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The Chronicles of Fuji

A Quick Trip to the Islands - Over Veteran's Day weekend... I traveled 2,400 miles across the Pacific Ocean for Papa Fuji's celebration of life. *Ala Wai Canal* I've mentioned it a f...
5 hours ago
Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Vintage star card roundup - Been almost a month since I did one of these posts. Four more Greg Morris auction results to show. Last week I skipped it for the first time since I star...
6 hours ago
WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION: 1975 JOHN STROHMAYER - Up on the blog today, we have a "not so missing" 1975 card for former New York Mets pitcher John Strohmayer, who wrapped up a brief Big League career wit...
9 hours ago
Nachos Grande

Box Review: 2024 Stadium Club (hobby) - Currently, I am in the midst of my latest Breaker's Club (basically a giant group break that spans multiple weeks with many, many boxes included). Last we...
9 hours ago
CrazieJoe's Card Corner

The Set Build Continues - Two more MVP packs today as we continue the set build from the retail box. Not a bad pack, a nice Foligno and the ugly Islanders jersey, but still set he...
9 hours ago
Presidential History Geeks

Presidential Transitions: 1896 - n 1896 the Republican Party candidate was Ohio Governor William McKinley began the campaign with a considerable advantage. His campaign had amassed an un...
13 hours ago
Johnny's Trading Spot

It is done. - 9:37 pm 11/18/24 1000000
19 hours ago
Japanese Baseball Cards

1934 All American Tour 90th Anniversary - Yokohama - After returning to Tokyo following their games in Hakodate and Sendai, the All Americans played two more games at Jingu Stadium before venturing north to T...
20 hours ago
Night Owl Cards

Every Clemente tells a story - I'm already pleased with the brand-new collecting atmosphere on Bluesky as compared with Twitter. One excellent sign is I can find blog topics from the...
22 hours ago
Diamond Jesters

Time Travel Trading Update #95 - It's a relatively light post this month, with only two trades completed since last time. Regular readers of this series can probably guess who my two tra...
1 day ago
SABR's Baseball Cards Committee

My Favorite Common - It was sometime in the Fall of 2020, when someone on twitter posted a photo of their “Rainbow,” (a completed run of base and short printed cards, all of th...
3 days ago
The Shlabotnik Report

Topps Minus 50: October 22 – 31, 1974 - This is the latest in my Topps Minus 50 series which addresses transactions and other events within Major League Baseball which might have had an affect on...
4 days ago
The Collective Mind

2024 A&G Box 3 of 3 - Measure Twice, Cut Once - Now for the third and final installment of my A&G breaks. Hoping for at least a hit of someone I actually really like... Box topper is an N43 this time....
5 days ago
John's Big League Baseball Blog

Tigers Card Tuesday- 2024 Topps Chrome Cosmic Riley Greene - My first Topps Chrome Cosmic card had arrived, and, it's Riley Greene, of course.
6 days ago
Cardboard History

Major, Major Milestone - I knew it was coming but I didn't know when it would be. It was a long journey to get to this point, starting all the way back in February 1996. I knew ...
1 week ago
Baseball Card Breakdown

Getting a jump on the Holidays - Christmas decorations typically don't go up at my house till mid December, but this year I'm getting an early infusion of holiday spirit thanks to focusi...
2 weeks ago
Not Another Baseball Card Blog

Some New Cards - Hello Friends! I know I've been slow to get back into this. I'm working on getting my hobby room set up more so I can get back into the hobby part again...
2 weeks ago
Royal Card Review

Odds And Ends, and Emails - Did you know emails are still a thing? I don't mean getting junk mail, or even work emails. I mean actually writing an email and waiting for a reply? ...
1 month ago
Wrigley Wax

Five Random Cubs Cards - I've got 21,904 Cubs cards from 317 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past severa...
1 month ago
Infield Fly Rule

Home Run Parade - It’s September. The evenings are getting cooler. The leaves are showing their first signs of changing. The Halloween candy is stockpiled. And the Rockie...
2 months ago
Sport Card Collectors

Goodbye Old Friends - Thank you readers for the last 12 years!!
2 months ago
White Sox Cards

There's Always A Silver Lining - This season is the worst I have ever experienced as a White Sox fan. I still love the team, but it's a tough love. It would be an understatement to say...
3 months ago
The Same Old Zen

Learning to be Intolerant - Acceptance is a big deal in Buddhist circles. We're told that we must accept suffering, accept mistreatment, accept the opinions of others. We're told ...
4 months ago
The Hopeful Chase

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 ...
6 months 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 ...
8 months ago
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 ...
8 months ago
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...
8 months ago
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...
9 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
2 years 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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
5 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...
6 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 ...
6 years ago

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Monday, October 2, 2017

Tough Day Out There

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