Ginter Gold Fever

Almost there and it's starting to feel like it might happen!! I am ONE card away from the full 2,344 card non-1/1 master 2006 Allen &...

THE FIND - 26 plates and 9 woods, all 2006! This gets me to the lifetime goal of 10% of all 2006 plates in existence (150) and relieves...

(UPDATE - Corey Patterson is now in the binder as of 4/19/25!) Good Ginter Morning, Everyone! A friend suggested I post a live (as live...

UPDATE - One card away, where are you Vernon Wells??? --- I hope your collecting is going well in 2025! My only goal this year is...

The Topps Allen & Ginter brand offers us all a way to collect both our baseball heroes AND our non-baseball heroes, nay, our non-sport...

Do you ever wonder why you collect? Here is a quote I found recently. (bolding is my own emphasis, not the author) "“This has led some...

Update - found through an awesome seller on eBay!! Me neither! The biggest mysteries of life are; what happened to D.B. Cooper? How many...

We Don't Always Win. Let's start there. Inspired by a recent series on Freakonomics about failing successfully and perfect timing from a...

First of all, what a great name for a product! In the spirit of always thinking of new ways to collect your favorite sets - a few years...

Time for some new goals for 2024! I've started to think more about building my collection backwards - what do I want to end with vs. what...

A question I get often as I'm sure we all do about the things we collect. And also the hardest question to answer directly. Similar to...

Ever watch American Pickers? I love that show. My favorite episodes are the ones where they unearth actual preproduction items for these...

Huge milestone for the PC over here and I just wanted to say a few things. I know we like to say things like "I never thought I'd be able...

The path to acquisition can be a tricky thing. I have a daily regimen. Most of the time I love it but, in true super collecting fashion,...

Everyone is different. Every collector goes about their collecting business in a personal way. There might also be a LOT of similarities....

Aside from a massive lightning storm everything was a lot of fun at the National! This was my first year and it sounds like I picked a...

Hello - hope you're well! Have you ever seen one of these? Do you have one/many? Just to see them is enough sometimes as I try to track...

At some point in my obsession (probably when I was so damn tired of trying to complete the official auto set) I started to think - what...

Recently, I purchased a fairly large Allen & Ginter collection from a true Ginter collector with the help of an awesome auction house. I...

Similar to my conversation with Adam Gandolfo (I posted about my convo with him before), I was honored that Brad was willing to spend...