My 1954-1976 Topps Hank Aaron run is now complete, as I picked up the 1954 Hank rookie this week. I’m thrilled to own this iconic card, and thoroughly enjoyed putting the run together and identifying great looking low/mid grade copies of each card. Completing something like this is interesting. I’m stoked to have finished the project, but also a bit sad that that part of my collecting journey is over. Sure, I can upgrade certain cards to higher grades, but it won’t be the same as putting it together for the first time. I will

enjoy this complete collection, and look forward to figuring out where my collecting goes from here.

While I am primarily a vintage and junk wax collector, I have been intrigued by 90s/early 2000s card technology. In my opinion, some of the prettiest cards came out of that era, but I haven't dug into the different sets and early parallels very much. I decided to start an arm of my collection focused on "emerging card technology." I added a mid 90s Bowman's Best refractor yesterday, along with this card from the 1997 Pinnacle Certified Team Gold set. This is a pop 11 with only one higher. Like the refractor I picked up, this one was not super expensive. It's nice to know there are great cards, with low population, and somewhat affordable still sitting out there for the taking!

As a kid of the late 80s and 90s, I am shocked that I didn’t own a 90s refractor… until now. I think I’ve avoided them because I assumed they were out of my price range. But I stumbled upon this and thought it was a great combo of player, card aesthetics, condition, and affordability. Hello, Frank.

Decided to start a new PC lane recently and collect golf HOF autos. The cards don’t need to be from the same set but my only rule is they need to be great looking cards. I saw this today and immediately loved it.

My wife is a huge U2 fan and I was looking for ways to introduce her to the trading card hobby. I found this the other day and thought it was an amazing card, so I bought it. Looks like it’s the highest graded version across all grading companies, and was… very cheap. Not many of these exist graded, and it’s one of the first few cards of Bono. Obviously there are lots of different types of music collectibles out there, but curious to hear if anyone thinks there is a place for music cards to become more popular over time?