Creating Cards WITH Jose Canseco!

*Phone rings* Hello?  Hey, Tanner? This is Jose Canseco! How are you? *Nearly chokes ====================== If you've been following me for a while, you know that the two things I love most in this hobby are creating custom cards, and collecting Canseco cards.   When the opportunity came to where both of these things could possibly intersect, I was beside myself, and worked hard to make it happen.  Being able to collaborate with my favorite player and create a special set of his cards to become a part of the Jose Canseco collecting ecosphere that I love so much - a

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Body Parts in Baseball Cards

How far is too far when it comes to relics in baseball cards?  I've seen and done pretty much everything under the sun over the past few years of creating custom cards, but the following message I'm about to share with you just about blew everything else out of the water ... "Hey Tanner, Jose just allowed me to buy his teeth that he had pulled.  What do you think about making some cards with them?"  Welp, I didn't have that on my bingo card for the year!   The proposition was for me to take three of Jose's teeth, and

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TOP CUSTOM CARDS OF 2025

2025 was an incredible year for creating special pieces for people's collections. Shown below are a handful of pieces I created that I had quick access to photos of. If you have commissioned me, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for allowing my art to be in your collection. I hope it is seen as a centerpiece that you'll never want to let go of! For those who have simply commented on my work - I'm truly grateful for you as well! Stay tuned, folks! I've got some huge things lined up, and I'm super excited to share

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36 Years of Collecting … TODAY!

A few years ago, I found an old journal entry from 1990 discussing how March 12th 1989 was when I started officially collecting baseball cards. What a wild ride it has been!I went from having no cards over $5, to a single player collection that received national attention, to selling off, to now having a better collection of Canseco cards than I've ever had before! (My collection is way smaller, but packs a much bigger punch!)I fell in love with vintage, and have been able to get some pieces I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd be able to

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Top 50ish Custom Cards I Created this Year!

I'm not quite sure where 2024 went, but here we are, at the cusp of a brand new year.  For me and my family, this year has had many ups, downs, super scary times, and everything in between.  2024 was definitely not boring, that's for sure! Many people have continued to send me scraps of paper they have had signed at some point (many certified) because they are like me: eye appeal is everything when it comes to pieces of our collection.  I'm grateful to have turned these scraps into what many have called true centerpieces of their collections.  I'd

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Cutting Up Valuable Autographs

So for about 10 years now, I've been creating custom cards for both my and other people's collections, while showing them here. I've had a blast doing it, but 2023 is the year I focused on it more than any year prior. I wanted to show a handful of pieces that I created throughout this past year. I've done a ton more, but these cover a wide array of various designs I created, etc. Happy New Years, fellas! I hope 2024 brings you a lot of great cardboard into your collections!

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the Tiniest baseball cards, ever!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have done the unthinkable. I have consolidated my three shelves of Canseco cardboardy goodness to ONE single, solitary shelf.  Here's what it looked like before: and here is what's left standing ... Don't worry, the others are safe and sound in a box, but as Holly says "It looks much less stalkerish now".  I guess that's a win!  2022 has definitely NOT been the year of monster pickups for me.  I probably only added 2 or 3 PC cards, and likely none that I'm super wild about.  No vintage, no nuthin'.  In fact, I sold a

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100 Pictures of Customs, Nostalgia, Toys, and More! My Year in the Hobby So Far

This has been the longest layoff I've ever had since I've been writing, and there is a reason for it.  We lost our precious baby boy Phoenix recently, and our lives have been turned upside down.  I realize this is a baseball card site, and understand the need to keep the content relevant, but I simply can't go silent for the first time I've posted in a while without saying something.  I won't gush about it here, but for those of you who are interested, as part of my "self prescribed therapy" I've written everything that happened here.   Prayers

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You’ve NEVER Seen a Baseball Card Like This Before … Mystery Cabinet FULL of Secrets & Surprises!

This is a long one, boys and girls!  If you like watching videos, check this out on my youtube channel. A while ago on my podcast, I asked my audience what was the ULTIMATE card for their favorite player.  We came to the conclusion that there is probably no clear cut winning among many player collectors these days.  Some may pick a PSA 10 rookie while others may pick a bat barrel. Still others may select a 98 Crusade Red of their favorite player, or a Superfractor.  While the rarities and parallels they pump out these days may feel repetitive,

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Custom Work on 100+ Yr Old Photo Developed from an Old Judge Glass Plate Negative From Vermont Find

Could you imagine discovering the Old Judge original glass plate negatives from the Vermont Find in the mid 90s?  I'll write more on that in a future article, but for now, I thought I'd share a pickup (and custom project) having to do with this find.   In this find were photographs developed directly from the glass plate negatives from over 100 years ago.  I was able to obtain a photograph of Abner Boyce.  Abner Boyce was featured four times in the Old Judge set, and is on the Old Judge "scarce" list.  His cards never surface, and it is a

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