December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
2. Impossible
5. Of age
August 2023
4. Small doings
5. 34
July 2023
3. 4 purchases
5. Stuck on you
June 2023
4. '88 is great
May 2023
8. A big loss
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
2. This is it
January 2023
1. Page disease
December 2022
November 2022
7. Oddities
October 2022
3. Been awhile
September 2022
4. Four figures
August 2022
July 2022
2. Old crushes
4. Come to me
5. Golden
6. Head count
June 2022
May 2022
3. Play for us
7. The last pet
9. By request
April 2022
March 2022
2. 5,000
5. No scribbles
February 2022
January 2022
December 2021
6. Low-rated
November 2021
7. Disorganized
October 2021
2. Ego trip
September 2021
7. 70s>80s
August 2021
2. I'll be fine
July 2021
June 2021
4. Not related
May 2021
2. True greats
6. Bad behavior
April 2021
March 2021
4. On a mission
February 2021
January 2021
8. 1989
December 2020
9. A lifetime
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
1. The top 20 cards of the decade
2. Hoping for a Christmas miracle
3. I was wrong
4. Saying goodbye to Brooklyn
5. Biggest. Order. Ever.
6. A major minor deal
7. That's the way (I like it)
8. Cardboard Appreciation: 2008 Topps Stadium Club Justin Upton (yes, I finally completed the damn thing)
9. My comment on comments
10. Stepping through the minefield of high numbers
November 2019
1. Tis the season
2. Giving thanks for bloggers
3. Brush with greatness: Bobby Valentine
4. Sorting rules
5. Brush with greatness: John Wockenfuss and the power of baseball cards
6. Mind explosion: a different way to sort
7. Nobody knows what a subset is anymore
8. Full name please
October 2019
1. Howling at the moon
2. Looking at cards with Johnny B.
3. Prepping for the World Series
4. Not done with baseball but so done with 2019 baseball cards
5. Completing the pioneer of confusing sets
6. In tune with toons
7. The last great decade
8. More to the story
9. Time and money
10. The best of Score
September 2019
1. Meeting another collector
2. The one-that-got-away team
3. The sanctuary
4. Overrated
5. Working for a living
August 2019
1. It's not right but it's OK
2. The continuing horror of buybacks
3. My self-promotion needs work
4. Do I care about variations? It varies
5. Best set of the year: 1992
6. '56 of the month: Ted Williams
July 2019
1. Card room mega upgrade
2. While you were summering
3. Move on, haters
4. The king of logos
5. Respect for '74
6. My favorite things
7. Canadian-style cards
June 2019
1. More fun (and not so much fun) with Stadium Club
2. A picture is worth a thousand fonts
3. You could have knocked me over with a penguin feather
4. Orphaned
5, My decade design votes
6. Reconnecting
7. Musical chairs 2
May 2019
1. Happy little moment
2. It's the wood that makes it good
3. Cleaning up
4. Total cards vs. games played
5. Cardboard confirmation
April 2019
1. C.A.: 1981 Fleer Tim Flannery
2. The year I became a bad team collector
3. Chew on this
4. A card show inside and out (card show report, part 2)
5. Let's start at the ending (card show report, part 1)
6. Won't get fooled again
March 2019
1. That season
2. More to the picture(s)
3. Picture this
4. The best design year of all-time
5. The underrated joy of upgrading
6. How Upper Deck did the '70s
7. Go, girl
8. The fine print
9. Gray days
February 2019
1. Want list vs. have list
2. Weird weather pack
3. Heritage just gets meaner and meaner
4. I deserve to complete a set
5. Death and dying
6. Kindergarten cards
7. Not hot
8. Ten years of evaluating flagship
9. But that design
January 2019
1. Maybe Topps should change its flagship release date
2. My first experience as a magazine writer
3. I am published, magazine version
4. Thinking exercise
5. A double stack from 50 years back
6. Blogging ain't dead ... I have the numbers
7. Burnin' your retinas in 2019
8. Let's start from the beginning
9. It's rainin' all over the world
December 2018
1. 2018: The best, the worst, the ... I don't feel qualified to write this
2. One, solitary, wonderful card
3. The end of one of the most exciting Dodger eras of my lifetime
4. A real, live flea market with cards
5. Not every 1980s countdown is the same
6. C.A.: 1993 Upper Deck Pat Mahomes
7. Forgotten
8. Ugly \'əg-lē\
9. '56 of the month: Bobby Shantz
November 2018
1. The sun always shines on baseball cards
2. The reminiscence bump and baseball cards
3. Cards I got for Black Friday and a shift in collecting focus
4. All the fixings
5. C.A.: 1983 Fleer Salome Barojas
6. My least favorite stunt of the '90s
7. Gettin' through high school
8. Journey to the center of the most '90s card set ever made
9. Red
October 2018
1. A break for Update
2. Dollar store cards, myth vs. fact
3. Et tu, 1989 Fleer?
4. The 10 worst Brewers cards in my collection
5. Deals! Deals! Deals!
6. C.A.: 1978 Topps Bucky "*@!&%#" Dent
September 2018
1. Men of action
2. Hunting for errors
3. 2009
4. Let me stand next to your fire
5. A decade
6. F-yeah
7. Hot
August 2018
1. We've had some good times, football
2. Luv ya blue
3. Missing
4. The closer I get, the farther I am
5. Archival footage
6. Piece by piece
7. Looking at legends
8. That's good readin'
July 2018
1. Ten years of being an Allen & Ginter fan
2. The Mets and Yankees are my childhood
3. 🌟Still excited🌟
4. My day, my way
5. Buzz kill
June 2018
1. I wanna rock
2. Almost done
