Breaking Two Modern Boxes of Panini Baseball Cards for No Good Reason
On a spur of the moment purchase, I opened two boxes of modern baseball cards. It went as bad as I expected.
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Modern Ramblings: Topps 206 Makes a Return After Ten Years
Topps is reviving its Topps 206 brand — a popular rendition of the famous T206 tobacco cards
Read moreTopps Announces Allen & Ginter is Going Rogue … I Mean, Chrome
The popular reboot of the Allen & Ginter brand is getting a shiny new makeover
Read moreContinued Strength of the Pre-War Hobby Depends on … Modern Card Collecting?
Believe it or not, modern card collecting has much to do with the future of the pre-war card market
Read moreTrimmed High-Grade Card Discovery is the Latest Hobby Scandal
The recent discovery of numerous high-grade trimmed cards is another problem for the hobby
Read moreModern Ramblings: My Top Ten Dwight Gooden Cards
Here are my favorite cards of Dr. K
Read moreModern Ramblings of a Pre-War Collector: Let’s Rank the Pro Set Santa Claus Cards
What are the best and worst Santa Claus cards from the popular Pro Set series?
Read moreModern Card Ramblings: Mark Jackson / Menendez Brothers 1990-91 Hoops Card
A once-common card now carries some value thanks to a unique photograph
Read moreBabe Ruth Card No. 100 in Topps’ Living Set
The Bambino featured in Topps’ Living Set as the hundredth card Most readers of this site know that there aren’t many post-war cards that I collect. And in the grand scheme of things, it’s difficult to even keep up with modern cards, let alone collect them. But the Topps Living set is one of the cooler projects out there, for
Read moreBeginning an Entirely Senseless Dwight Gooden Personal Collection
Most of our collecting habits stem from boredom, I’m convinced. At least mine do. Often, I’m sucked into side projects. That’s generally because, as a set collector, I can go relatively long stretches without acquiring a lot of cards when I’m near completion. Take, for example, the T207 set. I’m down to about 15 cards left and anytime I add
Read moreAllen & Ginter, Kimball, and Goodwin Champions Got Their Start in 1800s
19th Century pre-war cards have been given new life again with recent issues In the 19th Century, tobacco card sets began focusing on a variety of sports. Numerous non-sports sets existed but Allen & Ginter, Kimball, and Goodwin branded cigarettes issued sets of ‘champions,’ highlighting the best of the best in various sports. Today, collectors are familiar with these types
Read moreWhen a Pre-War Collector Goes Rogue
Finding a pair of unique (and newer) cards For nearly five years now, I’ve been pretty much exclusively collecting pre-war cards. After a long hiatus, I got back into the hobby around ten years ago. I picked up with collecting almost all vintage stuff from the 1950s and quickly went older after that. I dove into the 1951 Bowman set
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