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"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!

Happy Hobby! We talk about sports card collecting hoping to help collectors working with a limited budget. With a positive, family friendly mindset, we discuss hobby news and recent releases, while also looking back to talk vintage cards and players from decades past. It"s like opening a pack of cards -- you never know what you"ll find! This podcast is essentially the read-out-loud version of the "Happy Hobby Newsletter," published every other Thursday on Substack. I’m David Gonos, former Fantasy

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25:23

[POD] Collecting the Top 5 Best HR Hitters of the...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/08/27

Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!The links in this newsletter are affiliate links with eBay, which means we will make a commission on any purchases off those links. So, thank you! Also, all sports card images come courtesy of BuySportsCards.com.Which Sluggers Have the Most 21st Century Home Runs?Who do you think are the five biggest home run hitters from this 21st century

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27:39

[POD] 5 Ways Fantasy Football Helps Card Collectors -...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/08/20

Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!The links in this newsletter are affiliate links with eBay, which means we will make a commission on any purchases off those links. So, thank you! Also, all sports card images come courtesy of BuySportsCards.com.Literally, hundreds of thousands of people are going to be drafting their Fantasy Football teams over the next couple weeks, which

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22:51

[POD] 15 Lessons Learned at The National Sports Card...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/08/13

Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!The links in this newsletter are affiliate links with eBay, which means we will make a commission on any purchases off those links. So, thank you! Also, all sports card images come courtesy of BuySportsCards.com.This is the FREE version of the “Happy Hobby Sports Cards” Newsletter, with the PAID version coming again next week.⚾LESSONS

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24:32

[POD] 5 Undervalued Rookie Cards That Don’t Make...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/08/06

Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!⚾🏈🏀5 UNDERVALUED ROOKIE CARDS THAT DON’T MAKE SENSE TO ME!We look back at some rookie cards from the past couple decades we believe are currently undervalued, and have room to rise! We touch on baseball rookie cards, football rookie cards, and even a basketball rookie card you should consider adding if you haven’t already!Also, go to the

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35:45

[POD] Top 25 Most Graded Athletes of All Time! - Ep....

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/07/30

Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!⚾🏈🏀Top 25 Most Graded Athletes According to GemRate.com⚾🏈🏀We look closer at GemRate.com’s list of the top 25 players from all sports whose cards have been graded and slabbed the most among all the top sports card grading services!You can read see this list on Instagram here: And in some cases, we discuss some of the specific cards that

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24:17

[POD] Trade Deadline! 7 Players Possibly On the Move...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/07/26

Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter” pack has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!One of the most exciting times of the baseball season is the possible player movement before the MLB Trade Deadline — which is Tuesday, July 30, at 6pm ET.Our Patrick Imhoff looks at seven six players who might get traded before the deadline, which means different things for collectors. Some players’ rookie cards will get a little boost,

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24:43

[POD] Game Planning For The National Sports Card...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/07/23

One of our Happy Hobbyist partners, MJ Family Time Cards, led by Josh and his son Micah, are taking over the podcast with their prep for The National! Happy Hobby. indeed!Josh and his young son Micah, along with Josh’s wife and daughter are headed to Cleveland this week for The National Sports Card Convention, the largest card show in the world!This is their first visit, but they’ve done a lot of preparation and watched plenty of videos to know how to attack it! They share all their tips with us,

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25:15

[POD] Naming 2024 Topps Rookie Card All-Star Team! -...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/07/16

Who doesn’t love the 2024 MLB All-Star break!?! Well, in the Happy Hobby Sports Card world, we take this time to reset, do a fun break of a 2023 Topps Pro Debut hobby box (with a giveaway on YouTube!), and we look back to figure out which of the players with 2024 Topps Rookie Cards from Series 1 and Series 2 are playing the best!?In this podcast episode, we also discuss what happened at the Dallas Card Show, when someone stole a case full of about $2 million worth of sports cards, including rookie

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1.15 [POD] 11 Tips For Collecting Sports Cards on a...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/07/09

Collecting sports cards is one of the best hobbies around! You can connect with your childhood, connect with your friends and family who also collect, and you can even learn to be at peace while going through your collection. But spending too much money while collecting cards isn’t any fun at all! It can actually rob you of your fun!We list off close to a dozen pieces of advice to help both novice and experienced collectors alike spend less money while still improving their collection!Also, Patrick

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1.14 [POD] 9 Great Rookie NBA Cards That Never Were

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/07/02

This podcast is the sister to the 1.14 Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter! Each podcast has several subjects, like a pack of cards, with one big hit to start it off!With the 2024 NBA Draft officially behind us, allowing us to start dreaming of the new rookies in their new rookie jerseys on their new rookie cards, we thought we’d look back at basketball card history. We tracked down nine great rookie basketball cards that we never got to see! In some cases, we saw their rookie cards in later years,

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1.13 [POD] Finally Fixing Fanatics!

