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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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32:06

🎙️Ranking the Best 2025 NBA & WNBA Rookie Cards! -...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/11/04

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!With the 2025 NBA season upon us — and the 2025 WNBA season behind us, what better time for us to rank the best 2025 rookie cards!?!The latest drop of 2025 Topps Basketball cards has everyone incredibly excited, and people have been ready for the release of 2025 Donruss WNBA cards for months!For our website, we ranked the Top 11 NBA Rookie

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35:50

🎙️Love/Hate Review: 2025 Topps Basketball & Topps NBA...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/10/31

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Now that Fanatics and Topps finally has basketball under their control, we saw the release of 2025 Topps Basketball — which was a pretty huge success. And then this week, we saw the release of the new Topps NBA Living Set, which is the cousin to the ultra-successful Topps MLB Living Set!We talk about the things we love and hate about the new

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19:02

🎙️Collect vs. Recollect: Why Both are Important to...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/10/21

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Collecting awesome sports cards is what we’re all about! Who doesn’t want more great cards!?! But when you’re working with a limited budget, you don’t always have the funds available to buy more cards! Then what do you do?It’s important to go back through your collection and consider when and where you got them, maybe there’s a specific story

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42:38

🎙️Happy Boxtober! Celebrating Several HUGE Sports...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/10/16

If you’re a sports fan — or a sports card collector — October has to be the best time of the year!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!After a long lull in exciting sports card releases that lasted a couple months, October is about to catch fire! We’re getting new cards for Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, WNBA, Baseball Prospects — it might be time to change the name of this month

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23:30

🎙️15 Best 2025 Topps Update Rookie Cards To Target! -...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/10/07

It’s time, once again, to get jacked up and excited over another big group of awesome rookies getting their 2025 Topps Update rookie cards!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Every time Topps flagship rolls out a new release, we rank them! On my website, DavidGonos.com, we just finished posting our 2025 Topps Update Rookie Card Rankings, and we’re excited about this final

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11:11

🎙️7 Smart Tips For Collecting Football Cards For...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/09/30

“The great ones have the ability to focus and tune everything else out and see more than the others.” — Kurt Warner, Hall-of-Fame QuarterbackEach Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!The NFL season is well underway, so we thought now would be a great time to discuss some of the best tips for collecting football cards for beginners, and for card collectors working with a limited

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23:22

🎙️16 Steps To Selling Sports Cards To Feed Your New...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/09/23

Trading one addiction for another is rarely a good idea — except this time!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Collecting sports cards, whether it’s baseball cards, basketball cards, football or hockey, often feels like we are stepping into a never-ending hole where no matter how much we collect, we’ll never get everything!The hobby lends itself to people getting addicted to

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26:02

🎙️My 9 Biggest Sports Card Regrets! Why am I So Dumb!?!

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/09/16

Regrets, I've had a few… But then again, too few to mention.I did what I had to do. And saw it through without exemptionI planned each charted course, Each careful step along the bywayAnd more, much more than this, I [collected cards] my wayEach 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 certain moments in our sports card-collecting careers we remember as pivotal to improving our

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14:09

🎙️21 True Sports Card Facts That Sound Fake!

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/09/09

You’re not going to believe half of these sports card facts, I’m telling you right now.Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!You can’t believe everything you hear — unless you hear it in our podcast, and it’s talking about true sports card facts that everyone thinks sounds fake!We’re talking baseball cards, football cards, vintage, modern, Topps Living and everything in between

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18:04

[POD] Is Your Grail Card Closer Than You Think? - Ep....

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/09/02

Google AI defines a Grail Card as “a card that is highly sought after due to its rarity, high value, or personal significance to the collector. It represents a pinnacle of the collecting pursuit, often involving a long and dedicated search. The specific card that constitutes a ‘grail’ is subjective and varies from collector to collector.”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

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13:45

Substack-Only PSA Display Giveaway For Happy Hobbyists!

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/08/27

We love our Happy Hobby Substack subscribers! We love them so much, we’re giving away a 5-card display for PSA slabs from Bivitre!Watch the video to figure out what you need to do to be eligible to win this display! I’ve said it before, but I want our readers/listeners/watchers to know — when a company like Bivitre reaches out to me to do a review, I ask them for a second display so I can give one away to our Happy Hobbyists. That’s you!As you’ll see, this has an Amazon review video in the middle of

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33:53

[POD] 31 Great Ideas To Fix Fanatics For Card...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/08/26

Fanatics will have the league and player’s association licenses with all three major sports by next year — but what can they do to make us happy about it?Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!People aren’t to happy with how the hobby has been rolling around here the past couple years since Fanatics bought Topps. Prices are exorbitant, print runs are out of hand, and breakers seem

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20:07

[POD] 5 Sports Cards That Changed My Life! - Ep. 2.32

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/08/19

Whether we started collecting as kids or as adults, some cards mean more to us than others.Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!I looked back on my sports card-collecting career and I found five great cards that really did change my life in one manner or another. This podcast details which cards they were, when they impacted me and why my path changed just a little bit because

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42:17

[POD] From Card Collector To Seller: Interviewing Emack!

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/08/12

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!⚾From Comeback Collector To eBay Card Seller! Interviewing Emack!Thousands of sports card collectors from the ‘80s and ‘90s have returned to the hobby in recent years to find a whole different world!Eric Mack, a former Senior Fantasy Baseball Writer at CBS Sports, talks with his former “teammate” David Gonos about his hobby backstory and his

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25:52

[POD] 6 Types of Players Whose Rookie Cards You...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/08/05

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 Types of Players Whose Rookie Cards You Should Target!A great sports card collection is usually built on the strength of the rookie cards in that collection. But buying great rookie cards can be expensive! Our Patrick Imhoff shares six different types of players you should consider for rookie-card purchases, including some examples!Let us

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21:18

[POD] 16 Best 2025 Topps Chrome Rookie Cards & Team...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/07/29

Whether you are considering buying a jumbo box, hobby box, blaster or just singles, it’s good to know which rookie cards people think are the best 2025 Topps Chrome RCs to get!Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!Here’s the article I wrote detailing all the best 2025 Topps Chrome rookie cards!Also, here’s the article I wrote about the Best Topps Chrome Rookie Cards From Each

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20:01

[POD] How “Saved Searches” on eBay Can Save Your...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/07/22

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets!As sports card collectors working on limited budgets, we need every free card-collecting tool we can find. But when they’re as awesome as this one that I use on eBay, you find that it not only saves you money because it’s free — but it saves you a ton of time, too!I explain why doing saved searches for cards on eBay is a huge benefit for you

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27:22

All-Star Game Starters! Which MLB & WNBA RCs Do You...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/07/15

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 Indiana

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15:54

Listen To 5 Reasons Why Cards Will Explode Again in...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/07/08

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 that’s a

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37:14

Learn Who To Buy, Which Cards, and When To Buy Them!...

"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast! ·

2025/07/01

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 money

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