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Big milestone today! I just hit 2000 unique Bo Bichette cards in my collection, which has been my goal all year. Now I'm going to bring in all my cards from COMC, Sportlots, etc., organize them all, and make sure they're all documented properly. In 2026 I am going to reassess whether I want to continue ($ ouch), plus I'll know by then if Bo will still even be a Blue Jay.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SanJoseSharks/s/8TlpjbogM9 Thinking about how much this must've cost makes me feel light-headed but it's pretty cool nonetheless
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Aug 6, 2025 18:20
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This is going to be a fun and expensive year. https://x.com/SCCTradingCards/status/1952422746257817897 https://www.steelcitycollectibles.c...cRoCUwMQAvD_BwE
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Aug 7, 2025 02:43
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Upper Deck did a really nice job with the Bruins set, can’t imagine Detroit being any different.
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Aug 7, 2025 16:11
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Okay! Besides my two player collections I've decided to collect the Upper Deck Portrait cards starting with the 2023-2024 ones because they're dorky as gently caress and I love them  
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Aug 20, 2025 02:47
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HOLY gently caress posted:Okay! Besides my two player collections I've decided to collect the Upper Deck Portrait cards starting with the 2023-2024 ones because they're dorky as gently caress and I love them Those are extremely my jam Oh my god gritty!
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Aug 20, 2025 06:20
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Ever dragged junk wax cards around for decades knowing that they're worthless? Well I did. But then I moved cross country and left them behind with a friend. HE then dragged them from Seattle to LA and back over the course of another 6 years. Then HE moved them to Minnesota where I had moved and I was reunited. The amount of gas burned moving these cards around the country dwarfs their value. I need to clear some closet space in my office and I'm not really sure these 1987 Topps Incaviglias really warrant the pomp and circumstance of binders...  About to get nostalgic as hell over here.
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Aug 31, 2025 23:10
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I love the '88 Topps, not sure if you have those but I have probably 30 or so signed. Ron Karkovice did a free signing here last month so I got him to sign one.
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Aug 31, 2025 23:21
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FlamingLiberal posted:I love the '88 Topps, not sure if you have those but I have probably 30 or so signed. Ron Karkovice did a free signing here last month so I got him to sign one. I have a maybe 1500-2000 77-79 Topps from an older brother that collected. Then I started up from 82 through 1988. I have a LOT of 1988 topps, fleer, donruss and score. I bought a box or two of 89 Topps and Fleer and then just stopped cold turkey. These binders are basically a 1986-1988 who's who in failed prospects. But then you turn a page and you're looking at Greg Maddux rookie cards. OMG he's an upper echelon hall of famer they must be worth a fortune!!!! Lol. Is there any legitimate thing to do with these? They're not worth anything barring some miracle PSA 10 grade on a few of them, but I'm never grading them and despite being a careful nerd of a kid - they likely all have some defect or another. I used to hear people say you should give them to some kids charity, but what the Hell? No poor kid in need wants to look at Shane Mack or Dave Magadan. I assume if I called a card shop and asked if I could just drop them off they'd ask me not to. I'm mentally at peace with them being worthless and don't mind tossing them in the recycling, but it just feels dirty. Edit - more content. My earliest baseball card memories are opening packs of 1977 Topps with my dad and older brother. I was 5. I didn't know who was who just that there was a new team called The Mariners and we lived in the north west and Hell yeah baseball! Not knowing anything about the players, I'd open a pack with my dad and he'd tell me who was good. I can distinctly remember him gushing about one particular player that I got so that was my new favorite player. Ha ha ha. I'm a five year old Mariners fan and my favorite player is Pete Rose. In hindsight, someone should have called CPS. But that's why 9 years later I was eating a lot of Wheaties and savng boxes cause I'm sure these will be worth a lot!  Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Aug 31, 2025 |
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Aug 31, 2025 23:42
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No there's nothing you can really do with them. I guess keep any rookies of like HOFers but other than that, they still aren't worth anything because they were so overproduced.
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FlamingLiberal posted:No there's nothing you can really do with them. I guess keep any rookies of like HOFers but other than that, they still aren't worth anything because they were so overproduced. That's more or less where I ended up tonight. I went through two binders. Remembered lots of guys. Good times. Then 95+% went into the recycling. HOF rookies and a few 2nd year cards if I liked them went into a box. Actually, the box previously held a hand collated set of 1988 Score. Those all went into the recycling so I could use the box. This is probably about a much fun as you can have with cards like this. Having a good time, actually. Third binder was more interesting. More or less where I had stashed anyone of note from 1982 or before. Still mostly garbage, but some interesting things. I'll post some pics later. Also in that binder were my autographs. A whole lot of forgotten mid to late 80s mariners, but also some cool ones as well. I know the Dimaggio signatures are from 1987 in Oakland - part of some All Star game festivities. I don't really remember them like I do DiMaggio, but I assume Drysdale and Robinson were from the same time.  I do actually have some older cards I should get graded. I assume the DiMaggio autos should be authenticated as well.
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Yes DiMaggio stuff is worth something
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When your favorite player is Pete Rose and it's 1984 or so it gets boring as Hell to collect Pete Rose cards. By the Summer of 84 I assure you I wanted Don Mattingly cards, not Pete. It was new favorite player time. That's why if any of you need 56 1987 Topps Boggs cards, I'm your guy.  Pete Rose and Wade Boggs. The two players I collected the most and longest. There's a third player that I liked though. Because Bill James called him ugly in "The Historical Baseball Abstract" and I thought it was funny. In 1988 I would bet anything that I was the only 16 year old kid in America actively collecting Don Mossi cards.  I know I had 1958 and 1964s in the past - not sure where they went. Don't think he had a 1965.
