Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!

Happy Hobbyist Patrick Imhoff takes the wheel for this week’s newsletter, sharing all the smart decisions he’s planning to make with his sports card collection in 2025 based on what happened in 2024.

Specifically, Patrick shares his takes on collecting prospect cards and when to buy rookie cards. He also shares his opinions on “breaking,” as well as buying great single cards over hobby boxes.

My favorite lesson that he shared was about how he targets cards on eBay using both Auctions and Buy It Now cards that have Best Offers. It’s a brilliant strategy!

Patrick thinks hockey is pucktastic! (My word, not his.) He shared a pretty awesome baseball/hockey card trivia question from the junk wax era that blew my mind!

Finally, Patrick also loves his Pittsburgh Penguins, and this week’s “Cards That Make Us Happy,” really makes Patrick happy because it’s Super Mario’s rookie card!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* 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 Buy

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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 new 2025 Topps design for their flagship Series 1, Series 2 and Topps Update has been released!

Alan Camuto, one of the regular Happy Hobbyists in our HHSC Chat, is a graphic designer, who once worked for a firm who worked with Topps!

As a matter of fact, Alan worked on several cards for Topps during the 2000s, and now he’s bringing that expertise to us! We asked him what he thought of the new 2025 Topps design, and he shared some of his favorite things — and least favorite things!

Do you love the new Topps design? Do you hate it? Are you ambivalent? Let us know!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* 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 Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

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* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

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* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.com

Have a #HappyHobby!

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Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!

Many of the baseball card collectors on our YouTube channel and in our newsletter chat are among the group I call, “The Renewed Collectors.” We were all former card collectors when we were kids in the ‘70, ‘80s and ‘90s, then we stopped for a decade or two, and now we’re picking it back up because it brings us back fond memories!

Scott Hedrick, one of our favorite Happy Hobbyists, loves to buy old wax packs and boxes off of sites like BBCExchange.com and DACardWorld.com.

For collectors looking to dip their toes into the wax pack pool, Scott shared six great tips on buying wax packs and boxes that should improve your chances on getting good cards without spending too much money.

We also share another awesome sports card trivia question, in which you could win a free baseball card, and Patrick Imhoff gives us another suggestion we hope Fanatics will listen to in 2026.

Finally, I look back almost 70 years at one of the coolest rookie cards in history, from 1948 Leaf, with our “Cards That Make Us Happy,” section.

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* 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 Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

* Facebook

* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

* TikTok

* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.com

Have a #HappyHobby!

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Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!

Nearly 50 years ago, Topps celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Major League Baseball by producing one of the coolest base card subsets in baseball card history: 1976 Topps All-Time All-Stars!

They named the best player from every position, creating an All-Star team we’d all love to see take the field at once.

While it would have been awesome to see both an American and National League listed, just so we could argue about who would win, it was still great to see all these superstar legends!

From Babe Ruth to Ty Cobb, from Honus Wagner to Ted Williams, from Walter Johnson to Lou Gehrig, this was a subset for the ages!

We also share another great baseball card trivia question, for those looking to win a great card!

And Patrick Imhoff shares two suggestions for Fanatics, with his “If I Became CEO of Fanatics” bullet list!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* 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 Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

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* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

* TikTok

* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.com

Have a #HappyHobby!

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Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!

One of our favorite Happy Hobbyists, Patrick Imhoff, joins the podcast to talk about which players he’s trying to collect in the new 2024 Bowman Draft product that came out this month, full of 2024 MLB Draftees!

Obviously, there are the superstars to collect, like No. 1 overall pick Travis Bazzana and Chase Burns, but Imhoff shares a few other great players to chase!

We also discuss some of Bowman’s background as a product, and how they’ve come to shape prospect-hunting in the baseball card world!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* 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 Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

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* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

* TikTok

* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.com

Have a #HappyHobby!

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Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!

I’ve been collecting baseball cards and other sports cards since I was a little kid, about 50 years now, but my wife Shelby and I have only been married for just over 5 years!

I thought it would be a fun exercise to talk to Mrs. Happy Hobby to see just what card-collecting information has leaked into her unsuspecting brain!

We also talk about how card collecting has affected us as a couple, and we share some tips on how to keep everyone in the marriage happy, when someone has a collecting obsession love.

Here are some of the topics we covered:

* Love languages… No, seriously. Haha, we talked about how this can help someone deal with someone else’s hobbies!

* How do you buy a gift for a card collector?

* Who’s on the Mt. Rushmore of Topps vintage baseball cards?

* What does “RP” mean in an eBay listing?

* What’s the difference between a retail and a hobby box?

* What’s a blaster?

* Can you name any of the top rookies from this year’s rookie card class?

* What are the four criteria grading companies use when determining a card’s grade?

* What is junk wax?

* What is a “Collector’s Grade”?

* What’s the most graded sports card ever?

* Who is the most graded athlete ever?

* What are the things you hate most about me being a sports card collector?

* How can I help you not hate my hobby?

We ended up talking about a lot of stuff, and it was one of the most fun podcasts I’ve ever done, for sure.

Please let us know what you thought of this special episode either in the comments or you can email me below!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* 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 Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

* Facebook

* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

* TikTok

* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.com

Have a #HappyHobby!

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Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!

Sports card sellers on eBay are always trying to squeeze every penny out of a card they’re selling, which is difficult when all of us buyers are trying to hold onto every single penny, when we’re buying cards!

In this episode, which is also a video on my YouTube channel, I share with you close to one dozen tricks that some nefarious eBay sellers try to pull on unsuspecting sports card collectors!

I also share another baseball card trivia question, in case you want to win yourself a free 1979 Topps Willie Stargell baseball card!

Patrick Imhoff shares another smart nugget about what he would change if he became CEO of Fanatics in 2026, when they unify all three sports card licenses.

And finally, we look at another one of those “Cards That Makes Us Happy!” This time, it’s from a card from not too long ago — the 2016 Topps Mike Trout card!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* 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 Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

* Facebook

* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

* TikTok

* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.com

Have a #HappyHobby!

Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)

Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!

Getting sports cards graded is really a new thing for collectors when you consider the hobby is a century old or so. But over the past 10 years, card grading has really become a war between companies, which makes for some good opportunities for baseball card collectors to get in on!

We share 13 nuggets we believe to be helpful to card collectors and card investors alike!

We also share another sports card trivia question, with a 1986 Topps John Elway up for grabs to one winner!

Patrick Imhoff shares another one of his if-I-were-CEO-of-Fanatics nuggets — this time about how he would revamp the whole Bowman suite of products!

Finally, we look at the best rookie cards from the year of 1981 in baseball, football, basketball and hockey!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* 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 Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

* Facebook

* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

* TikTok

* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:gonoscards@gmail.com

Have a #HappyHobby!

Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)