US Army Combat Vet. (Iraq x 3, Afghanistan x 1) Originally from Brooklyn, NY. Older than I look.
Trades have been officially shut down as of 8:30 PM (PST) on 9/19/2020 so I can get caught up and I'm not trading for stuff I actually have. I estimate I own 750K cards and am only 1/7 of the way through them.
Current total of cataloged cards: 174K
UPDATE: I have confirmed I have some sort of Neurological issue. Another MRI is coming. I may have to stop working. More to follow. (4-5-22)
Collecting since 1984. Everything baseball that I don't have--I want. Cards listed under the "For Trade" collection are available for trade.
Set collector. Trades only... Not in this to make or spend money.
-Baseball: 1948 Bowman and everything from then on in Baseball. PC: Don Mattingly, Rick Cerone, David Cone, Cal Ripken Jr, Tony Gwynn, Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, Ozzie Smith, Nolan Ryan, Derek Jeter, Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
-Football: 1977-2011 Topps, 1986-1995 for everything else PC: Phil Simms, Jeff Hostetler, Eli Manning, Blake Bortles, Brett Favre, Saquon Barkley, Brandon Jacobs, Michael Strahan, Jerome Bettis, Tiki Barber, Thurman Thomas, Lawrence Taylor, Terry Bradshaw, New York Giants.
-Basketball: 1977-78 through 2009-10 Topps, 1986-1995 for everything else. PC: Stephen Curry, Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Detlef Schrempf, Charles Barkley, David Robinson, Karl Malone, Pat Riley, Shaq, Allen Iverson, Walt Frazier, New York Knicks.
-Whatever Hockey I happen to come across. Focus on Topps and Upper Deck. PC: Mark Messier, Chris Kreider, Mika Zibenajad, Mike Richter, Marc-Andre Fleury, Brian Leetch, Dylan Larkin, Steve Yzerman, New York Rangers.
-Various Non-Sport sets including: Marvel, 80's Batman, Jurassic Park, GI Joe, 80's movies, Desert Storm, etc.
-Multi-sport sets if they include baseball.
-Mattingly Doubles PC collection are doubles based on my main collection. (If it's not in the main, collection I don't own it.)
I also write Science Fiction. If you get bored, go to my website and read some of the short stories.
Happy to be here and excited to find a tool to catalog my cards. I have wanted something like this for 36 years.
Joe