3. The good in Twitter
4. Stuck in traffic with Series 2
5. Put coach in, Topps
6. This never happens anymore
7. When baseball cards said what they meant
May 2018
1. So long, Rite-Aid
2. Best set of the year: 1991
3. Mom and Yaz, Part 2
4. Register one is open, no waiting
5. Haunted when the minutes drag
6. West Coast to the rescue
April 2018
1. The top 20 cards of the decade
2. Hoping for a Christmas miracle
3. I was wrong
4. Saying goodbye to Brooklyn
5. Biggest. Order. Ever.
6. A major minor deal
7. That's the way (I like it)
8. Cardboard Appreciation: 2008 Topps Stadium Club Justin Upton (yes, I finally completed the damn thing)
9. My comment on comments
10. Stepping through the minefield of high numbers
November 2019
1. Tis the season
2. Giving thanks for bloggers
3. Brush with greatness: Bobby Valentine
4. Sorting rules
5. Brush with greatness: John Wockenfuss and the power of baseball cards
6. Mind explosion: a different way to sort
7. Nobody knows what a subset is anymore
8. Full name please
October 2019
1. Howling at the moon
2. Looking at cards with Johnny B.
3. Prepping for the World Series
4. Not done with baseball but so done with 2019 baseball cards
5. Completing the pioneer of confusing sets
6. In tune with toons
7. The last great decade
8. More to the story
9. Time and money
10. The best of Score
September 2019
1. Meeting another collector
2. The one-that-got-away team
3. The sanctuary
4. Overrated
5. Working for a living
August 2019
1. It's not right but it's OK
2. The continuing horror of buybacks
3. My self-promotion needs work
4. Do I care about variations? It varies
5. Best set of the year: 1992
6. '56 of the month: Ted Williams
July 2019
1. Card room mega upgrade
2. While you were summering
3. Move on, haters
4. The king of logos
5. Respect for '74
6. My favorite things
7. Canadian-style cards
June 2019
1. More fun (and not so much fun) with Stadium Club
2. A picture is worth a thousand fonts
3. You could have knocked me over with a penguin feather
4. Orphaned
5, My decade design votes
6. Reconnecting
7. Musical chairs 2
May 2019
1. Happy little moment
2. It's the wood that makes it good
3. Cleaning up
4. Total cards vs. games played
5. Cardboard confirmation
April 2019
1. C.A.: 1981 Fleer Tim Flannery
2. The year I became a bad team collector
3. Chew on this
4. A card show inside and out (card show report, part 2)
5. Let's start at the ending (card show report, part 1)
6. Won't get fooled again
March 2019
1. That season
2. More to the picture(s)
3. Picture this
4. The best design year of all-time
5. The underrated joy of upgrading
6. How Upper Deck did the '70s
7. Go, girl
8. The fine print
9. Gray days
February 2019
1. Want list vs. have list
2. Weird weather pack
3. Heritage just gets meaner and meaner
4. I deserve to complete a set
5. Death and dying
6. Kindergarten cards
7. Not hot
8. Ten years of evaluating flagship
9. But that design
January 2019
1. Maybe Topps should change its flagship release date
2. My first experience as a magazine writer
3. I am published, magazine version
4. Thinking exercise
5. A double stack from 50 years back
6. Blogging ain't dead ... I have the numbers
7. Burnin' your retinas in 2019
8. Let's start from the beginning
9. It's rainin' all over the world
December 2018
1. 2018: The best, the worst, the ... I don't feel qualified to write this
2. One, solitary, wonderful card
3. The end of one of the most exciting Dodger eras of my lifetime
4. A real, live flea market with cards
5. Not every 1980s countdown is the same
6. C.A.: 1993 Upper Deck Pat Mahomes
7. Forgotten
8. Ugly \'əg-lē\
9. '56 of the month: Bobby Shantz
November 2018
1. The sun always shines on baseball cards
2. The reminiscence bump and baseball cards
3. Cards I got for Black Friday and a shift in collecting focus
4. All the fixings
5. C.A.: 1983 Fleer Salome Barojas
6. My least favorite stunt of the '90s
7. Gettin' through high school
8. Journey to the center of the most '90s card set ever made
9. Red
October 2018
1. A break for Update
2. Dollar store cards, myth vs. fact
3. Et tu, 1989 Fleer?
4. The 10 worst Brewers cards in my collection
5. Deals! Deals! Deals!
6. C.A.: 1978 Topps Bucky "*@!&%#" Dent
September 2018
1. Men of action
2. Hunting for errors
3. 2009
4. Let me stand next to your fire
5. A decade
6. F-yeah
7. Hot
August 2018
1. We've had some good times, football
2. Luv ya blue
3. Missing
4. The closer I get, the farther I am
5. Archival footage
6. Piece by piece
7. Looking at legends
8. That's good readin'
July 2018
1. Ten years of being an Allen & Ginter fan
2. The Mets and Yankees are my childhood
3. 🌟Still excited🌟
4. My day, my way
5. Buzz kill
June 2018
1. I wanna rock
2. Almost done
3. The good in Twitter
4. Stuck in traffic with Series 2
5. Put coach in, Topps
6. This never happens anymore
7. When baseball cards said what they meant
May 2018
1. So long, Rite-Aid
2. Best set of the year: 1991
3. Mom and Yaz, Part 2
4. Register one is open, no waiting
5. Haunted when the minutes drag
6. West Coast to the rescue
April 2018
March 2018
1. March is dead and I'm still alive
2. Sticking my nose in other baseball collectors' business
3. Assume the position ... means nothing
4. C.A.: 1957 Topps Clem Labine
5. We almost-seniors need to look out for each other
6. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio cards?
