June 2018 Ebay Wins

June was a bad month. I don’t really want to talk about June. I was rarely home. Bad things happened. It was a mess and a dark time.

Being overseas, I didn’t want to look at stuff to buy. I didn’t want to expose my paypal to any foreign IPs, etc. So, it was a […]

If I Were To Collect: Texas Rangers Edition

[The fifth in a series: I’m picking one player that I associate with a team (whether they spent the majority of their career there or not) that I would strongly consider adding to my official want lists. They may not always be superstars, or the most popular, and honestly they may not always be my […]

End Of An Era: Kerry Wood Retires – A Cardboard Retrospective

Reflections – fitting name for the set

The card you see above is the last Kerry Wood card I acquired while he was still an active player, and quite an appropriate one at that.

You see, it’s tough to tell the story of Kerry Wood’s career without touching on the expectations and the subsequent […]

2003 Leaf Certified Materials retrospective

Going through some old cards at my mom’s house, I found the remnants of the very first full box I ever purchased. No, it wasn’t a 1989 Fleer box looking for that elusive Billy Ripken (those packs were $1 each retail… I absolutely cannot believe my 8 year old self paid that for them). No, […]