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"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸9 Reasons Scoring Great Cards Is So ToughâAnd 6 Proven Ways You Can Beat The Odds - Ep. 2.45Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!There are many, many factors working against you pulling an awesome card out of a box â and we list just how difficult it really is in this episode. But we also share several tips on how you can still have fun in this hobby, along with a very special tip on a great PSA 9 card worth picking up today. The PSA 10 version is selling for 9x the PSA 9 slab, and that ma...
2025-11-1822 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸Ranking the 10 Best Junk Wax Boxes Under $125 Each! - Ep. 2.44Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!If youâre not a new sports card collector, you might be an old collector â like many of us Happy Hobbyists! That means the sports cards of the â80s and â90s, with their gum, bad packaging and collating, and lack of autographs, hold a special place in your heart!Our Junk Wax Junkie Extraordinaire, Scott Hedrick, shares his 10 favorite junk wax boxes to rip â each for under $125! Many of these boxes can be had...
2025-11-1119 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸Ranking the Best 2025 NBA & WNBA Rookie Cards! - Ep. 2.43Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!With the 2025 NBA season upon us â and the 2025 WNBA season behind us, what better time for us to rank the best 2025 rookie cards!?!The latest drop of 2025 Topps Basketball cards has everyone incredibly excited, and people have been ready for the release of 2025 Donruss WNBA cards for months!For our website, we ranked the Top 11 NBA Rookie Cards From 2025 Topps Basketball and we ranked the Top 7 Donruss WNBA Rookie Ca...
2025-11-0432 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸Love/Hate Review: 2025 Topps Basketball & Topps NBA Living Set! - Ep. 2.42Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Now that Fanatics and Topps finally has basketball under their control, we saw the release of 2025 Topps Basketball â which was a pretty huge success. And then this week, we saw the release of the new Topps NBA Living Set, which is the cousin to the ultra-successful Topps MLB Living Set!We talk about the things we love and hate about the new flagship release, and we discuss some rankings for the To...
2025-10-3135 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸Collect vs. Recollect: Why Both are Important to Budget Collectors! - Ep. 2.41Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Collecting awesome sports cards is what weâre all about! Who doesnât want more great cards!?! But when youâre working with a limited budget, you donât always have the funds available to buy more cards! Then what do you do?Itâs important to go back through your collection and consider when and where you got them, maybe thereâs a specific story about that player or his team...
2025-10-2119 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸Happy Boxtober! Celebrating Several HUGE Sports Card Releases! - Ep. 2.40If youâre a sports fan â or a sports card collector â October has to be the best time of the year!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!After a long lull in exciting sports card releases that lasted a couple months, October is about to catch fire! Weâre getting new cards for Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, WNBA, Baseball Prospects â it might be time to change the name of this month to Boxtober!When you...
2025-10-1642 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸15 Best 2025 Topps Update Rookie Cards To Target! - Ep. 2.39Itâs time, once again, to get jacked up and excited over another big group of awesome rookies getting their 2025 Topps Update rookie cards!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Every time Topps flagship rolls out a new release, we rank them! On my website, DavidGonos.com, we just finished posting our 2025 Topps Update Rookie Card Rankings, and weâre excited about this final release!Got some 2025 Topps Update rookie cards you think I mi...
2025-10-0723 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸7 Smart Tips For Collecting Football Cards For Beginners! - Ep. 2.38âThe great ones have the ability to focus and tune everything else out and see more than the others.â â Kurt Warner, Hall-of-Fame QuarterbackEach Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!The NFL season is well underway, so we thought now would be a great time to discuss some of the best tips for collecting football cards for beginners, and for card collectors working with a limited budget!Do you have some great football card collec...
2025-09-3011 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸16 Steps To Selling Sports Cards To Feed Your New Addiction! - Ep. 2.37Trading one addiction for another is rarely a good idea â except this time!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Collecting sports cards, whether itâs baseball cards, basketball cards, football or hockey, often feels like we are stepping into a never-ending hole where no matter how much we collect, weâll never get everything!The hobby lends itself to people getting addicted to several different aspects. Whether the rush of adrenaline we get from b...
2025-09-2323 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸My 9 Biggest Sports Card Regrets! Why am I So Dumb!?!Regrets, I've had a few⌠But then again, too few to mention.I did what I had to do. And saw it through without exemptionI planned each charted course, Each careful step along the bywayAnd more, much more than this, I [collected cards] my wayEach Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!There are certain moments in our sports card-collecting careers we remember as pivotal to improving our co...
2025-09-1626 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!đď¸21 True Sports Card Facts That Sound Fake!Youâre not going to believe half of these sports card facts, Iâm telling you right now.Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!You canât believe everything you hear â unless you hear it in our podcast, and itâs talking about true sports card facts that everyone thinks sounds fake!Weâre talking baseball cards, football cards, vintage, modern, Topps Living and everything in between! On this list, we have Hall of Famers, soon-to-be H...
2025-09-0914 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Is Your Grail Card Closer Than You Think? - Ep. 2.34Google AI defines a Grail Card as âa card that is highly sought after due to its rarity, high value, or personal significance to the collector. It represents a pinnacle of the collecting pursuit, often involving a long and dedicated search. The specific card that constitutes a âgrailâ is subjective and varies from collector to collector.âEach Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Our Patrick Imhoff shares the steps he took to finally add his grail card to his coll...
2025-09-0218 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!Substack-Only PSA Display Giveaway For Happy Hobbyists!We love our Happy Hobby Substack subscribers! We love them so much, weâre giving away a 5-card display for PSA slabs from Bivitre!Watch the video to figure out what you need to do to be eligible to win this display! Iâve said it before, but I want our readers/listeners/watchers to know â when a company like Bivitre reaches out to me to do a review, I ask them for a second display so I can give one away to our Happy Hobbyists. Thatâs you!As youâll see, this has a...
2025-08-2713 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 31 Great Ideas To Fix Fanatics For Card Collectors!Fanatics will have the league and playerâs association licenses with all three major sports by next year â but what can they do to make us happy about it?Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!People arenât to happy with how the hobby has been rolling around here the past couple years since Fanatics bought Topps. Prices are exorbitant, print runs are out of hand, and breakers seem to be the only ones laughing! Our Pa...
