Cool Places (to Work)

My phone poses in front of the Rose Bowl

With Major League Baseball in a kind of off-season suspended animation, we now turn our attention to…

Takin’ Care of Business

Getting the Rose Bowl ready for January 1

Despite my lack of blog posts, I’ve had a very busy 2021…

Secret (Santa 2020)

Note from Secret Santa 2020

What a year. Hobby-wise, this has been a pretty decent year for me. Thanks to the Trading Card Database…

Games People Play (on Trading Card Database)

We all love hosting/participating in various contests on the hobby blogs, right?…

Do You Remember (the Astrodome)

Mailday from Marc (Remember the Astrodome)

Back in December, I made a rather sizeable trade on Trading Card Database with Bru of the Marc Brubaker blog (formerly Remember the Astrodome). I sent Marc some ’90’s oddball cards (1990 Jumbo California Sunflower Seeds, 1993 Upper Deck Denny’s Holograms, 1996 Denny’s Holograms, a…

Right Place, Wrong Time (for a Secret Santa Post)

2019 Secret Santa

Yes, I should have posted my Secret Santa gift last month but…

Caribbean Blue (Donruss 1992)

1992 Donruss card element

Screenshot from a 1992 Donruss commercial Wow. I can’t believe I actually won a contest prize over at Adam’s ARPSmith’s Sportscard Obsession. It really wasn’t due to due to a correct guess/prediction in one of his minicontests. None of the contestants in a particular mini-contest…

My Fantasy Baseball Teams: Update 4/21/18

Okay, so after a rough two weeks of fantasy baseball (ending 4/15), all four of my teams are playing bad sub-.500 baseball. Obviously, I’ve got a lot of work to do if I want my teams to finish with a respectable win-loss record in the…

Mailday: Yet Another Transaction at Trading Cards DB

Thanks to a Twitter account that I created to promote Stadium Fantasium (@bbcardz–follow me!), I got in touch with a fellow member of Trading Cards Database and made a deal to acquire a nice lot of 2018 Topps Heritage base short prints. As it turns…

My Trading Card DB Fantasy Baseball Team: BBCARDZ

BBCARDZ License Plate

On Monday (March 26) I drafted players for my team (BBCARDZ) in the Trading Card Database‘s “TCDB2_Roto” rotisserie baseball league. It’s a 10-team league made up of TCDB members. I expect this league to be very challenging seeing as I have not participated in a…

Mailday: Another Trade on Trading Card DB

Thanks to the awesome trading features on the Trading Card Database, another great TCDB member reached out to me to propose a very nice trade. dsorek offered nine of the cards I needed to complete the Topps Series 1 base set. In return I sent…

Mailday: First Trade on Trading Cards DB and Vintage Goodness

Trading Card Database Trade The Trading Card Database (aka TCDB) has been one of my go-to resources for helping me properly identify various cards in my collection. I’ve been using that wonderful site for years and have been so impressed with its growth and usability….