The amazing artist Adam Lister is famous for his 8-bit renditions of art, pop culture icons, and trading cards. Each card is a custom hand-painted 1/1 with only one of each card ever being made. Question: with more customs cards (like Tyson Beck, sketch cards etc) being graded, will the card graders grade/slab this 1/1 original piece of card art?!

Still one of my favorite artists, the duo known as Miss Bugs continues to put out amazing, colorful, interesting art. Their resin-floated pieces with scalpel blades, matchbox cards, bullets, Legos, capsules, etc are phenomenal!

I don’t do a lot of prospecting, but I like this kid. The black finite legacy isn’t as strong for baseball as it is for NBA/NFL cards. This is the first card I’ve sent for grading to PSA directly from EBay. I bought it about 6 months ago and paid $49.99 for grading. Still isn’t back. And I missed the pop when he got called up and hit a HR in his MLB debut. Still waiting….hope he turns into a gamer! He has the tools!

Teddy Ballgame. The Splendid Splinter. Cool nicknames for one of the best hitters the game has ever seen. I collected some great signed baseballs. Slowly trying to sell or trade them all away as I can’t display them and enjoy them how I would want them. Moving to sweet spot card autographs - like having a signed baseball in card form. Easier to store and for me to flip through!

This is not a super expensive item, this OSU team went to the championship game and lost to Florida. But I got it signed personally and was at OSU that year for work. This team had 4 future NBA players including Michael Conley and the overall #1 pick Greg Oden. Interestingly, I tought both of them at Lawrence North high school in Indianapolis when they were Sophomores in high school! So, it’s a meaningful piece of my collection for the memories it brings!