Card Stacks Blog

The boys and my wife (a teacher) had a day off from school recently, so we took the long weekend as an opportunity to take a mini-vacation. It had to be somewhere within driving distance, and we ...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2024/05/3-home-runs-and-life-stages.html

I picked up two cards off eBay over the last few weeks, both cards from Upper Deck hockey products. I'm waiting on a fairly large COMC shipment, but there are so many cards in the queue ahead of ...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2022/03/collecting-upper-deck-is-trip-down.html

Looking forward to the start of the Olympics this weekend, alongside the NHL Skills challenge tonight and the All-Star game Saturday afternoon.  While I don't have autographs of current All-St...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2022/02/all-star-autograph-on-nhl-all-star.html

My son and I are enjoying hockey in many forms these days. Between opening a few hockey blaster boxes, watching hockey games on ESPN+, and going to a minor league hockey game for the first time s...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2022/02/fire-on-ice.html

While I know Fleer created hockey Metal Universe sets in the second half of the 90s, my exposure to the Metal brand came through basketball cards. Precious Metal Gems are one of the most sought a...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2022/01/90s-collecting-flashback-opening-2020.html

Back in 2017 I wrote a series of posts when I started following hockey and picked up my first packs of hockey cards, and some bloggers were generous enough to send me a 'starter pack' of Predator...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2022/01/hockey-revisited-opening-blaster-of.html

  Diamond Kings is a product that I always enjoy seeing but don't usually open much of. This year I saw a blaster on the Target app and decided I would pull the trigger on it. I looked at t...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2021/08/diamond-kings.html

A recent episode of the Wax Museum Podcast , focused on basketball cards, provides a high-level history of message boards as they relate to the sports cards hobby (episode 125). I'd encourage any...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2021/08/card-message-boards.html

A month or so ago I did something I hadn't done in several years. I went in a card shop. While on vacation I called over to a local card shop, not something I can normally do at home, to see ...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2021/08/i-went-in-card-store.html

I mentioned in a previous post that my family grabbed a few blasters off the Target app for a gift for Father's day. It's encouraging to see that some of the same products are still showing a...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2021/08/stars-in-series-2.html

  In my last post I mentioned blaster boxes and packs starting to pop up online and in some cases in person near me. My family snagged some cards for me off the Target app for Father's day ...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2021/07/absolutely-sharp-relic.html

I'm a man with more than one hobby, one of which is listening to music, attempting to learn guitar, and collecting vinyl records. One of the best guitar players out there, John Mayer, release...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2021/07/sob-rock-and-cards.html

We're gearing up for the Olympics in the Card Stacks house. When my wife and I first started dating in 2012 the Olympics were a big topic of conversation, something we were both interested in and...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2021/07/usa-baseball.html

Like many collectors recently, I haven't purchased retail in quite some time. Even pre-covid, I usually ended up picking up a rack pack of whatever product I wanted to sample. But I guess not bei...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2021/07/christmas-in-july.html

It's been awhile, baseball card blog community. Almost two years, and the sports card landscape has changed tremendously. For most of the two years it's been very difficult to find packs and boxe...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2021/07/first-card-in-2021-is-unleashed.html

Well I opened my first pack of 2019 a few weeks back, and that led to more packs being purchased, of course. In what I hope will be an ongoing tradition, my two year old son helped me open two 3-...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2019/09/you-be-judge.html

Since my son was born in late 2016, my posting on this blog, and card collecting altogether, has been minimal. He's now getting to the age where he likes 'stuff'. What kind of stuff does not matt...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2019/08/my-son-likes-stuff.html

It's been awhile since my last card activity. Adding a baby, now toddler to the mix can have that effect. I'm sure a good many of you can attest. I've followed the card blogs a bit, but seeing ...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2018/07/first-pack-of-2018.html

I got caught up in the Bowman Platinum hype and the Bellinger and Judge hype and tracked down a few packs at a local Wal-Mart. I have to say while I appreciate the photography of Stadium Club, I...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2017/08/found-some-platinum-packs.html

I don't mind the Donruss brand in recent years. In fact I've enjoyed opening packs of it with the good number of inserts in the larger retail 'value' packs. I'd seen good things from Optic breaks...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2017/08/favorite-pack-ive-opened-this-year.html

I'm starting a new series where I take a look at card backs in my collection and pull out interesting facts and quotes. I recently completed adding a list of all the Ryan Klesko cards in my coll...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2017/08/card-back-quotes-and-facts-part-1-ryan.html

By now you've seen most if not all of these cards on other blogs, but who doesn't like recaps of pack/box breaks? Here's what I pulled from my 12 card pack of 2017 Stadium Club. Plus two inserts...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2017/08/my-first-look-at-stadium-club.html

I've had my eye out recently for discounted blasters at my local target. It's hard for me to justify paying full price for a blaster unless it's a product I'm really interested in (2017 Archives ...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2017/08/2015-16-upper-deck-series-2-hockey.html

2,000, 10, and 1. Three numbers that came up during last night's Braves/Dodgers game. Two go with an Atlanta veteran outfielder and a favorite player of mine. The other was a first hit for a Brav...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2017/08/hit-milestones.html

While Rafael Furcal, a three-time All-Star and NL Rookie of the Year award winner, played more seasons on other teams than with the Braves, he was one my favorite Braves to watch. The Gam...

https://cardstacks.blogspot.com/2017/07/from-binder-rafael-furcal.html