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"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] Is Your Grail Card Closer Than You Think? - Ep. 2.34Google AI defines a Grail Card as “a 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 ‘grail’ is subjective and varies from collector to collector.”Each 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![POD] 31 Great Ideas To Fix Fanatics For Card Collectors!Fanatics will have the league and player’s association licenses with all three major sports by next year — 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 aren’t 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] 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!⚾6 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] 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 it’s just a ploy to get us to buy more cards, but it’s annoying!That’s what got me to start looking at collecting specific pre-war vintage cards, or at least, to start a “Want List” of pre-war vintage cards. You’d be s...
2025-06-0317 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!⚾4 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? – 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 don’t really end up liking in the long run.Patrick Im...
2025-05-0617 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!⚾🏈🏀 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 don’t, so we have to be careful about which cards we buy, which cards we sell, and which types of cards we put on our “Want” 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!⚾🏈🏀 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 “Patrick’s Prime Prospect Picks” 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 — 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] 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] 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 — and which ones we’re still waiting on in upcoming Bowman releases!
2025-02-0426 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 week’s newsletter, sharing all the smart decisions he’s 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 “breaking,” 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] 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, “The Renewed Collectors.” We were all former card collectors when we were kids in the ‘70, ‘80s and ‘90s, then we stopped for a decade or two, and now we’re 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – 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 we’d 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!One of our favorite Happy Hobbyists, Patrick Imhoff, joins the podcast to talk about which players he’s 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 Bowman’s background as a product, and how they’v...
2024-12-1037 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 11 Dirty Tricks eBay Sellers Use That We Hate! - Ep. 1.35Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!Sports card sellers on eBay are always trying to squeeze every penny out of a card they’re selling, which is difficult when all of us buyers are trying to hold onto every single penny, when we’re 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – 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 it’s 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!In this fun-filled, grumpy cat podcast, we list out all the things that turn our “Happy Hobby” into an annoyed and angry hobby!Really, though, we’re 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 he’d d...
2024-11-0525 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] How To Become a Junk Wax Junkie - Ep. 1.31Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – 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 — 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 “Saved Searches” You Need To Add! - Ep. 1.30Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!Card collecting can be competitive in many cases, even though it’s just a great community overall. We like it when our friends get good cards, and they’re happy for us! But when it comes to winning a card on eBay, it’s every collector for themselves! Our buddy Josh Scarberry from MJ Family Time Cards YouTube channel came up with five pretty awesome ways to use “Saved Searches” 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!🏒 2024 HAPPY HOCKEY HOBBY HELP FOR BEGINNERS & VETERANS🏒Our Patrick Imhoff details all the best rookie cards and Young Guns you want to grab from last year’s 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 veteran’s 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!🏈⚾🏀7 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card” podcast has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – 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.🏈 5 GREAT SPORTS CARD BOOKS FOR YOUR LIBRARYI tracked down a handful of awesome sports card books I believe you’d 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card” podcast has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – 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.🏈 5 UNDERVALUED FOOTBALL ROOKIE CARDS WE LIKE!Quarterbacks are king in the football card-collecting world, so we found a few we think you’ll 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card” podcast has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!🏈 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! – Ep. 1.24Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card” podcast has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – 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.🏈 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – 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? I’m 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – 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 there’s a lot of player evaluating going on out there!...
2024-08-2027 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast![POD] 5 Undervalued Rookie Cards That Don’t Make Sense! - Ep. 20Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!⚾🏈🏀5 UNDERVALUED ROOKIE CARDS THAT DON’T 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 haven’t 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] Trade Deadline! 7 Players Possibly On the Move - Ep. 1.18Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!One of the most exciting times of the baseball season is the possible player movement before the MLB Trade Deadline — 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 players’ 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 Josh’s 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 they’ve 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!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 isn’t 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 we’d 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 isn’t done there, though, as he also lists off three rookie cards he’s 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 he’s growing on and three players he’s liking less than he did before.I s...
2024-06-2521 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.11 [POD] 3 Bowman 1sts, 2 Fanatical Years and 1 Supersonic CardWho doesn’t 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 “Happy Hobby Sports Cards” 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! It’s 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 “older” 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 “Happy Hobby” 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 “Happy Hobby” newsletter and podcast, but there will also be a "premium” 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 We’re Picking Up!While we aren’t financial advisors by an...
2024-05-3123 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.5 [POD] Holliday MemoriesThis podcast mirrors the “Holliday Memories” 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 MLB’s 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 I’ve 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, “Cards of Future Past,” 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 — 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, “Bedard Be Popular, Bubble Gum and Raw Vintage,” 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 — why do we do giveaways? The answer...
2024-05-1025 min
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!1.2 [POD] Encouragers, Error Cards & MC HammerWe’re back with a breakdown of our second newsletter, “Encouragers, Enemies and Errors,” and thanks for coming along for the podcast ride! We’re trying to get caught up, having a podcast reading for each of our newsletter issues, so we’re 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 “enemy” into an “encourager,” and we explain how the “enabler” 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 “Wax Pack Dad,” whose YouTube Videos are some of the most entertaining vintage pack openings you’ll 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