March 2018 – Stadium Fantasium

My $50 Fantasy Baseball Team: Stadium Fantasium

Posted on March 30, 2018March 30, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

Wednesday (March 27) was the last of my three drafts for the 2018 fantasy baseball season. This league is a Yahoo 12-team head-to-head public money league. My team in this league is Stadium Fantasium. The entry fee for this league was $50 and the top…

My Trading Card DB Fantasy Baseball Team: BBCARDZ

Posted on March 28, 2018March 28, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

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…

My $100 Fantasy Baseball Team: Diamond Kings

Posted on March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

Sunday (March 25) was my first of three drafts of the 2018 fantasy baseball season. This year I am in four Yahoo fantasy baseball leagues (one of which each team’s roster is that of an actual MLB team–thus no draft is held). Yesterday’s draft was…

Blog Bat Around: What I Collect

Posted on March 21, 2018 by BBCARDZ 2 Comments

Inspired by “Blog Bat Around” blog posts by the brilliant minds at Night Owl Cards, The Collective Mind, The Shlabotnik Report, Cardboard History, $30 a Week Habit, Not Another Baseball Card Blog and others. Being a low-budget set collector, I try to keep my…

Mailday: Another Trade on Trading Card DB

Posted on March 18, 2018March 22, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

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: More Goodness from Nachos Grande

Posted on March 17, 2018March 18, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

A few days after fellow blogger Nachos Grande hosted a 2018 Topps Heritage three-box break, I checked out the wantlist on his blog and saw that he needed some 2018 Topps Series 1 base cards. I was able to come up with nine cards and…

Case Break Loot: 2018 Topps Heritage from Crackin’ Wax

Posted on March 11, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

Gotta give major props to major case breaker Crackin’ Wax (Home of the Charity Case Break) for recently hosting a case break of 2018 Topps Heritage baseball. This particular group break raised money for the Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation, Inc. and the YouTube video can…

Case Break Loot: 2018 Topps Heritage from Nachos Grande

Posted on March 10, 2018March 22, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

Gotta give a big Stadium Fantasium shoutout to blogger extraordinaire Nachos Grande for hosting a nice three-box group break of 2018 Topps Heritage, which can be seen here on Nachos Grande’s fanofreds YouTube channel. Chris also busted and distributed a few bonus older packs of…

Mailday: First Trade on Trading Cards DB and Vintage Goodness

Posted on March 7, 2018March 22, 2018 by BBCARDZ 3 Comments

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….

Box Break: 2018 Topps Heritage, Hobby Box 2 of 2

Posted on March 6, 2018March 7, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

So I busted the second box of 2018 Topps Heritage and it was also quite a decent box but nothing earth-shattering. The main thing for me is that I hope it will get me within 75% of completing the first 400 cards of the set….

Box Break: 2018 Topps Heritage, Hobby Box 1 of 2

Posted on March 4, 2018March 7, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

I took the plunge. Yes, for the first time since sometime last century, I made a major purchase of a Topps product that was not flagship baseball. Being a low-budget set collector, I’d always ignored all other Topps products. But 1969 is the first year…