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Visiting the Amazon Card Shop! What's Good (and Bad) To Buy?
The card-collecting supply industry is huge -- and so is Amazon! The online retail giant is also a good place to improve your sports card collection!
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🏈⚾1987 Topps Bo Jackson "Future Stars" #170⚾🏈CTMUH No. 2
Bo Knows -- awesome baseball rookie cards from the Junk Wax era!
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🎙️9 Sports Card Gimmicks We Loved, Liked or Loathed! - Ep. 2.47
Some innovations were awesome -- and some we wish to never see again!
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9 Hobby Gimmicks We Loved/Liked/Loathed
Which hobby oddity do you wish would get resurrected in 2026?
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⚾1962 Topps Roger Maris #1⚾CTMUH No. 1
This Yankees slugger broke The Babe's record -- and landed first on a landmark Topps set!
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🎙️Vote For the 2025 Rookie Card Awards! -- and Win a Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9! - Ep. 2.45
It's time to look back at the rookie cards that got us excited in 2025 and share some optimism over what's ahead!
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Vote For the 2025 Rookie Card Awards! -- and Win!
One random voter will win a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab!
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Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors!
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Why Getting Great Cards Feels Impossible — And How Collectors Beat the Odds!
Building a great sports card collection isn't easy, which makes it all the more fun to build!
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[POD] From Card Collector To Seller: Interviewing Emack!
Former Fantasy Baseball writer Eric Mack shares his story of returning to the hobby and learning enough to start his own card shop on eBay!
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[POD] How “Saved Searches” on eBay Can Save Your Collection!
Are you taking advantage of this awesome (and free) card finder?
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Learn Who To Buy, Which Cards, and When To Buy Them! - Ep. 2.26
New sports card collectors -- and Comeback Collectors alike -- can improve their collection by learning the answers to these three questions!
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[POD] Battling Parallel Fatigue with a "New" Vintage Project! - Ep. 2.21
Are you drowning in 94 parallels of every card? Gonos changes things up by starting a fun vintage card project!
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What Type of Sports Card Collector Are You?
We're not judging. But if you can figure out which kind of collector you are, then you can make bigger strides in improving your collection!
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