2025-08-2633 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 5 Sports Cards That Changed My Life! - Ep. 2.32Whether we started collecting as kids or as adults, some cards mean more to us than others.Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!I looked back on my sports card-collecting career and I found five great cards that really did change my life in one manner or another. This podcast details which cards they were, when they impacted me and why my path changed just a little bit because of them. Also, Iâd...
2025-08-1920 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] From Card Collector To Seller: Interviewing Emack!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âžFrom Comeback Collector To eBay Card Seller! Interviewing Emack!Thousands of sports card collectors from the â80s and â90s have returned to the hobby in recent years to find a whole different world!Eric Mack, a former Senior Fantasy Baseball Writer at CBS Sports, talks with his former âteammateâ David Gonos about his hobby backstory and his current eBay store Emackâs Get Carded!Emack shares his lessons lear...
2025-08-1242 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 6 Types of Players Whose Rookie Cards You Should Target! - Ep. 2.30Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âž6 Types of Players Whose Rookie Cards You Should Target!A great sports card collection is usually built on the strength of the rookie cards in that collection. But buying great rookie cards can be expensive! Our Patrick Imhoff shares six different types of players you should consider for rookie-card purchases, including some examples!Let us know if there are some great types of players you like to target when yo...
2025-08-0525 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 16 Best 2025 Topps Chrome Rookie Cards & Team Break Rankings!Whether you are considering buying a jumbo box, hobby box, blaster or just singles, itâs good to know which rookie cards people think are the best 2025 Topps Chrome RCs to get!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Hereâs the article I wrote detailing all the best 2025 Topps Chrome rookie cards!Also, hereâs the article I wrote about the Best Topps Chrome Rookie Cards From Each Year!Let me know which rookie...
2025-07-2921 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] How âSaved Searchesâ on eBay Can Save Your Collection!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!As sports card collectors working on limited budgets, we need every free card-collecting tool we can find. But when theyâre as awesome as this one that I use on eBay, you find that it not only saves you money because itâs free â but it saves you a ton of time, too!I explain why doing saved searches for cards on eBay is a huge benefit for you and your collec...
2025-07-2220 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!All-Star Game Starters! Which MLB & WNBA RCs Do You Have? - Ep. 2.27Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âžđ All-Star Game Starters! Which MLB & WNBA RCs Do You Have?The summer can be a long, drawn out few months for sports fans, but we do get to enjoy some awesome midsummer All-Star Games! The 2025 MLB All-Star Game comes to us from Atlanta, and the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game lands in Indianapolis this year, hosted by Caitlin Clarkâs Indiana Fever!With those two (kinda) halftime performances coming this week, I thoug...
2025-07-1527 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!Listen To 5 Reasons Why Cards Will Explode Again in 2026! - Ep. 2.26Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âžđđ 5 REASONS WHY CARDS WILL EXPLODE AGAIN IN 2026!The sports card-collecting boom during the pandemic brought a lot of new people â and returning people â into the hobby. Some might think the growth would stop around 2023, as the hobby ballooned with over-produced cards and dropping card values. This podcast episode looks into why thatâs a false narrative, and why David Gonos believes the sports card world is about to BOOM again in 2026...
2025-07-0815 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!Learn Who To Buy, Which Cards, and When To Buy Them! - Ep. 2.26Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Both new sports card collectors and returning card collectors need to know whose cards they should buy, along with which cards of theirs they should collect. But they can also learn when they should buy those cards! We wrap up all three questions in ONE podcast, helping sports card collectors improve their collection while not wasting money on things they likely donât want.Donât forget to check out...
2025-07-0137 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!7 Great Baseball Cards That Never Were! - Ep. 2.24Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!While Topps is currently churning out about 250 rookie cards per year for their three flagship series, itâs unlikely theyâll miss any players. But over the past 75 years or so, there have been some glaring omissions â and we want them rectified! Somehow⌠I donât have any instructions on how to do it, but stillâŚWe list off seven of the greatest omissions in the history of baseball cards, including cards of som...
2025-06-2422 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 11 Sports Card Collectors We All Love! đ- Ep. 2.23Each Happy Hobby Sports Card News Podcast For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!đâžđ11 Sports Card Collectors We All Love!There are many people in this Happy Hobby of ours that do bad things and steal some of our joy â and money! But we thought it was time to give props to those who truly make this an enjoyable hobby because of their kindness and thoughtfulness, and sometimes, just because of their oddities!Check Out NOCT Shipping Supplies!Tired of worrying a...
2025-06-1719 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 6 Reasons Why We Love/Hate 2025 Topps Series 2 Baseball!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!We all get excited any time a Topps flagship series gets released, but the cheers are a little quieter when Topps Series 2 rolls around.Thankfully, there are some saving graces for this series, as we found three pretty awesome reasons to love the latest release from Topps!Then we bring it all back to earth with a trio of reasons that this series makes us want to punch a...
2025-06-1020 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Battling Parallel Fatigue with a "New" Vintage Project! - Ep. 2.21Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!One of the toughest things for sports card collectors to deal with these days is the ridiculous number of parallels out there for every single card. We all know itâs just a ploy to get us to buy more cards, but itâs annoying!Thatâs what got me to start looking at collecting specific pre-war vintage cards, or at least, to start a âWant Listâ of pre-war vintage cards. Youâd be s...
2025-06-0317 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 5 Smart Reasons To Collect WNBA Cards â Ep. 2.20Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!đ5 Smart Reasons To Collect WNBA Cards!The arrival of Caitlin Clark to the WNBA has changed the sports landscape, and the sports card world is no different. If you havenât jumped onto the WNBA cards bandwagon, weâre sharing a handful of reasons why now is the time to get ahead of the tidal wave.Donât make the mistake of thinking this is just a one-year phenomena because it was Ca...
