Tag: player collecting
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A Year In Review: My Top 10 Additions of 2024
Hello my fellow card collectors, Another year down, and another year-in-review post just waiting to be written up. I’ve always enjoy doing these, as it provides me with some time to reflect on how the past year has gone. While that mainly includes cardboard, I always catch myself thinking of how the past year has…
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Player Collecting: Are Checklist Cards Fair Game?
The 2016-17 O-Pee-Chee Los Angeles Kings Team Checklist card has Enroth pictured on the front. Will I chase these cards for my PC?Over the years, I’ve seen player collectors dive into various avenues within the hobby in order to find new ways to extend their collections beyond the traditional sense. One of the more unique…
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Collectors Corner: The Mike Modano Super Collection
Just a few of the 1700+ Mike Modano cards inside Carlos’ collection. You may already follow this collector on YouTube, but today’s article will introduce Carlos under a new persona: The Mike Modano collector. The Introduction I started collecting in 1990. Baseball was the first sport I began with since it was myfavorite sport. Before…
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Collectors Corner: Patrick Roy
2001-2002 Upper Deck SPGU SP Patch Card of “Saint Patrick” Patrick Roy 25/50.Today I’m going to feature Ryan’s collection of one of the All-Time greatest goaltenders in NHL history: Patrick Roy. His Roy collection features over 2,000 cards of one of the best goalies to ever play the game. I hope you enjoy this recent…
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Collectors Corner: A Habs Fan & His Josh Gorges Super Collection
Richard’s Panini Prime Colors Completed Number of Josh Gorges. A once-in-a-lifetime accomplishment for any collector. Today I’d like to turn the spotlight on fellow SportsCardForum Hockey Moderator Richard and his Josh Gorges Super Collection. He is a collector that puts a lot of pride into his collection and the hobby at large and I’m glad to…
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Collectors Corner: Once In A Lifetime Moment Leads To A Justin Faulk Collection
I’ve always liked hearing about why collectors collect who they do. I find it interesting how the spark for a certain player or team can develop from many different places. In Jon’s case, as he will explain below, a once in a lifetime encounter with Justin Faulk sparked a card collection that he still continues…
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Collectors Corner: Gaborik Super Collector Turned Supreme Patch Hoarder
Curt’s Introduction I am 60 years old and grew up in Minnesota as a huge sports fan (Twins, Vikings, North Stars). I started collecting football cards at first around 1972 when I was 13. Mostly for Vikings players, but that evolved into other sports, teams, players, etc. I went into the Navy in 1977 and…
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How To Start A Hockey Card Collection: Player Collecting
How To Start A Hockey Card Player Collection. After my recent How To Start a Hockey Card Collection blog post received a lot of great feedback, I wanted to dive a little deeper and branch these Hobby How To posts into a series of blog posts for young and/or experienced collectors alike in order to help navigate the…
