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Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! 🎙️Average Rookie Card Rankings: 2026 Topps Series 1 ARCR! - Ep. 3.04 We love rankings! We love rookie cards! We especially love doing our Average Rookie Card Rankings for each Topps flagship series, so we’re starting off with the 2026 Topps Series 1 ARCR! We took our rankings (adjusted with the addition of notably absent Nolan McLean), and we combined the rankings of YouTube hobby star Scottie B Cards and the rankings of Dahl , whose rankings posted over on Mantel and Yahoo! Sports, which he based on Base Bowman Chrome Auto prices. Let us know if you if there are some 2026 Topps Series 1 rookie cards you think should be ranked higher or lower! Drop a comment below! Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Comeback Collecting and Other Cold Weather Sports Card Collecting Topics! - Ep. 3.04 With Winter Storm Fern keeping us inside all weekend in Central Texas, I had some time to think about card grading, Comeback Collectors, and many other sports card collecting topics! We’re hoping to get more card collectors to take advantage of our great Happy Hobby Sports Cards chat on this website! You can ask questions, answer questions and ponder which cards you like better than other cards! Let us know if you if you are a Comeback Collector, an old school collector, or if you are brand new to the game! Drop a comment below! Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! 2025 Rookie Card Power Rankings! Top 15 Topps Rookie Cards - Ep. 3.03 With 282 rookie cards produced in 2025 Topps Series 1, Series 2 and Topps Update combined, it’s no wonder baseball card collectors would get dizzy wondering which rookie cards are the best ones! We settle it for now, ranking the top 15 rookie cards from all those series combined, helping you improve your card collection without chasing everything at once. Let us know if you like a 2025 Topps rookie card more than I do, or if you think I have a rookie card up too high in our power rankings! Drop a comment below or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! If you’re a sports card collector working with a limited budget, then you are like me — and like most of us that roam around on this newsletter and podcast! We love sports cards, but we don’t spend thousands of dollars chasing MLB Debut Patches or picking up four-figure vintage cards or insane parallels for baseball prospects who might never see the majors. So we came up with seven fun goals that a sports card collector can enjoy in 2026, as opposed to the flipper/investor. We don’t look down at those guys — we just don’t relate to them as much. You can find the written version of this article in our newsletter from last week right here: Let us know if there are some things you will do differently in 2026 that you did in 2025, or are there some things you did in 2025 that were big improvements to your collection from 2024? Let us know in the comments or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! If you’re a sports card collector working with a limited budget, then you know every purchase and every dollar means something good or bad for your collection. We’ve laid out some steps to help you get a better understanding of what you purchased, trade and sold over the past 12 months. Project managers often do post-mortems after a project is completed to assess what went well, what went wrong and where they can make some adjustments for future projects. In the sports card collector’s world, it’s all about learning from last year so you can make next year better! You can find the written version of this article in our newsletter from last week right here: Let us know if there are some things you will do differently in 2026 that you did in 2025, or are there some things you did in 2025 that were big improvements to your collection from 2024? Let us know in the comments or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Did you miss one of our most valuable pieces of sports card content!?! We’re going to review the most popular rookie cards clicked on, pages, newsletters, videos, and podcasts from the HHSC world. My goal is to create a little Happy Hobby community, where card friends help card friends. I’m trying to turn my YT viewers into newsletter subscribers, and my newsletter subscribers into podcast listeners. How the Happy Hobby Sports Cards world works: * Everything revolves around my rookie card links on DavidGonos.com. * That’s how readers/viewers/listeners can support our content. * Evergreen content also goes on DavidGonos.com, which is stuff that will live longer than a week or two, or can be linked to from multiple newsletters, etc. * An idea becomes a Happy Hobby Sports Cards newsletter on Substack. * A newsletter becomes a video on the David Gonos YouTube channel. * The audio from that video becomes a podcast posted on Apple and Spotify. Your comments often shape new content in different forms, so keep the comments and ideas coming! Top 10 Most Popular Happy Hobby Content Pieces! We share our top-10 lists of which rookie cards are clicked on most at DavidGonos.com, which podcasts were the most downloaded over this past year, which newsletters were the most read, which articles were read the most at DavidGonos.com, and which videos had the most views over at our YouTube channel! Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! The final flagship product finally got released by Topps this month, and several sports card content creators, including myself, shared their 2025 Topps Update Rookie Card Rankings. What we do each time one of these Topps flagship products comes out is to take everyone’s rankings, mash them together, then average them out to figure out Average Rookie Card Rankings! If you’ve ever played Fantasy Football, then you’re likely familiar with ADP (Average Draft Position), which averages out where players get drafted across thousands of Fantasy Football leagues. That’s what we’re attempting to do here – give you a wide angle perspective on what the best rookie cards to chase are from this product. 2025 Topps Update Average Card Rankings Below is the final ranking, but listen to the podcast to understand what we thought about these players. Note that we used the rookie card rankings from these card content creators: * DavidGonos.com * Scottie B Cards YouTube Channel * Topps Ripped * Cardlines.com Let us know if you are a content creator and you’d like to have your sports card rankings added to our Average Rookie Card Rankings (ARCR)! Drop a comment below or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! Don’t forget to vote for the 2025 Rookie Card Awards and win a chance at a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab! Deadline to vote is midnight, Dec. 22, 2025. Vote here: https://forms.gle/2KnyEtX8NoYob4dy6 ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! A few weeks ago, I laid out my reasons on why I believe sports cards will explode in 2026, and many of you agreed with me! But many of you also thought I was just this side of cuckoo! Commenters laid out their disdain for Fanatics getting three of the four major sports card licenses, and they shared several reasons they thought the hobby was on the precipice of disaster! Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! Don’t forget to vote for the 2025 Rookie Card Awards and win a chance at a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab! Deadline to vote is midnight, Dec. 22, 2025. Vote here: https://forms.gle/2KnyEtX8NoYob4dy6 ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! My childhood is full of great stories about the beginning of my love of the hobby, but there is one huge black spot that has sullied my conscience for decades. It’s time I share what happened, why I did it, and how it affected me up until this day! Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! Don’t forget to vote for the 2025 Rookie Card Awards and win a chance at a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab! Deadline to vote is midnight, Dec. 22, 2025. Vote here: https://forms.gle/2KnyEtX8NoYob4dy6 ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Over the years, there have been some amazing sports card innovations and ideas! Many of them could be called “gimmicks,” if only because they were only around for a short time, and then they went away. Well, we want some of those gimmicks to come back! And we want the others to go far, far away! Help us decide on which ones were awesome, which ones were alright, and which ones were awful! Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! Don’t forget to vote for the 2025 Rookie Card Awards and win a chance at a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab! Deadline to vote is midnight, Dec. 22, 2025. Vote here: https://forms.gle/2KnyEtX8NoYob4dy6 ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! It’s the end of the year and that usually means we should look back before we look forward to the new year! We nominate base rookie cards in four different categories for four different main sports that people like to collect, with several releases of Panini, Topps and Upper Deck flagship products! You can vote here: https://forms.gle/2KnyEtX8NoYob4dy6 By voting, you are eligible to win a 2011 Topps Freddie Freeman RC PSA 9 slab! Voting ends at midnight, Dec. 22, 2025, and the winner will be announced shortly after! The four categories for each sport (baseball, basketball, football and hockey) we listed are: * Best Rookie Card! * Best Rookie Card Comeback! * Best Sleeper Future Star Rookie Card! * Biggest Rookie Card Bust! There are many great rookie cards that came out this year, from Topps Series 1, 2 and Update, as well as Prizm Basketball, Prizm Football, and Upper Deck Hockey Series 1, 2 and Extended! We need your help to discover what the very best rookie cards were in each category! Got some content ideas for me? Shoot me a note at [email protected] ! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! There are many, many factors working against you pulling an awesome card out of a box — and we list just how difficult it really is in this episode. But we also share several tips on how you can still have fun in this hobby, along with a very special tip on a great PSA 9 card worth picking up today. The PSA 10 version is selling for 9x the PSA 9 slab, and that makes the regular ol’ mint condition card a great value! Drop your thoughts in the comments below — or shoot me a note at [email protected] ! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! If you’re not a new sports card collector, you might be an old collector — like many of us Happy Hobbyists! That means the sports cards of the ‘80s and ‘90s, with their gum, bad packaging and collating, and lack of autographs, hold a special place in your heart! Our Junk Wax Junkie Extraordinaire, Scott Hedrick, shares his 10 favorite junk wax boxes to rip — each for under $125! Many of these boxes can be had for less than $100 — or you can choose to spend that money on a outfield prospect who isn’t old enough buy a beer yet. We want to know which boxes you would buy from this list if you had $200 to burn! Drop your thoughts in the comments below — or shoot me a note at [email protected] ! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! With the 2025 NBA season upon us — and the 2025 WNBA season behind us, what better time for us to rank the best 2025 rookie cards!?! The latest drop of 2025 Topps Basketball cards has everyone incredibly excited, and people have been ready for the release of 2025 Donruss WNBA cards for months! For our website, we ranked the Top 11 NBA Rookie Cards From 2025 Topps Basketball and we ranked the Top 7 Donruss WNBA Rookie Cards, also! That’s what we talk about in this week’s podcast episode — the best rookie cards to collect in both leagues! Let’s hear what you think about Topps Basketball cards in the comments below — or shoot me a note at [email protected] ! Sign up for the “Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter” here! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe

Each Happy Hobby Sports Card Newsletter For Collectors has a handful of great sports card subjects, helping sports card collectors working with limited budgets! Now that Fanatics and Topps finally has basketball under their control, we saw the release of 2025 Topps Basketball — which was a pretty huge success. And then this week, we saw the release of the new Topps NBA Living Set, which is the cousin to the ultra-successful Topps MLB Living Set! We talk about the things we love and hate about the new flagship release, and we discuss some rankings for the Topps NBA Living Set cards we are excited to get our hands on! Let’s hear what you think about Topps Basketball cards in the comments below — or shoot me a note at [email protected] ! Sign up for the “Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter” here! ***Important Card-Collecting Articles on DavidGonos.com*** * Best Baseball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1941 * Best Basketball Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1948 * Best Football Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1956 * Best Hockey Rookie Cards From Every Year Since 1951 * 23 Best Sports Cards Supplies To Buy Connect with David Gonos on: * Facebook * Twitter/X @DavidGonos * Instagram @DavidGonos * TikTok * Link Tree Email me: mailto:[email protected] Have a #HappyHobby! Podcast Music: “I dunno“ by grapes - 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) Get full access to Happy Hobby Sports Cards Newsletter For Collectors! at gonos.substack.com/subscribe