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1909-13 M101-2 Sporting News Supplements – PSA Graded Beauties!

There's no way around it. When you are going after something rare at auction you love, and you lose, it sucks. You can internalize it as "the one that got away". That's where our story begins. 1909-13 M101-2 Sporting News Supplements About a month or so back, I was browsing an auction house website and came across a near complete set (96/100) of an extremely beautiful issue offered over 100 years ago. Measuring in at nearly 8x10, the 100 piece set was inserted at a rate of one every other issue from 1909 to 1913 of Sporting News. They feature

My 19th Century Custom Quarantine Project!

My 19th Century Custom Quarantine Project! First, I'll give it to you short and sweet. If you want to read the entire article, keep scrolling, but if you don't care about the labor pains and just want to see the baby, here you go! I was alerted to an Iowa find that unearthed an 1889 Goodwin A35 Round Album - each Round has more in common with baseball cards than they do album pages. They are considered to be the most premium baseball issue to come out of the 19th century and had been lost to the hobby for about

Transformers and Voltron

Hey guys! I don't know why, but the nostalgia bug has bitten me hard. I was susceptible to it anyway, being a baseball card junkie (I wrote a book "Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict") - no doubt, people thought I was a nerd. Then, I started looking at Transformers & Voltron. Nerd level ratched up to 10! I don't recall watching the cartoon much at all, but even as an adult, I always thought the concept of having a robot toy transform into a vehicle was brilliant. Having several robots that can transform into a bigger robot? Beyond brilliant.

Check Out this Website I Built!

If you don't know this already, I've been a website developer for nearly 20 years. I started off by going door to door handing out flyers on my lunch break when I was in a job I HATED. Eventually, I made a go of it on my own, and haven't looked back. Somewhere along the way, I got excruciatingly bored with building websites. Then, it clicked. My passion wasn't to build websites (though I was really good at it.) My passion was to help others (in both business and ministry) - I could use my skills as a web developer

FOR SALE! 1887 N28 Allen & Ginter World Champions Complete Non-Baseball Set

1887-88 N28 Allen & Ginter World Champions: Perhaps the Most Important Set of Sports Cards, Ever. FOR SALE / TRADE! When you think of the most significant sports trading cards in history, what comes to mind? For your consideration, I submit to you the set that, in many ways, started it all. A set that is so beautiful, it has heavily inspired of one of the most popular series of cards today that has been running for the last 13 years. A set that has made true converts of the baseball card collecting world making it acceptable to collect and

2019 Flip Quest Starting with Two PSA 10 Mike Trout Cards

I have really enjoyed collecting cards again even if they don't have the name Jose Canseco printed on them. It has been years since I have done a Flip Quest, and because I'm looking for other cards nowadays, I thought this would be a fun way to explore what is out there :) WHAT IS A FLIP QUEST? You may be familiar with the concept. Think, the red paperclip story. A guy finds one, trades it for something better, and keeps doing this over & over until he gets a house. I coined the term "Flip Quest" (at least I

My Journey in … Comic Book Collecting?

If you have read my book Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict, you know that I have also bought and sold perhaps 40,000 or so comic books. I never knew much about them, though. I just bought several collections at good prices and flipped them. I really did love them, though - I've flipped collections of paintings, rings, shirts, etc. Comics were on a different level for me. I love the art on the front, and superheroes. Who doesn't love superheroes, right? Here is my garage once upon a time with about 20,000 comics. It took a guy hiring an

Bonus Chapter: The Art of Rebuilding

Just because my book Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict is finally finished and available, doesn't mean that my journey is over. On my walk last night, I thought it would be a fun idea to add a thirteenth chapter and post it online for everyone to read who is interested. Think of this not as an online post to be read while skimming over a thousand other posts, but rather as an online chapter of a book to be enjoyed when you have time to do so. That almost doesn't need to be said, because ... well ... look who's

In Memory of My Dad

For those of you who didn't have a pleasure of knowing him the way my family did, I'd like to tell you a little bit about my dad. Duane Jones was born on August 12th, 1954. If you knew him as a child, you may have pitied him. He had a rough childhood, enduring abuse and neglect. He even lived in a tent on the beach for a while. As a teenager, you may have known him as a druggie, a thief and a street racer. His car was equipped with a police scanner, which would be useful to "exit stage right" if

Canseco Card Curator Cries Card Collecting Can Curb Counting Calories

My name is Tanner, and I love food. Growing up, I simply didn't know calories existed, so I didn't know they mattered...until I became an adult. Boy, did I come to an ugly realization of what happens when you replace playing basketball with a desk job! Weight can be put on quickly. Especially if you weren't living at home with mom & dad telling you an IV drip of Dr. Pepper isn't exactly an ideal lifestyle choice. Goodness ... A McDonalds Supersized #4 with Dr Pepper easy ice while watching a movie ... perfection! Don't lie to yourself and say that

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