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A list of cards I can only dream of owning, some I have never even seen pictures of

This is for me to figure out and remember the order I want my Joel Youngblood cards to go into their binder pages. I'm ignoring postcards (and maybe a variant or two), so I need something better than just a list of all his cards on the site. This seemed like the best idea.

Background: I was buying some cards on eBay and only needed a few more for free shipping (or some deal like that). I picked out Joel's RC because he was a Red & I thought his name was interesting. When it arrived, I went to put it away, and discovered I had his 1990 Score card, when he was also a Red. Was he really a Red for all those years and I didn't know about him? Turns out, no! 1976 and 1989 are his only years as a Red. I was intrigued, so I did a little research. The more I learned, the more fascinated and amused by this guy I was. So, I decided to start collecting his cards. It's fun to have this ongoing quest as well as become a little more familiar with the different sets of this era.

*Someone please let me know if you're aware of any cards with a Youngblood cameo or any mention of him on the backs of cards. I've found a few, but with 14 years in the majors, there's a non-zero chance there are more examples out there.*

Cards needed to complete my 1977 set. Received 16 of 16 to date. Trades from Ymmat, Sportzcommish, MattnMiller, Puma1125 and ccook. Gift from FiresNBeers. Purchase from MAurelius.

Completed the 1980 set. Received 10 of 10 to date. Trades from bucstallicafan90, MattnMiller, Johnsogr and a PIF from FiresNBeers.

Continuing with my focus on my favourite and local team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, I thought I'd take the time to put together a list of Leafs goalies.

When I got into hockey it was right at the time Felix Potvin pushed Grant Fuhr out of the starting role. After Potvin it was Curtis Joseph leading the way. After Cujo it was Ed Belfour. And after Belfour it was a revolving door of misses until Frederik Andersen provided some stability.

Only cards I have of goalies while playing for the Leafs are shown, and it is in order from goalies who played for the team during the 1981-92 season and moving forward to today.

Hall of Fame located along the PNC Park Riverwalk

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...

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. Added on 6/25/21, links where the number of cards is listed goes to my want list.

Cards in my wantlist with higher priority
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The top 150 cards of my Personal Collection In Search Of

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).

Keep in mind that I don't collect sets on purpose, (for the most part,) so these weren't completed for a reason. I will update as I get more of my collection added.

This is a list of all the cards I have in which the players have signed the cards personally. I either met the player in person or mailed the cards to the player. Forgive my poor cropping efforts. It does not reflect the quality of the cards.

I will try to provide captions for most of the cards to give a backstory as to how I got the cards signed.

This list is for my hockey cards with player last names between G and I:

Todd Gill, Doug Gilmour, Chris Gratton, Adam Graves, Brent Gretzky, Mark Hardy, Todd Harvey, Benoit Hogue, Bill Houlder, Al Iafrate

This is a list of all the cards I have in which the players have signed the cards personally. I either met the player in person or mailed the cards to the player. Forgive my poor cropping efforts. It does not reflect the quality of the cards.

I will try to provide captions for most of the cards to give a backstory as to how I got the cards signed.

This list is for my hockey cards with player last names between S and U:

Brian Savage, Craig Simpson, Billy Smith, Natalie Spooner, Ronnie Stern, Shayne Stevenson, Brent Sutter, Steve Thomas, Kevin Todd, Raffi Torres

Cards that have images from the same photoshoot.

Can be different years and brands.

All sports welcome.

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

I'm not sure if this really counts as a Frankenset since it's all from the same year, but it's what I'll call it for now. Basically, I'm trying to complete a set of 2019 A&G minis where any version of the back/border is fine. (Except, if it's a serial numbered / NNO version, I might keep that separate from the Frankenset). I'm going to use this instead of adding every version of a card I don't have to my wantlist. If you're looking to trade/sell any I don't have, I might be interested.

Cards received from SaintOrm as a prize for participating in the SaintOrm 500. Thanks for the great surprise Kurt!!

A collection of cards depicting Major League Baseball teams' "City Connect" jerseys, listed in order of when the uniforms debuted.

So many of the Topps "Future Stars" from the 80s & 90s didn't pan out to have much of a career. These players actually became All Stars.

Uniform number must be visible on the card if possible.
To be continued...

Cards that depict somebody getting something signed by someone.

Noteworthy individual games in recent Reds history.

Please help me compile a list of all of the cards with Emmitt Smith in them that are not his card. TIA.
I have not found a card of someone tackling Emmitt Smith.

Members of International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.

On this list are only the players. Builders and referees aren't listed.

