tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51525686784692390012019-09-11T16:55:09.433-04:00A Cardboard ProblemSoozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.comBlogger1728125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-47811814417334809112019-09-11T10:44:00.000-04:002019-09-11T10:57:50.068-04:00Why are prices of 2018 Topps Update Baseball so high?
If you have been checking out baseball cards as of late for Ronald Acuna Jr., you would have noticed that prices for 2018 Topps Baseball Update Series are silly right now.
How silly?
If you check eBay, hobby boxes are selling for around $250, jumbos are well over $300. Blasters, you're looking at the $40-$50 range.
Why are prices of 2018 Topps Baseball Update so crazy right now.
Rookies.
Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-62734747702466069602019-09-02T10:14:00.002-04:002019-09-02T10:14:21.266-04:00Trading Cards: Where do you get your checklists?We need checklists for our collections. It's the guiding post that let's us sort through the cards we are looking for. But one thing I've learned is there not one source to find every card you need.
There are good sites that posts checklist, some some don't go back far enough, others have incomplete data or don't account for printing or odd errors.
As a player collector, this is really Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-11873896006593668092019-08-30T10:05:00.000-04:002019-09-08T10:24:59.333-04:00As a player collector, I have a refined focus on my collection
1992 to 2019. There have been thousands of Derek Jeter cards made.
I didn't neseccraily choose to be a player collector. When I started collecting cards, I found I was just drawn to certain players.
As a kid, I was taking out of all the Yankees cards that I found in packs. As an adult, I still aim for the Yankees, but only certain ones. My bggest of those collections is of Derek Jeter and Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-45372314585543679542019-08-22T19:55:00.000-04:002019-08-22T19:55:49.097-04:00A Gift from a Baseball FanA week before the National I was at work and one of our patient's came in for his routine visit. He was telling one of the other nurses a story about a friend of his who is the only player to ever get a hit for two teams in the same day. So she tells him, "Oh you should talk to Marie she is a big sports fan and is going to some baseball thing next week."
He begins telling me about his friend, MarieBayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05562894135435845654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-82168154007810913852019-08-18T16:49:00.003-04:002019-08-18T16:49:48.220-04:00The East Coast National has something for every type of collector
It's always funny to me the August White Plains card shows is dubbed the East Coast National. The word national kind of throws it off when it's just on the East Coast.
I always enjoy this show though -- along with the January one -- because it's one of the biggest ones on the calendar in the NY area. But it's difficult to get into it especially if you just came back from the actual National.Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-23106573149143873452018-08-06T21:21:00.000-04:002018-08-06T21:27:13.654-04:00The 2018 National Sports Collectors ConventionWelcome old friends. I thought i would honor the poll I ran on Twitter asking how you guys wanted to see my haul revealed. The people have spoken.
I had a ridiculous run of fun things happen at the National aside from buying cards and getting cards from fellow collectors and bloggers. I will start with that since it's about doing cool things with the hobby aside from spending a paycheck.
MarieBayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05562894135435845654noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-62933367811126654392018-02-03T14:38:00.000-05:002018-02-03T14:46:02.303-05:00Heading to Toys R Us for purple parallels
Once upon a time I had to make excuses to go to Toys R Us. These days, I'm hit up the combo Toys R Us/Babies R Us more often than I would like to admit. But having a baby is ever so convienant for "needing" a TRU run.
In this case, there was something we actually needed. So we took the long way around the store to pass the trading card kiosk. 2018 Topps Baseball Series 1 packs were in stock. Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-47171356826586562722017-12-09T20:06:00.001-05:002017-12-09T20:10:55.593-05:00Box break: 2017 Topps Gallery Baseball
I have cards from so many different products over the last 25 or so years because that’s how far back my Derek Jeter collection goes.
When Topps released Gallery in Walmart this year, after Gallery had a lengthy absence, I went back through my collection to see what previous Topps Gallery cards I owned.
