"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!The final flagship product finally got released by Topps this month, and several sports card content creators, including myself, shared their 2025 Topps Update Rookie Card Rankings. What we do each time one of these Topps flagship products comes out is to take everyone’s rankings, mash them together, then average them out to figure out Average Rookie Card Rankings!If you’ve ever played Fantasy Football, then you’re likely familiar with ADP (Average Draft Position), which averages out where players get drafted across thousands of Fantasy Football leagues. That’s what we’re attempting to do here – give you a wide angle perspective on what the best rookie cards to chase are from this product.2025 Topps Update Average Card RankingsBelow is the final ranking, but listen to the podcast to understand what we thought about these players.Note that we used the rookie card rankings from these card content creators:* DavidGonos.com* Scottie B Cards YouTube Channel* Topps Ripped* Cardlines.comLet us know if you are a content creator and you’d like to have your sports card rankings added to our Average Rookie Card Rankings (ARCR)! Drop a comment below or shoot me an email at gonoscards@gmail.com.Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !Don’t forget to vote for the 2025 Rookie Card Awards and win a chance at a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab! Deadline to vote is midnight, Dec. 22, 2025. Vote here: https://forms.gle/2KnyEtX8NoYob4dy6***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!A few weeks ago, I laid out my reasons on why I believe sports cards will explode in 2026, and many of you agreed with me!But many of you also thought I was just this side of cuckoo! Commenters laid out their disdain for Fanatics getting three of the four major sports card licenses, and they shared several reasons they thought the hobby was on the precipice of disaster! Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !Don’t forget to vote for the 2025 Rookie Card Awards and win a chance at a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab! Deadline to vote is midnight, Dec. 22, 2025. Vote here: https://forms.gle/2KnyEtX8NoYob4dy6***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!My childhood is full of great stories about the beginning of my love of the hobby, but there is one huge black spot that has sullied my conscience for decades. It’s time I share what happened, why I did it, and how it affected me up until this day!Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !Don’t forget to vote for the 2025 Rookie Card Awards and win a chance at a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab! Deadline to vote is midnight, Dec. 22, 2025. Vote here: https://forms.gle/2KnyEtX8NoYob4dy6***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Over the years, there have been some amazing sports card innovations and ideas! Many of them could be called “gimmicks,” if only because they were only around for a short time, and then they went away.Well, we want some of those gimmicks to come back! And we want the others to go far, far away! Help us decide on which ones were awesome, which ones were alright, and which ones were awful!Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !Don’t forget to vote for the 2025 Rookie Card Awards and win a chance at a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab! Deadline to vote is midnight, Dec. 22, 2025. Vote here: https://forms.gle/2KnyEtX8NoYob4dy6***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!It’s the end of the year and that usually means we should look back before we look forward to the new year! We nominate base rookie cards in four different categories for four different main sports that people like to collect, with several releases of Panini, Topps and Upper Deck flagship products!You can vote here: https://forms.gle/2KnyEtX8NoYob4dy6By voting, you are eligible to win a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab! Voting ends at midnight, Dec. 22, 2025, and the winner will be announced shortly after!The four categories for each sport (baseball, basketball, football and hockey) we listed are:* Best Rookie Card!* Best Rookie Card Comeback!* Best Sleeper Future Star Rookie Card!* Biggest Rookie Card Bust!There are many great rookie cards that came out this year, from Topps Series 1, 2 and Update, as well as Prizm Basketball, Prizm Football, and Upper Deck Hockey Series 1, 2 and Extended! We need your help to discover what the very best rookie cards were in each category!Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each 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 — 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 makes the regular ol’ mint condition card a great value!Drop your thoughts in the comments below — or shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!If you’re not a new sports card collector, you might be an old collector — like many of us Happy Hobbyists! That means the sports cards of the ‘80s and ‘90s, 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 — each for under $125! Many of these boxes can be had for less than $100 — or you can choose to spend that money on a outfield prospect who isn’t old enough buy a beer yet.We want to know which boxes you would buy from this list if you had $200 to burn! Drop your thoughts in the comments below — or shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each 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 — 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 Cards, also!That’s what we talk about in this week’s podcast episode — the best rookie cards to collect in both leagues!Let’s hear what you think about Topps Basketball cards in the comments below — or shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !Sign up for the “Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter” here!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each 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 — 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 Topps NBA Living Set cards we are excited to get our hands on!Let’s hear what you think about Topps Basketball cards in the comments below — or shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !Sign up for the “Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter” here!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

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 awesome sports cards is what we’re all about! Who doesn’t want more great cards!?! But when you’re working with a limited budget, you don’t always have the funds available to buy more cards! Then what do you do?It’s important to go back through your collection and consider when and where you got them, maybe there’s a specific story about that player or his team, or that set. This podcast is all about recollecting, and how you need to add it to your collection task list!Got some interesting stories about your sports card collection? Let’s hear ‘em in the comments below — or shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !Sign up for the “Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter” here!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