2025-05-2716 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 2025 Topps Series 2: Ranking 8 Best Rookie Cards! - Ep. 2.19Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âž8 Best Rookie Cards From 2025 Topps Series 2!Every time a Topps flagship series is released, we rank the best rookie cards to chase in that set! With 2025 Topps Series 2 coming out in early June, we finally got a peek at the checklist to see which rookie cards look like the most desirable from a collecting standpoint.Letâs be clear, while itâs not a great checklist full of two dozen awesom...
2025-05-2012 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 4 Perfect Prime Prospecting Pointers - Ep. 2.18Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âž4 Perfect Prospecting Pointers For Prognosticators!This episode looks a little deeper into ways we can pick up some great prospect cards at some not-so-expensive prices! Our Patrick Imhoff shares a handful of great tips for adding great Bowman 1st cards to your sports card portfolio, in hopes of finding values on the rise!We also share another great sports card trivia question in which you can win a sweet Emmitt Sm...
2025-05-1313 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] What Type of Sports Card Collector Are You? â Ep. 2.17Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Smart sports card collectors try to focus on specific things for their collection because it helps their spending budget and it helps improve their collection at the same time!By understanding the different types of collectors, you can figure out what you like and what you should focus your hobby budget on, rather than spending money on things you donât really end up liking in the long run.Patrick Im...
2025-05-0617 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 7 Reasons To Celebrate 2025 Topps Heritage Baseball â Ep. 2.16Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âž7 Reasons To Celebrate 2025 Topps Heritage BaseballWhile weâre always excited when a new Topps set comes out, whether itâs their flagship releases or Topps Chrome or even Topps Archives, thereâs just something especially nostalgic about 2025 Topps Heritage Baseball!From the great subsets, to the wonderful inserts, to the pretty awesome autographs available, this should be a very fun series to collect this year!One of our favo...
2025-04-2920 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 15 Best Football Rookie Cards Since 2015 NFL Draft â Ep. 2.15Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!đ15 Best Football Rookie Cards Since 2015 NFL DraftđWhatâs more fun than watching the upcoming 2025 NFL Draft!?! How about ranking the 15-most valuable football rookie cards from the past 10 NFL seasons!?!Quarterbacks certainly rule the room, but youâll be surprised by which non-quarterbacks end up ranking high in our list!Shoot us a note at mailto:gonoscards@gmail.com with who you think will be on this list that...
2025-04-2220 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Asking a Vintage Card Expert For 12 Vintage Picks Under $100! â Ep. 2.14Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âžđđ Interviewing Vintage Sports Cards Expert, Michael Salfino!Itâs tough to get all the questions out in just an hour with a vintage sports cards expert, like Michael Salfino from The Athletic, but we do our best!At first, we discuss his background and how we connected, including our time together writing about baseball cards over at The Athletic. But we also knew each other from competing in Tout Wars before tha...
2025-04-1551 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] The 5 Faces/Phases of Card Collecting! - Ep. 2.13Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âžđđ The 5 Faces/Phases of Card Collecting!You donât have to be a sports card shop owner to be successful in card collecting, but there are different phases we all seem to go through, as we try to build our collection.First, weâre new to the game, so we make many mistakes we hope to iron out before too long. Then we figure it out â but maybe we leave the game for a...
2025-04-0823 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Shhh... 9 Secrets to Becoming a Low-Budget Happy Hobbyist! - Ep. 2.12Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âžđđ Shhh... 9 Secrets to Becoming a Low-Budget Happy Hobbyist!Collecting sports cards would be easy if we all had a ton of money and an unlimited amount of resources! But we donât, so we have to be careful about which cards we buy, which cards we sell, and which types of cards we put on our âWantâ list.I share a couple handfuls of things you can do to optimize your chances o...
2025-04-0125 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] How To Build Card Sets on a Limited Budget! - Ep. 2.11Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!âžđđ HOW TO BUILD CARD SETS ON A LIMITED BUDGET!Josh Scarberry of MJ Family Time Cards was kind enough to share some set-building tips for sports card collectors of all types, including baseball, basketball, football and hockey!Then Patrick Imhoff shares another one of âPatrickâs Prime Prospect Picksâ for your Bowman 1st amusement! This prospect has a great name, and he plays for one of the biggest teams in the biggest me...
2025-03-2517 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] How To Collect Hockey Cards! - With Patrick Imhoff! - Ep. 2.10Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Our resident hockey guy, Patrick Imhoff, takes us into a world relatively foreign to many of us â hockey card collecting!He shares what he knows about all the different products, including which ones he considers premium, flagship and on the cheap side. Patrick goes through everything from the Topps / O-Pee-Chee days to Upper Deck and their magnificent Young Guns rookie cards!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***...
2025-03-1826 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 9 Amazing Things You Didn't Know About 2025 Topps Series 1 Baseball! - Ep. 2.09Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Our â9 Amazing Thingsâ series rolls on, as we look into the newest baseball card release from Topps â 2025 Topps Series 1!There are several new things sports card collectors should be aware of, including new chases, new autographs from famous people, new parallels, which products are the best buys, and more!Let us know if you already knew ALL of these nuggets â or if you hadnât heard about any of them â or...
2025-03-1115 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Collect Rookie Cards of These 10 Baseball Veterans! - Ep. 2.08Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Our Happy Hobby Vice-President, Patrick Imhoff, shares a couple handfuls of non-rookies whose rookie cards you should consider picking up right now!With the recent release of 2025 Topps Series 1 and the start of Spring Training, most collectors are focusing on current rookie cards and how those players are looking. As sports card collectors on a budget, we want to take a look at 10 non-rookies who are worth taking a look at...
2025-03-0417 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] The 2025 Hall-of-Fame Issue! Collecting HOFers! â Ep. 2.07Everyone loves to get rookie cards of players before they must pay the âHall-of-Famerâ tax, so we listed three players from the four main sports that we like for Future HOFers.From the world of baseball, there are some recent and some not-so-recent players we think are set for joining the elite in Cooperstown. For football, we had to concentrate on current players that have Canton-bound in their resumes. We found another trio for basketball, and for hockey, we chose two guys from the past 20 years â and one player whose rookie card came out in 1990!We als...
