"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!

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

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!⚾From Comeback Collector To eBay Card Seller! Interviewing Emack!Thousands of sports card collectors from the ‘80s and ‘90s 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 “teammate” David Gonos about his hobby backstory and his current eBay store Emack’s Get Carded!Emack shares his lessons learned, what he might do differently, and what he plans to do in the future, helping all collectors everywhere learn from his tale.Also, don’t forget to check out our Happy Hobby Sports Cards newsletter giveaway!***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!⚾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 you are thinking about buying rookie cards!***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 you are considering buying a jumbo box, hobby box, blaster or just singles, it’s 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!Here’s the article I wrote detailing all the best 2025 Topps Chrome rookie cards!Also, here’s the article I wrote about the Best Topps Chrome Rookie Cards From Each Year!Let me know which rookie cards you’re targeting!***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!As sports card collectors working on limited budgets, we need every free card-collecting tool we can find. But when they’re as awesome as this one that I use on eBay, you find that it not only saves you money because it’s free — 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 collection. Then, I break down, step by step, how you can do your very own saved searches for the cards you are looking for!Here’s the original article I wrote months ago on some different eBay Saved Searches you can try!Let me know which “saved searches” you like to use on your eBay account! ***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!⚾🏀 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 Clark’s Indiana Fever!With those two (kinda) halftime performances coming this week, I thought — what better time to review the rookie cards of all the starters from each of these games, helping sports card collectors check their lists of haves and needs!Let us know how many cards you have in your collection, and which ones you plan to add this week!***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!⚾🏈🏀 5 REASONS WHY CARDS WILL EXPLODE AGAIN IN 2026!The sports card-collecting boom during the pandemic brought a lot of new people — and returning people — 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 that’s a false narrative, and why David Gonos believes the sports card world is about to BOOM again in 2026!If you’re new to the hobby — you got here just in time!***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!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 don’t want.Don’t forget to check out the great slab shipping kits over at NoCity.co!***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)Music by Grand_Project from PixabayBell by Aiwha -- License: Attribution 4.0 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!While Topps is currently churning out about 250 rookie cards per year for their three flagship series, it’s unlikely they’ll miss any players. But over the past 75 years or so, there have been some glaring omissions — and we want them rectified! Somehow… I don’t have any instructions on how to do it, but still…We list off seven of the greatest omissions in the history of baseball cards, including cards of some pretty legendary players, including Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Reggie Jackson, Alex Rodriguez, Stan Musial and more! We even throw in a country singer!Later in this episode, we share our favorite “Comment of the Week!” and we look at one of the all-time greatest cards ever, in “Cards That Make Us Happy!"Spoiler Alert: It’s the 1985 Topps Mark McGwire Team USA rookie card!And don’t forget about our shipping kit giveaway for our podcast listeners!***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)Music by Grand_Project from PixabayBell by Aiwha -- License: Attribution 4.0 Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card News Podcast For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!💖⚾💖11 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 — 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 about your prized graded cards getting dinged up in the mail? Say hello to NOCT shipping supplies at NoCity.co — the ultimate solution made just for collectors like you (and your eBay customers!).NOCT’s expertly crafted boxes and bubble mailer envelopes are designed to fit PSA slabs and raw cards snugly, keeping your treasures safe from bumps and bruises, whether you’re shipping to buyers or trading with friends. These products are made by collectors, for collectors!Ready for a Bonus?We’re giving away 10 FREE boxes and bubble mailers to one lucky podcast listener! To enter: Email me at gonoscards@gmail.com with “NO CITY Happy Hobby” in the subject line. Deadline to join is June 30!Don’t risk your slabs. Ship with confidence! Visit NoCity.co and upgrade your shipping game today!***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)Happy groovy loop by jjwoosh -- License: Creative Commons 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!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 wall!We also share an ultra-fun baseball card trivia contest, where you could win this 1981 Donruss Willie Stargell card!Make sure you get into our NoCity.Co giveaway! Listen to the podcast to see what you have to do — or watch this YouTube video!***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)Music by Grand_Project from PixabayBell by Aiwha -- License: Attribution 4.0 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!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 surprised at the prices for T206 cards of Hall-of-Famers might cost you! They’re cheaper than many of these ridiculous parallel cards — and they’re more important!Also, our guy Patrick Imhoff shares some great tips for collecting rookie cards! Remember a couple weeks ago when he shared some perfect pointers on prospects? He does the same thing here, but with first-year Major Leaguers!Make sure you get into our NoCity.Co giveaway! Listen to the podcast to see what you have to do — or watch this YouTube video!***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)Music by Grand_Project from PixabayBell by Aiwha -- License: Attribution 4.0 Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!🏀5 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 haven’t jumped onto the WNBA cards bandwagon, we’re sharing a handful of reasons why now is the time to get ahead of the tidal wave.Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is just a one-year phenomena because it was Caitlin’s rookie year. The W just added Paige Bueckers, and they have JuJu Watkins, Lauren Betts and Hannah Hidalgo waiting in the wings! (The stage wings, we’re talking about, not the Dallas Wings, who likely won’t be in the lottery again for a while because of Ms. Bueckers!)We also take a look at five of Caitlin Clark’s rookie cards that are both affordable ($20 and under) and worth picking up for beginner WNBA card collectors.***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)Music by Grand_Project from PixabayBell by Aiwha -- License: Attribution 4.0 Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!⚾8 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.Let’s be clear, while it’s not a great checklist full of two dozen awesome rookie cards, there are THREE short print rookies we’re excited to get our hands on! Also, looking back, you can find our YouTube videos of our previous rookie card rankings from 2025 Topps Series 1, and all the 2024 Topps flagship releases ranked together in one video!***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