In the past week, two huge pieces of news came out, each of which will have a tremendous impact on the sports card hobby.
On June 30, the NCAA announced that college athletes, long unpaid and unable to profit off …
Despite their lack of an MLB license, meaning their cards have airbrushed photos without team logos, Panini does put out some nice baseball cards. I don’t often buy them, but I had heard some hype about the 2021 Absolute …
Earlier this month, the organizers of the National Sports Collectors Convention announced that the show will in fact occur, after a cancellation last year and questions this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since this is the first National …
With large-scale card shows back in full swing and new shows popping up all over the country, more and more people find themselves going to all-day and multi-day card shows. Folks who have been to a card show before …
As expensive as hobby Bowman products were this year, at least they could be found and purchased easily. Retail products, on the other hand, ran out in less than a minute and showed up on the secondary market at …
I’m not quite sure how or when Mike’s Stadium Sportscards in Aurora, CO first came to my attention. My best guess is that it was an article I read in a Beckett magazine many, many years ago, or perhaps …
One of Panini’s more affordable annual baseball releases, 2021 Diamond Kings released last month in both hobby and retail formats. Diamond Kings is my favorite Panini product to open, because it combines current stars, rookies, and retired players from …
Last week, Target sent a shock through the sports and Pokemon card world when it announced that all stores would temporarily stop carrying retail boxes and packs out of concerns for the safety of its customers and staff.
How did …
By the end of March both my wife and I were fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and ready to start getting back to the activities we had left behind over a year prior. For her, this meant going back to …
For people in the sports card hobby, most of the conversation around the United States Postal Service takes a negative turn fairly quickly. Buyers and sellers alike love to hate the USPS bogeymen who raise postage prices and lose …