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/06/25

In this podcast, Patrick Imhoff looks ahead to 2026 and he implores Fanatics to make some much-needed changes for the sports card industry to benefit the company, collectors and local card shops. He shares the first of many suggestions in this episode!Imhoff isn’t done there, though, as he also lists off three rookie cards he’s picking up right now because of three players on the rise! (This is going to be an ongoing series, where he lists off three players he’s growing on and three players he’s

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1.12 [POD] Risers, Releases and Replies

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/06/21

This is a super special episode, as Chris Clegg from The Dynasty Dugout shares three great under-the-radar prospects whose 1st Bowman cards are worth picking up right now! This podcast is the sister to the Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter from June 13.Not only does Chris rattle off three great pickup possibilities, including two shortstops and an outfielder, but we also look at the 2024 Topps Series 2 release, which includes me ranking the 11 Best Rookies to get from the latest release.I also

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18:41

1.11 [POD] 3 Bowman 1sts, 2 Fanatical Years and 1...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/06/19

Who doesn’t love looking at great baseball prospects to see if their Bowman 1st cards might be worth picking up!?! This podcast is the sister to the Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter from June 6.In this episode, I read off which three prospects Patrick Imhoff is hunting down. I also share what we can look forward to in two years when Fanatics finally unifies the sports card hobby belt, bringing baseball, basketball and football cards altogether again.I also list off the 11 most popular rookie

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1.10 [POD] Good Injuries & Great Gibson!

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/06/12

This is the free version of the “Happy Hobby Sports Cards” Newsletter, with the paid version coming again next week, as they are on a weekly rotation.Patrick Imhoff looks at a handful of Topps Baseball rookie cards we might want to consider picking up (especially the Topps Gold parallels of those cards) of players who are close to returning from injuries!Also, with the news that MLB added Negro League stats to the official MLB statistics book, we thought it was a good idea to look back at some

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1.09 [POD] Finding Old Young Guns & Bowman Baseball...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/06/11

This podcast is for sports card collectors working with a limited budget! It’s the free version of our weekly newsletter/podcast! In this episode, which is the sister to the newsletter at gonos.substack.com, we discuss some great hockey rookie cards you might be interested in picking up, whether you got a Connor Bedard Young Gun rookie card or not! Our Happy Hockey Hobbyist Patrick Imhoff shares some “older” Young Guns of players still on the rise!Another one of our favorite Happy Hobbyists, Josh

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21:57

1.8 [POD] Skenes Scene & Wemby Wins!

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/06/04

This podcast is for sports card collectors working with a limited budget!In this episode, which is the sister to the newsletter at gonos.substack.com, we discuss the arrival of Paul Skenes in Pittsburgh, as well as the Rookie-of-the-Year Award won by Victor Wembanyama! What do those two news items mean for card collectors!Future Pirates ace Paul Skenes joined the big-league club last month, and our resident Pirates fan and card collector Patrick Imhoff compares the hype surrounding Skenes with five

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23:31

1.7 [POD] Peeks, Paolo & Potential RC Pickups

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/05/31

Our “Happy Hobby” world went through a little transition over the past few weeks, as we turned on the pay wall with Substack. I explain in this podcast why there will now be a free version of the “Happy Hobby” newsletter and podcast, but there will also be a "premium” version that Happy Hobbyists can pay $6 monthly or $60 annually (a 20% discount!).This particular episode is free to everyone, but it is an example of what premium subscribers should expect going forward.3 Players Whose Cards We’re

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1.6 [POD] Old Pre-Rookies?

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/05/28

Anyone involved in this Happy Hobby of ours is a big fan of rookie cards. Who isn’t!?! But we look back in time to talk about how Classic Draft cards, way back in the early ‘90s, changed how we see sports cards. While many people weren’t fans of seeing players in college or high school uniforms, others were elated to now have another way to collect.Some, like myself, were bigger college sports fans than pro fans, so getting young University of Miami football players, or Duke University basketball

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1.5 [POD] Holliday Memories

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/05/22

This podcast mirrors the “Holliday Memories” newsletter we posted recently. It happens to have two great contributions from two of our great contributors, Patrick Imhoff and Scott Hedrick!While one of the main subjects about this podcast is the arrival (and departure) of MLB’s top prospect, Jackson Holliday, to the major leagues, the biggest story in the podcast episode is actually what Happy Hobbyist Scott Hedrick shares.Scott explains how our sports card hobby has affected his family positively in

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1.4 [POD] Cards of Future Past!

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2024/05/14

Welcome back for another sports cards podcast! This episode mirrors the newsletter we posted entitled, “Cards of Future Past,” which is the fourth newsletter we shipped out!We discuss the awesomeness that is the 2024 Topps Heritage Baseball card set that was released in April, which has current players on current cards designed to look like the old 1975 Topps design. That look, in my humble opinion, is one of the all-time greatest looks ever!Gorgeous design, tons of SPs, cool inserts — and look at

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