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Great story.  Thanks for sharing!

Who knew I could have easily been in the Guinness book for years and years.  I've had over 3 million cards since the early 2000's and probably have 5 million now even though I have added less than 100k since 2015.  I doubt I'm even in the top 50 collections/accumulations in the world (especially if you add the big card dealers).

Very cool for him, but like others echoed, I would imagine a lot of duplicates.  Still, if that is your goal to reach a billion, then I would imagine that would be the only way to do it.  Currently the database has just over 4.6 million baseball cards, so imagine if they were all unique, it would be easy to add them all here.  While it never mentions it, I am curious if he does collect other sports or non-sports.  I'd also be curious how he currently stores them, I would think even a shed like they propose to build for him would be too small.  I have under 40,000 and that takes up plenty of room, I'd never want to hit over 50k, much less a million and that's for all sports and non-sports.

Then again just imagine how much money he's sitting on with all those Uribe cards he probably has.

There is a youtube video of this story i had seen it a while back, not sure why suddenly the story pops up let me see if i can track it down.... here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-_bp218fEk

Really liked that story. I liked that it was all about the father/son connection and not about trying to get rich, break some sort of record, etc.

Edit: Thanks to Youtube recommendations, here's this other guy that might be close in the card collecting competition by now: Texas man in 2019