General Forum

Hi Collectors.

So as I was holding my newly-acquired 1971 Topps Hank Aaron and Willie Mays cards and staring at the stats on the back with awe, it occurred to me that at this rate I’ll fall off the list of Top 100 baseball card collections very soon. I’m already down to 91st. I think I was 47th when I joined the site two years ago.

My problem is that I’m just going for vintage cards now, pre-1972 Topps, maybe some other brands from before Topps existed. High numbers, HOFers. It’s really expensive. I just brought in a huge hall. . . of ten cards. Sure, I could buy a thousand 2015 Heritage Traded Rookie Future Star Purple Foil Throwback Reprint cards for about what was spent on those ten cards. But I don’t want the 2015 HTRFSPFTR cards. I want vintage originals.

So I’m wondering if there’s a way to add a stat of biggest vintage collections? Say, largest collections of pre-1980 cards. Again, as my heading suggests, this is a totally selfish request, but I am interested when I find others who have large collections of older stuff. And impressed.

Just a thought.

Happy holidays, everyone.

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V3 - where do you see how you rank in terms of the number of baseball cards you have? I am with you - I rather have 1 1960 card than 200 2015 cards.  I would be curious to see where I rank overall and if they made a ranking by decade - pre-1950, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, etc.

On the front page, in the upper right corner just under the header, there is a section titled Stats.  If you click on the "More..." link at the bottom of that section it takes you to a page with all sorts of statistical breakdowns of different aspects of the site.

Stats

ABout halfway down the list is a section labelled "Collections", the first link in that section takes you to the page Vvvergeer is referring to.

Thanks Lea.  Did not ever see that.  Gives me all the more reason to clean up my collection on this site just to see if I rank in the top 100.

Oooh, Sandyrusty, the suggestion of ranking collections by each decade seems extreme, but would be awfully cool. Didn't think of that. I feel so grateful to the adminstrators as it is, I didn't want to push my luck.

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