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.
Read moreOn a spur of the moment purchase, I opened two boxes of modern baseball cards. It went as bad as I expected.
Read moreTopps is reviving its Topps 206 brand — a popular rendition of the famous T206 tobacco cards
Read moreThe popular reboot of the Allen & Ginter brand is getting a shiny new makeover
Read moreBelieve it or not, modern card collecting has much to do with the future of the pre-war card market
Read moreThe recent discovery of numerous high-grade trimmed cards is another problem for the hobby
Read moreHere are my favorite cards of Dr. K
Read moreWhat are the best and worst Santa Claus cards from the popular Pro Set series?
Read moreA once-common card now carries some value thanks to a unique photograph
Read moreThe 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 moreMost 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 more19th 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 moreFinding 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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