7. A tribute to the first 'ancient' set I ever knew (a 2018 Heritage post)
February 2018
1. C.A.: 2003 Upper Deck First Pitch A.J. Hinch
2. The most error-filled card back ever
3. The last hurrah
4. The all-presidential name team (Dodger version)
5. No love for '88
6. The amusing monster screwdown case
7. The five stages of opening 2018 Topps
January 2018
1. A hit to my collecting core
2. Ranking 73ness, a double shot
3. For the nonsporty types
4. Wrong White
5. C.A.: McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber
6. How will Topps manage this?
7. A rookie set that made sense
8. 200 and counting ... and evaluating
December 2017
1. 2017: The best, the worst, the ... let's get this over with before I run out of words
2. Scammed
3. Schmidt happens
4. G.O.A.T., the '70s: epilogue
5. G.O.A.T., the '70s, 10-1
6. Baseball name synchronicity
7. G.O.A.T., the '70s, 20-11
November 2017
1. Minor league cards are better
2. Internet good, internet bad
3. G.O.A.T., the '70s, 29-21
4. The "ugly" duckling of the golden era of Kellogg's cards
5. G.O.A.T., the '70s, 40-30
6. The cup club
7. G.O.A.T., the '70s, 50-41
October 2017
1. Call it what it is
2. G.O.A.T., the '70s, 60-51
3. I stole this from a hockey card blog
4. 10 reasons why it's great that the Dodgers are in the World Series in 2017
5. C.A.: 1982 Donruss Rick Cerone
6. G.O.A.T., the '70s, 70-61
September 2017
1. G.O.A.T, the '70s, 90-81
2. What are we going to do without Bob Lemke?
3. G.O.A.T, the '70s, 100-91
4. The good old days weren't that long ago
5. Everyone does not get a trophy
6. Extra innings
7. All the things you love/hate about Allen & Ginter in one tidy post
August 2017
1. Match the song title: The Joshua Tree
2. The truly underrated
3. C.A.: 2016 Topps Steve Johnson
4. Preparing for a world of pain
5. The best Dodger card for every year I collected
6. It only took 40 years
7. My rules for buying a Topps Now card
8. Saying goodbye to Kmart
July 2017
1. Why I quit
2. The thrift shop thrill is gone
3. Too distracted by my pull of the year
4. Go team!
5. Living among young people when you're old
6. One thing flagship is doing right
7. Legend of cardboard: Kirt Manwaring
8. The story of Moose and Goose
9. Ranking the All-Star designs
10. The Canada Day all-baseball hockey team
June 2017
1. A tribute to longevity
2. This ticks all the boxes
3. Bubbling over
4. Dad's favorite player
5. How little civilians know
6. The phantom catch
7. I'm getting too old for this @*%&#
8. Gappers
9. What am I waiting for?
10. Brighter than the sun
May 2017
1. Just the fax
2. Ranking 1973ness
3. What is going on with base rookie cards
4. They can't all be heroes
5. Eight things we don't do anymore
6. Thanks, mom, for not throwing out this card
7. Comics on baseball cards
April 2017
1. Nine-year-old me is standing and applauding
2. Nothing better
3. Nuts to this
4. It takes only one card to make a show a success
5. My favorite opening day lineup
March 2017
1. Blog bat-around: So difficult that I don't care
2. The day 1990 -- the whole damn year -- came to my door
3. Forcing the action
4. Cardboard appreciation: 1980 Topps 1979 Highlights Garry Templeton
5. If it didn't happen on a baseball card did it make a sound?
6. Strange bedfellows
7. Card collecting for me will end in 2041
8. Sometimes only 1988 Donruss can fill a hole
9. Joy of a team set, chapter 10
10. Redeemed
February 2017
1. I freeze at Chinese restaurant buffets, too
2. Cardboard appreciation: 1991 Score Rick Dempsey
3. A surprise inside
4. The helmet king
5. I'll take the vintage, please
6. The quintessential '70s ballplayer
7. Not my first rodeo
January 2017
1. Fernando the foodie
2. SSP: Super SP or Stupid SP?
3. Long may he Raines
4. My favorite mistakes
5. It was my lucky day
6. A kindred spirit unmet
December 2016
1. 2016: The best, the worst, the ... yes, I'm really making you relive this whole damn year
