Fernando Mendoza's first professional card! Since I'm local, I will try to get his to sign them.

One of my favorite parts of breaking is seeing kids get excited about cards again. 🎈

A couple years ago, I started doing something small during my breaks on Breaker Toolbox — any collector under 16 gets to pick from a fun stack of cards and roll the dice to see how many they take home.

Nothing huge or fancy, but almost every card is one of the following:

⭐ Autos
⭐ Relics
⭐ Numbered cards
⭐ Star players
⭐ Rookies
⭐ 1sts
⭐ Parallels

The hobby was a big part of my childhood, and I’d love to help create that same excitement for the next generation.

If you’ve got a son, daughter, niece, nephew, or young collector at home, bring them by sometime and let them be part of the fun.

You can find me as DJAWN Breaks on Breaker Toolbox

📆 Mondays at 9 PM ET
📆 Wednesdays at 10 PM ET
📆 Fridays at 10 PM ET
📆 Saturdays at 10 PM ET

Juan Soto’s 2021 season with the Washington Nationals further cemented him as one of baseball’s premier young hitters. At just 22 years old, Soto put together an incredible offensive campaign, batting .313 with 29 home runs, 95 RBIs, and a league-leading .465 on-base percentage across 151 games. His elite plate discipline stood out even more than his power, as he drew an astonishing 145 walks while posting a .999 OPS.

Despite the Nationals struggling as a team and eventually trading away several veterans at the deadline, Soto became the centerpiece of the franchise and carried the offense during the second half. After the All-Star break, he was nearly unstoppable, hitting .348 with a .525 OBP and forcing pitchers to avoid the strike zone almost entirely.

The season also brought several milestones for Soto. He earned his first All-Star selection, participated in the Home Run Derby, finished as the National League MVP runner-up, and won his second consecutive Silver Slugger Award. Many analysts and fans viewed his 2021 season as proof that he was already becoming one of the most disciplined and dangerous hitters of his generation.

The 1993-94 NBA Jam Session set by Fleer is one of the more unique basketball releases of the early 1990s. Instead of standard-sized cards, Fleer went with a “tallboy” design that made the cards stand out immediately in packs and binders. The oversized format, glossy photography, and colorful full-bleed layouts gave the set a very energetic arcade-era feel that matched the NBA’s popularity at the time.

The base set contains 240 cards and features many stars from the golden era of 90s basketball, including rookies like Anfernee Hardaway, Chris Webber, and Jamal Mashburn. Big names such as Michael Jordan, Shaquille O’Neal, and Charles Barkley helped make the product popular with collectors then and now.

One of the biggest appeals of the release was its insert sets. Inserts like “Gamebreakers,” “Slam Dunk Heroes,” “Rookie Standouts,” and “Second Year Stars” captured the flashy style that defined mid-90s basketball cards. The Gamebreakers inserts, in particular, used bold graphics and gold foil accents that still look very much of their era today.

Among collectors, Jam Session has developed a bit of a cult following. Many hobbyists remember the set fondly because the tallboy cards felt different from everything else on store shelves. Even today, collectors on Reddit still refer to them simply as “Tall Boys,” and many appreciate them as a fun symbol of the creative 90s card boom.