I Am Meatballs

Hey @junkwaxhero.bsky.social, did you see who has been trying to make a comeback?

It was a big-time hobby event in the spring of 2009 when REA sold the nicer of the two known 1915 E145 Crack Jack Advertising Posters for $152,750. The lot's description said it had never been sold before at auction, but Goober's seems to have offered it in their September 1991 catalog.

Thousands of dollars worth of Pokémon cards stolen from Old Town shop It’s become a staple in the Albuquerque trading card and games community.

The hobby Grinches are out in full force with a couple hobby shop thefts over the weekend (mostly Pokemon):

www.krqe.com/news/albuque... (Albuquerque)

www.koin.com/news/portlan... (Portland, OR)

A scornful owl, Duo, reminds a many of his many failures throughout the course of a year.

Thanks, Duo, but I've already got my children to remind me of this on a daily basis.

This is a ~ $1.00 card.

Am I missing something here? What's the point of shilling this card to 130x the actual value if no one is ever going to pay that?

Bidder profiles also suggest these accounts are / were shilling multiple Probstein auctions (some now NARU).

The Top Five Vintage Baseball Card Sets of All Time Baseball cards have been around for a really long time, so it shouldn't be an easy thing to choose the five best sets in Hobby history, right?

Offering up what I believe are the top five vintage sets of all time. Lemme know if your picks are any different.

www.si.com/collectibles...

Here's one of the scarcest non-sport collectibles in the hobby from the Walter Johnson Candy Company, a 1930s Dick Tracy R41 set wrapper.

Learn more about it here: www.postwarcards.com/an-incredibl...

It's nearly my time.