2025-02-2518 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 4 Smarter Steps For Collecting Cards! - Ep. 2.06Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!One of my favorite sports card collecting newsletters, Mr. Collect , wrote last weekâs newsletter for us, sharing some of his favorite tips on getting more bang for your collecting buck!This great article made for a great podcast! Enjoy!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Fo...
2025-02-1816 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Blimey! A Card Collectorâs Story From Across the Pond! - Ep. 2.05Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!One of the winners from one of our Sports Card Trivia contests hails from England, so we asked Lewis to share his story about how he came into this baseball card-collecting hobby of ours!It turns out that itâs not easy at all to collect baseball cards in Europe, as there are difficulties getting products, being awake for the ends of auctions on eBay, and just getting people to properly sh...
2025-02-1120 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Talking Bowman 1st Cards of MLB's Top 100 Baseball Prospects! - Ep. 2.04Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Last week, MLB.com shared their updated Top 100 Baseball Prospects list, with Japanese import Roki Sasaki leading the list! Patrick Imhoff joins me for our latest podcast, discussing the Bowman 1st cards of some of the big names on this list!I recently wrote an article that shared what the Bowman 1st cards are of each of those prospects â and which ones weâre still waiting on in upcoming Bowman releases!
2025-02-0426 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 3 Cool Products We Want Topps To Make Right Now! - Ep. 2.03Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Topps already makes a ton of awesome products that we all love to buy and rip, but we came up with three new products we think they should make.These products are for the budget-friendly collectors who love Topps Baseball cards! From a Topps branded repack, where buyers would get two slabs in each box â one with a card from the past three years (PSA 9 or better!) and one wi...
2025-01-2820 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 7 Lessons Learned From Collecting Cards in 2024! - Ep. 2.02Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Happy Hobbyist Patrick Imhoff takes the wheel for this weekâs newsletter, sharing all the smart decisions heâs planning to make with his sports card collection in 2025 based on what happened in 2024.Specifically, Patrick shares his takes on collecting prospect cards and when to buy rookie cards. He also shares his opinions on âbreaking,â as well as buying great single cards over hobby boxes. My favorite lesson that he share...
2025-01-2126 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 2025 Topps Design: What Does a Card Designer Think About It? - Ep. 2.01Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!The new 2025 Topps design for their flagship Series 1, Series 2 and Topps Update has been released!Alan Camuto, one of the regular Happy Hobbyists in our HHSC Chat, is a graphic designer, who once worked for a firm who worked with Topps!As a matter of fact, Alan worked on several cards for Topps during the 2000s, and now heâs bringing that expertise to us! We asked him what he...
2025-01-1430 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 6 Totally Rad Tips For Buying '80s Baseball Wax Packs! - Ep. 1.40Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Many of the baseball card collectors on our YouTube channel and in our newsletter chat are among the group I call, âThe Renewed Collectors.â We were all former card collectors when we were kids in the â70, â80s and â90s, then we stopped for a decade or two, and now weâre picking it back up because it brings us back fond memories!Scott Hedrick, one of our favorite Happy Hobbyists, loves to buy old w...
2024-12-2422 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Best Subset Ever!?! 1976 Topps All-Time All-Stars! - Ep. 1.39Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Podcastâ pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!Nearly 50 years ago, Topps celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Major League Baseball by producing one of the coolest base card subsets in baseball card history: 1976 Topps All-Time All-Stars!They named the best player from every position, creating an All-Star team weâd all love to see take the field at once.While it would have been awesome to see both an American and National League listed, just so we could argue about who would win, it...
2024-12-1725 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 11 Bowman Draft Prospects & Teams Rankings w/ Patrick Imhoff! - Ep. 1.38Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Podcastâ pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!One of our favorite Happy Hobbyists, Patrick Imhoff, joins the podcast to talk about which players heâs trying to collect in the new 2024 Bowman Draft product that came out this month, full of 2024 MLB Draftees!Obviously, there are the superstars to collect, like No. 1 overall pick Travis Bazzana and Chase Burns, but Imhoff shares a few other great players to chase!We also discuss some of Bowmanâs background as a product, and how theyâv...
2024-12-1037 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Hobby Widow!?! Interviewing My Wife About Sports Cards! - Ep. 1.37Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Podcastâ pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!Iâve been collecting baseball cards and other sports cards since I was a little kid, about 50 years now, but my wife Shelby and I have only been married for just over 5 years!I thought it would be a fun exercise to talk to Mrs. Happy Hobby to see just what card-collecting information has leaked into her unsuspecting brain!We also talk about how card collecting has affected us as a couple, and we share so...
2024-12-0332 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 11 Dirty Tricks eBay Sellers Use That We Hate! - Ep. 1.35Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Podcastâ pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!Sports card sellers on eBay are always trying to squeeze every penny out of a card theyâre selling, which is difficult when all of us buyers are trying to hold onto every single penny, when weâre buying cards!In this episode, which is also a video on my YouTube channel, I share with you close to one dozen tricks that some nefarious eBay sellers try to pull on unsuspecting sports card collectors!I also sha...
2024-11-2630 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 13 Card-Grading Secrets Only Vets Know! - Ep. 1.34Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Podcastâ pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!Getting sports cards graded is really a new thing for collectors when you consider the hobby is a century old or so. But over the past 10 years, card grading has really become a war between companies, which makes for some good opportunities for baseball card collectors to get in on!We share 13 nuggets we believe to be helpful to card collectors and card investors alike! We also share another sports card trivia question, with a 1986...
2024-11-1922 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 2024 Basketball Card Rankings-Palooza! - Ep. 1.33Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Podcastâ pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!Keeping with tradition, we discuss some older great rookie basketball cards, along with some newer great rookie basketball cards, as the new season NBA begins to unfold on us.We did our football card- and hockey card-Paloozas a few weeks ago, and now itâs time for ranking some round-ballers!Not only do we rank the rookie cards from the most recent flagship release, 2023 Panini Prizm NBA cards (spoiler alert: Wemby is No. 1), but we also...
