Gint-A-Cuffs Less Than A Week Away! Buy Your Official Boxes Here!

Wow! Time flies quickly, doesn’t it?

Can you believe that in less than a week, 2012 Topps Allen & Ginter will be live on the streets? That means that Gint-A-Cuffs IV is right around the corner.

You don’t want to be caught unprepared do you? Of course not! If you haven’t signed your blog up […]

Closing The Book On The Sticker Album

It’s here! It’s finally here!

After begging through several trade posts with no response I was starting to feel like all hope was lost. I considered utilizing the power of Night Owl’s One Card Challenge, but pride stopped me.

People read our posts, too. All I have to do is let people know that I […]

What Am I Getting Myself Into?

I need to stop giving into my impulses.

One of many to come

See this card? This was the result of an impulse.

I’m not talking about your run of the mill purchase of a single card on ebay type impulse, mind you.

I’m talking about the impulse decision to add a seventh player […]

Get Yer Official Gint-A-Cuffs IV Boxes Here!

As the Commissioner announced earlier today on the Official Gint-A-Cuffs IV blog, Community Gum is honored to be the official sponsor and supplier for the second straight year!

The Kraken has been slain by the Mayans, and it’s up to YOU to beat the calendar at its own game (as well as the other GAC […]

2012 Topps Series 2 Baseball Review and 5 Case Breakdown

We did it for series 1, so you know we had to do it for series 2. 5 whole cases of the stuff. That’s a lot of wrappers, a lot of cards, and a lot of work. Something tells me 2 will be our limit going forward.

Let’s dispense with the pleasantries, shall we? Everyone […]

What’s In A Case of 2012 Topps Archives Baseball? Group Break Recap & Review

You’ve waited long enough, but before we start with the scans and everything, I want to let you all know about some technical difficulties we had streaming the break.

Evidently, ustream has recently instituted a cap on live broadcast recording time. So, the video you see below is only about half of the full break. […]

2012 Topps Archives Box Topper Autograph Randomization

Hey everybody,

I’ll be back soon with a full recap with scans for the group break. If you haven’t told me your preference for extra team sets, I’ll be emailing you shortly about that as well.

In the meantime, if you follow us on twitter or were able to watch the live ustreaming of the […]

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 […]

If I Were To Collect: Milwaukee Brewers Edition

(The second 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 […]