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Sep 2, 2025 00:59
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I have a signed Mossi card around here somewhere. He used to sign through the mail when he was alive
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Sep 2, 2025 02:30
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Don Mossi somehow only the third goofiest guy among the 1961 American League ERA leaders.
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Don Mossi actually had a decent career and was pretty good for three year run with the Tigers. Long story, but a friend and I once ended up seeing "Peggy Sue Got Married" after the movie ticket guy refused to let us into R rated Stand By Me. This was 1986. I don't think I was collecting Mossi yet, but he gets name dropped by Nic Cage's character in the movie as he's talking about the Tigers starting rotation. Can't find it on youtube, but somehow a Peggy Sue got Married soundboard exists. https://www.101soundboards.com/sounds/5538867-don-mossi-frank-lary-jim-bunning-and-paul-foytack These are the things that use up braincells in my head. Edit - If anyone's interested - I have some signed index cards that I don't recognize. Would love some guesses on who they are. Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Sep 2, 2025 |
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Sep 2, 2025 15:19
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I can give the IDs a shot
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A fun one 
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Skoora posted:A fun one 
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So what does one do with a bunch of low level numbered stuff or practice squad player autos? Me and my kids have been ripping a lot of 25 Panini looking for Dart and Skatabo cards (without much luck past the base cards) but have a bunch of stuff that seems to have limited value but we have no interest in holding onto. Saquaon Barkley jersey card numbered to 499? No thank you.
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 Not a bad hit from a holiday tin I bought for $20. I only had an old top loader handy thats why it looks scratched but it looked good out of that pack and went right in a fresh penny sleeve.
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Nov 3, 2025 21:03
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That design goes so hard. Great find!
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Somebody gave me a pity $30 for about 20,000 cards and low-end memorabilia. I had to drive 90 minutes to the one card shop who wouldn't just throw everything away. When I got home I realized I had forgotten about the binders in my trunk. Still got em 10 years later. That's about another 10,000 of junk wax.
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https://bsky.app/profile/fishttp.website/post/3m577iiwzrk2q
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Nov 9, 2025 14:46
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Topps doing the important things like that and refusing to make Heritage Minors anymore
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Nov 9, 2025 15:02
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I just want them to release Allen & Ginter already.
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Nov 9, 2025 16:31
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Not a Kaboom but more then paid for the box. 
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This is more card seller drama related, and I don't know how much is TRUE, but the entire story surrounding Rick Probstein and SNYPE feels like one of the most bizarre things I've seen since I started collecting again 13+ years ago. One of the bigger and more popular eBay consignment accounts, rushes to leave after 20+ years selling to set up an auction site that isn't even finished. Clearly nowhere even close to ready and lacking basic search functions you'd expect from a sports auction site. Then supposedly gets exposed as having multiple accounts all upbidding items during its first auctions. Site then shuts down during the first sales (ON MONDAY), and I guess refunds are going out? No actual statements made from Rick or the team. The site still isn't back up. Just very ugly and weird. What a disaster. HulkaMatt fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Nov 23, 2025 |
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Nov 23, 2025 19:37
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I don't think I ever bought anything of his on eBay...usually when I saw something posted by his account it was overpriced
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I definitely bought a few times from him in 2012-2014 when I started collecting. The whole story and the lack of info is just kind of consuming me. I need to know why he was in such a rush to leave eBay for something that was so clearly unfinished and not ready. Was it just him thinking he could do it just fine with little effort? Was he going to go the way of PWCC and so he got out before that hammer dropped? I need to know! Anyway, for card content - check out my OH! card  A very nice story with this one is I told a vendor who I consider a friend about it when I got it. He was like "Hold on a second... I think I have a Nagashima from that same set maybe?" and he ended up bringing it with him at the next card show by me and giving it to me. So I've got that one also: 
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I personally have never bought anything from that account because I've never won an auction. They all get shilled! allegedly The Snype booth at the National was super cringe. Lots of dudes in white polos tucked into khakis standing around. Not at lot of people stopped at that booth. I'd say a good portion of the hobby has him on their Mount Shillmore.
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Yeah he’s right next to Hobby Legends and all the breaks they run that way.
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Aaaand the site is already dead and they're officially going back to eBay. Just insanity. Very lovely they are just letting him back on after such a disaster.
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Probstein has had allegations of shilling their auctions for a long long time and I don't think anyone has ever been shy about calling them scumbags.
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 You can't really see it, but the Shota is 72/99
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Anybody have any trip reports from an Allen & Ginter box? It's all over my feed and I'm losing me resolve to not buy boxes.
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davecrazy posted:Anybody have any trip reports from an Allen & Ginter box? I didn't buy it expecting a big hit, A&G is overall more about being a fun rip, but this was a pretty underwhelming box.  Edit: I have no idea why this dumb thing won't embed. Edit 2: Got it! bengy81 fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Dec 5, 2025 |
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bengy81 posted:I didn't buy it expecting a big hit, A&G is overall more about being a fun rip, but this was a pretty underwhelming box. Lol at the Seth Meyers card
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I don’t “get” Allen & Ginter. There are ten chase cards every year that are like…. a Paul Skenes auto /5, a reproduction of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a Mikhail Gorbachev toenail, and people will pay $200 for a box and get a Ke’Bryan Hayes grey road jersey relic. Then in a year when the Mikhail Gorbachev toenail hasn’t been pulled, the box is $900 and you still get the Ke’Bryan Hayes relic, but this one is a home white.
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And here’s an insert set with uh…… fictional sea creatures.
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