Thinking about the best ways to pivot how I contribute to the sports card hobby given what #Nostr and #Bitcoin are and can be 🤔

Wax box nostalgia part 2

The awesome thing about flipping through old catalogs is running across random cards and sets that pique your curiosity and make you learn more about the hobby; that's precisely what happened when I saw this 1921 W551 Babe Ruth/Ty Cobb Strip in Mastro's August 2006 catalog. Turns out it took until pretty recently for the card market to come to consensus and call these cards a 1922 set and I learned that 9/10 baseball player strip card poses are the same between W551 and W514.

Feeling incredibly nostalgic right now

Ok, one more little write-up today here are 36 GAI-graded 1959 Topps Football Cello Packs that were auctioned off in August 2004. Today’s value would be >$54k (or less than one BTC).

Every collector needs obscure 1970s Minor League Baseball uncut card sheets…and after highlighting this 1977 Tucson Toros set, my weekend writing goals are complete!

This ad was printed in 1977, today’s prices for 1977 Tucson Toros cards aren’t that much higher - some prices HAVEN’T inflated!

I buy old children’s magazines for The Hobby Library since a bunch of them had sports cards inside. Hot Dog Magazine number 29 included six 1984 Topps Football Stickers.

After a naively long time away from the Nostr community, I came back and noticed everyone like @ODELL telling folks to run things, so this morning I did, and guess what? I feel great, thanks everyone!

Vintage baseball contracts are works of art.

Confusing the snot out of myself trying to learn about T216 cards.

I definitely need one of these 1977 Tom Daniels Burleigh Grimes uncut sheets for The Hobby Library!

Time to dig into some Burleigh Grimes cards. If you didn’t know, he was the last pitcher officially allowed to throw a spitball.

While I still can’t seem to find an uncut sheet of 1977 Indianapolis Indians baseball cards, I did find an example of the 1976 release on Craigslist of all places, I figure the ’77 set has the same format. I’m pretty sure THIS is the content Nostr needs…

Weekend writing projects: - 1977 Indianapolis Indians Team Issue Baseball Cards - 1970 Topps Super Baseball - 1977 Tom Daniels Burleigh Grimes Cards - 1977 Tucson Toros Cards And, of course, the golden era of baseball autograph inserts.

How many of you still use dry cleaners? And those of you who do, how many of you save the hanger bags? Well, here's one that survived in someone's closet for over fifty years! It's a circa 1953 Spic and Span Dry Cleaners Pictorial Shirt Covering. The company had a licensing agreement with the local Braves team from at least 1953 to 1957. The bag shows 12 of the 13 known Warmuth designs in the 1954 card set.

Baseball cards and bitcoin. Can never have enough of either.

Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Peters Meats supplied hot dogs for Twins games and released this 26-card Midwest regional set in 1961 to celebrate the Twin’s first years in the city (after moving from Washington, where they were the Senators). The cards are pretty thick and heavily waxed since they were supposed to be used as packaging for meat products. As the hobby library guy, I’ve always liked the advertisement from the Twins 1961 yearbook. I’ve documented the set in detail on the oddball archive here:

1961 Peters Meats Minnesota Twins Baseball Card Set and Checklist – Post War Cards

📣📰Newsletter 66 Is Out! 🏈 An Exhibit Supply Co. Football Card Machine Sign Advertising Display ✍️ Great Hobby Writing 📦 Another Incredible Unopened Consignment At Heritage Auctions 🏀 447 Fake 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan Cards ⚾️ Something’s Weird About The 1970 Topps Baseball Wax Box

The Post War Cards Newsletter #66

Goldin’s 1952 Topps Set Brings Back Memories of “The Set”

Yesterday, I published The Bittersweet Tale Of Casey Stengel’s 1965 Dugan Brothers Baseball Card on the blog. Here are some photos from the article and a link ICYMI:

The Bittersweet Tale Of Casey Stengel’s 1965 Dugan Brothers Baseball Card – Post War Cards