2. She tried 2
3. Everyone has a plan, until they get hit with a foot of snow
4. My favorite card of 2016
5. My first Topps Now card
6. No reason to hang on to this card
November 2016
1. Which Fan Favorites set was the best?
2. Suckered anyway
3. Border war
4. The least favored Fan Favorites
5. The most favored Fan Favorites
6. Here's the pitch
7. Get out!!!
8, Cardboard Appreciation: 1987 Topps Turn Back the Clock Maury Wills
9. A meandering look at Game 7 and baseball cards
October 2016
1. Joy of a team set, chapter 9 (World Series edition)
2. I have waited for this card for a long time
3. Showstoppers
4. Cardboard Appreciation: 1998 Skybox E-X 2001 Cheap Seat Treats Mike Piazza
5. One last pack
6. Steppin' in a slide zone
7. A very pleasant good life to you
September 2016
1. Short story
2. The power of the mustache
3. Acquiring vs. admiring
4. Something I haven't opened for a very long time
5. One man, one card
6. Card bloggers are even nicer in person
7. Cars
8. 1995
9. What happens when you get out there
August 2016
1. Little league, big deal
2. Subliminal messages in '78 Topps
3. When completing a set is not the biggest card news of the day
4. They're real and they're unspectacular
5. That's not my name
6. I have low-grade Olympic fever
7. Overanalytical night owl
8. Possibly the last current flagship set I ever complete
9. One notable card short
10. So I can't just ignore this
11. Still got it
July 2016
1. Toothy
2. Hold the phone
3. I'm a slob
4. A bad year for being a Dodgers team collector
5. Message from a hobby legend
6. The 20-year nostalgia cycle and card blogs
7. Letting my club membership run out
June 2016
1. Terrible ideas
2. Definitions
3. For this collector who has everything
4. There's only time to open one pack
5. Not seeing red
6. One out of three ain't bad
May 2016
1. The surprise show stunned me stupid
2. The most important cards of the day
3. The final chapter?
4. Hell is freezing over
5. 50 under .50
April 2016
1. That's a conversation-starter
2. (Keep feeling) fascination
3. Disoriented
4. The Rusty Greer era
5. The demise of handwriting
6. Play ball! (2016)
March 2016
1. A better blue
2. Wacky lite
3. How far we've come and how far we've fallen
4. Collecting is a full-time job
5. 30 teams, 2016 edition
February 2016
1. Putting buybacks in their place
2. Match the song title: Pretenders
3. Things you figure out when you decide you're not going to blog for the day
4. Nothing to spit at
5. The Donruss puzzle
6. SSPC (Super Spectacular Perfect Cards)
7. Start and finish
8. Even year bull$#!&
9. Don't tell me no lies
January 2016
1. Thanks for the help
2. The best years to begin collecting
3. What's in my head
4. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away
5. When I was watching cartoons
6. The big picture
7. No love for the commish
8. I think of him as a Dodger II
9. 2015: the best, the worst, the ... yeah, I'm late again
December 2015
1. Topps did all right in 2015
2. Time
3. My kind of woman
4. Night Owl's all-time Topps set countdown all in one place ... finally
5. There's no need to fear, Fleer and Donruss are here
November 2015
1. Why I love '70s cards and baseball so much
2. If I was a kid in 1956
3. My greatest collecting fear
4. What 868 Eric Karros cards from 1992 Upper Deck looks like
5. Resistance is futile
6. Wife cards
7. The unsettling part of O-Pee-Chee
8. Here's to a long life
October 2015
1. I met the Mets
2. Cameo overkill
3. Something new ... happy?
4. The joy of Eck
5. The cardinal sin of baseball photography
6. Taking a page (or entire binder) from someone else's post
7. This is all Al Kaline's fault
8. Be careful what you wish for, part 2
9. Biting the bullet
10. Trading card alchemy
11. Sucker for a pretty face
September 2015
1. When "old" stopped meaning "valuable"
2. You've seen these before
3. Collecting non-Dodger Dodgers
4. It's here!
5. Mantle-versary
6. C.A.: 1982 Topps Traded Steve Stroughter
7. The unsung laborer(s) of 1977 Topps
August 2015
1. The joy of brevity and the Oakland A's
2. "Rock Stars"
3. Nine-pocket power
4. Lost opportunity
5. So now I'm going to have to go to every antique show
6. I get older, the collection gets better
July 2015
1. Watching baseball to take my mind off ... baseball
2. The summer of Sandy
3. All-Star Week: birthday edition
4. All-Star Week: HR Derby is a thing so this is a thing
5. 10 awesomely airbrushed Dodgers
June 2015
1. Guts and generosity
2. Awesome night card, pt. 238: the history of the All-Star Game trophy
3. Set of the year
4. A history of 1975 Topps tributes
5. This won't turn out well
6. Get to know me: Kellogg's cards
7. Uh, oh, I'm doing this
8. I hate this, thank you
May 2015
1. These didn't come from a card show, try to enjoy
2. The Jackie count
3. The all-face percentage team
4. Take me out to the ballgame
5. Library books
6. Spawn
7. Reruns
8. Joy of a team set, chapter 5
9. Life's too short
April 2015
1. Collection-enhanced cardboard
2. Topps and Javier Baez sittin' in a tree ...
3. Here come the Yankees ...
4. Credit where credit is due
5. Silly collector, cards are for kids
6. ... THIS is the best part
7. Well, hello there, Kmart
8. 'A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives'
9. Maybe we all belong in a nursing home
10. Finally, room for Jello
11. The end of team cards as we knew them
12. Play ball! (2015)
March 2015
1. Putting yourself out there
2. Tired of being treated like a common criminal
3. Now do you understand?
4. Ashamed
5. Ay
6. A cardboard tweener
February 2015
1. 30 teams, 2015 edition
2. Not-so-short rant on short prints
3. Completing the best Dodgers team set of all-time
4. Match the song title: Out of the Blue
5. Road trip with 2015 Topps
6. Easily forgotten
January 2015
1. A stack is a stack no matter how thin the cardboard stock
2. Don't just sit there
3. There is only one Boog Powell
4. C.A.: 1971 Topps Ernie Banks
5. The coral snake effect
6. More obsessive color grouping and ranking
7. 40 years ago I found my life's work
8. The readers
December 2014
1. 2014: the best, the worst, the ... is this thing on?
