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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Why 90s/00s Inserts Still Matter in Today’s Ultra-Premium Hobby (and why they may be the best)

If you really want to keep me busy for hours, just ask me to rank my top 10 favorite cards. I’ll agonize over it endlessly - mostly because my '90s-'00s playing-era gems and the ultra-modern monsters are constantly duking it out for those top spots. And sure, scrolling through the photos might make this feel like yet another love letter to Canseco collecting - which, in fairness, it absolutely is. But my hope is that this deeply resonates with anyone who collects across these two eras. Since Canseco is my collecting focus, his cards just happen to be the examples

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A Grail of Grails – the 1998 Bowman Chrome Golden Anniversary Refractor

I know you've felt this before, too.   You secure a big card for your collection, and you wait. and wait. and wait.  You check the tracking more times than you care to admit. If the card seems stuck somewhere in transit, and there is finally movement again, it feels like a small victory.  But then you wonder ... if/when the card does come in, what if there is a problem with it?   All of that describes me perfectly this past week.  When the package finally arrived all the way from Tokyo via the original owner's grandson who pulled this from

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A couple 1998 Beauties

What were you doing in 1998?   I was in my last year of high school, without a single thought in my head of what I was going to be doing in the future.  Previously, I had wanted to be a youth pastor or similar, but wasn't sure how to "get there."  I also thought about how college would look, and maybe I could get into some sort of graphic design courses. I heard about something called "desktop publishing" that I wanted to try.   None of that panned out for me, so after high school, I got a typing job in

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Watch this scammer get scammed!

Yesterday, I posted a custom card I created, and someone tried to scam me!  I decided to have a little fun with him.  Check out the back & forth we had :)  

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You might have GOLD in your relic cards!

Goodness, has it really been 6 months since I've last written an article?  That's a good tell for how busy I've been.  I guess it also speaks to the fact that I haven't really had anything all that interesting to say ... until now.  While the catalyst of the discovery I'm about to tell you is going to zero in on my latest card acquisition, it is my hope that it will cause you to dig into your collection as well, and see if you can uncover gold.  It'll be a fun exercise, I promise!   So, where to begin?  Ahh

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Baseball Card Relics older than a T-Rex Discovered!

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO HERE:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zup6xMgrtR8 I've kept this acquisition under my hat for over a year now :)  In 1902, the first Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton was discovered by Barnum Brown in Hell Creek, Montana.  Does it shock you that it wasn't that long ago?  Think of all the people who never got the chance to know about the T-Rex.  George Washington, Van Gogh, Darwin, etc.   Barnum Brown is in the white shirt, next to his discovery.  Ever since, the T-Rex has been known as the king of the dinosaurs.  If you ask a child what their favorite dinosaur is,

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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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The Dragonfly Collection – A high-end trading card customized for you!

Create a high-end trading card of your child, pet, family member, or friend!  The Dragonfly Collection is a custom trading card set offering created by Tanner Jones. (Me.  I'm Tanner Jones.)   How does it work?  You send a picture, and "relic" (pretty much anything that can be easily cut!), and I will create a card for you!  Don't want to send anything?  No problem!  I can send you the pieces, so you can have fun by yourself or with a family member to put together your own one-of-a-kind card in a matter of minutes!  If you want to do something,

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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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