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Happy Hobby Sports Cards Podcast

Happy Hobby Sports Cards Podcast: Build a better sports card collection on a real-world budget. Like opening a pack — you never know what you"ll find! David Gonos (FSWA Hall of Famer, ex-CBS/SI/The Athletic) shares hobby news, new releases, vintage deep dives, and budget strategies with a positive, family-friendly vibe. Weekly episodes cover: • Great buying/selling tips for improving your sports card collection • Topics built with the goal of educating new and Comeback Collectors alike • Sports

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21:13

7 Ways Budget Collectors Can Celebrate 2026 MLB...

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2026/03/24

As a member of the eBay Partner Network, I earn commissions from links on this page to qualifying purchases.Baseball’s back, baby.For a lot of us, MLB Opening Day isn’t just about box scores and first pitches — it’s the second period of “card-collecting season,” too. But if you’re a new baseball card collector or a Comeback Collector on a budget, it can feel like everyone else is breaking cases while you’re wondering if you should even grab a blaster.This issue is for you.Here are some great ways

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17:18

Celebrating 2026 Topps Heritage: 'Turn Back the...

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2026/03/17

As a member of the eBay Partner Network, I earn commissions from links on this page to qualifying purchases.There are some years in this hobby where a release just feels like an event, and 2026 Topps Heritage Baseball is absolutely one of those sets. This year’s product throws it back to the classic 1977 Topps design, and for set collectors, rookie-card chasers, and nostalgia addicts, it’s a perfect storm of cardboard goodness.We’re sharing why we’re excited about it, why we’re upset about it, and

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20:34

11 Smart Rookie Card Alternatives For Budget...

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2026/03/10

As a member of the eBay Partner Network, I earn commissions from links on this page to qualifying purchases.When Rookie Cards Cost Too Much: 11 Smart Alternatives for the Budget Collector!Here’s the truth: not every collector’s wallet can handle a flashy 2018 Topps Chrome Shohei Ohtani rookie card or that 2018 Prizm Silver Luka Doncic RC. But that doesn’t mean your collection has to sit on the sidelines. You can absolutely add your favorite players’ first-year cards in your binder, display case, or

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21:10

🎙️Finding Your Lane as a Comeback Collector: Our...

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2026/03/03

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!🎙️Finding Your Lane as a Comeback Collector: Our Simple Roadmap To Success! - Ep. 3.08Back in the ‘80s and ‘90s, collecting cards was a completely different world. Parallels were rare, inserts were fun surprises, and nobody talked about “market value.” The conversations were all about building complete sets, trading with friends, and hunting

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24:53

🎙️26 Rookie Cards We're Excited To Pull in 2026! -...

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2026/02/24

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!🎙️26 Rookie Cards We’re Excited To Pull in 2026! - Ep. 3.08As we flip open those brand-new 2026 calendars, sports card collectors everywhere start looking ahead to flagship release season — and the chase for the year’s best rookie cards begins! Baseball, basketball (NBA and WNBA), football, and hockey all have exciting classes on deck.Here

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17:06

🎙️6 Things We Love/Hate About 2026 Topps Series 1...

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2026/02/17

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!🎙️6 Things We Love/Hate About 2026 Topps Series 1 Baseball! - Ep. 3.07We’ve waited a couple months to get the latest Topps flagship release, but we’ve waited a full year to see a new design! Finally, we got to get our hands on 2026 Topps Series 1 Baseball last week, and we found that there are some things we love — and some things we just

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29:32

🎙️How Many Rookie Cards of the Top 100 Baseball...

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2026/02/10

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!🎙️How Many Rookie Cards of the Top 100 Baseball Players Do You Have? - Ep. 3.06MLB Network ranked the Top 100 baseball players right now, heading into the 2026 MLB season, and we immediately wanted to know how many great players’ rookie cards we were missing from our collection?Spoiler alert: It’s a lot.Over at DavidGonos.com, I wrote up an

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20:08

🎙️Average Rookie Card Rankings: 2026 Topps Series 1...

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2026/02/03

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!🎙️Average Rookie Card Rankings: 2026 Topps Series 1 ARCR! - Ep. 3.04We love rankings! We love rookie cards! We especially love doing our Average Rookie Card Rankings for each Topps flagship series, so we’re starting off with the 2026 Topps Series 1 ARCR!We took our rankings (adjusted with the addition of notably absent Nolan McLean), and we

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31:57

🎙️Cold Card Collecting Chat: Comeback Collectors,...

