Domestic Trading Card Day
The annual trading card holiday had a smaller footprint this year. Topps Trading Card Day was originally a collaborative effort between multiple card companies (remember those?) and was called...
View ArticleTime to Shine
These Affordable Group Breaks brought in some shiny things. Facebook group box breaks are pretty much the only consistent thing in my card budget at this point. (It's also one of the only reasons I...
View ArticleFree Stuff Friday: Damaged Goods II
More free stuff. It's time for another round of free cards to claim. Similar to January's "Damaged Goods" post, these are all cards that I didn't feel comfortable adding to my TCDB trade list for one...
View ArticleValue Meal
The latest installment of the Nachos Grande Extra Value Meal Group Break Supreme. It's another day and it's another batch of group break cards from the Nachos Grande Discord break group. This batch of...
View ArticleGood Luck Ducks, Week 1: Greater Oregon
New season, new conference. There's a, um, movement -- if you want to call it that -- where certain residents of the Pacific Northwest want the state of Idaho to annex a portion of eastern Oregon....
View ArticleWorld Headquarters Edition
Green football and loads of baseball. Awhile back, Dennis from Too Many Verlanders came into a bunch of cards and was generous to share some of the spoils with yours truly. As is often the case, the...
View ArticleGood Luck Ducks, Week 2: Boise Battle
Oregon hosts a team from Idaho for the second straight week. Well, if you liked Idaho last week, get ready for plenty more of that tonight! Might Oregon plays host to Boise State tonight, though...
View ArticleAn Old Pack of Cards: Yo!
Pro Set used to be cool. Another old pack of cards has been liberated from the stacks of chaos on my decks. I believe I bought this pack for way too much money at an Austin area record store a number...
View ArticleGood Luck Ducks, Week 3: Everything is Weird Now
The famed Oregon/Oregon State rivalry game... in September?! It's already time for the 128th edition of the Ducks/Beavers in-state rivalry bash. (No one really came up with a better name than that when...
View ArticleWeekend PWE Round-Up
Good baseball cards sometimes come in small packages. Although the bulk of the stuff I receive in the mail these days is from TCDB trades, I still have a few friends of the blog who like to exchange...
View ArticleGood Luck Ducks, Week 5: Placeholder
Oregon heads to Pasadena for some #Pac12AfterDark #B1GAfterDark action. The Ducks finally are headed into their first Big Ten conference game and... oh boy... it's UCLA. Great. That's not terribly...
View ArticleGood Luck Ducks, Week 6: Get Sparty
Oregon hosts Michigan State on a Friday night, just like the college football gods intended. Tonight, it will truly feel like the Ducks are part of the B1G. Well, that's aside from the whole Friday...
View ArticleGood Luck Ducks, Week 7: Deez Nuts
Number Two versus Number Three! To be perfectly honest, I thought I'd have a lot more to say about Ohio State this week. As it turns out, I really don't. Don't get me wrong: this is a huge, huge,...
View ArticleSaturday Stars and Players for the Rest of the Week
Football, baseball, basketball, hockey?! Fresh off a customs inspection at the border (presumably) and sitting around my office for awhile is another pile of goodies from buckstorecards. As always, he...
View ArticleGood Luck Ducks, Week 8: Give Me Boilermakers
Oregon hits the road for Friday night football. Coming off of an epic victory last weekend over Ohio State, it's a short turnaround for the Ducks with all kinds of targets on their backs. The Buckeyes...
View ArticleGood Luck Ducks, Week 9: Fighting Realm
The Fighting Ducks host the Fighting Illini in a battle of ranked B1G squads. While it still feels like just yesterday that the 2024 college football season started, we're already heading into...
View ArticleGood Luck Ducks, Week 10: Quack in The Big House
Oregon heads to Ann Arbor to take on the defending champs. The Ducks bolstered their #1 standing with an impressive takedown of Illinois last Saturday, but there is plenty of work left to do. Next up:...
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