Happy Hobby Sports Cards Podcast

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 Atlant...

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 hobb...

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 qu...

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 rect...

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 h...

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...

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 g...

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 wh...

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 whic...

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 1s...

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 w...

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 Top...

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,...

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 backg...

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 gam...

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 w...

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 Imho...

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...

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 fa...

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 coll...

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...

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!...

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 b...

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 li...

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 To...