Card Breakdown - Aloha, everybody, Check out these beautiful custom Joan Jett baseball cards from Baseball Card Breakdown. There were also a couple of other surprise cus...
3 years ago
Pack War

Marshawn Lynch Rainbow Done - After 4 years of hunting I have completed the 2013 Chrome Marshawn Lynch #6 rainbow when the Gold parallel reached my doorstep today. Here are all 14 card...
3 years ago
Collecting the 1980s

1982 Burger King Atlanta Braves Collector Lids - *INTRODUCTION TO THE SET* Burger King as a concept began in 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida. Keith Kramer and his wife's uncle Matthew Burns began the compan...
3 years ago
WILLINGHAMMER RISING

5/1/20 - The Last PC- Where the Big Boys Play https://thelastpcwcw.blogspot.com/
4 years ago
Comic Book History

Project Firsts - It's really happening! The project is really coming true. With the start of any project, there's some firsts...here they are. First book scanned: First boo...
4 years ago
Off Hiatus Baseball Cards

PWEs, Accompanied by Song - I decided to write a post tonight comprised of recent PWEs that I've received in the mail lately accompanied by songs that have been randomly going around ...
4 years ago
Summer of '74

2019 Brewers NOW is LIVE - My most anticipated release of the 2019 card season was the return of my own Brewers NOW brand and... with a fresh blanket of goddamn snow on the ground......
5 years ago
Once a Cub

Quick Update - I just wanted to give a quick update as it has been about three weeks since I last posted. I had some computer issues about three weeks ago. Between that f...
5 years ago
Zen Reflections

BEING - *BEING* *In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang describes how opposite or contrary forces are actually complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in ...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Ernie Banks Collection

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