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2026/01/27

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Comeback Collecting and Other Cold Weather Sports Card Collecting Topics! - Ep. 3.04With Winter Storm Fern keeping us inside all weekend in Central Texas, I had some time to think about card grading, Comeback Collectors, and many other sports card collecting topics!We’re hoping to get more card collectors to take advantage of our great Happy

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15:50

🎙️2025 Rookie Card Power Rankings! Top 15 Topps...

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2026/01/20

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!2025 Rookie Card Power Rankings! Top 15 Topps Rookie Cards - Ep. 3.03With 282 rookie cards produced in 2025 Topps Series 1, Series 2 and Topps Update combined, it’s no wonder baseball card collectors would get dizzy wondering which rookie cards are the best ones!We settle it for now, ranking the top 15 rookie cards from all those series

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14:02

🎙️7 Fun Hobby Goals For 2026 (For Low-Budget...

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2026/01/13

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!If you’re a sports card collector working with a limited budget, then you are like me — and like most of us that roam around on this newsletter and podcast!We love sports cards, but we don’t spend thousands of dollars chasing MLB Debut Patches or picking up four-figure vintage cards or insane parallels for baseball prospects who might never

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13:16

🎙️5 Steps For a Successful Year-End Review of Your...

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2026/01/06

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!If you’re a sports card collector working with a limited budget, then you know every purchase and every dollar means something good or bad for your collection.We’ve laid out some steps to help you get a better understanding of what you purchased, trade and sold over the past 12 months.Project managers often do post-mortems after a project is

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32:36

🎙️Happy Hobby’s Most Popular Podcasts, Videos,...

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2025/12/30

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Did you miss one of our most valuable pieces of sports card content!?!We’re going to review the most popular rookie cards clicked on, pages, newsletters, videos, and podcasts from the HHSC world.My goal is to create a little Happy Hobby community, where card friends help card friends. I’m trying to turn my YT viewers into newsletter

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25:06

🎙️ARCR! 2025 Topps Update Average Rookie Card...

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2025/12/23

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 final flagship product finally got released by Topps this month, and several sports card content creators, including myself, shared their 2025 Topps Update Rookie Card Rankings. What we do each time one of these Topps flagship products comes out is to take everyone’s rankings, mash them together, then average them out to figure out

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37:17

🎙️The Hobby Will Die in 2026, According To...

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2025/12/16

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!A few weeks ago, I laid out my reasons on why I believe sports cards will explode in 2026, and many of you agreed with me!But many of you also thought I was just this side of cuckoo! Commenters laid out their disdain for Fanatics getting three of the four major sports card licenses, and they shared several reasons they thought the hobby was

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13:46

🎙️Card Confession: That Time I Stole a Roy Campanella...

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2025/12/09

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!My childhood is full of great stories about the beginning of my love of the hobby, but there is one huge black spot that has sullied my conscience for decades. It’s time I share what happened, why I did it, and how it affected me up until this day!Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at gonoscards@gmail.com !Don’t forget to vote for

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16:49

🎙️9 Sports Card Gimmicks We Loved, Liked or Loathed!...

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2025/12/02

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Over the years, there have been some amazing sports card innovations and ideas! Many of them could be called “gimmicks,” if only because they were only around for a short time, and then they went away.Well, we want some of those gimmicks to come back! And we want the others to go far, far away! Help us decide on which ones were awesome, which

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17:34

🎙️Vote For the 2025 Rookie Card Awards! -- and Win a...

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2025/11/25

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!It’s the end of the year and that usually means we should look back before we look forward to the new year! We nominate base rookie cards in four different categories for four different main sports that people like to collect, with several releases of Panini, Topps and Upper Deck flagship products!You can vote here:

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22:14

🎙️9 Reasons Scoring Great Cards Is So Tough—And 6...

Happy Hobby Sports Cards Podcast ·

2025/11/18

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!There are many, many factors working against you pulling an awesome card out of a box — and we list just how difficult it really is in this episode. But we also share several tips on how you can still have fun in this hobby, along with a very special tip on a great PSA 9 card worth picking up today. The PSA 10 version is selling for 9x the

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19:00

🎙️Ranking the 10 Best Junk Wax Boxes Under $125 Each!...

Happy Hobby Sports Cards Podcast ·

2025/11/11

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!If you’re not a new sports card collector, you might be an old collector — like many of us Happy Hobbyists! That means the sports cards of the ‘80s and ‘90s, with their gum, bad packaging and collating, and lack of autographs, hold a special place in your heart!Our Junk Wax Junkie Extraordinaire, Scott Hedrick, shares his 10 favorite junk wax

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