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Yesterday, I convinced Janet to join me at the Avanti’s Dome in Pekin, Illinois for our first card show together.  She came in pretty handy looking up cards so I didn’t buy a Xander Bogaerts 2020 Heritage I already had.  She was willing to twin with me in matching Blowout Cards t-shirts.  But, I decided […]

Last weekend, jdthakidcf36 sent a note saying he wanted to wrap up a trade.  Monday mine went out, Friday his came in.  Let’s check out the handful of cards sent! What I sent 2023 Bowman Platinum Elly de la Cruz (#TOP93) and Jackson Holliday (#TOP97) and a 2021 Allen & Ginter Chrome Leody Taveras (#228). Sweet Elly

I sent out half of a Beckett trade with flood and fire on Monday morning!  Yesterday, my cards came in the mail and Sarah just missed seeing the shiny cards.  With apologies to Belinda Carlisle, you could call this trade “Maddux For You”  🙂  Let’s take a vacation and go-go to it! Boring Greg Maddux

The Easter Bunny brings chocolates and candy to little kids.  Well, it also brought a completed Beckett trade.  Let’s see what I shipped out to flood and fire Monday morning! John Kruk Several Kruk-ster cards.  A 1987 Donruss (#328) rookie and a 1988 Topps (#596) show him with the Padres.  Then, in his well-known Phillie

Back in 2015, Will Ferrell did something truly amazing.  He played all ten positions, each for a different team, on the same day, during spring training.  The details of the event can be found MLB.com. What makes it even more amazing is that Topps Archives issued an insert set later that year to commemorate the

My last shipment from PSA didn’t go as I had hoped.  The good news is that this batch returned came in a little better.  Definitely a few surprises again but these are a little better! The 8s The Hoerner is a thick card and I wasn’t surprised it only got an 8.  The Randy Johnson

I took advantage of PSA’s Christmas grading special.  Combine that with a $50 voucher (the 2018 Bowman’s Best Acuna gold auto took too long for them to turn around), and it was a pretty good deal. Lately, I’ve had pretty decent “success” with grading.  The 2018 Bowman’s Best Ohtani and Soto autos being 10’s alone

In late January, Cheap Fun Breaks ran a deal too good to pass up:  Four years of Bowman’s Best hobby boxes.  He ran four breaks, so I grabbed one spot per break.  I got the Rays, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, and Phillies.  Which isn’t too bad, honestly.  The cards came in Tuesday, the 6th, and I’m just

I finally got around to sending cards back to Topps for replacement.  The driving motivation was 2023 Topps Archives.  I bought two boxes, and almost every last card of each pack (over 48 packs!) had a dinged upper left corner.  I also had some Bowman Chromes that needed replaced.  Altogether, 68 cards went back and