Cardboard Collections

04/23/24 / Tosses 3rd 'Maddux' of Big-League Career Southpaw Max Fried put the Atlanta Braves on his back, going the distance to silence the Miami Marlins in the team's 5-0 win. The 30-year...

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04/22/24 / Swipes Atlanta Braves Record for Most Career SBs They say that speed never goes into a slump in Baseball, which seems to be something Atlanta Braves star Ronald Acuna Jr. lives b...

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04/20/24 / Moves into Braves Top 10 in Career Steals Ronald Acuna Jr. has been a headache for opponents when on the base paths his entire career. Saturday was no different as the Atlanta Br...

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04/05/24 / Late-Game Walk-Off Single in Braves Home Opener With the Braves' #1 catcher going down early in the young 2024 season, veteran catcher Travis d'Arnaud was once again called into ...

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  04/18/24 / 3-HR Showing Highlights 8-3 Win Over Rangers Atlanta Braves catcher Travis d'Arnaud was nothing short of electric in his Club's meeting with the Texas Rangers last night. The...

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 If you've followed my blog or Tweets on Twitter X (@flywheels), then you know that I'm a Christian and I collect cards of Christian athletes. While I don't own a lot of autographed in person ty...

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The other weekend I noticed a card show was being held a small church, hosted by the closest LCS to me. For once I didn't really have any plans so my oldest daughter (14) went with me. We had a 3...

https://cardboardcollections.blogspot.com/2024/04/oh-my-how-local-card-shows-have-changed.html

If you were a fan of the NBA in the 90's, then you were exposed to a plethora of NBA stars and of course the products they endorsed. In a sports world seemingly dominated by the likes of Nike, Co...

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The other day I ran across a thread in a Facebook card group where guys were talking about different methods they used to fill holes in their sets. Of course the usual suspects were mentioned...

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In one of my recent Affordable Group Breaks we came across an image of a player holding an old camera on the card and one of the participants commented how they liked seeing a card featuring old ...

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I've done a much better job in 2023 at keeping my toy blog going, but this trading card blog has kinda fell to the side. After starting up a Facebook group to host my group breaks, I just haven't...

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One of the casualties of 2022's on demand products was this crossover of Garbage Pail Kids and MLB. I forget which month I ordered this, but the pack/box finally came at the end of February 2...

https://cardboardcollections.blogspot.com/2023/03/pack-break-2022-topps-garbage-pail-kids.html

  Being both a toy collector and a trading card collector with blogs for both hobbies, I wasn't sure which blog to share this figure...however since its sports oriented it landed here.  I...

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  In 1981 Paramount Pictures released a great, often overlooked slasher horror movie, My Bloody Valentine. It's since been re-made, but like a lot of movies from the horror genre that have se...

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Parallels are nothing new in the world of trading cards. Now days collectors are literally chasing the parallel rainbow for their favorite player. Do card companies today get carried away with th...

https://cardboardcollections.blogspot.com/2023/02/gold-medallions.html

Hey! It's been awhile, hasn't it? While my blogging activity has been scant to say the best, I've still been chugging along, picking up cards and ripping packs & boxes every now and then. While m...

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It's been awhile since I've posted anything of meaning on the blog. It's been awhile since I've posted anything wrestling/WWE related. the last WWE related post was a box break and it seemed to d...

https://cardboardcollections.blogspot.com/2023/01/box-break-2022-panini-wwe-chronicles.html

The things you find in your office once you start putting away stacks of cards and opening old card boxes. I recently unearthed a sealed pack of 1996 Pinnacle Denny's Hologram that I swear I...

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  Panini's second WWE trading card release in 2022 happened to be the Revolution brand. I have to admit that I wasn't too thrilled with the news. I was still looking for WWE Prizm at retail an...

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    When the Braves' second baseman, Ozzie Albies, went down with an injury a lot of Braves fans weren't sure what would happen next. Backup veteran, Orlando Arcia would eventually take O...

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While I may not be as active on the blog and the trades via the blog have all but shriveled up, that doesn't mean that I'm not still making trades online. All of my trading now consists with the ...

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As much as it pains me to say, the NY Mets were the better team last week/end when the Braves and Mets played 5 games over 4 days. I felt pretty good about the Braves' chances going into the lo...

https://cardboardcollections.blogspot.com/2022/08/can-we-talk-about-what-happened-last.html

While the trading card hobby saw new heights during the worldwide pandemic, my collecting enthusiasm started to wane (at least for baseball). Everyone and their brother it seemed jumped into the ...

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This break will feature a hobby tin of 1997 Donruss Preferred. 24 packs/tins / 5 cards per pack. Prices listed beside each team. All cards ship. Stacking applies so the price does not i...

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That's right! After taking off several months from offering my breaks here on the blog, they are coming back this weekend...well at least for one week. I've decided to take a gamble and opt to br...

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