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Blue Jays Level of Excellence located as banners around Rogers Center levels

Hall of Fame located inside Target Field

Walks and Walls of Honor located throughout Miller Park

Statues located in plazas outside Wrigley

Hall of Fame plaques found throughout SunTrust Park's Monument Garden

Cards I need for Reds team sets.
COMPLETED: 1990-1991 Bowman, 1994 Collector's Choice, 1995 Collector's Choice SE, 1985-1996 Donruss, 1982-1993 Fleer, 1990-1994 Leaf, 1992-1994 Pinnacle, 1988-1996 Score, 1993 Select, 1992-1993 Stadium Club, 1983-1999 Topps, 1992 & 1994 Triple Play, 1991-1993 Ultra, 1989-1994 Upper Deck.
COMPLETED: 2000-2021 Topps Series 1, 2, & Update; 2007 Fleer; 2008-2010 Upper Deck.
I do not collect errors and variations, of the same player. I just want to have one card of each player. If possible, I like to have the COR version of a player's card rather than a ERR version of that player's card. The priority of trading for these is secondary behind the Star Player Binder and pretty high especially if I can complete the team set.

Groups of players acquired by the Reds or acquired from the Reds by another team.

I am a serial number collector, and a fan of (old school) Oakland Raiders (and some Los Angeles Raiders). This is a collection of my serial number 1 cards, including my fave card, from 2021 Panini Momentum, of the Materials Prime insert of Jim Otto, a #1 of 5 cards.

This is my PC for Marcus Allen's playing years with the Raiders. I also include the Oakland Raiders (retirees, HOF, etc) that are in the sets of those years.

Image of the athlete that is typical for how I view or remember that player.

Big thank you to Chuck for doing this. It is mighty generous of you, especially considering prices for cards right now. These are all of the New York Islanders in the break.

This is a list of all cards I’ve gotten signed via the mail. Cards are in order of when I received them (newest to oldest). I got addresses from Sports Card Forum, Sports Collectors and the Harvey books.

Autographed memorabilia in my collection

The collection of players that have at one point been on my team via through draft, trade, or transactions.

Update: 4/14/21. I noticed today was one of the top birthdays, so I looked through this list. Seems I hadn't updated that Roy Halladay and Marvin Miller are in the Hall of Fame. Now I have. But I have not updated the WAR for active players. Perhaps I'll remember to when they retire.

Sometime late in 2017, I started paying attention to the birthdays listed on the site. Then I decided I wanted to make a list of the top 10 baseball birthdays, completely subjective, of course.

So here they are.

Methodology: Well first, I used this site. Thank goodness for whomever thought to put "HOF" in red for those players. Because, otherwise, this would have taken forever. I cruised through every day of the year, looking for the red HOF. If I found an "anchor" Hall of Famer, I'd look through the rest of the list, looking for other HOFers, but also all-stars, league leaders, players and managers who had an impact on the game. Then I listed all those players for the dates that seems promising. If there was just one "minor" HOFer, that wouldn't be enough to look at that date more carefully. One "major" HOFer, and I'd check it out. Two HOFers and I'd look closely. Remember, in the end, I cruised past every baseball player who is listed in this database.

But THEN I stumbled into the fact that Baseball Reference has sortable lists of every player born on each day -- sortable by WAR! So I basically started the whole project over and reviewed every...single...day...to see what players had the highest WAR on each day, and I listed the top candidates. I got down to about 60 days pretty easily, then cut it to 41 without a lot of trouble, then found my way down to 25, which I then arranged in "order."
But first, I searched for a similar list on the internet. To my relief, I didn't find one, really. I did find a list of baseball birthdays by total war of all players, but I didn't consider that as a factor.

In the end, I basically looked at the top three WAR for each date, and then checked to see if other significant players were also born on that date. I didn't give a ton of credit to dates with one player with a huge WAR, but no significant other stars to back him up. Think Babe Ruth, Cy Young. There is probably a slight modern slant. I decided to focus on players, but used other prominent baseball figures as tie-breakers. (Think Marvin Miller.)

These candidates dates are just my opinion. Feel free to argue. Or to research better dates.

As to the cards I picked, if I had one of his cards in my collection, I went with my favorite of those, otherwise, I just picked what I liked. Just so I don't have to state whether I have the card every. single. time, if it's 1969 or later, I definitely own the card.

All stats from Baseball Reference.com

Picking a top 25 wasn't too hard. Ordering them 1 to 25 was almost random silliness.

I've been working on this list for a long, long time. And now I've finally pulled the trigger. So without further babbling, I present my list of the Top 25 Baseball Birthdays.
Enjoy.

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What I need for this set

Cards featuring players that appeared on my TCDB League Yahoo Fantasy Team during the 2021 season.

A list of players, as Detroit Tigers or Minor League Affiliates on card, where I have 100 or more different cards. Updated April 14 2021.

These are the players who have gotten 2,000+ rushing yards in a season.

This is a list of every quarterback who has had 5,000+ passing yards in a season. The cards displayed are from the year they joined the club.

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.

Top 30 Set that are more than 95% complete.

