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Michael Jordan Precious Metal Gems

Precious Metal Gems (PMG) Cards – The Sports Card Hobby’s Most Coveted Parallel / Insert

The History Of The Original PMG Cards Sports cards in the mid to late 1990’s are known for their new technologies and innovative designs. This era of sports cards is also famous for flashy serial-numbered parallels and scarce inserts. The most famous of them all are the Precious Metal Gems cards. While Precious Metal Gems…

First Basketball One Of One Cards

The First True One-Of-One (1/1) Parallel Sports Cards

On Oct 12, 1997 Fleer released their Masterpiece cards in Flair Showcase Baseball. The first ever “true” one-of-one parallel baseball cards. 1997 was also the first year 1-of-1 basketball cards and football cards as well. The 1/1 concept was so successful that a variety of one-of-one iterations for inserts and parallels have been a sports…

“3 And 3” #35 – Gold Champion Edition With Dom Manna

Episode 35 of sports card “3 And 3” is with Dom Manna of Staven Sports Cards. A Champions edition!

Orlando A Collector's Dream

Why We Want The Sports Card Hobby To Grow – Turn Back The Clock #26 With A Collector’s Dream

Turn Back The Clock Episode 26 With Special Guest – A Collector’s Dream – Orlando

Mike Petty Baseball Cards Podcast

Runnin Down A Dream With Mike Petty. “3 And 3” Ep. 34

For episode 34 of “3 And 3” YouTube legend, Mike Petty, joins me to showcase 3 of his favorite vintage baseball cards and then we look at 3 cards he’d like to add to his awesome collection.

Turn Back The Clock #24 With Special Guest NYYanksFan7

BIG cards in 2023 and what does 2024 hold in our sports card hobby?

Pepino Man

Turn Back The Clock #23 With Pepino Man & Hitman23

Turn Back The Clock 23 LIVE, hosted by DoubleD Vintage Baseball Cards and Splendid Sports Cards, with special guests Pepino Man & Hitman23:

Turn Back The Clock #22 With MidLife Sports Cards, Clemente Collector & The Mangini Collection

Turn Back The Clock 22 LIVE, hosted by DoubleD Vintage Baseball Cards (Dylan) and Splendid Sports Cards (Adam), with special guests MidLife Sports Cards (Graig), Clemente Collector (Theo) and The Mangini Collection (John). A spirited roundtable sports card hobby debate!

Turn Back The Clock

Turn Back The Clock #21 With LouRok TV & Sammy Thunder

Cards & Cocktails. Things That Belong Together. For episode #21 of Turn Back The Clock, we are joined by 2 great sports card YouTubers – LouRok TV and Sammy Thunder!

John Mangini Baseball Cards Collector

Turn Back The Clock #20 – Super Rare, Obscure Baseball Cards With John Mangini – The Mangini Collection

John Mangini (The Mangini Collection) has one of the most extensive sports card collections in the world. He joins Dylan (DoubleD Vintage Baseball Cards) and Adam (Splendid Sports) to discuss the hobby and some super rare, obscure collectibles.

Turn Back The Clock

Turn Back The Clock #19 – What Baseball Cards Will Go Up In Price The Most?

What Baseball Cards Will Rise In Price The Most? Turn Back The Clock With Danny Black, John Newman & Dylan DoubleD Vintage Baseball Cards: Check out HobbyNewsDaily.com Check out Sports Card Nation Podcast

Michael Jordan 1985 Prism Jewel Sticker

1985 Prism Jewel Stickers

Below is an article featured in The Mangini Letter (a free email letter about rare & interesting sports cards & collectibles. You can get on the list here) about the 1985 Prism Jewel sticker set: The year is 1985. ‘Back To The Future’ is out in movie theaters, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in…

Mike Cramer Cramer's Choice Baseball Card Book Pacific Trading Cards

Mike Cramer Of Pacific Trading Cards On Mickey Mantle, Tom Brady, 90’s Parallels & More. An Innovative Sports Card Hobby LEGEND

Mike Cramer’s first love was baseball cards. Before high school he had a mail-order trading card business. At age 30 he founded Pacific Trading Cards with money he made fishing crab in the Bering Sea. From 1980 to 2004, Pacific created more than 200 successful trading card products. In 2021, a Pacific Tom Brady rookie…

Baseball Cards Podcast

Turn Back The Clock #18 – Sports Card Grading, Eye Appeal, Chasing Rare & Special Cardboard

Turn Back The Clock 18 was a 3-part episode covering a bunch of sports card hobby topics:

Turn Back The Clock

Turn Back The Clock #17 – 13 Year Old Vintage Collector @JrBaseballFanatic12

On Turn Back The Clock #17 Liam @JrBaseballFanatic12 joins Dylan and Adam to talk about vintage baseball cards, family, ultra-modern prospects & more!