Blast From the Packs: Clearly Canadian
How did I end up opening 30-year-old packs of baseball and football cards from Canada? It’s all thanks to the magic of eBay!… Read More Blast From the Packs: Clearly Canadian
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Blast From the Packs: 1992 Upper Deck Baseball, a photography master class
When I look at the portion of my sports card collection I kept from when I was a kid, I see some patterns that reveal my tastes at the time. In football, I loved athletic, scrambling QBs who could wind their way out of the pocket for a first-down themselves or uncork an absolute bomb… Read More Blast From the Packs: 1992 Upper Deck Baseball, a photography master class
It will be mine: Topps Project 2020 Frank Thomas (by Oldmanalan)
Topps has been doing this really cool line of limited-run cards all year called Project 2020. The idea is they’ve contracted with a wide variety of pop artists, fashion designers, graffiti/street artists, tattoo artists, graphic designers, etc., to create imaginative re-vamps of classic cards from the Topps lineup across the decades. Each card is a… Read More It will be mine: Topps Project 2020 Frank Thomas (by Oldmanalan)
Blast From the Packs: An ode to Fleer Flair
If you’ve been reading my posts about sports cards lately, you’ll know that I keep harping on photography as the thing that draws me to certain cards. A great photo, even if it’s of a player I’m not crazy about, will make a card much more desirable in my eyes. So when a set gives… Read More Blast From the Packs: An ode to Fleer Flair
Blast From the Packs: 1991-92, the first year of Upper Deck NBA
When I bought the box of 1992 Leaf baseball, it was kind of an impulse purchase. Like when you have a little too much wine and make a late-night Amazon order: It’s fine, it’s good, but did you really need that hard-boiled egg maker? I didn’t really collect that particular season of Leaf when I… Read More Blast From the Packs: 1991-92, the first year of Upper Deck NBA
Blast From the Packs: Ripping a box of 1992 Leaf baseball
As we’ve established by now, one of the greatest joys of collecting sports cards, in my book, is opening a fresh pack of cards. Ahhh yes, the moment when potential meets reality, and a sealed stack of could-be becomes part of a collection of what-is. Until recently, I had never purchased a box of packs,… Read More Blast From the Packs: Ripping a box of 1992 Leaf baseball
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