Guaranteed Winners (AKA “In The Black”)

I’ve been pretty inactive on this blog, as you can likely tell. I wish I could claim it was simply due to work taking over my life again, but it’s not true. I’m simply having a tough time finding the inspiration or motivation to write.

Baseball cards are still great, and I’m not currently planning […]

It’s a COMC X-Mas (2013, Part 1 of 5)

I’m not much of a supporter of COMC. I don’t intend to ever sell on their website, because I find the fee structure to be insanely difficult to rationalize. I understand the reason for it, considering their vast infrastructure, but when a 1990 Topps common has to be sold for $0.35 (.25 of which going […]

Tier One Imports

Okay, that’s a super obvious title but, in my defense, I did think of it before eBay started trying to autocorrect all my “Tier One lot” searches to “Pier One lot” so it’s not like I stole it from anywhere exactly. Point is, I’m three posts into documenting my Tier One Autograph Collection and I’m […]

Crowd Teaser

Former Cub makes good-ish.

A couple of days ago, I finally got around to updating my (sloppy/not well-organized/all over the place/in need of help) want list with all the 2011 Tier One autos I’m looking to grab. As I typed name after name after name, I started to realize what I’ve gotten myself into. […]

How I Picked An Autograph Card Set To Collect

I’ve hinted at it a few times before, most notably in my note about the sweet Eric Hosmer 2011 Topps Tier One autograph I picked up a few months back, but here’s the deal: I am actively collecting Tier One autographs.

It’s hard to explain why. Since I got back into collecting and we started […]

You Always Remember Your First

I have very few card collections given my limited resources and space, but I did decide some time ago to begin collecting on-card Royals autographs. It’s been a blast so far trying to track these things down and this is the latest addition to my collection. To view the cards currently in the collection, take […]

Sometimes You Just Need To Treat Yourself

It’s been exactly one month since our last post. This morning, Brian from Play at the Plate sent and email to check up on us to make sure we hadn’t disappeared into the abyss. That’s when you know it’s gotten bad in blogland! Fortunately for everyone involved, Jon and I are just fine. We both […]