Hello fellow card maniacs, We survived another year in the hobby and man was it one to remember. We experienced Acunamania, Lukamania, Lamarmania and sadly the absence of any real hockeymania, but the NHL season isn't over yet fortunately. We also experienced Zionmania, but perhaps he should play a regular season game before we start voting him into the … [Read more...]
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2018 Mikey Awards: Highs, Lows and Oh No’s
Hello Card Peeps, I'm back once again with the annual Mikey Awards. I hope you enjoy and get a chuckle from my highlights and occasional lowlights from the trading card industry in 2018. These are intended to mostly make you laugh or think and if you are a manufacturer who does not have a great sense of humor, please consider stopping at this point. … [Read more...]
2017 Mikey Awards
I’m finally sitting down to write my favorite piece of the year, the Mikey Awards. It’s my chance to offer up my own personal sentiments over what I thought worked, failed epically, made this season a winner, worked in spite of things, got hobby egg on its face and basically helped hobby shops in 2017. Looking back, this is going to be remembered as one of the … [Read more...]
What’s Hot: Presenting The 2016 Mikey Awards
This is normally where we read about the hottest selling sports card products but the calendar tells us it's time to take stock of the year that was. The Mikey Awards is my annual non-scientific, incredibly personal and sometimes self-serving take on the last 12 months. If you're scoring along, this is the 4th annual edition. It’s the good, the bad and the … [Read more...]
Mikey Awards, 2015 Edition
It’s time for the annual Mikey Awards where the best and brightest get ignored as I choose what I liked in 2015. Well, more specifically what my collectors liked. It’s my list of the sports card releases (and some other things) that, in one way or another, had folks in my shop talking. I do not expect you all to agree, but please enjoy what I found interesting in the … [Read more...]
What’s Hot in the Shop: The 2014 Mikey Awards
Hello fellow card maniacs, It’s time for the second annual Mikey Awards. This is easily my most favorite piece to share each year and yes, I do put more than 20 minutes into this article. I still write it after midnight just like my other reports just to make it as cool and culturally relevant as possible.Since I’m writing this on Christmas morning, I hope that you were … [Read more...]
What’s Hot in the Shop: The 2013 Mikey Awards
Editor’s Note: It’s the first of what will no doubt become a revered holiday tradition for millions around the globe. Mike Fruitman, who claims responsibility for our What’s Hot in the Shop column chronicling the new trading card releases that are generating a buzz, puts a bow on 2013 this week with a look back at The Hobby’s best, the worst and most mediocre brands and … [Read more...]
Editor’s Blog: News & Notes in a Rapidly Vaporizing Year
2013 is winding down and tomorrow we will unveil the first-ever Mikey Awards. Compiled by our own erstwhile columnist Mike Fruitman of Mike’s Stadium Sports Cards, the Mikeys will sort out the good, the bad, the ugly and everything in between from the sports card product releases of the past 12 months (and, as usual, there were plenty to open). Mikeys will be handed out for … [Read more...]
Box Bonanza: Prizm Basketball Heads the Hot List
Hello, fellow card maniacs! Welcome to the December installment of What's Hot In The Shop, at least one particular shop in Colorado. Mine to be specific :) Looking back at November, we enjoyed a trifecta of manufacturer support programs like Upper Deck Singles Day, the Topps Holiday Pack giveaway and Panini's Black Friday. Most recently, shops enjoyed National Hobby Shop … [Read more...]
What’s Hot: Big Deals and Hot Cardboard
I'm sitting here at Casa De Fruitman just chilling out after sadly watching the Nuggets lose to the Jazz on the road. While winter may keep us all inside a little more, that means there is often some closet-cleaning going on and more proof that card shops aren’t just about new products. It was an interesting day at the shop as I shipped off my first pallet of cards … [Read more...]