The NBA leads the way, naturally, as more than half my collection is made up of NBA cards. 2746 different people make up my NBA collection. Elton was chosen as he is my all-time favorite player.

Surprisingly, hockey already holds the #2 position with 1305 people, a number that has already gone up since I began making this list. Scott Bjugstad here is the actual 10,000th person to enter my collection.

Baseball is third, again, a surprise. In my life I've purchased a grand total of 2 baseball packs- every single other card has been given to me as gifts, as were most of the hockey cards I have- my collection went from 28 hockey cards to more than 2800 in one day for example. Baseball currently sits at 1286 people, although I am sure the number will go up soon as I have a nearly full 200 count box of 1990 Topps that was gifted to me by Mark Hoyle.

Football has 1093 different people in my collection.

OK, I know the list is titled BY SPORT but I also collect non-sports cards, and in fact I enjoy them greatly. This was my first tobacco card and when I got it the oldest card in my collection by 37 years, I've since gotten back to 1890. One of my passions is ancient Rome. There are exactly 750 non-sports people in my collection.

NCAA basketball comes next with 414 people. This is the only part of the list where the number could actually go down, as there are several people I have college cards of but are missing from my NBA collection- and a couple who played in the NBA very briefly but did not get any real cards.

Indy car racing has 134 people in my collection. Over the past few years- since 2011, really- I've really begun to enjoy Indy car racing, but their season is too short for it to supplant NASCAR as my favorite form of racing. By the way, his last name was pronounced "Goo". It has now been more than a decade since Indy racing got a set, I believe.

I enjoy all forms of auto racing, but drag racing is over too fast to really hold my attention, with each race taking literally about 3 seconds. John Force is by far my favorite driver in this segment of the sport. I have cards of 120 people in the world of drag racing. Drag Racing last got a set in 2005.

F1 is supposedly the most popular form of auto racing in the world- but they get very few cards, the last set being issued in, I believe, 2005 as well. I would collect all the other forms of racing, besides NASCAR, if they had cards. 85 F1 drivers appear in my collection.

I never got into the WNBA, mostly because of the teams using knock off names from the NBA teams really made it seem more like a joke to me- not a serious sport. I've watched a grand total of 2 WNBA games in my life, though I do watch the athletes when they play in the Olympics. Even so, I have 78 different WNBA players and coaches in my collection. I also count people like Cheryl Miller and Ann Meyers in this listing, who would have been WNBA superstars had it existed during their playing career.