Always one of my favorite products of the year, 2021 Topps Heritage Minor League is also one of the most affordable. This year, the product

I recently saw this meme on a baseball card Facebook group. Using a popular meme format based on a Family Guy scene, it shows the

Last week I talked about all the changes that Fanatics is likely to bring to the structure of the sports card industry as a whole.

Last Thursday, Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin showed up on CNBC to talk about the company’s new trading card division. The appearance was in light of

Blaster box. Hobby box. Jumbo box. What does it all mean? While most people love opening packs of cards, the boxes that hold those packs

Despite being the flashiest base set in the Topps lineup, Topps Fire is often unappreciated due to its relative lack of big hits. That’s okay

Last week, a friend and I went to a card show in The Villages, Florida. The Villages contains a large retirement community, and often there

There is much we still do not know about the transition that will occur over the next few years in the hobby, with Topps losing

Always one of the better value boxes out there, 2021 Topps Pro Debut once again hits all the right notes for fans of prospects and

Last Thursday, the hobby world was shocked by a surprise announcement that Topps, which has made baseball cards for 70 years, would be losing both

There aren’t many baseball card products that I don’t love. But generally speaking, if I were to make a list of annual releases, Gypsy Queen

This week is (finally!) the 41st National Sports Collectors Convention, a show two years in the making thanks to Covid-19. I was prepared to go

For decades, PSA has been the leading grader and authenticator of sports and non-sports cards. The company ran like a well-oiled machine, rarely making headlines

Last week I met up with a friend of mine who’s a rabid wrestling fan. In the course of conversation, he asked me a question

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whether you collect graded sports or non-sports cards or buy graded cards to resell, few things are more annoying than receiving a slab in the

Last week, Topps announced that it was taking the company public through a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. After the SPAC merger is complete,

Panini’s Donruss baseball line released in March, and as has been the case for the last 13 months, I bought some retail to test it