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WHEN TOPPS HAD (BASE)BALLS!

"CLASSIC BASEBALL" CUSTOM WTHBALLS SET: ROBERTO CLEMENTE - Up on the blog today, a spotlight on my "Classic Baseball" custom card for "The Great One", Roberto Clemente, all-time great and true hero in a time when...
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The Shlabotnik Report

Dead Parrot Frankenset: April 2024 (Plus Coyote Thoughts) - This is the latest in a sporadic series on an ongoing project, a “Dead Parrot” Frankenset which features cards of NHL and WHA teams which are no more, whic...
20 minutes ago
CrazieJoe's Card Corner

Still Liking Studio - I wish I had more time to cheer on Toronto in their up hill battle with Boston. I can't believe how many times in recent years, this has been the match ...
20 minutes ago
Wrigley Wax

1976 Motorola Cubs - The electronics giant Motorola gave away baseball cards at their 1976 dealers convention. Each pack contained one card and a stick of gum. It was a prett...
1 hour ago
Presidential History Geeks

The Making of the President 2024: The Economy - In a number of polls, when asked what the most important issue in the coming Presidential election is, voters often cite economic issues as their top issue...
4 hours ago
Johnny's Trading Spot

1966 Batman: Red Bats with puzzle pieces - *Okay made it to the last of the Batman cards. * *You see that I didn't have much for the Batman puzzle, especially not when it comes to dupes...
16 hours ago
Baseball Cards Come to Life!

Imitation vintage and real vintage - I worked out a nice big trade with Jerry Straniero of OBC. I sent him a few hundred 1970s cards. Here is what I got in return. Starter sets for three Top...
21 hours ago
Diamond Jesters

Time Travel Trading Update #88 - Only 3 trades this past month, which means we are incredibly close to Trade #300. Remember, if you are my 300th Time Travel Trade partner, you get your ...
22 hours ago
Nachos Grande

A TCDB Mailbag on One of the Best Mondays of the Year! - Today marks the first day of the final week of the regular semester for the college where I teach. If that isn't enough to cheer me up, I've also got a we...
1 day ago
Japanese Baseball Cards

Card Of The Week April 21 - There's been a lot of discussion on-line this past week about an error on the back of Hiromi Itoh's card in the new 2024 Calbee Series One set. Itoh's h...
1 day ago
Baseball Card Breakdown

more moldy oldies - Geena Davis here is taken out of context from an old SNL skit I saw the other day, but I figured it'd make for a quirky intro to another post documenting...
1 day ago
The Collective Mind

Blog Bat-Around: Best Pack Pulled "Hits" - I'm not a big autos & relics guy, but I have some. I'm also not a big pack ripper, especially after 2020, since I only buy a couple products and only on...
1 day ago
The Chronicles of Fuji

A Hobby Hazzard - 1992 was a big year for me in regards to card collecting. I worked at the card shop located less than a mile from my parent's house and spent most of my h...
1 day ago
Royal Card Review

THREE MONTHS? Oh Boy. - I don't know where to start. The last few months have somewhat blended together, but I didn't think it was that long since my last post. The worst par...
3 days ago
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 ...
3 days ago
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...
3 days ago
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...
5 days ago
John's Big League Baseball Blog

Tigers Card Tuesday- 2024 Topps Living Set - Yesterday was the annual *Jackie Robinson Day *across all of baseball. 📬 It was made even better that it also included Topps *Living Set *cards being de...
6 days ago
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...
1 week ago
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
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 ...
1 month 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 ...
1 month ago
Sport Card Collectors

Rodney's Cardboard:2023 Certified Teal Autograph /25 - Last week, I posted the base autograph for this chase, today, I am posting another one of the parallels.Today's card is the teal parallel. It's hard to see...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
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...
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 ...
5 years ago

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May I Please Have Your Attention

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