2024-11-1219 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 11 Card Collectors Who ANNOY Us! - Ep. 1.32Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Podcastâ pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!In this fun-filled, grumpy cat podcast, we list out all the things that turn our âHappy Hobbyâ into an annoyed and angry hobby!Really, though, weâre big fans of being nice in the hobby and not grumbling about others in the card-collecting world. But no matter how hard we try, we sometimes just want to yell at somebody when they do any of these 11 things!Patrick Imhoff also chimes in with another awesome thing heâd d...
2024-11-0525 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] How To Become a Junk Wax Junkie - Ep. 1.31Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Podcastâ pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!In this episode, we have Scott Hedrick, one of our Happy Hobbyist guest writers, share his tales about how to lean on nostalgia for most of your hobby happiness! This guy rips junk wax packs every single weekend â and has an awesome time doing it, chasing (and finding!) some of our favorite cards we all loved as kids!We also ask Patrick Imhoff to share another nugget on what he would do differently if he becam...
2024-10-2918 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 5 eBay âSaved Searchesâ You Need To Add! - Ep. 1.30Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Podcastâ pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!Card collecting can be competitive in many cases, even though itâs just a great community overall. We like it when our friends get good cards, and theyâre happy for us! But when it comes to winning a card on eBay, itâs every collector for themselves! Our buddy Josh Scarberry from MJ Family Time Cards YouTube channel came up with five pretty awesome ways to use âSaved Searchesâ on eBay to help you win the pretty awesome cards yo...
2024-10-2215 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 2024 Happy Hobby Help For Hockey Card Collectors Everywhere! - Ep. 1.29Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Podcastâ pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!đ 2024 HAPPY HOCKEY HOBBY HELP FOR BEGINNERS & VETERANSđOur Patrick Imhoff details all the best rookie cards and Young Guns you want to grab from last yearâs Upper Deck Hockey sets before the 2024-25 Series 1 is released in a few weeks!Nearly as important, though, Imhoff looks back at the past 20 years to detail which veteranâs rookie cards you should consider picking up, too! From Sidney Crosby to Steven Stamkos, there are plenty of great players...
2024-10-1522 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 7 Smart Tips For Buying Sports Cards on eBay! - Ep 1.28Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Newsletterâ pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!đâžđ7 SMART TIPS FOR BUYING CARDS ON eBAY!Collecting sports cards is always fun, but spending less money than you have to is always a much better thing! We share seven different suggestions on how you can win cards on eBay without spending as much money as you used to.From what types of eBay listings you should choose to how you can find the right prices for what you are lookin...
2024-10-0124 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 5 Great Sports Card Books For Your Library! - Ep. 1.27Each âHappy Hobby Sports Cardâ podcast has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!The links in this newsletter are affiliate links with eBay and Amazon, which means we will make a commission on any purchases off those links. So, thank you! Also, all sports card images come courtesy of BuySportsCards.com.đ 5 GREAT SPORTS CARD BOOKS FOR YOUR LIBRARYI tracked down a handful of awesome sports card books I believe youâd love to have in your collection! Get them into your sports card...
2024-09-2423 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 5 Undervalued Football Rookie Cards We Like! - Ep. 1.26Each âHappy Hobby Sports Cardâ podcast has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!The links in this newsletter are affiliate links with eBay and Amazon, which means we will make a commission on any purchases off those links. So, thank you! Also, all sports card images come courtesy of BuySportsCards.com.đ 5 UNDERVALUED FOOTBALL ROOKIE CARDS WE LIKE!Quarterbacks are king in the football card-collecting world, so we found a few we think youâll like in the coming weeks, months and years. A couple of...
2024-09-1722 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 2024 NFL Kickoff! Football Card Rankings-Palooza! Rookies! - Ep. 1.25Each âHappy Hobby Sports Cardâ podcast has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!đ 2024 FOOTBALL CARD RANKINGS-PALOOZA!We are so excited about the new NFL season, we decided to just rank a bunch of football card stuff!We ranked the top-five rookie football cards from last year! We ranked the top-10 rookie football cards from the past decade! We ranked the best-looking football card designs from the past 70 years! We ranked the NFL team that we believe has the most football-card collectability!We rank...
2024-09-1029 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 9 Great Rookie Football Cards That Never Were! â Ep. 1.24Each âHappy Hobby Sports Cardâ podcast has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!The links in this newsletter are affiliate links with eBay and Amazon, which means we will make a commission on any purchases off those links. So, thank you! Also, all sports card images come courtesy of BuySportsCards.com.đ 9 GREAT ROOKIE FOOTBALL CARDS THAT NEVER WERE!We listed off 9 Great Rookie Basketball Cards That Never Were (and 13 Others) in a previous issue, and it was easily one of our most popular p...
2024-09-0423 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Collecting the Top 5 Best HR Hitters of the 21st Century! - Ep. 1.23Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Newsletterâ pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!The links in this newsletter are affiliate links with eBay, which means we will make a commission on any purchases off those links. So, thank you! Also, all sports card images come courtesy of BuySportsCards.com.Which Sluggers Have the Most 21st Century Home Runs?Who do you think are the five biggest home run hitters from this 21st century? Iâm sure you can think of some of the mo...
2024-08-2725 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 5 Ways Fantasy Football Helps Card Collectors - Ep. 1.22Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Newsletterâ pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!The links in this newsletter are affiliate links with eBay, which means we will make a commission on any purchases off those links. So, thank you! Also, all sports card images come courtesy of BuySportsCards.com.Literally, hundreds of thousands of people are going to be drafting their Fantasy Football teams over the next couple weeks, which means thereâs a lot of player evaluating going on out there!...
2024-08-2027 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 15 Lessons Learned at The National Sports Card Convention! - Ep. 1.21Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Newsletterâ pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!The links in this newsletter are affiliate links with eBay, which means we will make a commission on any purchases off those links. So, thank you! Also, all sports card images come courtesy of BuySportsCards.com.This is the FREE version of the âHappy Hobby Sports Cardsâ Newsletter, with the PAID version coming again next week.âžLESSONS LEARNED AT THE NATIONAL SPORTS CARD CONVENTIONJosh Scarberry of MJ Family...
