November - 2018

Digging Deeper: The Day Marty Rice Met Ernie Banks and Hank Aaron

My Chicago Cubs collection includes more than just baseball cards. I'm always on the lookout for rare items, or anything with a story....

Wednesday with the Smashing Pumpkins & the 1979 Quad City Cubs

"Shakedown 1979. Cool kids never have the time." There isn't anything in common (that I know of) between the 1979 Quad City Cubs and the...

Topps Gallery Auto Tuesday

Topps Gallery is a very appealing set, but I just can't buy more than a couple blasters of it. Fortunately, I picked off a few Cubs in my...

Awesome Oddballs in Monday's Mail

Daniel in Georgia sent a flat rate box filled with Cubs goodies. This is our third or fourth trade and he never disappoints. This one...

Cubs Cameos: Upper Deck

Two weeks ago I was frantically sorting boxes for a variety of teams for a couple large trades that were completed at last weekend's...

Black Friday Cubs

I love Black Friday, yet I've never battled the human elements of Black Friday shopping at retail stores. The holiday season is my...

An Ernie Banks autograph, and a Surprise Large Flat Rate Box

Wednesday brought me three big boxes with more than 1,200 Cubs cards. In all about 3,500 cards arrived. One box was a large flat rate...

A #MerryCardsmas Preview

Happy Thanksgiving! Beginning tonight, #MerryCardsmas will be a daily card giveaway going through Christmas Eve. Each night I'll announce...

Chicago Sports Spectacular Review Part 3: Dollar Boxes

In part two of my Chicago Sports Spectacular Review I showed the autographs that were in $1.25 boxes. There were some great autos I...

Chicago Sports Spectacular Review Part Two: Dollar Autos

The review of my weekend at the Chicago Sports Spectacular was going to be in two parts. After going through my dollar box I'm going to...

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