2. Christmas bells
3. In da club
4. Minnnnniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii(this is me running around the house)iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. Turn to your right Mr. Carlton
6. Words I never use
7. Sy
8. Baseball anachronisms are dead
9. Awesome night card, pt. 227: consistently great
10. Stats on the back
11. A man collecting a boy's game
12. Legends of cardboard: Jim Roland
November 2014
1. The games 1970s card collectors play
2. Blank space
3. Mystery
4. Tony was right
5. What's that you got on your head?
6. Those elusive '66s
7. The box
8. Seeing double
9. Rookie cards in the dugout
October 2014
1. Six, six, six
2. I know someone who works at Topps
3. That year was next year
4. I shouldn't be buying new stuff anymore
5. Cards for a baseball-less day
6. If I were king of the postseason, 2014 edition
September 2014
1. See ya, Paulie
2. In the news
3. Lawless
4. Six degrees of separation
5. I'm a man, yes I am, and I can't help but love you so
6. C.A.: 1978 Topps Gil Flores
7. My irrational hatred for a completely innocent baseball card set
8. How the world has changed, wrapper edition
August 2014
1. Chrome has intimacy issues
2. My frustration in list form
3. The star treatment
4. The last hurrah
5. Open up, it's the police ... cards!
6. Thanks, kid
July 2014
1. The end of cool
2. Still some life left in this little card show
3. It amused me, so I bought it
4. Doubling up
5. When cards were for kids
6. Some more semi-cranky observations on 2014 Allen & Ginter
7. Star struck
8. July 12, 1979
9. Allen and Ginter, forward and back
10. The squeaky wheel gets the sheets
11. Not that there's anything wrong with this
June 2014
1. Them's the rules
2. The history of flight
3. The spice of life
4. C.A.: 1982 Fleer Shooty Babitt
5. That is so old
6. Doors closing everywhere
7. You want to go back to 1980, let's go back to 1980
May 2014
1. Were cards that lousy 7 years ago?
2. Awesome night card, pt. 215
3. Curb appeal
4. Like taking candy from a baby
5. Why I don't talk cards with my mother
6. On-card vs. sticker
7. Found money
April 2014
1. A card collector's 40th anniversary
2. What Panini needs to do
3. I don't want to play
4. Sometimes I'm a numbers guy
5. Do wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
6. In and out
March 2014
1. Play ball! (2014)
2. Good things come to those who whine, part 1
3. Where the hell is Heritage?
4. You don't know me at all
5. Donruss ... if you're into that kind of thing
6. Fun with triple digits
7. Boring old success
8. Suckered
9. 30 teams, 2014 edition
10. We all have our mini-card hang-ups
February 2014
1. The decline of baseball cards in a single pack
2. Rejoice! The mini card page is near
3. 10 things repacks offer that 2014 whatever doesn't
4. Uninspired
5. When Dave Fleming was going to make us all rich
6. My biggest card show blunder
7. The unwelcome return of the future star(s)
8. Bad influence
January 2014
1. Why I buy cards I don't think I'll enjoy
2. The pipeline
3. Two-for-2
4. Forget about the price tag
5. Glowing reviews
6. The first thing that comes to mind
7. Turn back the clock, Topps
8. Where the action is
9. Is this dumb or am I just confused?
10. Below
December 2013
1. 2013: The best, the worst, the whatever
2. Color my world
3. Updating before Update
4. Collecting cards of retired players means never having to say you're sorry
5. These cards apparently took a bullet for my collection
November 2013
1. If you can't join 'em, count 'em
2. All new ...
3. The card after
4. Dressing like a varsity team
5. When the world is running down ...
6. A reason to eat my Wheaties
7. Sure, I remember
8. The pull of the pull
9. A pack break from split-personality Night Owl
10. Yesterday's news
October 2013
1. My favorite Twins
2. The alternate world of baseball card cartoons
3. This just happened
4. 25 years ago
5. No sleep til Geddes
6. Right now, Topps is just a one-night stand
7. Everybody is a star
8. Sads
September 2013
1. Goodbye A-Rod, hello cards I want
2. The birthday that almost wasn't
3. C.A.: 1977 Topps Dennis Eckersley
4. Finding a Clark of my own
5. Changing positions
6. The single most difficult person to obtain on a baseball card
7. High five
8. The importance of green grass
9. No, I am not ready for some football, thanks for asking
10. Sorting and storage (I am not a pack rat!)
August 2013
1. My pathetic LCS recollection
2. First time for everything
3. 1979
4. Platinum has lost its meaning
5. Just because
6. Ginter, yo
7. Looking ahead to what I'm not going to complete
8. From grand to bland
July 2013
1. No, Canada
2. Halfway between Alpha and Omega
3. Time for another edition of why did I buy this?
4. Hands up
5. The ballad of cross-country Tommy and other PWE tales
6. No. 2 again
June 2013
1. How it must've been
2. What can I say about Series 2?
3. Dodgers and Yankees don't mix
4. Banished
5. Don't call it a comeback
6. Your loss, Allen & Ginter
7. Restraint
8. On this date
9. Archived and forgotten
10. One-dimensional player
May 2013
1. I need a beer
2. Things that keep me up all morning
3. Stars and stripes and cards forever
