User Lists

These are the sets I'm actively looking to complete. If you have any, please contact me and let's work out a trade (or sale). Thank you.

Since 1959, Topps has selected players for their annual All-Star Rookie Team. It usually consists of C, 1B , 2B, 3B, SS, 3 OF, LHP, RHP. In 2010 they added a RP, and in 2018 they added a DH. Topps would than put the trophy symbol on that players card the following year. (ex- the 1959 players had it on their 1960 card). In 1974 and again in 1979 thru 1986, All-Star Rookies were selected, but the trophy cup was left off. There were also other times the trophy was left off individuals cards, which will be noted in the comments.
This list will show the year by year rosters using the Topps flagship set. The comments will have players accomplishments, along with a listing of their other miscellaneous and variation cards with the trophy on it.
You can check out my Topps All Star Rookie Cups collection at my collection page. It also has my want list.
The comment section about the players is a work in progress.
Will update the list when new year comes out.

Cards that have Black Armbands or Memorial Patches. This blog was a big help with this list.
garveyceyrusselllopes.blogspot.com/

Everyone who played on the 2001 Diamondbacks team. Will come back and add season's stats eventually.

Everyone who played on the 2002 Diamondbacks team. Will come back and add season's stats eventually.

Everyone who played on the 2000 Diamondbacks team. Will come back and add season's stats eventually.

Everyone who played on the 1999 Diamondbacks team. Will come back and add season's stats eventually.

Everyone who played on the 1998 Diamondbacks team. Will come back and add season's stats eventually.

This is a list of Cincinnati Reds stars. This is the list of stars that I use for my Cincinnati Reds binder. Different criteria are considered in determining whether or not a player is worthy including but not limited to: All-Star games with the Reds, playing on playoff/World Series teams, HOF, Reds HOF, and playing the majority of a player's career, or coming through the Reds minor league system. Does anybody else belong on this list? Have I missed anybody? Feel free to leave a comment below.

Set up to help me figure out what to work on next, but figured I would open it up so others could see it. Maybe, just maybe, someone would want to help me on one, and it can go a little quicker. If you do want to help, drop me an e-mail.

Multi-sports sets I have that need 5 or less to finish.

Added a card of the OTHER guy who got shot by his girlfriend and may have inspired "The Natural."

The more I collect, the more interested I've become in getting a bit more free-form. Collecting all the Topps sets is nice, but other quirky "sets" are more fun.
Especially when I'm buying vintage cards, where I'm likely to only buy one card from the set, I need some reason to buy one card over another. I go for Cubs, but I don't know any of the non-stars from each other. So how to decide? I do a little research and find the cards of guys with quirky trivia attached to them.
Here are a few of those cards.
As always, feel free to suggest others. I'll probably want to buy them.

3/8/21
Stumbled into another, just stunning T205. Got it a for a good price. Gone is the 1951 Yogi Berra. Still seeking a T204 Cub and three vintage Merkles, but those are on hold as I work on the First Black Player on Every Team Collection.

Anyway....

Here's a list of the cards that are out of the binders, in cases, and on display on a shelf in our office (I also have my three display cases of Last Topps Card of Hall of Famers, The Merkle's Boner Collection, and the T207 Cubs Team Set (partial) -- I don't include those here.

This display used to be only Hall of Famers (and autographed 1970 Pete Rose) until sometime in 2016, when I opened it up to cards and players I just liked, and I expanded more fully into non-Topps. Now I label each card carefully, explaining why its on display and/or some history of the player. Making it more personal to me and finding players with interesting histories really made it fun for me. I love these cards. Hope you enjoy it.

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Just a list of cards that I found amusing or are milestones in my collection

Tennis sets I have that need 5 or less to finish.

The First Finnish citizen to play a NHL game on each franchise history.

I'm a Reds fan, and Shogo Akiyama became the first Japanese player to play a game for the team when he debuted in 2020. Not only that, but with his debut, now all MLB teams have finally had at least one Japanese born player wear their uniform for a game.
I decided it would be interesting to learn who the other "firsts" were, and maybe I'll even try to get a card of them all with their respective teams.

My own personal challenge to acquire a card of every NFL player who ever got a card. Further, I will also attempt to acquire every team each player was represented on (example: Peyton on the Colts and Broncos). All Vikings will be excluded. All combo cards will also be excluded.

NHL players with 500+ consecutive game streaks. Active streaks as of 03/01/2021. Source: NHL.com/records

There is conflicting information on the length of the Vermette and Iginla streaks.

My own personal challenge to acquire a card of every NFL player who ever got a card. Further, I will also attempt to acquire every team each player was represented on (example: Peyton on the Colts and Broncos). All Vikings will be excluded. All combo cards will also be excluded.

These are the sets that I have completed by acquiring the last card via trade with another member on this site

This list was suggested to me by jmnovff. If anyone wants me to do more lists like this, feel free to tell me who you want to see me do a list of!

Full sets from outside of my main collection

One of my favorite relic types is the jersey button. If it's game-used, there's a good chance your player literally interacted with your relic! These are the buttons I've collected so far.

After making that Gretzky list, I want to learn more hockey history, so here we are! If you want to see more career lists, feel free to tell me who you want me to do next!

Since I wasn’t alive to watch him play in person let alone in his prime, I decided to make a list detailing The Great One’s career to help me learn some hockey history! I included his WHA years with the rookie card since that’s the earliest card of him. If you want to see more lists like this, feel free to tell me who you want me to do a list of!

Anthony Rizzo base cards I am searching for

Ryne Sandberg base cards I am searching for

Usually the middle sized of the three lists.

These are the cards from the seasons where the depicted player won NFL/AFL MVP. For the players who didn’t have a card that year I used the closest card to said year. LL - Led League NFLR - NFL Record

It's still unclear when 2020-21 NHL and AHL seasons starts. So NHL teams are loaning younger players to European leagues to get some ice time. This is a list of NHL contracted players loaned to Finnish Liiga.

Doesn't have a single card made yet.
Victor Brattström Detroit Red Wings -> KooKoo Kouvola
Timur Ibragimov San Jose Sharks -> TPS Turku

Each country's best MLB player (or likely to be best player in the future) (also including certain territories)

Not included on account of no cards: Finland, Latvia

NFL players who never attended college or played college football.

John Kruk base cards I am searching for

Next up on my bad teams features one of the worst records by a non expansion team. The Nordiques finished 12-61-7.

This is a list of the rookie cards for every HOFer who played for the Packers at one point. I only list accolades that were awarded while they were a Packer.

I discovered NASCAR on 12/26/1992 when my uncle gave me a big box of 1/64 Racing Champions cars. It was one of the most important days in my life, changing it's course forever. I still consider 1/64 NASCAR replicas to be my main hobby, not cards. I decided I want to track and collect all NASCAR cards #164. There aren't many, as most NASCAR sets are 100 cards or less.

The last card needed to finish various sets/collections.

My two favorite collecting events:
1) when a collection/set gets down to "just one more card". It just makes me want that last card soooooo bad.
2) when a collection/set is completed