Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! ⚾🏀 All-Star Game Starters! Which MLB & WNBA RCs Do You Have? The summer can be a long, drawn out few months for sports fans, but we do get to enjoy some awesome midsummer All-Star Games! The 2025 MLB All-Star Game comes to us from Atlanta, and the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game lands in Indianapolis this year, hosted by Caitlin Clark’s Ind...
Jul 15, 2025•27 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! ⚾🏈🏀 5 REASONS WHY CARDS WILL EXPLODE AGAIN IN 2026! The sports card-collecting boom during the pandemic brought a lot of new people — and returning people — into the hobby. Some might think the growth would stop around 2023, as the hobby ballooned with over-produced cards and dropping card values. This podcast episode looks into why th...
Jul 08, 2025•16 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Both new sports card collectors and returning card collectors need to know whose cards they should buy, along with which cards of theirs they should collect. But they can also learn when they should buy those cards! We wrap up all three questions in ONE podcast, helping sports card collectors improve their collection while not wasting mo...
Jul 01, 2025•37 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! While Topps is currently churning out about 250 rookie cards per year for their three flagship series, it’s unlikely they’ll miss any players. But over the past 75 years or so, there have been some glaring omissions — and we want them rectified! Somehow… I don’t have any instructions on how to do it, but still… We list off seven of the g...
Jun 24, 2025•23 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card News Podcast For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! 💖⚾💖11 Sports Card Collectors We All Love! There are many people in this Happy Hobby of ours that do bad things and steal some of our joy — and money! But we thought it was time to give props to those who truly make this an enjoyable hobby because of their kindness and thoughtfulness, and sometimes, just because of their oddities! Che...
Jun 17, 2025•20 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! We all get excited any time a Topps flagship series gets released, but the cheers are a little quieter when Topps Series 2 rolls around. Thankfully, there are some saving graces for this series, as we found three pretty awesome reasons to love the latest release from Topps! Then we bring it all back to earth with a trio of reasons that t...
Jun 10, 2025•20 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! One of the toughest things for sports card collectors to deal with these days is the ridiculous number of parallels out there for every single card. We all know it’s just a ploy to get us to buy more cards, but it’s annoying! That’s what got me to start looking at collecting specific pre-war vintage cards, or at least, to start a “Want L...
Jun 03, 2025•17 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! 🏀5 Smart Reasons To Collect WNBA Cards! The arrival of Caitlin Clark to the WNBA has changed the sports landscape, and the sports card world is no different. If you haven’t jumped onto the WNBA cards bandwagon, we’re sharing a handful of reasons why now is the time to get ahead of the tidal wave. Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is just a ...
May 27, 2025•16 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! ⚾8 Best Rookie Cards From 2025 Topps Series 2! Every time a Topps flagship series is released, we rank the best rookie cards to chase in that set! With 2025 Topps Series 2 coming out in early June, we finally got a peek at the checklist to see which rookie cards look like the most desirable from a collecting standpoint. Let’s be clear, while it’s ...
May 20, 2025•12 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! ⚾4 Perfect Prospecting Pointers For Prognosticators! This episode looks a little deeper into ways we can pick up some great prospect cards at some not-so-expensive prices! Our Patrick Imhoff shares a handful of great tips for adding great Bowman 1st cards to your sports card portfolio, in hopes of finding values on the rise! We also share another ...
May 13, 2025•14 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Smart sports card collectors try to focus on specific things for their collection because it helps their spending budget and it helps improve their collection at the same time! By understanding the different types of collectors, you can figure out what you like and what you should focus your hobby budget on, rather than spending money on things yo...
May 06, 2025•18 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! ⚾ 7 Reasons To Celebrate 2025 Topps Heritage Baseball While we’re always excited when a new Topps set comes out, whether it’s their flagship releases or Topps Chrome or even Topps Archives, there’s just something especially nostalgic about 2025 Topps Heritage Baseball! From the great subsets, to the wonderful inserts, to the pretty awesome autogra...
Apr 29, 2025•21 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! 🏈 15 Best Football Rookie Cards Since 2015 NFL Draft 🏈 What’s more fun than watching the upcoming 2025 NFL Draft!?! How about ranking the 15-most valuable football rookie cards from the past 10 NFL seasons!?! Quarterbacks certainly rule the room, but you’ll be surprised by which non-quarterbacks end up ranking high in our list! Shoot us a note a...
