Happy Hobby Sports Cards Podcast

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 Dal...

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 novic...

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 r...

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 g...

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...

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, bringin...

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...

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...

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 “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...

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 fa...

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 Hob...

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 opi...

This podcast reflects what we talked about in our newsletter entitled, “ Bedard Be Popular, Bubble Gum and Raw Vintage ,” where we put on our skates and really dig into what Chicago Blackhawks rookie superstar Connor Bedard means for the hobby! Patrick Imhoff shares his top-five Young Guns, so if you get shut out on pulling a Bedard rookie card out of 2023-24 Upper Deck Hockey Series 2, you can st...

We’re back with a breakdown of our second newsletter, “Encouragers, Enemies and Errors,” and thanks for coming along for the podcast ride! We’re trying to get caught up, having a podcast reading for each of our newsletter issues, so we’re posting these every few days until we get caught up! In this episode, we break down how our sports card spouses and significant others can either become encourag...

In our first ever true podcast episode, David shares a great story about how the 1978 Topps set actually influenced how he opens up packs four decades later. And how he eats popcorn in a movie theater!?! We look at the 2024 Topps Series 1 rookie cards and how this set has already impacted the hobby! We also talk with “Wax Pack Dad,” whose YouTube Videos are some of the most entertaining vintage pa...

After writing about Fantasy Sports for over 20 years online with companies like CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, and more, I’ve pivoted to cover the hobby I love most: sports card collecting! In our newsletter, we share “11 cards in every pack,” which just means 11 different sports card collecting topics! They could range from baseball cards to football cards to basketball cards to ho...