2024-08-1322 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 5 Undervalued Rookie Cards That Donât Make Sense! - Ep. 20Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Newsletterâ pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!âžđđ5 UNDERVALUED ROOKIE CARDS THAT DONâT MAKE SENSE TO ME!We look back at some rookie cards from the past couple decades we believe are currently undervalued, and have room to rise! We touch on baseball rookie cards, football rookie cards, and even a basketball rookie card you should consider adding if you havenât already!Also, go to the David Gonos YouTube channel and watch the video we did about our G...
2024-08-0624 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Top 25 Most Graded Athletes of All Time! - Ep. 1.19Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Newsletterâ pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!âžđđTop 25 Most Graded Athletes According to GemRate.comâžđđWe look closer at GemRate.comâs list of the top 25 players from all sports whose cards have been graded and slabbed the most among all the top sports card grading services!You can read see this list on Instagram here: And in some cases, we discuss some of the specific cards that have been graded the most by each of these athlete...
2024-07-3035 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Trade Deadline! 7 Players Possibly On the Move - Ep. 1.18Each âHappy Hobby Sports Card Newsletterâ pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets â like me!One of the most exciting times of the baseball season is the possible player movement before the MLB Trade Deadline â which is Tuesday, July 30, at 6pm ET.Our Patrick Imhoff looks at seven six players who might get traded before the deadline, which means different things for collectors. Some playersâ rookie cards will get a little boost, depending on where they land, but some prospects who get traded back for a star mig...
2024-07-2724 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Game Planning For The National Sports Card Convention 1.17One of our Happy Hobbyist partners, MJ Family Time Cards, led by Josh and his son Micah, are taking over the podcast with their prep for The National! Happy Hobby. indeed!Josh and his young son Micah, along with Joshâs wife and daughter are headed to Cleveland this week for The National Sports Card Convention, the largest card show in the world!This is their first visit, but theyâve done a lot of preparation and watched plenty of videos to know how to attack it! They share all their tips with us, which we c...
2024-07-2324 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Naming 2024 Topps Rookie Card All-Star Team! - 1.16Who doesnât love the 2024 MLB All-Star break!?! Well, in the Happy Hobby Sports Card world, we take this time to reset, do a fun break of a 2023 Topps Pro Debut hobby box (with a giveaway on YouTube!), and we look back to figure out which of the players with 2024 Topps Rookie Cards from Series 1 and Series 2 are playing the best!?In this podcast episode, we also discuss what happened at the Dallas Card Show, when someone stole a case full of about $2 million worth of sports cards, including rookie Mickey Mantle cards! How does this affect sp...
2024-07-1625 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.15 [POD] 11 Tips For Collecting Sports Cards on a Budget!Collecting sports cards is one of the best hobbies around! You can connect with your childhood, connect with your friends and family who also collect, and you can even learn to be at peace while going through your collection. But spending too much money while collecting cards isnât any fun at all! It can actually rob you of your fun!We list off close to a dozen pieces of advice to help both novice and experienced collectors alike spend less money while still improving their collections!Also, Patrick Imhoff continues his manifesto on how he...
2024-07-0933 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.14 [POD] 9 Great Rookie NBA Cards That Never WereThis podcast is the sister to the 1.14 Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter! Each podcast has several subjects, like a pack of cards, with one big hit to start it off!With the 2024 NBA Draft officially behind us, allowing us to start dreaming of the new rookies in their new rookie jerseys on their new rookie cards, we thought weâd look back at basketball card history. We tracked down nine great rookie basketball cards that we never got to see! In some cases, we saw their rookie cards in later years, but in the case of many of...
2024-07-0242 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.13 [POD] Finally Fixing Fanatics!In this podcast, Patrick Imhoff looks ahead to 2026 and he implores Fanatics to make some much-needed changes for the sports card industry to benefit the company, collectors and local card shops. He shares the first of many suggestions in this episode!Imhoff isnât done there, though, as he also lists off three rookie cards heâs picking up right now because of three players on the rise! (This is going to be an ongoing series, where he lists off three players heâs growing on and three players heâs liking less than he did before.I s...
2024-06-2521 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.12 [POD] Risers, Releases and RepliesThis is a super special episode, as Chris Clegg from The Dynasty Dugout shares three great under-the-radar prospects whose 1st Bowman cards are worth picking up right now! This podcast is the sister to the Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter from June 13.Not only does Chris rattle off three great pickup possibilities, including two shortstops and an outfielder, but we also look at the 2024 Topps Series 2 release, which includes me ranking the 11 Best Rookies to get from the latest release.I also list share the best rookie cards in each sport from over 30 years ago...
2024-06-2117 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.11 [POD] 3 Bowman 1sts, 2 Fanatical Years and 1 Supersonic CardWho doesnât love looking at great baseball prospects to see if their Bowman 1st cards might be worth picking up!?! This podcast is the sister to the Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter from June 6.In this episode, I read off which three prospects Patrick Imhoff is hunting down. I also share what we can look forward to in two years when Fanatics finally unifies the sports card hobby belt, bringing baseball, basketball and football cards altogether again.I also list off the 11 most popular rookie cards being clicked on at DavidGonos.com!Fi...
2024-06-2018 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.10 [POD] Good Injuries & Great Gibson!This is the free version of the âHappy Hobby Sports Cardsâ Newsletter, with the paid version coming again next week, as they are on a weekly rotation.Patrick Imhoff looks at a handful of Topps Baseball rookie cards we might want to consider picking up (especially the Topps Gold parallels of those cards) of players who are close to returning from injuries!Also, with the news that MLB added Negro League stats to the official MLB statistics book, we thought it was a good idea to look back at some awesome Negro League subsets that you...
2024-06-1217 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.09 [POD] Finding Old Young Guns & Bowman Baseball PacksThis podcast is for sports card collectors working with a limited budget! Itâs the free version of our weekly newsletter/podcast! In this episode, which is the sister to the newsletter at gonos.substack.com, we discuss some great hockey rookie cards you might be interested in picking up, whether you got a Connor Bedard Young Gun rookie card or not! Our Happy Hockey Hobbyist Patrick Imhoff shares some âolderâ Young Guns of players still on the rise!Another one of our favorite Happy Hobbyists, Josh Scarberry of the YouTube channel, MJ Family Time Cards...