Apr 22, 2025•21 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! ⚾🏈🏀 Interviewing Vintage Sports Cards Expert, Michael Salfino! It’s tough to get all the questions out in just an hour with a vintage sports cards expert, like Michael Salfino from The Athletic , but we do our best! At first, we discuss his background and how we connected, including our time together writing about baseball cards over at The Athl...
Apr 15, 2025•52 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! ⚾🏈🏀 The 5 Faces/Phases of Card Collecting! You don’t have to be a sports card shop owner to be successful in card collecting, but there are different phases we all seem to go through, as we try to build our collection. First, we’re new to the game, so we make many mistakes we hope to iron out before too long. Then we figure it out — but maybe we...
Apr 08, 2025•23 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! ⚾🏈🏀 Shhh... 9 Secrets to Becoming a Low-Budget Happy Hobbyist! Collecting sports cards would be easy if we all had a ton of money and an unlimited amount of resources! But we don’t, so we have to be careful about which cards we buy, which cards we sell, and which types of cards we put on our “Want” list. I share a couple handfuls of things you c...
Apr 01, 2025•26 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast episode has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! ⚾🏈🏀 HOW TO BUILD CARD SETS ON A LIMITED BUDGET! Josh Scarberry of MJ Family Time Cards was kind enough to share some set-building tips for sports card collectors of all types, including baseball, basketball, football and hockey! Then Patrick Imhoff shares another one of “Patrick’s Prime Prospect Picks” for your Bowman 1st amusement! This prospec...
Mar 25, 2025•18 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Our resident hockey guy, Patrick Imhoff, takes us into a world relatively foreign to many of us — hockey card collecting! He shares what he knows about all the different products, including which ones he considers premium, flagship and on the cheap side. Patrick goes through everything from the Topps / O-Pee-Chee days to Upper Deck and t...
Mar 18, 2025•26 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Our “9 Amazing Things” series rolls on, as we look into the newest baseball card release from Topps — 2025 Topps Series 1! There are several new things sports card collectors should be aware of, including new chases, new autographs from famous people, new parallels, which products are the best buys, and more! Let us know if you already k...
Mar 11, 2025•15 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Our Happy Hobby Vice-President, Patrick Imhoff, shares a couple handfuls of non-rookies whose rookie cards you should consider picking up right now! With the recent release of 2025 Topps Series 1 and the start of Spring Training, most collectors are focusing on current rookie cards and how those players are looking. As sports card collec...
Mar 04, 2025•17 min
Everyone loves to get rookie cards of players before they must pay the “Hall-of-Famer” tax, so we listed three players from the four main sports that we like for Future HOFers. From the world of baseball, there are some recent and some not-so-recent players we think are set for joining the elite in Cooperstown. For football, we had to concentrate on current players that have Canton-bound in their resumes. We found another trio for basketball, and for hockey, we chose two guys from the past 20 ye...
Feb 25, 2025•18 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! One of my favorite sports card collecting newsletters, Mr. Collect , wrote last week’s newsletter for us, sharing some of his favorite tips on getting more bang for your collecting buck! This great article made for a great podcast! Enjoy! *** Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com *** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every...
Feb 18, 2025•16 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! One of the winners from one of our Sports Card Trivia contests hails from England, so we asked Lewis to share his story about how he came into this baseball card-collecting hobby of ours! It turns out that it’s not easy at all to collect baseball cards in Europe, as there are difficulties getting products, being awake for the ends of auc...
Feb 11, 2025•21 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Last week, MLB.com shared their updated Top 100 Baseball Prospects list, with Japanese import Roki Sasaki leading the list! Patrick Imhoff joins me for our latest podcast, discussing the Bowman 1st cards of some of the big names on this list! I recently wrote an article that shared what the Bowman 1st cards are of each of those prospects...
Feb 04, 2025•27 min
Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Topps already makes a ton of awesome products that we all love to buy and rip, but we came up with three new products we think they should make. These products are for the budget-friendly collectors who love Topps Baseball cards! From a Topps branded repack, where buyers would get two slabs in each box — one with a card from the past thr...
Jan 28, 2025•20 min
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,...
Jan 21, 2025•26 min
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 ...
Jan 14, 2025•31 min
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 H...
Dec 24, 2024•23 min
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 Nationa...
Dec 17, 2024•26 min
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 d...
Dec 10, 2024•37 min•Ep. 1