I had a few and not all of them actually drawn it seems. Some look as though they Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-34281290366410276802017-12-07T11:25:00.002-05:002017-12-07T11:25:38.406-05:00#CardChat recap: Retail vs. hobby
[View the story "#CardChat retail vs. hobby" on Storify]
Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-85767674795732350382017-11-28T20:31:00.000-05:002017-11-28T20:31:06.187-05:00#CardChat: A discussion on trading card variationsEvery week, I hold a Twitter chat on Mondays at 7 p.m. ET.
We have a new topic on trading cards.
This week, we discussed variations on cards. It was a broad topic so it could mean photo variations, printing variations, even color parallels. Here's a look at some of the highlights from this week's #CardChat.
[View the story "#CardChat: Talking about variations" on Storify]
Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-51767136670528003652017-11-26T10:00:00.000-05:002017-11-26T10:23:43.315-05:001994 Collector's Choice gives me a headache; How many Derek Jeter variations are there?
Trading cards from the 1990s are filled with variations - different color schemes or different foil patterns. So many cards are filled with nuanced differences that we are still discussing them to this day and even wondering if they exist.
1994 Collector's Choice is a tough one for player collectors. There are at least three distinct cards in the Future Foundation subset with a base card, Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-82082652269341707862017-08-08T09:30:00.000-04:002017-08-08T09:30:01.428-04:00Target, Temptation and Twitter
Last week when I returned from the National I hit up Target on Monday and Tuesday to see if anything new was out early, or anything was out period since 2017 baseball has been scarce on the retail level. Monday and Tuesday there was a cart full of boxes, about half of what is pictured, in the aisle unopened. I attempted to open some and an employee said neither I nor they can open the boxes. MarieBayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05562894135435845654noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-67518795901398512422017-08-07T12:00:00.000-04:002017-08-07T12:00:13.434-04:00ACP Case Break PropositionHere is my idea: A case break on something that will be released later in the year, such as Bowman's Best or the like with the Yankees being claimed by the blog and the rest of the teams being priced according to potential hits and number of cards on that particular team.
Therefore, the claim of the Yankees or Dodgers for example would offset the cost for someone who wants a team with minimal MarieBayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05562894135435845654noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-2088026715110341652017-08-07T09:00:00.000-04:002017-08-07T09:00:17.246-04:00A Target Problem
I went on a binge last week... This was Thursday's haul. Keep in mind I HATE Allen & Ginter. H A T E. Every year I buy a few packs just for the hell of it. It's usually just to remind myself that I do not want or need a card of a ferris wheel. Which I got coincidentally. At any rate, here are the highlights from Thursday's catastrophe.
Was there a catastrophe at TargetMarieBayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05562894135435845654noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-54974631787154455152017-08-04T18:10:00.000-04:002017-08-04T18:10:27.894-04:00That time I bought a Yogi BerraWell, I suppose it should be those "times" I bought a Yogi Berra. While this isn't my first one, it is a cool one.
I was walking around the National on Saturday with a fellow collector looking to buy the one box of 2005 Topps Bazooka I had seen earlier in the week. I had fun with that product in '05 and wanted to rip something relatively cheap at $40. Oddly enough the same seller had MarieBayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05562894135435845654noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-53170398938675411362017-08-03T22:43:00.001-04:002017-08-03T22:43:59.196-04:00They Pulled Me Back In...Greetings fellow bloggers and collectors!
I'm fairly certain I haven't posted anything in years, nor have I really had any interest in baseball cards. Ever since I finished nursing school about 4 years ago my baseball card collection more or less went on the back burner. Until last week that is.
