Congrats on 2024 and your continuing YouTube growth, well deserved! I can understand why writing for SI dot com was a highlight...I can relate as someone who grew up reading SI. I really enjoy the variety of hobby content you bring to your channel. Looking forward to 2025. Have a great new year!

You and me have a similar goal - I also want to learn how to take better photos of my collection! I generally like to get several cards in one photo, and I'm always dealing with lighting/glare/shadow issues.

Granted I'm using an iphone and haven't worked my way through all of the settings yet! I need to find the "multiple trading cards in one pic" setting. Sigh.

Congrats on your channel and newsletter success! The growth of each seem very organically accomplished, from the outside looking in. I love both mediums. The newsletter is refreshing, it takes me back to the good old days of reading the newspaper and magazines. Happy 2025!

With the possible but highly unlikely exception of Trout, those pickups ain't coming out of ripping wax! Astonishing haul for one year.

Happy New Year

Re: the SI article on 1980s rookies. I have to call out this statement:

"None of these cards carry much value except when graded a 10 by a reputable third-party grading company, but they're must-haves for collectors."

All those cards in the list carry substantial value in 9 or even lower grades.

Wait a sec. The Judge seller wrote on the package instructing USPS to intercept the package? Why did he send it at all, since (at the time) he wanted to reneg on the sale, in fact had already canceled due to a "mistake in the listing."

Such mistakes happen all the time. I see listings for a $10,000 card that sold on eBay for $1,000 or even $100. Seller typed a period instead of a comma and posted without checking it over. Some Good Samaritans see the goof and grab it to prevent a not-so-benevolent buyer from doing it. I have done so myself. This case seems a little different. I'm glad they worked it out.