2024-06-1123 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.8 [POD] Skenes Scene & Wemby Wins!This podcast is for sports card collectors working with a limited budget!In this episode, which is the sister to the newsletter at gonos.substack.com, we discuss the arrival of Paul Skenes in Pittsburgh, as well as the Rookie-of-the-Year Award won by Victor Wembanyama! What do those two news items mean for card collectors!Future Pirates ace Paul Skenes joined the big-league club last month, and our resident Pirates fan and card collector Patrick Imhoff compares the hype surrounding Skenes with five pitchers from the past 20 years.He also helps card collectors...
2024-06-0421 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.7 [POD] Peeks, Paolo & Potential RC PickupsOur âHappy Hobbyâ world went through a little transition over the past few weeks, as we turned on the pay wall with Substack. I explain in this podcast why there will now be a free version of the âHappy Hobbyâ newsletter and podcast, but there will also be a "premiumâ version that Happy Hobbyists can pay $6 monthly or $60 annually (a 20% discount!).This particular episode is free to everyone, but it is an example of what premium subscribers should expect going forward.3 Players Whose Cards Weâre Picking Up!While we arenât financial advisors by an...
2024-05-3123 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.6 [POD] Old Pre-Rookies?Anyone involved in this Happy Hobby of ours is a big fan of rookie cards. Who isnât!?! But we look back in time to talk about how Classic Draft cards, way back in the early â90s, changed how we see sports cards. While many people werenât fans of seeing players in college or high school uniforms, others were elated to now have another way to collect.Some, like myself, were bigger college sports fans than pro fans, so getting young University of Miami football players, or Duke University basketball players, was fantas...
2024-05-2836 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.5 [POD] Holliday MemoriesThis podcast mirrors the âHolliday Memoriesâ newsletter we posted recently. It happens to have two great contributions from two of our great contributors, Patrick Imhoff and Scott Hedrick!While one of the main subjects about this podcast is the arrival (and departure) of MLBâs top prospect, Jackson Holliday, to the major leagues, the biggest story in the podcast episode is actually what Happy Hobbyist Scott Hedrick shares.Scott explains how our sports card hobby has affected his family positively in a major way, and it really is one of the more heartwarming stories Iâve heard...
2024-05-2229 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.4 [POD] Cards of Future Past!Welcome back for another sports cards podcast! This episode mirrors the newsletter we posted entitled, âCards of Future Past,â which is the fourth newsletter we shipped out!We discuss the awesomeness that is the 2024 Topps Heritage Baseball card set that was released in April, which has current players on current cards designed to look like the old 1975 Topps design. That look, in my humble opinion, is one of the all-time greatest looks ever!Gorgeous design, tons of SPs, cool inserts â and look at this list of superstar rookies on the checklist: Evan Carter, Curtis Mead, Pete C...
2024-05-1418 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.3 [POD] Bedard Young Guns, Buying Raw Vintage & Giveaway TalkThis podcast reflects what we talked about in our newsletter entitled, âBedard Be Popular, Bubble Gum and Raw Vintage,â where we put on our skates and really dig into what Chicago Blackhawks rookie superstar Connor Bedard means for the hobby!Patrick Imhoff shares his top-five Young Guns, so if you get shut out on pulling a Bedard rookie card out of 2023-24 Upper Deck Hockey Series 2, you can still do well with some of these other fellas!We also look into giveaways that content creators do, and find out â why do we do giveaways? The answer...
2024-05-1025 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.2 [POD] Encouragers, Error Cards & MC HammerWeâre back with a breakdown of our second newsletter, âEncouragers, Enemies and Errors,â and thanks for coming along for the podcast ride! Weâre trying to get caught up, having a podcast reading for each of our newsletter issues, so weâre posting these every few days until we get caught up!In this episode, we break down how our sports card spouses and significant others can either become encouraging for our collections, enemies of our collections or enablers! Interestingly, we explain how to turn an âenemyâ into an âencourager,â and we explain how the âenablerâ is far worse than the...
2024-05-0631 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.1 Topps Series 1 Reactions, Rookie Picks, Tips on Buying Vintage Wax PacksIn our first ever true podcast episode, David shares a great story about how the 1978 Topps set actually influenced how he opens up packs four decades later. And how he eats popcorn in a movie theater!?!We look at the 2024 Topps Series 1 rookie cards and how this set has already impacted the hobby!We also talk with âWax Pack Dad,â whose YouTube Videos are some of the most entertaining vintage pack openings youâll see, and he shares some smart tips on how to buy vintage packs on eBay with reduced chances of being duped!T...
2024-05-0324 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!Our Sports Cards "Happy Hobby" Podcast!After writing about Fantasy Sports for over 20 years online with companies like CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, and more, Iâve pivoted to cover the hobby I love most: sports card collecting! In our newsletter, we share â11 cards in every pack,â which just means 11 different sports card collecting topics! They could range from baseball cards to football cards to basketball cards to hockey cards and everything in between! My whole writing career is based off of helping others enjoy their hobby more with less money, whether itâs Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Football or collecting sports cards! This podcast will fol...
2024-04-0904 min
Show Much FunShow Much Fun 8-18 - CBS Industry DraftShow Much Fun 8/18Bogman helps our boy Jake Ciely with an IDP Industry Draft! Jamey Eisenberg, Joe Pisapia, Bob Harris, Gary Davenport, Scott Fish, Adam Pfeifer, Heath Cummings, David Gonos, Adam Aizer, Chris Harris and Dave Richard all partake in a deep IDP draft!Join Bogman and Welsh on Patreon today at www.inthisleague.com. Rank lists, GroupMe rooms, extra shows and more. Support your favorite fantasy duo today!
2022-08-181h 06
So-Called Fantasy Experts PodcastThe Fantasy Six Pack Hour: 2016 Fantasy Football Tight End PreviewWelcome back to another episode of The Fantasy Six Pack Hour. A.J. can't join us this week so Joe is hosting solo.Â
This episode we will be finishing up the 2016 Fantasy Football Position Previews with the Tight End position. Joe will be joined by David Gonos, co-founder of So-Called Fantasy Experts, to help discuss this all-important position.
