Inside the Pack: Death and Sports Cards

On Sunday, the world was shocked by the news of Kobe Bryant’s passing. Bryant, just 41 years old, died tragically in a helicopter accident in California. While people mourned the loss of his passing, the sports card market responded …

Inside the Pack: MLK Day Edition

It’s not often that a baseball card is able to encapsulate bravery and strength. In fact, only a few come to mind immediately: the 2002 Topps United We Stand subset, featuring the response to the 9/11 attacks in the …

Inside the Pack: Creating a Revolving Collection

Last week, I wrote that one of my collecting goals for 2020 was to create a more focused personal collection. With a little assistance from my past self and a whole lot of serendipity, I got a jump start …

Inside the Pack: Hobby Goals for 2020

I’m not big on making resolutions at the start of each year in my personal life; I find that they often fall by the wayside and I end up disappointed a few months into the new year. I do, …

Inside the Pack: Investing in Future Hall of Famers

Earlier this month, 16 men huddled together and changed the legacies of Marvin Miller and Ted Simmons forever, when the Modern Baseball Era Committee voted to elect both to the Hall of Fame. This election had quite an interesting …

RIIP with Brody the Kid #14 interview with Steve Grad

What’s up Everyone!? Welcome to another edition of Riiip with Brody the Kid. This month, we have a cool interview and some other awesome things to talk about. Let’s get to it!

First, let’s talk about one of the craziest …

Inside the Pack: Baseball Cards as Gifts? Bah, humbug!

Every holiday season, as the time for exchanging gifts gets closer, I’m overcome with a very real and terrifying fear — that someone I care about will get me baseball cards as a present. It’s not that I don’t …

Inside the Pack: 2019 Topps UFC Museum Collection

A higher-end product with beautiful base cards and 3 hits per box, 2019 Topps UFC Museum Collection packs a punch at a fair price point that should interest any MMA fan.

Topps sent me a box of UFC Museum to …

Inside the Pack: Old Cards, New Discoveries

One of the many things I love about collecting baseball cards is that it seems that no matter how many times I look at a card, I can still discover something new and different about a card. In a …