Card Identification Forum

Thanks.  Yes, Admin did approve.  Thanks for those with access to newspapers.com, as I was about to get a subscription myself to compile the checklist to ensure I had not missed any (apparently I missed one of the daily papers so I am five cards short of a complete set) and to be able to provide the advertisment portion.  Thankful I have the Brett Favre and Michael Jackson cards (the wide receiver, not the singer).  It will be interesting to see which ones I missed out on.  I will start scanning the original cards to add once checklist is added.

Its very exciting to have this set on TCDB.  For those of us that aren't "mainstream" card set collectors but who focus on individual players, colleges, places of birth, etc., these are the types of sets that make the hobby exciting.  Its a little odd, and certainly not the avenue to build a valuable collection (as the market is usually limited for players found in the set or even the sets themselves) but the excitement of finding a card or cards from sets like these (which you may never ever see for sale or only see for sale once) is immense.  Now I just will have to visit a lot of backwoods flea markets/antique stores, or small town libraries to see if I can locate the last five cards in an old newspaper.

Nice collaboration all around. Hard agree that uncovering little known issues like this is a major source of fun

These are now in, as well.  Someone may need to tweak the team names, though.  Currently they are entered as they appeared on the cards, but the paper was slightly inconsistent whether they used a school's team name or just the name of the school (Wichita State Shockers vs Wichita State University).  Someone else is free to edit those into submission.

FYI, I have information for several more of these types of sets.  I'll start adding them to the site, now, but will avoid any that migth be questionable.  But if they were announecd with the whole "clip them out and collect the whole set" kind of verbiage, they'll be included.

poorlittlecritter wrote:

Maybe after this one is figured out, someone can come up with a checklist for the Wichita Eagle Beacon Newpaper set from the 80s.  The set can be found under multi sport, but non of the bubblegumless cards are listed.

Thanks for putting in that effort.  I've gone in and edited the team link to be "Southern Miss Golden Eagles" as that was the naming convention for the team/school in TCDB already.  I've created PID's for the players that did not have them already (most did not) and started adding bio info on the individual PID's, although it will take a while to flesh out.  There are about 11 players that are associated with the PID of an existing player that is not them (typically those with common names like "Ron Brown, or Anthony Harris"), but after I scan in the cards that I have, I'll address that.

This is fantastic!  Thank you for adding these checklists.  I read the dedication that Kevin went through to bring this information to the hobby, amazing work.

I am glad to see that these made it in. It only lends to the consistency of this site. 

After all, these are listed on here too...https://www.tcdb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/S/ID/101081/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=34681#210705