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NBA Trading Cards: The Resurgence of Basketball Card Collecting

Presented by: April 2020 in the United States was pretty terrible for almost everyone and everything. We all know why. No need to rehash it. Unless, that is, you sunk your time and money into collecting and selling basketball cards. If you did, you were one of the beneficiaries of the strongest surge for the hobby in its history. “The month of April was the busiest month that … the basketball card industry has ever seen, and by double,” says Geoff Wilson, founder of Sports Card Investor, which offers advice on investing in the hobby and a data analytics platform.…
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The Umbrella Academy: Card Collecting for a Rainy Day

Presented by: This story appears in the Den of Geek x eBay special edition trading card magazine. On Oct. 1, 1989, 43 women around the world gave birth simultaneously, despite none of them being pregnant when the day began. Seven of those children found their way into the care of eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves and his Umbrella Academy. Now, the Umbrella Academy kids are making another, perhaps even stranger transition… into the world of trading cards.  Sci-Fi Hobby, a division of Rittenhouse Archives and a specialist in nerd-friendly collectible cards, will be releasing the first-ever batch of Umbrella Academy trading cards…
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Records Collecting Dust II

Recommended On one hand music sales have remained abysmal in recent years, with fewer places to buy it and existing stores cutting back on their selection. On the other hand, the strange revival of vinyl records continues, which I can't get behind entirely (I adopted the CD format about two years after it was introduced, and it was a revelation then) but applaud for at least keeping people interested in actual media and not disposable downloads. Jason Blackmore shot the documentary "Records Collecting Dust" with West Coast punk rock figures discussing and showing off the records that meant a lot…
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