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Why Do I Collect? ↗
An overview of my collecting journey and contextualizing what I collect today
What I have, what I used to have, and what I have to say about them.
A personal archive of current and past owned collectibles7 pieces in viewKept & remembered
- Pieces
- 7 catalogued
- Currently owned
- 5
- Previously owned
- 2
- Writing
- 3 essays
- Last entry
- September 19, 2026
Trading cardPreviously owned
Exquisite Quad Auto: Sanders, Campbell, Sayers, Smith
2009 UD Football Exquisite Collection Legendary Signatures #LF-SSSC /4
In 2012, I got very lucky with a Super Bowl squares contest Blowout ran. Buying certain products got you added to a group and depending on how much you spent, you'd get a certain number of squares to match the last number of the score for each quarter. Out of the four possible prizes, I ended up with 3 of them including the grand prize for the final score…
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Digital collectibleCurrently owned
Cavan Sullivan Sorare Rare Rookie
Sorare - 2024 Rare Tier 9/100 (35 actual mint)
Soccer prospecting is really tough, but some of the names that emerge seem to have enough to them that's it's worth a gamble.
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Trading cardCurrently owned
Jordan's Bat
2001 Upper Deck Minor League Centennial MJ Salue Bat Gold /25 PSA 8
Michael Jordan cards have gone crazy. And I doubt they get less crazy from here, so I figured last week it would be a good idea to add a game-used card since an auto was out of my budget.
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Redemption of Juan Soto ↗
With news of Juan Soto completing his destined move to the New York Yankees (a move rumored since he was called up by the Nationals) [1] this week, I thought back to one of my favorite stories of my recent time in the hobby. I’m a huge fan…
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The Tragedy of Foot 2022 ↗
This is probably the cleanest contemporaneous explanation I laid out of the problems we were seeing with the Foot 2022 release that really started the soccer craze on Panini Blockchain. And, it wasn't available when I wrote this, but I did…
The index
All 7 pieces ↗| Title | Object | Subject | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exquisite Quad Auto: Sanders, Campbell, Sayers, Smith | Trading card | Barry Sanders, Earl Campbell, Gale Sayers, Emmitt Smith | Previously owned |
| Cavan Sullivan Sorare Rare Rookie | Digital collectible | Cavan Sullivan | Currently owned |
| Jordan's Bat | Trading card | Michael jordan | Currently owned |
| The Juan Soto Hail Mary | Trading card | Juan Soto | Currently owned |
| Huntley & Palmers Baseball | Trading card | — | Currently owned |
| Larry Bird Autograph — 2003-04 SP Signature Gold | Trading card | Larry Bird | Currently owned |
| Mars Attacks: Attack from Space | Sketch card | Mars Attacks | Previously owned |