1989 UD Griffey PSA Rookie Upside Down Variation
This has definitely got to be worth over 10 grand! Here is a pic of the back...
Making a Comic Book Come to Life
Ever since I dipped my toe into the pool of selling items beyond sports cards, I have taken notice of the vast differences of personalities of collectors. One type of collector has really taken me by surprise: Comic book collectors. Over the past several years, I have probably bought and sold about 80,000 comic books. I love comic books. Here is what my garage looked like at the end of 2012. See those boxes? side from the nice cache of wax you see, everything else is comic books! Comics make me giddy ... not as giddy as baseball cards do,
Opening Day Hunger Challenge Contest – ARE YOU IN?
***UPDATED RULES*** I'm changing the rules a bit - Instead of going without eating out at all until Opening Day, I'm requesting you go without one restaurant meal by Opening Day and donate the money as shown below. Hopefully that gets more folks to give! I've been thinking/hearing a lot about how much we have here as opposed to other countries, and how 10,000 (I've heard more in other places) children die due to starvation and treatable diseases EACH DAY. How crazy is that?!? We can't save the world, but as I'm sure most of us are here in America,
27 Years of Collecting…TODAY!
WARNING WARNING WARNING: This post could quite possibly have a high tl;dr possibility among internet viewers, and is highly cansecocentric. Reader discretion is advised. (Though, I do hope you stay until the end - I was able to put together some pretty epic pieces of some Hall of Famers!) A few months back, my family and I were visiting my parents. Mom came out with a stack of journals from school back when I was in elementary. If you thought my being a baseball card nut is bad now, check out what I wrote in a journal entry back in
When Your Favorite 90s Insert Costs $43,000
Imagine this: You are at the counter of your favorite baseball card shop, gazing at all of the boxes of wax packs with tags cut out pieces of neon cardboard displaying the price of each. Topps? Nah... Donruss? Maybe next week... Fleer? Hmmm... Fleer Ultra? BING! You grab a handful of packs of 1996 Ultra, hoping and praying to get a gold medallion card of your favorite player. Or maybe a sweet insert of what favorite player. What if it were a ... <GASP> Gold Medallion of said sweet insert??? Packs in hand, you rush home in hopes of landing
Happy Jose Canseco Day!
May all your hopes and dreams come true! :D
Fleer Ultra is Back!
I've waited for this day to come for a long time. I LOVE the simple, classy designs of Fleer Ultra. Too bad they can't use logos though :/ Either way though, still looks mega sweet. Can't wait! Based upon the ad, it looks like there is gonna be some major cool stuff in it as well. Coming February 30th :D
German Baseball is Dangerous
At church today, the sermon was on Genesis 11 and how God confused people's languages at the tower of Babel. Our pastor told us about someone who translated "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" from English to German and back to English. Here is what it said. (Narrate this in your mind in the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger.) Execute me to the ball play Execute me with the masses Buy me certain groundnuts and crackerstackfusig I'm not interested if I never receive back Let me root, root, root for the main team If they do not win, it is dishonor
When you land a card you missed out on previously
I've had some pretty great luck recently in landing cards I had missed originally. The latest one is kind of fun because of the roller coaster that it took in order to get there. It involves this card here: In and of itself, it is a beautiful card. 1997 Finest Embossed Refractor. Awesome stuff, right? Well, someone was selling a bunch of cards which a bunch of us forum junkies caught wind of. It was being sold by a guy who had a bunch of Finest / Refractor cards that were missing serial numbers, die-cuts, etc. I saw that he
Fun with Junk Wax & Bubble Gum
Remember the days when you could get a pack of baseball cards for 50 cents? I do. I don't ever remember getting anything absolutely remarkable, but then again, the hits back then were serial numbered to 10,000 or more and the only time you heard about somebody ever pulling one was through a friend's friend's uncle. I ended up taking a trip down memory lane and picked up a nice little run of topps wax packs from the junk wax era. The packs I received were from 1984 and ran all the way through 1993. I decided to crack open
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