My Top 10 Acquisitions Of 2025

It's been a cold few days here with temps in the single to low teens during the day and below zero at night. Before I can get my fingers going on another new post, I will need a hot cup of joe to warm me up.

*takes a sip, feels it warming the body up already*

I originally was going to tackle my Christmas gifts posts, but thought I must tackle today's post so I can finish up all of my 2025 series posts the first three days of the month.

You must be impressed to be able to come here three days in a row.

I guess this shows what time I have open with school break, we will see how much blogging I do after January 26th.

Today's post is showing off my Top 10 Acquisitions of 2025. There is no particular order below for my Top 10 acquisitions as they are all equal. I could have added more and made this a Top 20. But I just wanted to narrow it down.

*takes a sip trying to get warmer*

First card up is this /5 Rodney Hampton autograph. Low numbered Rodney's are being harder to come by. There seems to be someone else who is chasing them down and competing with me.

Next up, a card with a great story (search for it from last year) and from a fellow blogging friend who saw my Top Want List. This was an obvious choice to make this list.

Following that up is my way of cheating three cards on here. But, I feel the trio of Boy Meets World autographs have to stick together.

The next card was a huge set knocker. thanks to a RAK on Twitter With this one, I should be able to finally complete this set in 2026. Hopefully I can stay focused!

 

Yes, I cheated again, but just like Boy Meets World, Impractical Jokers belong together on this list.

A tough-rare Ken Griffey Jr card that someone just sent me just as a friend and fellow Ken Griffey Jr collector? Yeah, that makes the list.

Lou was one of three major additions to my non-sport autograph PC of 2025.

Geena Davis was another big knockdown of 2025 for my non-sport autograph PC.

Shark Tooth, ooooh haha. For those of you that have seen Finding Nemo you will get that reference. For those of you who haven't, well, it's a cool memorabilia relic, it's worthy of this list.

And finally, Alec Baldwin with his Schweddy balls had to make it since he was one of the three big non-sport autograph adds last year.

Well, there you have them. Let me know which card(s) you thought should have made the list I left out or which one is your favorite and why.

Hope everyone has a great Saturday and.be there for others today. Sometimes we all get caught up in our own lives way too much and forget that others exist.

I also hope it is warmer where you are reading this today.

*takes another sip*

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

side note, my first basketball game as a head coach of the 3rd/4th grade girls is today! Wish me luck! I will let you know how it all went next post.

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Knock & Roll

I know I haven't done a lot of trading like I had hoped with bloggers yet this year, but it feels like I have gotten a few mail days from a few of them.

Especially Johnny from Johnny's Trading Spot. I feel like he has been Knocking and Rolling at my mail box recently.

First up, a contest win on his blog,

Q from Impractical Jokers. I almost have all of the missing ones back. I still have no idea where my originals went. I believe Sal is the last one I need again.

It may not be Christmas, but certainly felt like it when I kept finding the mail days from Johnny.

And finally, a Rodney Hampton numbered phone card from the contest winnings.

I would say that was hard hitting knocking and rolling with that contest win.

But, it wasn't much longer after the contest win that Johnny put some cards up to be claimed. It appeared not too many made claims at the time I made mine, so I was able to add a few cools cards to different collections.

(I hated the 90's Bulls, but I claimed this one to send to a friend who needs some lifting up)

Ewing showing his power. Some day, soooommmeee day, I would love to add his autograph. I pretty much have an autograph from every Knicks player in the 90's that meant something to me. Patrick is the last, but he is also the hardest one.

Emmitt carved up my Giants every chance he got. But, I will still grab his cards to remember the times my mother would take Emmitts out of my father's hands when he pulled one because she is a Cowboys fan.

 

And finally when I see a unique/oddball card of a player I watched in the 90's, I can't just let it sit there and be lonely, I needed to knock and roll that into my list of grabs.

Thanks to Johnny for all of the goods! I hope to hit you back with some myself along with some other bloggers I hope to knock and roll from my list of Christmas peeps I need to send to.

Sorry for the short post tonight, I wanted to keep a streak going but I also have school work to dive into! There will be another post publishing at 1am and another the following day!

Enjoy and if you happen to be reading this in the AM, enjoy that cup of coffee. It was too late tonight for a brew with this one.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Don't forget you can start to nominate cards for the 2025 Coffee Card Hall Of Fame!! Cards don't have to be autographs, patch cards, super star cards. It can be whatever you think is Hall Worthy! Find details and current nominations HERE.

IMPRACTICAL

*coffee is set, cards are in hand, and laptop is open for another new post on cards over coffee. let's dive in!*

I have come to realize the last few years that my favorite Topps product release is Allen Ginter. It's time to move over Topps Chrome.

I enjoy Allen Ginter for the non-sport quirkiness it brings and not so much the baseball element.

The checklist usually includes a few actors or actresses I try to chase down cards of and sometimes includes people I have never heard of.

For example, I pulled this card from a pack of 2015 Allen Ginter of some guy named Murray, I had no idea who he was so I tossed it into my Allen Ginter box for another day.

Fast forward to last year, I began watching a show called Impractical Jokers, that was suggested to me by a friend. I am not usually someone who is into "reality" TV but thought I would give it a watch since they enjoyed it so much. Watching one episode can't hurt right? 

I was hooked from the first episode I watched.

Being someone who enjoys comedy and making others laugh, it was quite enjoyable.

The show features Q, Sal, Joe and Murr who are real-life best friends and love challenging each other to the most outrageous dares and stunts ever caught on hidden camera. Some of the things they do is completely insane and has to be embarrassing at points.

Which makes it even more funnier.

*takes a sip, checks the guide on the television to see when the next episode airs, in a few minutes, guess I better move this post along. takes another sip*

I never made the connection to the Murray card I pulled back in 2015 to the Murr on Impractical Jokers until I saw a tweet from someone else looking for all four cards. That's when the realization hit....WAIT...THEY HAVE CARDS?!!?

I searched my Allen Ginter box and found the Murray card, but had no others from the set. I actually have two Murray cards now thanks to blog reader Oren, but I still lacked the other three.

Fortunately, Oren had Q in his possession as well so I had another one down.

Then came Joe. I don't remember how I got the card but thank you to the person who helped me add it.

And this left me Sal-less.

I tweeted for months looking for a copy of the card and had no responses. I also took to this blog as well looking for it and still nothing. I searched Burbank Sportcards Beckett Marketplace with no luck and then went to eBay where they were overpriced. I wasn't sure that I was going to complete the four. It was disappoing but that disappointment didn't last too long.

While working on another trade with Dennis from Too Many Verlanders Blog, I asked him if he had a copy of the Sal card or if he knew anyone who did. That's when he sent me to @flywheels on Twitter (he runs Cardboard Collections blog) because he had a copy for trade and then magic happened.

 

Colbey checked to see if he still had the card and did. He amazingly sent me the card as a RAK and now my four is complete. So cool!

Thanks again to Dennis for the assist and for Colbey for the card. Appreciate you both!

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post and to hurry it up before the episode comes on*

Since the show has been on since 2011, I still have a lot of episodes to catch up on. The new season also just came out and one of the Jokers is no longer apart of the show for personal reasons. I am not sure how that will go without him. If they want me to step in his place, I will.

Let me know in comments today if you watch the show at all and your thoughts on chasing non baseball characters in Allen Ginter.

Have a great Wednesday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*