4. Us vs. Them
5. Everyone changes
6. You didn't have to be so nice
7. Team MVPs: 1988 Topps
8. Not impressed
9. Match the song title: Whipped Cream & Other Delights
10. Beyond amazed
11. When the back cover meant "the end"
April 2013
1. It's gotta be the shoes
2. Some nonsense about a repack
3. Hey there, Boston, you're all right with me
4. Management material
5. Too many interests
6. The best of 2013, so far
7. The year of the airbrush
8. Beauty and the beast
9. Making omelettes for girls
10. Managers are people, too
11. Play ball! (2013)
March 2013
1. The new Fritsch catalog is here! The new Fritsch catalog is here!
2. Hey, neighbor
3. He's No. 1
4. Minnnnnnniiiiiiiiiiiiii triology, part 2
5. I talk a good game
6. The golden age of all-star cards countdown: 5-1
7. Feelin' a little guilty
8. The 'Hotel Californias' of the card world
9. The fall and rise of the PWE
10. I like 'em shiny, I like 'em moldy, but mostly I like 'em free
11. Upgrade? Yes or no?
12. Against my better judgment
13. 30 teams, 2013 edition
February 2013
1. For the sake of organization: the '75 mini page quest
2. The dreaded ebay 1/1
3. It was worth it
4. Parallel-o-grams
5. Erasing history ... and some cartoons
6. State of gray
7. The way things used to be
January 2013
1. Card show buzzes don't last as long as they once did
2. Max's double card package go boom
3. Why I don't care that 2013 Topps comes out this week
4. Match the song title: 1984
5. Called out again
6. Match the song title: El Camino
7. Yeah, I'm a sportswriter ... and I'd vote for Bonds
8. The death of an innovator and an irritant
9. Ohhhhh, Ohhhhhhhh! Domino!
10. The truth about minis
11. Stickers and the Series
12. The year of vintage
December 2012
1. The great, big, New Year's Eve 2012 blowout blogtacular
2. The best Dodger cards ever made countdown: 10-1
3. Seasons greetings, from 1984 Donruss
4. Tennis, everyone
5. The best Dodger cards ever made countdown: 20-11
6. The easiest time I've ever had completing a set
7. My kind of town (but not my kind of set)
8. When good autographs go bad
9. The bittersweet demise of a disgusting habit
10. The best Dodger cards ever made countdown: 30-21
11. Sketchy
November 2012
1. Despite what you see here, I'm still mad at Topps
2. The best Dodger cards ever made countdown: 40-31
3. A mini miracle
4. Things I missed the first time
5. The best Dodger cards ever made countdown: 50-41
6. The decline of headline writing on baseball cards
7. Cardboard Appreciation: 1977 Hostess Dave Lopes
8. The 38-star club
9. Walgreen's isn't as lame as I thought
10. The best Dodger cards ever made countdown: 60-51
11. No time
12. I miss magazines
October 2012
1. The best Dodger cards ever made countdown: 70-61
2. An anniversary ... with cards, of course
3. That turned out better than I thought it would, part 1
4. Cardboard Appreciation: 2012 Topps Veteran Masters
5. The best Dodger cards ever made countdown: 80-71
6. Deja, deja, deja, deja vu
7. "F" is for filler
8. Thinking pink
9. The best Dodger cards ever made countdown: 90-81
10. If I was king of the postseason, 2012 edition
11. Memorable
12. What short-print? I don't see a short-print
13. The best Dodger cards ever made countdown: 100-91
September 2012
1. Blogging ain't easy
2. A card blogger leaves this earth
3. The last relics you'll ever see here
4. Faith, trust and scraps of cloth
5. Black & white & annoyed all over
6. Are we all sick of Heritage?
7. When staples held the pages together
8. Some holiday wacky
August 2012
1. Stay tuned to this station
2. They can put a man on the moon, but they can't put the right face on a baseball card
3. Popular topics: playing for the enemy
4. The reluctant guru speaks
5. When men were men, cards were cards, and food was ... uh, something
6. This. Is. Awesome
7. Fake
8. I'm just not that into you
9. The things I do for card shops
10. Great acts of left-handedness
11. Stick figures
12. Isn't it obvious?
July 2012
1. The most I've ever spent on a single card ... it happened Saturday
2. Ow, my eyes
3. It could be worse
4. Interesting to me
5. Vinyl days
6. Follicle freedom
7. Maybe the special interest groups of have gotten to Ginter
8. Cardboard appreciation: 1993 Topps Spike Owen
9. Cardboard appreciation: 2011 Topps Oakland Athletics
10. Team MVPs, 1991 Topps
June 2012
1. I received good news today
2. Hi, I'm Night Owl and I'm a snob
3. Red jerseys expos'd
4. I love my west coast connections
5. Add this card to your collection, don't add this card to your collection, I don't care
6. Just a reminder of what dads can do
7. The root beer kid
8. If every blogger jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?
9. How my world revolves around baseball
10. Lost in translation
May 2012
1. 23
2. You can't tell me this wasn't done on purpose
3. A little bit off
4. The last beloved set of the masses
5. Why I write
6. I love it when a plan comes together
1. A writer collects
2. A dream come true
3. Popular topics: same name, different person
4. The only pack of this I'll ever buy
5. Another reason to display your cards by card number
6. Play ball! (2012)
7. 16 years too late
