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 release!

Got some 2025 Topps Update rookie cards you think I missed? Is a player too high — or too low? Let’s hear ‘em!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941

* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948

* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951

* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy

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“The great ones have the ability to focus and tune everything else out and see more than the others.” — Kurt Warner, Hall-of-Fame Quarterback

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 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 budget!

Do you have some great football card collecting tips? Let’s hear ‘em!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941

* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948

* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951

* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy

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Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)

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 several different aspects. Whether the rush of adrenaline we get from buying into a break is what gets us going, or ripping through tons of packs in hopes of pulling that elusive rookie card we’ve been hunting, we sometimes feel like there is never enough.

I’ve recently discovered that selling my sports cards can be equally addictive! I’m not talking about selling the cards I love. I’m not even talking about selling the cards I hate!

I shared in this sports card podcast the steps I took (and you can, too) to sell cards, which helps me fund the collecting part of my hobby.

Let us know if we’ve helped motivate you into selling some cards you don’t love/like in the comments below! Let us know what you are selling — and one of our readers might buy it!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941

* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948

* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951

* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy

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Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)

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 exemption

I planned each charted course, Each careful step along the byway

And more, much more than this, I [collected cards] my way

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 certain moments in our sports card-collecting careers we remember as pivotal to improving our collection. Maybe it was that great card trade you made, or a super prospect whose card you bought early for nothing is now on his way to his 8th MLB All-Star Game.

But quite often, we make those great decisions because we made bad moves earlier in our collecting career, and we learned from them.

I’ve been collecting cards since I was about four years old, and I share all the bad moves I made — from bad trades, to not buying a card when I should have, to not selling a card when I should have. These are my biggest bone-head card-collecting moves!

We’d love to hear what your biggest sports card regrets are! Let’s hear them in the comments below!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941

* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948

* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951

* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy

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Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)

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! On this list, we have Hall of Famers, soon-to-be Hall of Famers, rookie cards and more!

Which of these true sports card facts blew your mind the most? Let’s hear them in the comments below!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941

* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948

* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951

* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

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* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

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Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)

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 Patrick Imhoff shares the steps he took to finally add his grail card to his collection: 2005 Upper Deck Sidney Crosby Young Guns Rookie Card PSA 9!

Here are some of the bigger value cards Patrick sold:

* 2024 Bowman Chrome 1st Auto SGC 9.5 Dylan Crews: $200

* 2020-21 Upper Deck Young Guns Kirill Kaprizov: $40

* 2024 Topps Update Black Gold Black /299 Elly De La Cruz: $64

* 2023 Topps Chrome Image Variation SP SGC 10 Shohei Ohtani: $191

* 2023 Bowman Draft 1st Refractor Blue /150 Luke Keaschall: $28

* 2024-25 Upper Deck Young Guns Macklin Celebrini: $708

* 2021 Bowman Draft 1st Chrome Auto Bubba Chandler: $170

* 2025 Bowman Chrome 1st Refractor Green Shimmer /99 Josue Briceno: $30

* 2022 Bowman Draft 1st paper Green /99 Cole Young: $25

* 2022 Bowman Draft Chrome Mood Ring Superfractor 1/1 Elijah Green: $300

In total, he sold 52 cards between March 24 and June 13 , when he hit his magic number.

We’d love to hear what your grail cards are — and we’re talking about attainable cards, not T206 Honus Wagner! Let’s hear them in the comments below!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941

* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948

* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951

* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

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* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

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Email me: mailto:[email protected]

Have a #HappyHobby!

Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)

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 the video, so bear with me as I go through some of the specs, and how it works, and all that good stuff.

You can check out the display on Amazon here.

It comes in a 3-card or 5-card display — and you can go to the Bivitre store to find the black version of this same display.

Bivitre does an amazing job with their high-quality displays — and I have some that I paid for!

While this is a giveaway for all subscribers, both free and paid, stay tuned for a Paid Subscriber giveaway I’m doing in September!

Stay tuned for more giveaways — just like our 1,000 subscriber giveaway, which also has a deadline of September 30, 2025!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941

* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948

* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951

* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

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* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

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* TikTok

* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:[email protected]

Have a #HappyHobby!

Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)

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 to be the only ones laughing!

Our Patrick Imhoff did some hard thinking to come up with 31 ideas on how he would fix Fanatics, to help both the sports card collectors and the company itself.

Also, we’d love to hear some ideas from you — how can Fanatics make things better? Let’s hear them in the comments below!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941

* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948

* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951

* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

* Facebook

* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

* TikTok

* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:[email protected]

Have a #HappyHobby!

Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)

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 of them.

Also, I’d love to hear which cards changed your life — whether it’s one, two or five! Let’s hear them in the comments below!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941

* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948

* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951

* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

* Facebook

* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

* TikTok

* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:[email protected]

Have a #HappyHobby!

Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)

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 current eBay store Emack’s Get Carded!

Emack shares his lessons learned, what he might do differently, and what he plans to do in the future, helping all collectors everywhere learn from his tale.

Also, don’t forget to check out our Happy Hobby Sports Cards newsletter giveaway!

***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com***

* Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941

* Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948

* Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956

* Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951

* 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy

Connect with David Gonos on:

* Facebook

* Twitter/X @DavidGonos

* Instagram @DavidGonos

* TikTok

* Link Tree

Email me: mailto:[email protected]

Have a #HappyHobby!

Podcast Music: "I dunno" by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)