2011 Bowman Draft Case Break and Review
Way back in 2011, we broke character and busted a whole case of 2011 Bowman Draft. I say broke character because both Jon and I aren’t particularly fans of anything in the Bowman world. But, to be...
View ArticleSometimes You Eat the Bar…
I have very few card collections given my limited resources and space, but I did decide some time ago to begin collecting on-card Royals autographs. It’s been a blast so far trying to track these...
View ArticleEnd Of An Era: Kerry Wood Retires – A Cardboard Retrospective
Reflections - fitting name for the set The card you see above is the last Kerry Wood card I acquired while he was still an active player, and quite an appropriate one at that. You see, it’s tough to...
View ArticleI Hope You Brought Frankincense And Myrrh
Because, I’m bringing the mutha effin’ gold, suckas! Hopefully one of many hit leader-ings Like this one, and a bunch more that you’re about to see. I opened two boxes of the Topps Minis (plenty still...
View ArticleTracking Our ’08 Bowman Prospects – Post 2012 Edition
Back in the early days of this blog we picked up a cheap box of 2008 Bowman Chrome Baseball. Oh, how young and naive we were back then. (Why yes, we did pick up a case of 2011 Bowman Draft Picks &...
View ArticleCollecting Milestones
I recently updated my want lists for the first time in 5 months. It was both a cathartic and discouraging process. Cathartic because I truly enjoy making and compiling my checklists. I’ve always...
View ArticleTracking Our ’08 Bowman Prospects – Post 2013 Edition
Back in the early days of this blog we picked up a cheap box of 2008 Bowman Chrome Baseball. Oh, how young and naive we were back then. (Why yes, we did pick up a box of 2011 Bowman Draft Picks &...
View ArticleFor The Greater Wood – Part 1
Second post in a row with a preamble. You may have noticed that there’s no blogroll on the side anymore. We did some wordpress updating and moved our hosting and it didn’t port over. I’m slowly...
View ArticleCards Upon Cards From Cards On Cards
I moved into my house about 8 months ago. At that time, there were a few people looking to send packages my way, but I wanted to wait until I got things semi-unpacked and I settled down. Then I...
View ArticleStarlin Castro Collection – Suspended Without Pay
I have a morals clause in my collecting. Since I only collect players, I’ve tried to be selective about which guys I focus my attention and money chasing. The reasoning I use may only make sense to me...
View ArticleUnparalleled Trade Partner, Multi-Parallel Trade
I know people are probably anxious to see posts recapping my adventure at the 2015 National Sports Collectors Convention, but that’s going to wait a bit longer as I organize more stuff. For now,...
View Article2015 NSCC #4 – We Are Good
We Are Good. It’s such a simple statement. Yet, it’s an accurate one. I’m not sure which Cubs player started using it, but I think it’s overtaken the “Let’s Go” motto that the marketing companies got...
View Article2015 NSCC #5 – Terrible Short-Term Memory
The mind is a funny thing. I love my mind and take pride in my level of competence and ability to learn quickly. However, the mind is also a disappointing thing, and an unreliable thing. I’ve quickly...
View ArticlePre-National Card Show Post (Shown Way After Actually Going To The National)
In June of 2014, I went to a card show in Rockford. First, we’ll start with the Cubs team set I bought for $5. At the time I needed 2 cards, but now the rest are either trade bait, or they’ll come in...
View ArticleEnter Sandman
Twitter is fun place for sports cards. Other things, not so much. I’m not as active on there as I might like to be, but I’m trying to get better. I’m also not very good at following people on there,...
View Article2018 Cubs – Tenth Ten Games
With this post, I am now tied for last year’s series length. I abandoned the 2017 version of this venture back in December. Yup, I didn’t get very far. Life was different back then. I’ve been able...
View Article2018 Cubs – Eleventh Ten Games
My little vacation, paired with the Gint-A-Cuffs posts, have put me a little farther behind on this adventure. By the time this goes up, The Cubs will have played 140 games or so. That’s three more...
View Article2018 Cubs – Twelfth Ten Games
I know I just posted the 11th installment of this a couple days ago, but I really do want to stay on top of this season as much as possible. I recognize that no one reads these posts anyway, so this...
View Article2017 NSCC #9 – I’m Still Dumb
A couple years ago, I outlined how terrible my memory is by showing cards I bought at the NSCC that I already owned (or that accidentally bought twice at the show). Well, it happened again. This...
View ArticleCard-ography #8 – Carl Edwards Jr.
Today’s subject has had some ups and downs with the Cubs. There are a lot of stretches where he is dominant and then some longer than expected stretches where he can’t get a dang out. No matter what,...
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