2. A dream come true
3. Popular topics: same name, different person
4. The only pack of this I'll ever buy
5. Another reason to display your cards by card number
6. Play ball! (2012)
7. 16 years too late
March 2012
1. When loose subscription cards were annoying
2. It's an ugly card, but it's the law
3. Best set of the year: 1982
4. Rookie repetition
5. More fun with photoshop
6. Getting personal
7. The way it was in '93
8. 30 teams: 2012 edition
9. Bell rung
1. When loose subscription cards were annoying
2. It's an ugly card, but it's the law
3. Best set of the year: 1982
4. Rookie repetition
5. More fun with photoshop
6. Getting personal
7. The way it was in '93
8. 30 teams: 2012 edition
9. Bell rung
February 2012
1. Heroic
2. Best set of the year: 1981
3. C.A.: 1977 Topps Gary Carter
4. Repetition is the sincerest form of not giving a damn
5. For the older crowd
6. Shrinkage
7. Unwanted Topps gold inserts? We pay top dollar
8. You haven't seen 2012 Topps quite like this
2. Best set of the year: 1981
3. C.A.: 1977 Topps Gary Carter
4. Repetition is the sincerest form of not giving a damn
5. For the older crowd
6. Shrinkage
7. Unwanted Topps gold inserts? We pay top dollar
8. You haven't seen 2012 Topps quite like this
January 2012
1. You complete me, O-Pee-Chee
2. teamconfusion4u.com
3. Priceless
4. Popular topics: He played for THAT team?
5. I'm not collecting this set, I don't really like this set, please help me complete it
6. My suppliers through the years
7. The one-card challenge
8. The solution
9. When base cards drive me to drink
10. Blog of the year
2. teamconfusion4u.com
3. Priceless
4. Popular topics: He played for THAT team?
5. I'm not collecting this set, I don't really like this set, please help me complete it
6. My suppliers through the years
7. The one-card challenge
8. The solution
9. When base cards drive me to drink
10. Blog of the year
December 2011
1. The best cards of 2011
2. The original card blog wasn't a blog at all
3. 55
4. The ritual
5. My doopy dog vs. baseball cards III ... or is it IV ... or V?
6. We've been through this before
7. When did league leader cards become set-filler?
8. Declaring the card of the year right now
9. People of Walmart, do as I do
10. I am the 99 percent
1. The best cards of 2011
2. The original card blog wasn't a blog at all
3. 55
4. The ritual
5. My doopy dog vs. baseball cards III ... or is it IV ... or V?
6. We've been through this before
7. When did league leader cards become set-filler?
8. Declaring the card of the year right now
9. People of Walmart, do as I do
10. I am the 99 percent
November 2011
1. When paper cuts were much more common
2. Hollywood bum (another edition of "what tha?")
3. The Astros will never be an American League team
4. Awesome night card, pt. 129 (the all-fish team)
5. Why I'll never be mistaken for a player collector
6. And Lea makes trois
7. Allen & Ginter's babe of the year
8. Cardboard appreciation: 1976 Topps Mickey Scott
9. A collecting year for short attention spans
1. When paper cuts were much more common
2. Hollywood bum (another edition of "what tha?")
3. The Astros will never be an American League team
4. Awesome night card, pt. 129 (the all-fish team)
5. Why I'll never be mistaken for a player collector
6. And Lea makes trois
7. Allen & Ginter's babe of the year
8. Cardboard appreciation: 1976 Topps Mickey Scott
9. A collecting year for short attention spans
October 2011
1. A banner day
2. There is no Game 8
3. Never underestimate the memory of a card collector
4, Looking at '81 through others' eyes
5. Card show in 60 minutes or less
6. Another card I won't need at the card show
7. The awkward adolescence of baseball photography on bubble gum cards
8. They're grrrrrrreat!!!!!!!
9. The hierarchy
10. Tying up loose ends on the '75 blog
1. A banner day
2. There is no Game 8
3. Never underestimate the memory of a card collector
4, Looking at '81 through others' eyes
5. Card show in 60 minutes or less
6. Another card I won't need at the card show
7. The awkward adolescence of baseball photography on bubble gum cards
8. They're grrrrrrreat!!!!!!!
9. The hierarchy
10. Tying up loose ends on the '75 blog
September 2011
1. If I was king of the postseason
2. The greatest '75 mini post of all-time!!!!!! ... M-M-M-Minis!!!!!
3. Why I still buy random packs, part 2
4. Two one
5. Double-crossed by double printing
6. Is that Sandy's binky?
7. Playing hard to get
8. Oh Target aisle, how I've missed you, part 2 (the shiny)
9. Looks better coming than going
10. Flowers for a funeral
1. If I was king of the postseason
2. The greatest '75 mini post of all-time!!!!!! ... M-M-M-Minis!!!!!
3. Why I still buy random packs, part 2
4. Two one
5. Double-crossed by double printing
6. Is that Sandy's binky?
7. Playing hard to get
8. Oh Target aisle, how I've missed you, part 2 (the shiny)
9. Looks better coming than going
10. Flowers for a funeral
August 2011
2. Way too soon
July 2011
2. Well bust my buttons!
3. Experiment over
4. The end of civilization or the oooooooohiest card ever
5. Dearly undeparted Bums
6. My weakness as a collector
7. The masses are asses
3. Experiment over
