Made my way to a nice little card show yesterday in Escondido, CA (San Diego area) and I thought I’d walk you through the events that transpired. Welcome to an adventure of rookie cards, parallels, and action figures amongst a collection of likeminded collectors.
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This Acuna Project 70 is so dope. I don’t own it yet but will in due time.
Alright look…. I’m just settling down at my computer and I’m finally getting into the new Benny the Butcher & Harry Fraud album, The Plugs I Met 2 as well as the new Kota the Friend & Statik Selektah album. They both dropped yesterday and I think these are 2 special albums that could go down as albums of the year. My wife is way into NCIS reruns (or something similar) in the living room and my baby boy is fast asleep in his crib. This means that I have maybe an hour before I have to get back to daddy duty so we’re going to make the most of this time together.
Read moreMY FAVORITE SPORTS CARDS
The current sports cards boom has me and many others around my age chasing cards from our childhood. Back in the 80’s and 90’s when I collected, it was all about buying wax packs in hopes that I might pull that special rookie card I was chasing. There were sports card shops all over the city and there were also sports card shows as well. I would save up what little money I had to buy packs and then maybe splurge on a special card at the shows.
Read more1986-87 FLEER BASKETBALL MICHAEL JORDAN ROOKIE CARD
#lifegoals
I can’t even remember what a Jordan rookie card was going for in the early 90’s but I think $700 seems about right for mint condition? Unfortunately all of my old Beckett Basketball Monthly magazines are stowed away in my parents’ attic so I haven’t had a chance to flip through the pricing pages to confirm what my memory recalls. The 86 Fleer Jordan was the holy grail of sports cards for kids my age back then and I would dream about that damn thing. I would devise plans as to how I could buy it, steal it, trade for it, or find any other way I could get my hands on it. I never did get that ‘86 Fleer Jordan rookie card but I still think about it. And while most fiscally responsible adults are paying off their mortgage on their nice houses and saving money for their future, I’m still thinking about that damn Jordan rookie.
Read more1987 DONRUSS BASEBALL CARDS
Donnie Baseball with the killer stache!
1987 was a great year for baseball cards and that year Donruss was the top dog. The cards had a clean black border and you had rookie cards from greats like Barry Bonds, Greg Maddux, Mark McGwire, Bo Jackson, and more. I bought Lunchmade a pack of ‘87 Donruss to see what he could pull. Let’s see what happens….
Read more1987 TOPPS FOOTBALL CARDS
“Handle my biz / I scramble like Randall with his / Cunningham but the only thing running is numbers fam / Jigga held you down six summers; damn…”
- Jay-Z
Taking you back to the mid-late 80’s with this one. Ahh… The days of Nerf Turbo Football games at the park and weekends in front of the TV watching Deion and Randall do their thing. And football cards? Yes!! All day!
Read moreGARBAGE PAIL KIDS
Who all collected Garbage Pail Kids? My older bro and I definitely did. We loved cracking those wax packs and laughing at each card. Some were gross, some were hilarious, but they were all entertaining. Check out the story for some history on Garbage Pail Kids and if you stay long enough, be sure to check out my bro opening a few old packs of cards! Taking you on a trip down memory lane!
Read more1984 AND 1985 TOPPS BASEBALL CARDS
If unaware, I buy my favorite baseball card packs on eBay and surprise my brother with them. I know what I bought him and he has no idea. With that, you get true reactions from the biggest baseball dork you know. And that is said as a mega compliment. Great fun facts straight from Lunchmade’s brain. Voices have been getting sharpened for years.
Read moreTOPPS PROJECT 2020
Okay, I get it. You used to collect baseball cards but you’re not into it anymore. For real though… You have kids and a family and a job that really is a grind. You crush it at pivot tables and v-lookups at work but what gives you that drive? What motivates you? Well…. Financial freedom motivates me. And when I see an opportunity open up on the revenue side of things I am like a shark in blood infested water. I throw on the Alchemist beats in my headphones and I get to hustling. All I’m trying to do is grow my bottom like enough that I can comfortably get that iced out California chain by my boy Ben Baller. On the discount too because he knows I’m out here putting in work and will help him sell more cards. This is the greatest marketing opportunity of my lifetime. I can talk about rap and baseball cards at the same time. Yup…. I’m in my zone.
Read more1985 TOPPS PRO WRESTLING STARS CARDS
My brother and I don’t know where all of our old wrestling cards but they are definitely somewhere in my Dad’s attic. To bring back those 1985 vibes I decided to buy an unopened 1985 wax pack of these cards off of eBay. Next I kept it in the original padded envelope it was shipped in and dropped it off at my brother’s house. He had no idea what was inside but he did have an AMAZING knowledge base and memory back to pull from. Would Todd pull a Hogan?
Read more1984 FLEER BASEBALL CARDS
Do I even need a caption here?
I was so enamored with the game of baseball and the hobby of collecting baseball cards that I needed to know more about these players that I loved. This lead me to the back of my baseball cards where I could see the stats for my favorite players from the years before. I could even find a line or two about them and see where they were from. That was so cool to me! But at the age of 4 I couldn’t read. So…….. I did what any 4 year old would do. I learned how to read from baseball cards! True story!
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