Ryan is a baseball card dork and developer. He has been collecting cards since he was six starting with 1988 Score. Reigning from Minnesota, he is an avid Minnesota sports fan.
I was lucky enough to receive a nice eBay gift certificate over Christmas. Over the past few weeks I have been slowly purchasing cards that have been sitting on my want list for a while. They have all arrived and ready to be shown off.
I have been collecting Joe Mauer rookies for a while now. Even though his rookie card year was 2002, I didn’t start picking up his rookies until around 2013. This was due to not collecting baseball during the early to late 2000’s. Some recent card organizing gave me the urge to show off the collection.
When a Large Priority Mail box arrived a few months ago packed with commons from 1981, 1982, and 1983 I assumed that was all that it contained. Fast forward to last week while unpacking the cards, I discovered the news paper used wasn’t an ordinary newspaper.
1992 Topps was my last year exclusively collecting baseball, near the end of the year I had started taking a big interest in hockey and hockey cards. The 1992 Topps baseball set has a lot of nostalgia for me, especially the Topps Match The Status Game cards. Through a friend’s older brother, we discovered a […]
The hardware may have changed, but the blog is still the same.
I received three cards in the mail today and opened my first pack of hockey cards in probably 10 years. Hockey was one of my favorite sports to collect as a kid. While I did drift away from new hockey products, I never stopped buying singles that I needed.