Wax Pack Pastime: December 2011

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Night Owl Cards

The new-to-me aspect of the hobby - One of the big reasons that I'm still in this hobby -- and still blogging about it -- is that my life is fairly boring actually. I do the same things d...
21 hours ago
All Action, No Plot

Leeds 1-2 Spurs: Three Tottenham Talking Points - 1. Vicario AANP missed the real-time screening of this one, having popped out of town for a wedding, so found himself in that curious position that is occa...
2 days ago
The Chronicles of Fuji

Quality Customs (& Customer Service) - A few weeks ago, Gavin over at *Baseball Card Breakdown* showed off some cards he purchased from a fellow custom card creator and retired blogger: Mark ...
6 days ago
Cardboard Junkie

2025 Playoff Preferences - 9 MONTHS IS A GOOD BREAK I THINK YOU'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE, THE PLAYOFFS ARE HERE AND I FEEL COMPELLED TO RANK MY PREFERRED TEAMS FROM "ROOTING FOR EM ALL...
1 week ago
dml

Dear Mrs Lewis - Hiya babe. I was on The Fighting Cock this past ep + Filthy Shambles also available on all pod apps. I for one welcome our new overlords. I meant old ov...
4 weeks ago
Heartbreaking Cards of Staggering Genius

1962 Topps Mars Attacks Needs List - 1962 Topps Mars Attacks Needs List Last updated: 08-31-25 *Bold* = Awaiting arrival/pending trade 1. The Invasion Begins 2. Martians Approaching 3. At...
5 weeks ago
MY HOCKEY CARD OBSESSION

WALLET CARD - A Mello-Minty Smile - I've said it before and I'll say it again....my Oscar Gamble PC is the most fun project I've ever worked on in this hobby. Smile on my face - brimming wi...
8 months ago
Wrigley Wax

Five Random Cubs Cards - I've got 21,904 Cubs cards from 317 different brands listed on a spreadsheet. A random number generator picked five cards, one each from the past severa...
1 year ago
WaitingForNextYear

The Dery Brothers Guardians Cast S6:E8 – Home sweep! - Matt and Todd are in a great mood coming off the sweep of Oakland. Your first-place Guardians are on fire. The boys talk rotation worries, Josh […]
1 year ago
Can't Have Too Many Cards

Franklin High Star Ron Santo - Fandom and it's associated collecting is a strange thing. When I first became a Ron Santo fan I was young boy. Ron was in his prime, smashing home runs...
1 year ago
Wax Heaven

2023 Bowman Baseball Review - Back in my day … oh boy, you know when someone starts off a sentence that way, you’re in for a grumpy, “old head” review. Let me rephrase that a little bet...
2 years ago
Card Boarded

Jimmy Howard: 2014-15 Black Diamond Orange - I'm liking these shorter one card posts on here. They give me more space to work with than a Twitter post and don't take a long to throw together as some...
2 years ago
The Lost Collector

Thanks for the ride - Today is my blog's 11th anniversary. It's also my last post. I've been thinking about this for some time, but it has become increasingly clear to me over ...
3 years ago
Indians Baseball Cards

Cards are in the Mail! - If you signed up for my Pack A Daily do-over mailouts, the first round has been mailed!! Note that I had (and still have) mailers that were already put t...
5 years ago
Drop The Gloves!

Expert Talking – The Main Ten Aptitudes You Have to Have - Yearning and expert speakers, the same, are constantly keen on sharpening their talking aptitude. There is consistently opportunity to get better and advan...
6 years ago
A Cardboard Problem

Trading Cards: Where do you get your checklists? - We need checklists for our collections. It's the guiding post that let's us sort through the cards we are looking for. But one thing I've learned is there ...
6 years ago
Stale Gum

The Stale Gum Podcast: Episode #1 - Everyone else is starting a podcast, why not me? Give it a listen, tell me what you like and don't like about it. In this episode, I talk about my recent v...
6 years ago
I am Joe Collector

Y'all a bunch of idiots - Grabby title I'm sure but hear me out. I don't break anymore due to cost, though, and not to humble-brag, I have more available funds now than in my heyda...
6 years ago
Thorzul Will Rule

Pull the Trigger 20.20 ($30) - *1970 Topps Luis Aparicio* This is one of the cards I picked out of a dollar box a couple of weekends ago. Turns out I already had it, so now I'm happy to...
6 years ago
bdj610's Topps Baseball Card Blog

New Year Pack Break: 2018 Topps Fire - I had this pack with me the last couple of days, but never got around to opening it. But it's Monday, a bit late in the afternoon, and I forgot to pack a l...
6 years ago
Gint-A-Cuffs

We have a winner - After many moons the Commissioner is ready to announce a winner to the GACX event of the year. With 127.5 points, it is our artist in residence, Spankee. ...
6 years ago
Totally Cecil

1992 Upper Deck #255 -
7 years ago
Waxaholic

Italy Fails To Qualify for 2018 World Cup - with a draw today versus Sweden, Italy has failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1958. That is all.
7 years ago
Just A Bit Offside

Perhaps the best ever.... 1956 Montreal Canadiens - This is the last in the three part series of my card show team photo buying spree. Today's shows the Publicity shot given out to celebrate the 1956-57 Mont...
8 years ago
Texas Rangers Cards

Package According to the Rule. - Ruben Sierra seems happy on card 355 of the 1990 Upper Deck set. Kind of a rare thing, to see Ruben Sierra smiling. This card was part of a stack of Rang...
8 years ago
Bad Wax

Hobby vs. Retail – Buying packs of Sports Cards - Each individual collector starts his or her collection differently. They may choose to collect their favorite player, team, just collect random cards as an...
9 years ago
My Past Time....... I Love It!!