If you’re a sports fan — or a sports card collector — 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! We’re getting new cards for Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, WNBA, Baseball Prospects — it might be time to change the name of this month to Boxtober!When you think of just how exciting October is from just a sports perspective, with the MLB Playoffs in full swing and entering World Series time, along with the starts of the NBA and NHL seasons, a sports card collectors life is good!Here’s what’s coming out in chronological order of release, then I dive deeper into each set from what I believe our listeners care about the most in our podcast!* 2025-26 Upper Deck Hockey Series 1 - Released 10/15/2025* 2025 Topps Basketball - Release 10/23/2025* 2025 Donruss WNBA - Release 10/23/2025* 2025 Topps Update Baseball - Release 10/29/2025* 2025 Topps Pro Debut Baseball - Release 11/12/2025Which sports card products are you most excited about in the coming weeks of Boxtober and Cardvember!?! Let us know in the comments below!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

It’s 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 we’re excited about this final release!Got some 2025 Topps Update rookie cards you think I missed? Is a player too high — or too low? Let’s hear ‘em!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

“The great ones have the ability to focus and tune everything else out and see more than the others.” — 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 collecting tips? Let’s hear ‘em!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Trading one addiction for another is rarely a good idea — 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 it’s 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, we’ll never get everything!The hobby lends itself to people getting addicted to several different aspects. Whether the rush of adrenaline we get from buying into a break is what gets us going, or ripping through tons of packs in hopes of pulling that elusive rookie card we’ve been hunting, we sometimes feel like there is never enough.I’ve recently discovered that selling my sports cards can be equally addictive! I’m not talking about selling the cards I love. I’m not even talking about selling the cards I hate! I shared in this sports card podcast the steps I took (and you can, too) to sell cards, which helps me fund the collecting part of my hobby. Let us know if we’ve helped motivate you into selling some cards you don’t love/like in the comments below! Let us know what you are selling — and one of our readers might buy it!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

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 collection. Maybe it was that great card trade you made, or a super prospect whose card you bought early for nothing is now on his way to his 8th MLB All-Star Game.But quite often, we make those great decisions because we made bad moves earlier in our collecting career, and we learned from them.I’ve been collecting cards since I was about four years old, and I share all the bad moves I made — from bad trades, to not buying a card when I should have, to not selling a card when I should have. These are my biggest bone-head card-collecting moves!We’d love to hear what your biggest sports card regrets are! Let’s hear them in the comments below!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

You’re not going to believe half of these sports card facts, I’m 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 can’t believe everything you hear — unless you hear it in our podcast, and it’s talking about true sports card facts that everyone thinks sounds fake!We’re talking baseball cards, football cards, vintage, modern, Topps Living and everything in between! On this list, we have Hall of Famers, soon-to-be Hall of Famers, rookie cards and more!Which of these true sports card facts blew your mind the most? Let’s hear them in the comments below!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Google 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 collection: 2005 Upper Deck Sidney Crosby Young Guns Rookie Card PSA 9!Here are some of the bigger value cards Patrick sold:* 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto SGC 9.5 Dylan Crews: $200* 2020-21 Upper Deck Young Guns Kirill Kaprizov: $40* 2024 Topps Update Black Gold Black /299 Elly De La Cruz: $64* 2023 Topps Chrome Image Variation SP SGC 10 Shohei Ohtani: $191* 2023 Bowman Draft 1st Refractor Blue /150 Luke Keaschall: $28* 2024-25 Upper Deck Young Guns Macklin Celebrini: $708* 2021 Bowman Draft 1st Chrome Auto Bubba Chandler: $170* 2025 Bowman Chrome 1st Refractor Green Shimmer /99 Josue Briceno: $30* 2022 Bowman Draft 1st paper Green /99 Cole Young: $25* 2022 Bowman Draft Chrome Mood Ring Superfractor 1/1 Elijah Green: $300In total, he sold 52 cards between March 24 and June 13 , when he hit his magic number.We’d love to hear what your grail cards are — and we’re talking about attainable cards, not T206 Honus Wagner! Let’s hear them in the comments below!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

We love our Happy Hobby Substack subscribers! We love them so much, we’re 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! I’ve said it before, but I want our readers/listeners/watchers to know — 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. That’s you!As you’ll see, this has an Amazon review video in the middle of the video, so bear with me as I go through some of the specs, and how it works, and all that good stuff.You can check out the display on Amazon here. It comes in a 3-card or 5-card display — and you can go to the Bivitre store to find the black version of this same display.Bivitre does an amazing job with their high-quality displays — and I have some that I paid for!While this is a giveaway for all subscribers, both free and paid, stay tuned for a Paid Subscriber giveaway I’m doing in September!Stay tuned for more giveaways — just like our 1,000 subscriber giveaway, which also has a deadline of September 30, 2025!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

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 Patrick Imhoff did some hard thinking to come up with 31 ideas on how he would fix Fanatics, to help both the sports card collectors and the company itself.Also, we’d love to hear some ideas from you — how can Fanatics make things better? Let’s hear them in the comments below!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Whether 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, I’d love to hear which cards changed your life — whether it’s one, two or five! Let’s hear them in the comments below!***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com**** Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To BuyConnect with David Gonos on:* Facebook* Twitter/X @DavidGonos* Instagram @DavidGonos* TikTok* Link TreeEmail me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.comHave a #HappyHobby!Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe