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Last year I trailed off and didn't open all the trades I got, since my card stuff was put away to work on models. Hopefully I'll keep up with the 2022 trades...

Includes all major leaguers with a Fangraphs or Baseball Reference primary or total WAR of at least 20 in games after 1946, up through players who retired and/or played their last major league game before 8/28/77 (when I started following baseball).

All cards issued during or within a year after the player’s professional playing career. I own each card pictured.

Sets that require clean up of card sub-numbers.

ie. Set has cards 1a and VAR 1b. Card numbers should actually be 1 [sub a] and 1 [sub b]

Before:



Add the NOTE2


After:
> 

Sets that have been corrected for 1a -> 1 [sub a] card numbers.

"Main Team" According to BaseballHall.org on each inductee's bio

Also I'm using the current name for each franchise.

The year the curse was broken by sweeping the Cardinals in 4.

I fell in love w this set when it originally came out. It's 1 of my all-time favorite sets. I am looking to complete the GU cards.

Recent additions to my Bubble-heads list.

Cards showing someone blowing a gum bubble. I really don't care for the staged photos, but I have them listed. Go to New Bubble-heads to see just the recent additions.


Current record: Frank Thomas with 10 cards
Second: Jeff Cirillo with 9 cards
Third: Chipper Jones & Will Clark with 8
Fourth: Vinny Castilla with 6

Thanks go to ranfordfan for the list idea . . . cards numbered 666

Sparky Anderson, Kyle Freeland & Glenallen Hill have two cards each

Cincinnati Reds - 8 cards
Los Angeles Dodgers - 8 cards
Colorado Rockies - 6 cards
Baltimore Orioles - 5 cards
Detroit Tigers - 5 cards

The final NFL Draft pick is called "Mr. Irrelevant"

Paul Salata founded "Mr. Irrelevant" and "Irrelevant Week" in 1976. During the summer after the draft, the new Mr. Irrelevant and his family are invited to spend a week in Newport Beach, California, where they enjoy a golf tournament, a regatta, a roast giving advice to the new draftee, and a ceremony awarding him the Lowsman Trophy. The trophy mimics the Heisman, but depicts a player fumbling a football.

From or played minor league in Idaho

1/17/22: It's done! The display is up!

The History --

Looking at my displayed vintage baseball cards, I became disturbed that three of my four displays were virtually all white players, because I mostly display cards from the pre-Topps years, i.e., before 1951. So there just weren't many black players on cards. This bothered me.

So I decided to make another display of all the first black players on every team, using the 16 teams that existed before expansion (credit to kcjays for the idea).

This is the list of players. I am picturing the card I have for each player, usually a card from their first year with the team. Sometimes, that was prohibitively expensive, so I got another card. One card is missing at the moment. I'll update, of course, if I get different cards.

As always, it's never quite as easy as it should be. John Kennedy, the first black player on the Phillies, has no cards at all. That actually works out perfectly, as I have 15 slots in the display case I intend to use/create (from an old wall-mounted cassette holder). Hank Thompson, the first black player for both the Giants and the St. Louis Browns, has no card of him with the Browns. But I'll use a Giants card in the St. Louis slot and use Monte Irvin, who debuted for the Giants on the same day as Thompson, for the Giants. And Nino Escalera, the first black player on the Redlegs, has no vintage cards. But Chuck Harmon debuted for them the same day, so I'll go with him. It's complicated, but actually works out very well for my purposes.

As soon as I threw away most of my cassettes, I looked at the holders and thought "baseball card display!" I intend to put a color picture of each teams logo from the year behind the player. Except for Chief Wahoo. The irony there would just be too much, so I'll go with a generic "Cleveland." I might put logos of various negro league teams around the edges, but maybe not. I will post a picture of the display when it's up if I can figure out how to do that. It will have some holes for awhile and some cards will eventually be replaced, but I have a critical mass of the cards, so I can put this up as soon as I fix up the case. For now they'll all go into a binder.

My intent here, is not to create controversy or debate. I just want to honor these (sometimes forgotten) pioneers of baseball. Also, note that these are NOT the first 16 black players in baseball after 1947. Some teams, like the Dodgers, had more than one black player pretty quickly. They're also not all rookie cards -- the Robinson because I can't afford it -- the Virgil because he played for other teams before he became the first black Tiger, for example.

Note, while not all were successful, five of the first eight players on this list are now in the Hall of Fame. ALL of those players were told they wouldn't be on teams at all if they weren't black.

Enjoy.

V3

Players that appeared on a regular 50's, 60's & 70's Topps card, but never played for that team. (Rookie and Traded cards excluded)

Cards in my collection with factory autographs including Bible verses

Prize package received for "winning" the 2022 baseball playoff prediction contest. Received a nice Hank Aaron highlight, a handful of Ravens cards, 3 Orioles cards from my wantlist (including a need for my Orioles Topps base sets from 1954-present - see my list of remaining needs) and a few other interesting cards to round out a fantastic prize! Thanks Dan for sponsoring this contest!

Ah, the team photo card – all of your favorite players, none of which you can actually see!

Some fun facts gleaned while making this list:
- The same team photo was used on the 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, and 1964 cards. Come on!
- 1965 and 1966 used the same photo as well!!
- 1971 and 1972 also!!!
- 1980 and 1981 were not the *exact* same photo, but appear to be photos taken moments apart.
- The 1977 card is the only one where players aren't wearing white uniforms.
- Taking the team photo in the bullpen is weird.

Here are my after release signed Detroit Tiger Cards. Some gathered in person, some found searching boxes, some found at shows. MANY NEW ADDITIONS: 1988 TOPPS SPARKY ANDERSON, 1992 DONRUSS MCDONALD'S CECIL FEILDER, 1991 FLEER AND 1991 SCORE LLOYD MOSEBY, 1985 TOPPS LANCE PARRISH, 1985 TOPPS DAN PETRY, 1990 DONRUSS/1990 FLEER/1990 STADIUM CLUB FRANK TANANA, 1988 DONRUSS MVPS/1991 O-PEE-CHEE ALAN TRAMMELL.

Not to complain, ink is always sweet. Here's what became of the Scrub Squad who's signatures I've collected. Also, the views expressed absolutely reflect those of the Trading Card Database.

Persons with weather related names. (limiting to 4 persons with same name).

Recent additions:

Sunny Kim
Nathan Snowie

A collection of my Red Sox autos from the decade of the 1950's.

Players debuting in Major League Baseball during the 2022 season, in order.

I've changed my sorting methods about 1,000,000 times since joining this site, mostly because I hate organizing my cards, but I love looking at my cards. My new method, which I won't bore you with, may solve that problem, and help me finish some sets, and in the meantime, these are the complete sets I have come across. This is more for my benefit, than for your entertainment.

Top 100 Liiga all time point leaders since 1975

North Americans with at least 1 game played in Finnish Liiga 2022-23 season.

No cards:
Seamus Donohue, SaiPa Lappeenranta
Kevin Fitzgerald, SaiPa Lappeenranta
Will Graber, Ässät Pori
Greg Moro, SaiPa Lappeenranta

Notable Cubs or Cardinals players who have played for both teams.
This list got updated again; Jose Quintana now added.

This set is missing a few key characters (Johnny Gasperini, Badger Meyer, Rocko, Roy Stalin) but still offers enough to be released, maybe as a food issue or mail-in offer. It would fill out a nine-pocket sheet quite nicely.

Gummy Arts got this set started with a Johnny Lawrence card, so I'll take it the rest of the way. Unfortunately most of the young actors are not on cards (yet).

Manufactured relics like patches, coins, pins, and more (not including cards that are autographed)

Cards that show players on teams you forgot or did not know they played for.

A list of my serial number cards, with the pictures being the actual cards with the serial numbers on them. I don't have many and I'm not an active collector of them but thought I'd show them. They're also all available for trading or selling.

Statues located in plazas around Busch and The Ballpark Village

Since I've seen lists on here similar to this, I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring. Here are the sets I have completed.

A list of Topps Archives Fan Favorite Autographs that feature a Gold/Rookie Cup.

All players I've seen play NCAA basketball in person

As the title states, this is a list of my most wanted cards for all 3 of my collections. If you have a copy you are looking to trade or sell, please let me know and hopefully we can try to work out a deal. Thank you for looking!

This is a list of every time a player hit 50+ Home Runs in a season. Listed in order of what year it was accomplished.

Please help me compile a list of all of the cards with Nolan Ryan in them that are not his card. TIA.

All of the Topps All-Star Rookies that happened to be Orioles in chronological order. Several never had an ASR base card. Ripken and Mountcastle were each both named as an All Star Rookie twice!

All the A's Short Print and Super Short Prints in Topps sets since 2010

All of the cards in my collection bearing jersey swatches. I did not set out to find them, they found me. Hopefully this list can keep growing...