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This isn't a contest, just a fun guessing game. I recently had determined that I couldn't continue to collect baseball the way I did before (some players, 1 team that changed) because I ran out of room for storing the extras. As I've said before on here, I don't just put all my baseball cards in but I had them in boxes. Since I don't have room for more boxes (technically, I do but I don't have room for moving them around) I decided to move into "sets" which means I get to sort those boxes by years and then add everything into my collection here.

So I also do not know the answer to this question but I have some details that I can provide.

- 6,743 cards currently in collection. This is from my player collection binders, plus 1 blaster of 2022 Mosiac and 1 case of 2016 Topps Chrome Mega box.
- 25 binders of the MLM player queue, 1 card per player A-Z, major league teams only. If I were to guess book M and S have 500 cards, and the average large letters like C, D to have 300. These might end up being 8,000+ cards in total?
- 15 binders of the current team, then Charlotte Stone Crabs alumni, but these include doubles. The card totals must be less than the A-Z books by a good measure. So let's say 4,000?
- A few hundred pages that still have cards in that haven't been taken out. I'd say 300 pages might be a good number. I already pulled out the low card pages from that box. I can guess maybe 3,600 still to be removed.
- There should be close to or just over 70x 4 row boxes (which most would be 3600 count but some are slightly larger or smaller with no notation as to how many are held. This is my back stock and includes doubles. I know for sure there are at least 3 boxes that just has 1989 Donruss and 1992 Donruss and the 1989 lot can include up to 100 doubles. Also mixed in from another collection I bought was from an early 90s prospector, so there are say... 500x 1989 Topps Gary Sheffield rookies and similarly a few hundred 1990 Upper Deck Todd Zeile

Summary

6,743 current
12,000 estimated to be in binders
4,000 estimated to be in loose pages
252,000 estimated to be in x 4 row boxes
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274,743 estimated

Now I wonder how many cards it will actually be in the end, minus all of those doubles? That's where the fun will be had.

PS: It may take me 6 months to complete this project so don't expect a timely answer to this question. ^_^
PS2: Some of my doubles will end up on trade list here, but most are already spoken for. Also I won't be WL much baseball until I'm done.

I wanted to do some updates over time to see how things change. I didn't really think to record the exact numbers for some things before I started this, so hopefully this small amount of delay won't be an issue.

Total at start: 6,743
Value at start: ?

After 3x4 row boxes: 13,897
Current value: 4,965.08

Top 5 Names (this isn't likely to change for a long time)
1. Cal Ripken Jr: 714
2. Jose Canseco: 456
3. Fred McGriff: 419
4. Wade Boggs: 380
5. Chipper Jones: 359

Top 5 Teams (Appears to be about the same placement wise as before)
1. Atlanta Braves: 1,501
2. Baltimore Orioles: 1,015
3. Boston Red Sox: 767
4. Tampa Bay Devil Rays: 597
5. Oakland Athletics: 576

Images: 146
Autographs: 38
Memorabilia: 65
Serial Numbers: 166
Complete Sets: 13

After 4x4 row boxes: 16,179
Current value: 5,482.54

Top 5 Names
1-5. no change

Top 5 Teams
1. Atlanta Braves: 1,646
2. Baltimore Orioles: 1,086
3. Boston Red Sox: 861
4. Oakland Athletics: 651 (was #5)
5. Tampa Bay Devil Rays: 649 (was #4)

Top 5 Years (not tracked in previous posts)
1. 1993: 1,757
2. 1990: 1,584
3. 1992: 1,116
4. 1994: 1,022
5. 1991: 970

Missing Images: same
Autographs: 43
Memorabilia: same
Serial Numbers: 171
Complete Sets: 15

After 5x4 row boxes: 18,586
Current value: 5,940.77

Top 5 Names
1-5. no change

Top 5 Teams
1. Atlanta Braves: 1,722
2. Baltimore Orioles: 1,184
3. Boston Red Sox: 959
4. St. Louis Cardinals: 759 (new)
5. Oakland Athletics: 749 (was #4)

Top 5 Years (not tracked in previous posts)
1. 1990: 2,159 (was #2)
2. 1993: 1,757 (was #1)
3. 1989: 1,509 (new)
4. 1992: 1,116 (was #3)
5. 1994: 1,022 (was #4)

Autographs: 65
Memorabilia: 65
Serial Numbers: 176
Complete Sets: 15

Pretty impressive, do you have a system of identifying the boxes and sports?

Currently my collection consists of x number of 4 row boxes. I am going through them and sorting them by year and put 1 year in a row based on how many I have. I start with 1982. After a new 4 row box is filled with the year sorted cards, then I put the cards from the row into sets and then into number order. Then I go and put the cards from that box into the site. I think there are 6 or 7 box that are partially filled. The next box I get from the pile is just that, whatever it happens to be. But everything in the pile is just baseball.

Man!

You have it easy (lol)

My guess: twice as many as half of your collection.

Hopefully easier to read (for you and me)

Box 6 had these rows: 2000, 2002, 2008, 2019

After 6x4 row boxes: 20,912 (+2,326)
Current value: 6,761.68 (+820.91)

Top 5 Names
1. Cal Ripken Jr: 714
2. Jose Canseco: 457
3. Fred McGriff: 419
4. Wade Boggs: 380
5. Chipper Jones: 359

Top 5 Teams
1. Atlanta Braves: 1,805 (+83)
2. Baltimore Orioles: 1,255 (+71)
3. Boston Red Sox: 1,014 (+55)
4. St. Louis Cardinals: 887 (+128)
5. Oakland Athletics: 830 (+81)

Top 5 Years
1. 1990: 2,168 (+9)
2. 1993: 1,757
3. 1989: 1,510 (+1)
4. 1992: 1,116
5. 1994: 1,022

Autographs: 73 (+8)
Memorabilia: 78 (+13)
Serial Numbers: 223 (+47)
Complete Sets: 16 (+1)

Box 7 had these rows: 2003, 2010, 2012, 2013

After 6x4 row boxes: 22,565 (+1,653)
Current value: 7,281.50 (+519.82)

Top 5 Names
1. Cal Ripken Jr: 715 (+1)
2. Jose Canseco: 457
3. Fred McGriff: 419
4. Wade Boggs: 380
5. Chipper Jones: 359

Top 5 Teams
1. Atlanta Braves: 1,865 (+60)
2. Baltimore Orioles: 1,307 (+52)
3. Boston Red Sox: 1,069 (+55)
4. St. Louis Cardinals: 965 (+78)
5. Oakland Athletics: 882 (+52)

Top 5 Years
1. 1990: 2,168
2. 1993: 1,757
3. 1989: 1,510
4. 1992: 1,116
5. 1994: 1,022

Autographs: 84 (+11)
Memorabilia: 86 (+8)
Serial Numbers: 246 (+23)
Complete Sets: 16