As we dive into the Tight End position for 2016 we give our overall strategy and tips for drafting the position. Then we get into some hot questions/topics, analyze players returning from injuries or who are currently injured, give our sleepers, busts, talk rooki...
2016-08-1000 min
So-Called Fantasy Experts PodcastFantasy Fatcast 6: 2016 Defense, Kicker Rankings, Sleepers, Busts and BreakoutsDavid Gonos and Eric Mack break down the 2016 fantasy football defense/special teams and kicker rankings from all of the angles you have grown to love from The Fantasy FatCast, which is now on the BlogTalkRadio and the SoCalledFantasyExperts.com platforms. The two former CBSSports.com, SI.com and FanDuel fantasy analysts are joined by fantasy analyst Jake Ciely on Tuesday, as we go down through the depths of the kicker and defense positions, outlining the rankings, the rookies, busts, breakouts, the Sizzle and Grizzle and the Finders Sleepers.
2016-07-1900 min
So-Called Fantasy Experts PodcastFantasy Fatcast 5: 2016 TE Rankings, Sleepers, Busts and BreakoutsDavid Gonos and Eric Mack break down the 2016 fantasy football tight end rankings from all of the angles you have grown to love from The Fantasy FatCast, which is now on the BlogTalkRadio and the SoCalledFantasyExperts.com platforms. The two former CBSSports.com, SI.com and FanDuel fantasy analysts are joined by CBSSports.com's Jamey Eisenberg on Thursday, as we go down through the depths of the tight end position, outlining the rankings, the rookies, busts, breakouts, the Sizzle and Grizzle and the Finders Sleepers.
2016-07-1400 min
So-Called Fantasy Experts PodcastFantasy Fatcast 4: 2016 WR Rankings, Sleepers, Busts and BreakoutsDavid Gonos and Eric Mack break down the 2016 fantasy football wide receiver rankings from all of the angles you have grown to love from The Fantasy FatCast, which is now on the BlogTalkRadio and the SoCalledFantasyExperts.com platforms. The two former CBSSports.com, SI.com and FanDuel fantasy analysts are joined by SCFE original fantasy writer guests. They also go down through the depths of the wide receiver position, outlining the rankings, the rookies, busts, breakouts, the Sizzle and Grizzle and the Finders Sleepers.
2016-07-1100 min
So-Called Fantasy Experts PodcastFantasy Fatcast Episode 3: 2016 RB Rankings, Sleepers, Busts and BreakoutDavid Gonos and Eric Mack break down the 2016 fantasy football running back rankings from all of the angles you have grown to love from The Fantasy FatCast, which is now on the BlogTalkRadio and the SoCalledFantasyExperts.com platforms. The two former CBSSports.com, SI.com and FanDuel fantasy analysts are joined by SCFE original fantasy writer Michael Tomlin to talk about the Zero RB Theory. They also go down through the depths of the running back position, outlining the rankings, the rookies, busts, breakouts, the Sizzle and Grizzle and the Finders Sleepers.
2016-07-0700 min
So-Called Fantasy Experts PodcastFantasy Fatcast Episode 2: 2016 QB Rankings, Sleepers, Busts and BreakoutsDavid Gonos and Eric Mack break down the 2016 fantasy football quarterback rankings from all of the angles you have grown to love from The Fantasy FatCast, which is now on the BlogTalkRadio and the SoCalledFantasyExperts.com platforms. The two former CBSSports.com, SI.com and FanDuel fantasy analysts unanimously slot Cam Newton as No. 1 at the position and go down through the depths of the quarterback position, including rookies Jared Goff, Carson Wentz and Paxton Lynch. This Episode also features guest analyst Mark Strausberg, one of our Fantasy Football writers at SoCalledFantasyExperts.com.
2016-07-0500 min
So-Called Fantasy Experts PodcastFantasy Fatcast Episode 1: Reviewing '15 Football Rookies, Breakouts and BustsDavid Gonos and Eric Mack, two long-time fantasy fatcats, get you the skinny on everything you need to win in fantasy. They might also dabble into great food, beer-swilling tales of yesteryear and some pop culture. This is Episode 1 as the two former CBSSports.com, SI.com and FanDuel fantasy analysts reunite for a 30-minute fantasy football podcast, reviewing the 2015 fantasy football season.
2016-06-3000 min
So-Called Fantasy Experts PodcastTrying My Hand at Daily Fantasy Football: SCFE Fantasy Football PodcastThrought the first several weeks I've had a lot of people come on the podcast and give me tips about how to play they mythical "Daily Fantasy Football" games on Fanduel or DraftKings. We got a primer from David Gonos. We got a second course from Levi Serfross and even in talking with Sarah Lewis last week some of our conversation and predictions drifted to the realm of DFS.
I've been taught by the masters so let's see what I have learned. Tonight I'm going to play my first DFS games in a year and you can all tune in t...
2015-10-0100 minSo-Called Fantasy Experts PodcastThe Tao of Daily Fantasy Football: SCFE Fantasy Football PodcastOn this special afternoon version of the SCFE Fantasy Football Podcast I've got another of our fearless leaders, David Gonos as my guest. What are we going to talk about?
Well I realized I've done a lot of podcast about fantasy sports but a big 0 of them have touched on Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS). I'm sure a lot of people out there want to start playing but don't know how so we are here to help. Think of this as the Tao of DFS!
2015-09-0400 minSo-Called Fantasy Experts PodcastSunday Night Sandlot: Revisiting Preseason SleepersBuck Davidson and Doug Anderson grade themselves on their preseason sleepers and try to figure out what lies ahead for their hits and misses. They also welcome SCFE co-founder, David Gonos, to the show to talk about his new gig with the leader in Daily Fantasy.
2015-06-0800 min
Audibles NFL PodcastSI.com Fantasy Football RoundtableIn the SI.com Fantasy Roundtable Podcast, fantasy writers Michael Beller and David Gonos discuss players on new teams whose fantasy values have changed, give their best fantasy drafts tips and more.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
2014-07-2625 min