Players whose final game was a Stanley Cup clinching win.

No cards exist for several pre 1940 players.

NHL,NBA,NFL,MLB players and head coaches (MLB managers) who participated in four or more decades. Combined service as a player and coach/manager does not qualify.

No cards exist for NFL coaches:

Wade Phillips 1985-2013
Pete Carroll 1994-2020, active

Starting with inducting the recently passed Andre The Giant as the first member in 1993, the WWE, then WWF, created a Hall of Fame.

The first full class was in 1994, second in 1995 and the third in 1996. The first two were held prior to the King of The Ring PPV event, and the 1996 one was held prior to Survivor Series.

With the coming of the Attitude Era, coupled with many deserving performers still very much active and in other companies, or having issues with the WWF, the Hall was shuttered until 2004.

Then, with the 20th annual WrestleMania, it became a part of the WrestleMania weekend festivities as an arena event, complete with fans attending (the first three were mostly invitee only and done in hotel business meeting/banquet hall type settings). And it has been a WM Weekend fixture ever since.

It has recently been announced that, FINALLY (yes read that as The Rock would say it) plans are in motion for a permanent home for The Hall near the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

I'm a set builder, I always have been, and always will be. I completed my first set in 1990 and as of this writing, April 2nd, 2013, I've completed 116 sets. My criteria for inclusion on this list: Pack based release, even if I bought a factory set, qualifies. Factory set only issues qualify at 100 or more cards. Team sets, inserts, promos, do not.
Since I am OCD, I also have kept track of when I completed many of the sets. If I know the exact date, I will include it in the caption. I also had the idea, circa 2004, to record the last card I needed to complete the set, if I wrote it down, that is the card I will use for this album.

I'm a base card guy. Always have been, always will be. But I will collect literally anything. Inserts have been a staple in the hobby for many years but I've never figured out how many I have completed over the years...until now.

WARNING: THE LIST CONTAINS FULL FRONTAL NUDITY so if you have your filter set to show mature, it will...

Not to complain, ink is always sweet. Here's what became of the Scrub Squad who's signatures I've collected.

All of these sets have come about from buying a box, seeing what chase cards or anything not part of the regular set I got from the box and then purchasing or trading for what was needed to complete each set. There are 44 sets in total.

I got into sports into 1992 and it turned out to be the best time to do it. The Toronto Blue Jays, aka the "boys of summer" came off of a very successful 1991 season and were looking to go further... and further they went. After winning first place in their division they dispatched the Oakland Athletics and the Atlanta Braves for their first World Series win.

Then the Leafs started their season... they started off with their typically subpar win/loss ratio. But when the second half hit, everything fell together. The team had 26 wins and 12 losses to make the playoffs, and pushed out Detroit and St. Louis until falling victim to the Kings in no small part due to the infamous non-call on Gretzky (yes, I went there).

To commemorate these fond memories I have from when I got into these sports and teams respectively, I've put together the below list which includes every player (whom I have cards of) who played on the Blue Jays and Maple Leafs roster that year. Most cards will be from that season but if I don't have any I'll use cards from other seasons, with a priority on cards in which the players are in their Toronto attire.

These are the rookie cards of all the players selected to the MLB All-Century and All-Time Teams.

This is a list of all the non-TTM Teemu autos I have.

Self explanatory...

Since 1901, 1,839 Players have played for the Boston Red Sox

Of those players 248 never had a baseball card issued.

Of the 1591 player who have appeared on a card,
471 never have had a card picturing them with the Red Sox!
96 of the 471 without a Red Sox card, do have a minor league card for a Red Sox affiliate.

That leaves 1216 players who played for the Sox and have either a major or minor leagues Red Sox card.

I currently have cards of 1119 of those players leaving only 97 Red Sox players I do not have a card of.

This list is an alphabetical of all the players I do NOT have a Red Sox card of.


**Jack Billingham 1980 Red Sox Postcards - Not listed on TCDB**

If you have a card available of any of the following players in a Red Sox major or Minor league uniform, I would be interested in trading for or in the case of vintage, purchasing.

The worst team Wayne Gretzky was on (Not counting the lockout shortened season), the Kings finished 24-40-18 while Gretzky was traded mid-season to St. Louis

At this stage there are a limited number of people I'm still missing...but there is still the opportunity to add some new people.

Rookie Cards of HC Sparta Praha alumni. Preferably Young Guns for players with a rookie season after 2000-01 season.

My detailed daily sports memory didn't start until about 1970. Somewhere along the line I learned about Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito and that was it!!!! It didn't matter that I was in northern NJ (Rangers country) ... it was Boston Bruins all the way!

I've been forced out of the NBA by the insane prices that cards are selling for, but that doesn't mean I'm leaving the sport totally.

Sets that I have been able to complete after taking an 18 year break from collecting.

Players depicted in a uniform & hat for a team they used to play for and is different from the team name on the card. No airbrushed caps here.

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)

Autographs are usually the smallest of the three specialty lists I keep, after Relics and Serially numbered cards.

Cards with any ATF items being held or displayed in the background. Let the hunt begin.