Last week I invited myself along on Sooz's trip to the National and left my paycheck in Chicago. MarieBayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05562894135435845654noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-85809437296113457942017-07-30T20:24:00.002-04:002017-07-30T20:24:09.130-04:00Reunited Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-60833109038411512292017-01-09T11:02:00.000-05:002017-01-09T11:02:00.186-05:00Little Sun prospect card highlights Jeter's 1992 offerings
Even though Derek Jeter's rookie season came in 1996, he appeared on trading cards starting in 1992 -- the year he was drafted. He appeared on a few minor league cards and high school prospects cards. I have the base and inserts for some of his cards from 1992. I'm actually seven cards short of the cards I want to own for that year.
One of my newest Jeter cards is actually one of his Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-12161560044626438582017-01-02T10:23:00.001-05:002017-01-02T21:44:54.939-05:00Finding errors in your collection you didn't know existed ... are they worth anything?A funny thing happens when you're sorting cards. You might discover a card that you hadn't realized existed.
As I work through my Derek Jeter cards -- finally creating a want list and putting together a definitive list of what I own -- I came across on an error card.
The 1995 Fleer Major League Prospects -- Jeter's first Fleer card -- has two different versions. One has all the correct marking Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-86897166180127240352016-10-04T20:02:00.002-04:002016-10-04T20:02:39.320-04:00Video Unboxing: 258 West Authentic Autograph of the Month ClubI joined 258 West Authentic's Autograph of the Month Club in its third month - missing out on Hayley Atwell, who was the first autograph sent to subscribers. I've been happy with the 8x10 autos I've received so far and created a video for the September edition of the club.
Watch the video to see the autograph I received ... Hint: It was a Game of Thrones actor.
Check out the Autograph of theSoozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-16006698203754669462016-08-26T21:47:00.002-04:002016-08-26T21:47:54.765-04:00The best player collection EVAH!When I started this blog in 2007 (holy $%!* that’s a long time ago), my life was very different. I lived in South Jersey, played poker 3-4 times a week, interviewed athletes and wrote about sports nearly every day.
Nine years later, life is drastically different. I’m married a man who also collects baseball cards, which seemed impossible.
And now I’m a mom.
Many new parents post photos ofSoozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-53143648109341442032015-12-29T08:54:00.000-05:002015-12-29T08:54:24.924-05:00More like a Funko problem
He got into a little fight. Picked up the Pop Funko variant.
A photo posted by Susan Lulgjuraj (@yanxchick) on Jun 30, 2014 at 6:03pm PDT
This blog is obviously about trading cards -- it is a "A Cardboard Problem" after all. But in essence, it also about collecting, a hobby so many of us share together. I love collecting, and sometimes, not just cards.
Many of us don't just collect Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-5779198197843888972015-10-11T17:31:00.000-04:002015-10-11T17:31:32.635-04:00In search of Road to the Championship cardsOK, so I have reached my wits end with searching and waiting for these cards to appear. I need all of the McDonagh cards with the exception of R1G1, R1G2, R2G4.
If anyone has any available for trade please comment. I have some of these with other players I would be willing to trade, and plenty of GU/auto cards to offer.
MarieBayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05562894135435845654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-33195332882185074372015-10-02T16:32:00.001-04:002015-10-02T16:32:40.782-04:00Show off!I may be off the grid but I still creep on eBay sniping and bidding (yelling,screaming and crying) over cards. I always wait until I have a big bunch of cards and then I scan them to put into the folder on my computer with all my McDonagh autographs and game used cards. After scanning everything and opening all my Ultra Pro snap magnetic snap cases, I have realized I did not buy enough 130pt MarieBayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05562894135435845654noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152568678469239001.post-50856344991086233372015-04-14T10:00:00.000-04:002015-04-14T10:00:01.328-04:00My newest cardboard obsession
I have a new obsession. I love to collect things. Sometimes
not just baseball cards, and I usually have to curtail a collection before it
starts so it doesn’t get out of hand.
Pop Funko Vinyls: I’ve had to limit them to just the
Supernatural ones. The boxes are not small and can add up after just a few
purchases.
Oyo Toys: Only going to get the Jeters (though I’ve been
lucky to get Soozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07812164046990568853noreply@blogger.com7