Players without cards:
Bill Cleary, USA, 1997
Vic Lindquist, Canada, 1997
Bibi Torriani, Switzerland, 1997
Ferdinand Cattini, Switzerland, 1998
Hans Cattini, Switzerland, 1998
Bill Christian, USA, 1998
Carl Erhardt, Great Britain, 1998
Jacques Lacarriere, France, 1998
Eduard Pana, Romania, 1998
Barry MacKenzie, Canada, 1999
Hans Rampf, Germany, 2001
Ernest Aljancic, Slovenia, 2002
Rudi Ball, Germany, 2004
Rudi Hiti, Slovenia 2009
Riikka Sallinen (Nieminen-Välilä), Finland, 2010
Gabor Ocskay, Hungary, 2016
Konstantin Mihailov, Bulgaria, 2019
Ron Berteling, Netherlands, 2020

to be graded

The title is self explanatory.

If I have missed any feel free to post them but only MLB players that have done it in a MLB game.

Players with notable MLB careers who have only one Orioles card. (Parallels don't count as individual cards.)

As of 7/20/2022
In the early 1990s, I started a hobby project of collecting a card of every member of various statistical clubs, like the 300 HR club.

While the 500 HR Club has been done in tribute form in high-end lithographed form often, this very low-end project was inspired when I picked up the 1985 Topps Circle K set, (which is why they are all represented in this list, despite not corresponding to "Main Team(s)" listed) that was, at the time anyway, the top 34 (minus Joe DiMaggio) home run hitters in MLB history.

I then went and tried to collect a card of each member of the entire 300 Home Run Club.

As of 7/20/2022

As of 7/20/2022

As of 7/20/2022

Not represented with a card in TCDB
Will White 229
1877-1886
Main Team Cincinnati Reds

The title is self explanatory.

Persons who have tested positive for the coronavirus. Newly-added listed first, then alphabetically after that.

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

I’ve heard Billy Kingsley say that the Vegas Golden Knights are what got him into hockey. Well, the team that got me into hockey was the Syracuse Crunch, specifically the 2007-08 team. When they still lived in Syracuse, my mom’s father took me to see the Crunch play the Rochester Americans. I was instantly hooked and hockey easily became one of my favorite sports. To this day, the Crunch are still my favorite minor league hockey team.

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

Can you identify the game pictured in a card. Let me know and I can add it here.

Thanks again to ranfordfan, C2Cigars, onyxdragon9, Mark (Stadium Cards and Comics) and Raul (Raul Lucky 7) for the free hockey breaks.
Break #1 - Colorado Avalanche
Break #2 - Calgary Flames
Break #3 (2nd Line) - Toronto Maple Leafs

A listing of Boston's All Star players

Updated 07/12/22 - J.D. Martinez added to roster as an injury replacement.

Thank you dicefoot for this nice selection of cards.

7/8/22. Looks like all my T205 Gold Border Cards got removed from my list. I'm guessing that's because someone fixed the checklist of those cards. I have now replaced them on the list. Fine with me. Gave me a chance to play with this list again....

9/14/17. IT IS DONE! Don't quite know when I started this, two or three years ago, I'd say. But I've done it. This is my collection of every player who was on the field during Merkle's Boner.

I leave the rest of my original description of this list below:

I've always loved it, but for about three years now -- ever since I decided I needed at least one tobacco card, a Cub -- I've been a bit obsessed with Merkle's Boner. Perhaps I just like the name. Perhaps I like that it led to the last Cubs World Series win before 2016. I dunno. I'm just going with it.

I'm not going to recount the story here. I'll leave it to those who are interested to look up. Suffice it to say, Merkle made a pretty understandable base running error that arguably won the Cubs the 1908 pennant. He never lived it down.

I thought I'd be done once I got Merkle and Tinker and Evers and Chance. But then I wondered what other tobacco cards I could shoot for, and it occurred to me that there was a pitcher that day. And another guy on base. And a guy who got the hit. There's the guy who fielded the ball. And, less connected to the play, but of course on the field, were the catcher, third baseman, and two other outfielders.

I lean towards T205s whenever possible, because they have stats and are beautiful. I hope to own all of these someday. It'll take awhile. But here's my Merkle's Boner gallery. Enjoy.

V3

States still needed:
Alaska
Delaware
Hawaii
Idaho
Kansas
Maine
New Mexico
Vermont
West Virginia

Finnish players drafted to the NBA

No cards:
Timo Saarelainen
Los Angeles Lakers
115th overall 1985

All A's Topps Now released in order (not counting team sets)