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hiflew
Posts: 140
Joined: Mar 2021
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 9:50 AM | |
I do my Rockies collection purely by player. I have seperate categories for players as well. If they never played a game for the Rockies, but are on a Rockies card, they go into a box no matter how many I have. For relics, autos, and thick cards, they also go into a box. For tobacco sized cards, I have a seperate binder also divided by player.
For players that played for the Rockies, if I have 1-3 cards of them, they go in the short timers binder. If I have between 4-94 cards of a player, they go into the common binders. I currently have 15 of them arranged alphabetically. That second number changes based on availability and binder room. If I have between 95-300 of a player, they go into the semi star binders. I have 36 of those players and I arrange them 4 players per binder as equally as possible. 301-600 is for my star players, currently 7. They get a binder all to themselves. 601-1200 is for my superstars, currently 6. They get two binders each split as evenly as possible at the end of a card year. My final category is for Todd Helton. I have over 1500 of his cards, so he gets 3 binders.
I am VERY particular about my system. It probably wouldn't work for most people. But it is the only way I want to do it.
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Scottzoe
Posts: 226
Joined: Feb 2012
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 10:04 AM | |
Moster boxes organized chronologically , then in each year by manufacturer.
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Red Sox collector...current count 62,000+ different
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BrewCrew1982
Posts: 2
Joined: Sep 2018
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 10:18 AM | |
I collect Milwaukee Brewers cards (base & inserts). I use 5" Cardinal binders from Amazon. I also sort by year & set. I've also include 1969 & 1970 Seattle Pilots team sets. I have a separate binder for for autograph cards.
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SeventhSon
Posts: 48
Joined: Jan 2022
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 10:49 AM | |
It's aesthetically pleasing to keep cards of the same set together (so, year/maker/set), either collated in a box or sleeved in a binder. Sets that have beautiful designs, those that make good use of font and color, look even better when there are stacks or pages of those cards together. This is true whether you're collecting teams or complete sets. Certainly if you're collecting players you'd keep all cards of a particular player together, but that looks more scattershot with all the different set designs mixed together.
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elninopadre
Posts: 62
Joined: Jan 2017
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 11:34 AM | |
Both, Semi & Star cards I have it sorted by alphabetical order by year and manufacture alphabetical and by number... Commons & newer cards by year and numerical order... Stuff I sell on eBay in another stash for easy access in alphebetical order
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captkirk42
Posts: 2,275
Joined: May 2011
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 12:10 PM | |
That is very true.
When my collection is organized (usually it is just too overwhelminigly an unorganized hoard that is stuffed in boxes with some in binders) I sort by Sport > Year > Brand > card number. NNO usually in back then inserts. Parallels have been mixed in the past sometimes right after the base and sometimes at the end as a "new" set. I prefer having them separate even though looking at them all together looks nice.
I sometimes call my self a set AND Team/player collector, but I am primarily a Set collector but don't/can't collect ALL sets.
I appreciate that there are many different ways to organize as there are collectors. Some sytems are unusual but I try not to be negative about them.
For those who sort their teams by current line up that means you are resorting your collection every year/season. When do you swap out the players that get traded or retire? When they leave the team or at the end of the season?
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I collect: Baseball, Football, Hockey, Mostly Vintage pre1980, My Homie teams - Washington/Baltimore Teams Senators (Twins, Rangers), Expos/Nationals, Redskins, Capitals, Bullets/Wizards - HOFers - Non-sport (mostly TV shows and movies). My Trade List is very much a work in progress CaptKirk42s Trading Card Blog Curly W Cards Strive For '65 YouTube klandersen42
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spazmatastic
Posts: 5,905
Joined: Dec 2014
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Sunday, June 5, 2022 1:18 AM | |
I feel like I should give some visuals, so here they are with 2 new photos. The first photo is my Cardinals "Specific Players" Albums. There is an uncorrected error in there as the 3rd album from the top still lists Pujols in the album although his cards needed to get moved into the 1" album on the top of the stack. The 2nd picture is all of the non-specific Cardinals player cards that I own. All of the boxes between the albums are empty ones that I use for trading or for temporary storage before cards from any sport go into albums. I'd like to make better labels for all of the albums but I need some new printer ink cartridges before I can do that. This is just how I work around it until I have the ink and time to make things match better.
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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending any offer. ONLY selling cards as of March 2024. No trades or purchases right now. _______________________________________________________________________ Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/22/24): STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8810; Carolina Panthers - 2888; GB Packers - 1790+ cards Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2038 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1875 cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1594; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 839; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 707
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C2Cigars
Posts: 11,666
Joined: Oct 2014
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Sunday, June 5, 2022 6:33 AM | |
To answer your question about organizing team collections. I have separate binders for each team; Mets, Raiders, Sabres. The binders are organized in chronological order by year. Each year is organized alphabetically by brand; Bowman, Donruss, Fleer, Score, Topps, Upper Deck, etc. Each brand is organized first with any team-type cards (logo, checklist, team photo), then the head coach/manager card. Then all the players cards alphabetically by last name. Any cards with multiple players (of same team) go at the end.
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Someday my cards may double in value and then be worth half of what I paid for them.
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TwinKiller
Posts: 1,012
Joined: Jul 2021
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Sunday, June 5, 2022 6:37 AM | |
This is more or less what I do but I switch some things. I make the players alphabetical, and then the players by year, and the year by brand. Not the TCDB order of brand, but my own. Once they get 100 cards they go into a binder with all the other 100+ and are organized the TCDB listed way.
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Thanks - TwinKiller. (Luke)
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myrke
Posts: 825
Joined: Aug 2020
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Sunday, June 5, 2022 6:38 AM | |
I primarily collect Red Sox, so I have them in binders by decades, half-decades or sometimes quarter-decades based on how many cards were produced over that timeframe. Then I go by year within those binders and start with Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Upper Deck, and then a mish mash of order afterwards.
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