Where the hell does time go? - Man, funny how time flys…. Looking back it’s a wonder on how the hell did I have enough time to … Continue reading →
10 years ago
Ryan's Pitch

2015 Gypsy Queen - I Shall Build Thee - It dawned on me the other day that I was much more passionate about new release cards back in 2011. Inspired by the pending arrival of my son that July, I ...
10 years ago
Attic Insulation

The Internet is Terrible. - The Internet is terrible. Yet I still pay for it with both time and money. I am paid by the Internet. As evil as the machine is, I still enjoy giving it...
10 years ago
Poor Old Baseball Cards

1927 W560 Simmons, Cuyler, Walberg, Sewell, Clark, Rhem - Today's arrival is this sweet lot of strip cards from 1927. I have plenty of old strip cards but these are the first from this playing card-like set. How...
10 years ago
THE PURSUIT OF 80's(ness)

Card in the Wallet...I'm in! - Here we go... 2009 Goudey Jacoby Ellsbury is in the wallet.
10 years ago
30-Year Old Cardboard

’30-Year Old Cardboard’ – The Curtain Call - ’30-Year Old Cardboard’ – The Curtain Call Tonight, I say good-bye. My blogging days are done and my ride of 12,268 articles written will come to an end. ...
10 years ago
mojo & beardy's

Best of the best, HOF rookies collection… - Here is a little video showing off my collection of vintage rookies cards I made a gaff in the video, I said Bill Russell has a rookie in 1969 Topps, I mea...
11 years ago
Core Contrarian

David Carpenter - Born on today's date, David Carpenter. "If you think a guy can foul a ball off and then at the same time hit the catcher on the backswing on purpose, you...
11 years ago
The Collective Troll

3 Walk-Off Wins in 3 Days? Are You Kidding ME???? - True story. Saw it with my own eyes... Even I was starting to doubt my Team a little, but this is exactly what this team and it's fans needed... Much appr...
11 years ago
Budget Baseball Cardboarding

Chrome Cardboarding - A christmas present that was shiny, just how shiny, lets see Going in reverse order of how I opened the blaster, just for the fun of it Pack 8 The purple ...
11 years ago
Classic Card Collector

As Suddenly As It Started - For about three years, I returned to collecting cards, primarily focused on finishing my T-206 set, which I managed to do back in January. I used to reall...
12 years ago
Saints of the Cheap Seats

Say goodbye to Grady - My player collections, as anyone who has seen this blog will know, mostly center on Cleveland Indians from their powerful teams of the 1990's. Thome, Vizqu...
12 years ago
Cards From The Crease

Zdeno Chara Return - A nice through the mail return from an All-Star awaited me in the mailbox this morning. It was a pleasant surprise as I had sent this out during the playo...
12 years ago
BA Benny's Baseball Card Buffet

Patch Card Of The Day (Manu Style) - Hello all. Still crazy here with work and family stuff here but I have 5 minutes to share a manupatch I scored this week. *2012 Topps Update Blockb...
12 years ago
Vintage Sportscards

It's Campy...Really - This 3-inch plastic statue features Brooklyn Dodger star Roy Campanella. Really, it does: Molded in 1956 and sold through Dairy Queen stores that year, C...
13 years ago
Crinkly Wrappers

the long and winding road. - I'm not even sure where to begin with this post. I suppose it doesn't have a beginning at all, giving that it was inevitable. I have a bad habit of cycling...
13 years ago
Drinking The Orange Kool-Aid

The "You Did WHAT With The Cup?" Contest - OK, its my turn to run a contest. I am not sure what the prizes will be yet, but plan on them having something to do with your favorite team/player (baseb...
13 years ago
Hand Collated

2012 Gypsy Queen Review - Lest you think I’m a Gypsy Queen hater, I enjoyed last years GQ offering, so much so that I’ve got last year’s set listed on my wantlist as “inquire” beca...
13 years ago
Cheap Card Collecting

Kudos to the Warriors - Living in the bay area, I've noticed some great trends of teams committing to social networking. Recently the Warriors have really been pushing checking-in...
13 years ago
Grand Cards

Hanging Them Up - I remember when I started writing this blog. I was back in Michigan for Christmas in 2008 and, after a year or so of returning to the world of baseba...
13 years ago
Offy's Sports Site

Sports Syzygy - I'm not exactly sure how it is happening, but I'm still getting 9 visitors a day here without posting any new content. Want to read some new content? Head ...
14 years ago
The Beckett Blog

Looking for the latest headlines? Visit www.beckett.com/news - Looking for the latest headlines right here? Be sure to update your bookmarks and head on over to www.beckett.com/news -- our new home on the new-look Beck...
14 years ago
JD's Wild Cardz

Dead Duck? - Still high off of an improbable Seahawks victory this weekend, I am now getting geared up for yet another huge contest for the Pacific Northwest, Oregon v ...
14 years ago
Achiever Card Blog

Crawling out of my hole... - ...to win a free box of Chrome. Go visit Georgie Mindset to win a brand spanking new free box of Topps Chrome. Hey, I never claimed that I wasn't a whore....
14 years ago
The Hamiltonian

ALCS MVP - This post has been a long time coming. And long neglected. :)
14 years ago
The Paper Chase

Lately - So as some of you may know from reading this here blog, I have been planning a move to Buffalo this month to pursue a graduate degree in Geology/Climate Ch...
15 years ago
Puck Junk

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Sports Cards Uncensored

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CROATIAN SOCCER REPORT

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Guy/Batum/Everton

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

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