Shucks, I missed doing a 2014 post for my birthday that I share with the Duchess of Cambridge.  It's pretty much just a good excuse to p...

Nope, I haven't dropped dead, just my posting level.  Readership has never been anything anyway, so this is pretty much for my own ente...

With my most recent order to COMC , I finally completed the full rainbow for 2004 Leaf Rookies and Stars Longevity of Priest Holmes.  Got th...

 Was just reading Play At The Plate blog and came across an older post about packaging cards.  Check it out here .  He outlines two of the m...

Mariano Rivera closed out his All-Star appearances last night.  I won't repeat what has been well documented about the game.  Didn't...

Geez, nothing like posting every six months or so.... Anyway, I was just watching the Feherty show with the late great Ken Venturi, who ha...

I've had most of the pieces for this one for a good while, just never finished it.  Since Topps revived this design for a mini set in th...

Happy Birthday to (pregnant) Kate Middleton!  As I mark my 46th year, along with Bart Starr, Jimmy Page, Bob Denver, Crystal Gayle, Richard ...

Four posts (and six months) ago, I took the Panini inspired designs of the Topps flagship inserts and tweaked them to look like they were m...

Here's something I've been thinking about doing for a while (ever since the Dish Network ad).  Created just for fun with apologie...

Thanks to Check Out My Cards, I have finally finished what I think is the coolest insert set ever.  I now have all 18 Lumber Yard inserts fr...

1934 Diamond Matchcover Dr. Leonard McCoy.  Fonts match better to the green example of these covers.  The name over the football came...

Since there are a ton of posts about Topps' new release, I'll make this quick and efficient. Base set - Great photos.  Fun shots t...

  My condolences to all the sportscasters who are depressed over their man-crush's loss last night to the 9-7 NY Giants. Good game, bu...

The former 28 year old Fausto Carmona, was revealed to actually be 31 year old Roberto Hernandez Heredia after being arrested in his native ...

Celebrating my 45th today.  Only two weeks after Christmas, so I don't make a big deal about it.  Missed Elvis by a day, so I've be...

Stumbled upon a questionnaire about autograph cards while browsing a blog linked from another regularly read blog.  Figured I'd post it ...

  1955 Topps All-American Mr. Sulu.  Building all the letters took the longest.  Out of the eight or so images that I captured, nobody...

  1894 Mayo Cut Plug (N302) Mr. Spock.  Tough to match tbe sepia toning.  And all the original subjects are from Harvard, Princeton or ...

   1952 Bowman Mr. Scott, engineer of the original USS Enterprise.  Shown here with his second love, Scotch whiskey.  Scotty always had...