4. The end of civilization or the oooooooohiest card ever
5. Dearly undeparted Bums
6. My weakness as a collector
7. The masses are asses
June 2011
1. This month's edition of "What Tha?"
2. The epic home run
3. Cards from normal traders
4. If it doesn't fit
5. I don't need no stinkin' Pro Debut
6. Duty calls: Topps Series 2
7. Infiltrators
8. Then and now
9. The day I found out the file cabinet was sold
2. The epic home run
3. Cards from normal traders
4. If it doesn't fit
5. I don't need no stinkin' Pro Debut
6. Duty calls: Topps Series 2
7. Infiltrators
8. Then and now
9. The day I found out the file cabinet was sold
May 2011
1. Another tremendous Jackie
2. Precious, precious Jackie
3. When the hobby was between the pages
4. The forgotten set
5. 27
6. We may have philosophical differences, but I'm not stupid
1. Another tremendous Jackie
2. Precious, precious Jackie
3. When the hobby was between the pages
4. The forgotten set
5. 27
6. We may have philosophical differences, but I'm not stupid
10. The money pit years
11. The Gypsy Queen bias
12. How rare are these things really?
13. A card from the '50s is a card from the '50s
11. The Gypsy Queen bias
12. How rare are these things really?
13. A card from the '50s is a card from the '50s
April 2011
2. Tourism at home
3. Cardboard appreciation: 1989 Topps Tim ... er, Rock Raines
4. I'd call that a bargain
5. Didn't have a clue
6. Kick her to the curb?
7. Breaking through the '71 Topps wall
8. What you can find at a card show
9. Where have you gone Mickey?
10. My new card corner
11. The best rookie card ever
March 2011
2. Bad hair day
3. The official, unofficial, you're never REALLY going to know, tally
4. Walmart 1, Target 0, floating heads 8
5. Kill it with fire
6. A real reason to open Opening Day
7. Dorky white person lands some cards
8. When magazine racks were amazing
9. From out of left field
10. I'm in!
11. 30 teams, 2011 edition
3. The official, unofficial, you're never REALLY going to know, tally
4. Walmart 1, Target 0, floating heads 8
5. Kill it with fire
6. A real reason to open Opening Day
7. Dorky white person lands some cards
8. When magazine racks were amazing
9. From out of left field
10. I'm in!
11. 30 teams, 2011 edition
February 2011
6. 1
January 2011
1. You can't stop me (from collecting), you can only hope to contain me
2. The trifecta, new school version
3. They're not the same at all
4. The most horrifying team card ever
5. 10
6. The rule of thirds and '08 Stadium Club
7. The rule of thirds and '82 Fleer
8. Envy is an excellent motivational tool
9. I just don't like his face
10. In the dead of winter, in the dead of night
11. Death sentence
2. The trifecta, new school version
3. They're not the same at all
4. The most horrifying team card ever
5. 10
6. The rule of thirds and '08 Stadium Club
7. The rule of thirds and '82 Fleer
8. Envy is an excellent motivational tool
9. I just don't like his face
10. In the dead of winter, in the dead of night
11. Death sentence
December 2010
1. Drinking a cup of kindness
2. The best cards of 2010
3. Night owl makes trade post history
4. Cheating the system
5. Biggest bust?
6. How to succeed at player collecting without really trying
7. Damaged goods
1. Drinking a cup of kindness
2. The best cards of 2010
3. Night owl makes trade post history
4. Cheating the system
5. Biggest bust?
6. How to succeed at player collecting without really trying
7. Damaged goods
November 2010
1. Cardboard appreciation: 1978 Topps Doug Ault
2. Here's your top 60, part 3
3. Here's your top 60, part 2
4. Here's your top 60, part 1
5. The worst year of the junk wax era
6. More Strasburg stress
7. This is serious (the evolution of the oldest card that I own)
8. The helmet rule
2. Here's your top 60, part 3
3. Here's your top 60, part 2
4. Here's your top 60, part 1
5. The worst year of the junk wax era
6. More Strasburg stress
7. This is serious (the evolution of the oldest card that I own)
8. The helmet rule
October 2010
4. Off-center
7. He did good
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
5. Fitting in
June 2010
3. G.A.T.S.
May 2010
April 2010
1. That's what the boxes are for
2. Not the 1980's finer moments
3. The authoritative card show report
4. Horizontal bop, part 2 ... finally
5. Kissing 1968 goodbye
6. The free preview won't go to waste after all
7. Vertically challenged
8. Play ball 2010
2. Not the 1980's finer moments
3. The authoritative card show report
4. Horizontal bop, part 2 ... finally
5. Kissing 1968 goodbye
6. The free preview won't go to waste after all
7. Vertically challenged
8. Play ball 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
8. This is why
December 2009
5. In too deep
November 2009
3. Pirate days
4. Wow
5. Lucky hit
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
4. Mario and me
10. The best, so far
July 2009
1. Success
8. Yay, fans!
June 2009
May 2009
11. The blob
April 2009
2. Mask
6. Play ball!
March 2009
2. To do list
6. 11 days
8. 30 teams
February 2009
5. You again
7. 7 days
January 2009
December 2008
5. Yellow
November 2008
October 2008
1. Pack attack
4. Pretty cards
September 2008