About Me

Its great to have a hobby. Something you can enjoy by youself, with friends, kids or family. Trading cards, be it sports or non sport cards can be fun and at the same time can be a great investment. I myself love vintage hockey cards. For a few years now I have been on a mission to complete all NHL hockey card sets from 1970/71 to 1979/80 seasons. Its been a huge challange and at the same time a blast! I have made many new friends in the hobby as well as have gotten a few old ones into it.

The Stars Above, Over 1 Hour with The Hubble Telescope

I live in a small town around 2 hours north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. On clear nights when the sun goes down the stars come out it's still "WOW". They are still very bright up here being so far away from any large type of city...

Sport & Non Sport Collectibles, trading card Fun!

You can start small by maybe collecting just one player, team sets or even complete sets. You might like the look of new cards with all there gloss and 3D effects, from all the inserts, Parallels, jerseys, gloves, sticks, bats, pucks, balls, autograp...

Optical illusions the devisions of the mind and eye!

An optical illusion is always characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of it, a percept...

The New Age of Sports Card Collecting

First we will start with Rookie cards The most desired and widely collected of all sports cards In today's world of card collecting theirs many brands and big fancy names to choose from, Packs of cards can cost you $2.50 or $450.00 pre a pack. One exa...

Convert Your VHS Tapes Before They Die?

To Save or Not to Save! As time goes on all those old home videos on VHS tape are slowly going to die on you. One day you are going to have no choice but to convert those treasures on to DVD or Blue Ray disk. If you don't, one day your going to slip o...

How to Keep Your Trading Card Collection Investment safe!

Below are suggestions and products that I use to keep my sport card collection safe. Some of it comes from reading or other people telling me about there experiences. But in most cases it has come form my own experiences of trial and error. If you ow...

The Art of Collecting Vintage Hockey Cards Sets

    Funny now when I look back on how this all started. With a few wax packs unopened that my father gave me from 1982/1983 season. They where O-Pee-Chee Hockey cards. They where kicking around in a box for years when one day as I was sorting...

Selling Sport Cards on eBay, Listing, Shipping to Packing

I have learned a bit about selling on ebay in a short period of time. Most of the hints and experiences. I will share are related to the hobby of cards, be it Hockey, Baseball, Football, Non-Sport cards and so on... But this information can be used w...

A Salute to Hockeys Lord Stanley's Cup "A Brief History"

The Stanley Cup On March 18, 1892, at a dinner of the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Association. Lord Kilcoursie, a player on the Ottawa Rebels hockey club from Government House, delivered the following message on behalf of Lord Stanley, the Earl of Preston...

Who is Christopher Pike?

Christopher Pike, born as Kevin McFadden in 1954 in Brooklyn NY but had grown up in California and is where he still resides. Pike is a very private man, as you can tell by his pen name.    There are no known pictures of Christopher Pi...