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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…

Group Case Break Loot: 2018 Topps Baseball Series 1

Posted on February 24, 2018February 25, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

2018, Major League Materials back of #MLB-KB Kris Bryant

Have you ever participated in a group/case break? In case you didn’t know, it’s where a trusted host or case breaker purchases a case (or cases) of a card product and sells a team spot/slot to card collectors. Each spot gets you all of the…

Box Break: 2018 Topps Series 1 Jumbo w/ 2 Silver Packs

Posted on February 22, 2018 by BBCARDZ Leave a Comment

Ok, here we go… Hi there and welcome to Stadium Fantasium! Here from time to time I will be sharing my passion for MLB Baseball (mostly the Los Angeles Dodgers), baseball cards (mostly Topps), fantasy sports (mostly baseball) and the local (Southern California) sports teams…