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Congrats on a tremendous accomplishment! Nice dedication 

Indeed an incredible card for an incredible milestone!  Congratulations and I really enjoyed your wonderful blog post as well!

Congratulations!  That is a very impressive # of different cards of a single player.

Thank you!

As far as organization goes, most of my collection is housed in BCW Card Bins. These things are a little on the expensive side, especially when compared to their cardboard counterparts. But in my opinion they are definitely worth the money. My next venture is going to be investing in some Superior Fit sleeves for all of my toploaders and one touches.

I only keep my main collection in these. They are separated by year and kept in order that they are found on the checklist here on TCDB. I have oversized cards stored in a cardboard box and all of my 10,000+ duplicates are in monster boxes.

engine614 wrote:

Congrats !!!!!! Happy to help :).

Thanks!

Billy Kingsley wrote:

Congratulations, that is truly an epic achivement. 

Thank you!

myrke wrote:

Back in the day one would think there's no way that there are that many Rolen cards, but it's a real and quite admirable number these days. Congrats!

Thanks! In 2004 and 2005 trading card companies went bonkers on making cards and parallels of those cards and parallels of the parallels, so that bumped his numbers up substantially. And now that he's knocking on the door at Cooperstown, Topps has really ramped up the sets in which they include him.

hawkking wrote:

That is so cool and exactly what this crazy thing we do should be about.  Not about flipping, making money or being your job.  Collecting is a passion and you obviously have it. Congrats. 

Thank you! I couldn't agree more! I've been in this marathon for a couple of decades now. I most likely would have gotten completely out of collecting if I was trying to make money doing it or trying to make it my job.

Bounty13 wrote:

Congrats. Always enjoyed looking at your collection and how it was displayed on the website. I'm closing in on Marino #4,000 so I know the journey. It seems I get most of the cards I need from other Marino collectors who are selling their collections. Hard to find rare 90s cards anymore.

Thank you! I'm finding myself in a similar situation with tracking down new cards to add to my collection. The tough to find 90s stuff is absolutely skyrocketing. I'm hoping with Rolen's HOF trajectory, it'll unearth some more cards of his soon.

John1941 wrote:

That's pretty incredible. Congrats!

Thank you!

vrooomed wrote:

Congratulations! All those Phillies cards.... :) LOL 

Thanks! There are a lot of great cards of Rolen in his Phillies jersey. Even a lot of the newer post-playing days stuff has him pictured in his Phillies uniform. While I do enjoy a good throwback, I'm a Cardinals fan first and foremost. I'm hoping that Topps will continue adding him to their newer releases and drop some nice patch autos of him in a Cards uni!

YoRicha wrote:

Congratulations on an excellent milestone! 

Thank you!

BrewerAndy wrote:

Congrats on a tremendous accomplishment! Nice dedication 

Thanks! It's a culmination of over 20 years of laser focus with my collection. Without that focus, I'd probably try to buy anything that's shiny!

Tscastle wrote:

Indeed an incredible card for an incredible milestone!  Congratulations and I really enjoyed your wonderful blog post as well!

Thanks! Card #3,000 is an absolute stunner! Scans don't do it any justice. I couldn't even capture everything in a photo or a video!

banny wrote:

Congratulations!  That is a very impressive # of different cards of a single player.

Thank you! I'm glad we're all cut from the same cloth here. When I showed my collection to my wife, she thought I may have some kind of mental illness. She has grown to appreciate my collection over the years though.