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Setting a Hobby Budget

Why set a hobby budget? Nothing can ruin a sports card collection like realizing you are spending too much money on cards, and having it affect the rest of your life. By setting up a card-collecting hobby budget, you can take control of your spending, focus your collecting, and improve your enjoyment of the hobby. …

10 Best Rookie Cards From 2001 Topps Baseball

Who knew that a list of the 10 best baseball cards from 2001 Topps Baseball would be so Hall-of-Famer laden!?! Even the ones that aren’t in the Hall of Fame – probably should be, if not for baseball writers not wanting to reward players who used some questionable supplements! What Happened in 2001? “Zoolander” perfected …

1st Bowman Cards Top 100 MLB Prospects

While 1st Bowman cards of baseball’s top 100 MLB prospects don’t constitute as a player’s true rookie card, they are still incredibly valued in the baseball-card collecting community. In many cases, there are people who prefer to collect prospect cards over a player’s MLB cards. There are all sorts of different card collectors, really. From …

Top 10 Topps Baseball Cards From 1952 Topps

Everyone loves the premier set of Topps Baseball cards, but not everyone knows who the best baseball cards from 1952 Topps Baseball are, so we’re here to help! This first set from the greatest Baseball card manufacturer was a landmark one, of course, not just because of the amazing Hall of Famers that dot its …

10 Best Baseball Cards from 1972 Topps Baseball

Trying to collect the best baseball cards from 1972 Topps Baseball is a much more fun endeavor than collecting cards with boring designs with boring stars. No set looks more like the decade it was created in than 1972 Topps Baseball, and we celebrate the set referred to as “Psychedelic Tombstones” for that fact! While …

Best Rookie Cards 2024 Topps Series 2

We’re talking about the best rookies from 2024 Topps Series 2 Baseball! Boxes became available on June 12, so we finally got to see what the checklist looks like! I thought it would be a fun exercise to rank the 11 best rookies from this 2024 Topps Series 2 Baseball set! (We also just ranked …

1984 Topps Football

The 1984 Topps Football set could have been even better than the one we’ve come to know and love over the past 40 years. The 1984 Topps Football card set could have been one of the greatest football card sets in football card history! The 1972 Topps Basketball set combined cards for players in the …

2024 Topps CHROME Rookie Cards Article 1000x600

We obsess about rookie cards over here, so it only makes sense for us to rank who we think the best 2024 Topps Chrome rookie cards upon the latest release from Topps! If you’re new to this website, just know that we try to help sports card collectors working on a limited budget. Check out …

Best Topps Chrome Rookie Cards Ever

Tracking down the best Topps Chrome rookie cards from every year was quite an endeavor! We already tracked down the best Topps flagship rookie cards from baseball and the other sports, but Topps Chrome was different because it’s newer, and it’s considered a premium product. View hobby box pricing on eBay for the latest 2024 …

Best Sports Card Supplies

Sports card supplies are a necessary evil. We’d all prefer to spend our money on awesome cards rather than sports card supplies, but then again, we need those supplies to protect, improve and display our awesome sports cards! For most of these sports card supplies, I’ve personally used what I’m sharing with you, so I …

2023 Topps Rookie Cards

Why are we looking back at 2023 Topps rookie cards? With the focus on the new crop of 2024 Topps Baseball rookies to collect, from both Series 1 and Series 2, I thought it would be worth checking in on some of the 2023 Topps rookie cards and the players who were overlooked by collectors …