General Forum

Yes! :)

For the sets that I have a lot of the cards, I will move them into "position". If there are 28 cards in the set, and I have less than 9, they go in alpha order with no spaces. Yes, this causes some reshuffling, but minimal. It only affects the one set. Essentially, if it appears on my wantlist here, there's an empty pocket for it. As of right now, I only add it to the wantlist if I'm actively pursuing it. Just the way I operate.

Very good read to all the posters.

Dan like your idea also, I am trying to decide if I want to Continue with team sets for the Red Sox, Avalanche., Bruins? Oh the pain, I was collecting all card Avalanche and the other teams but am leaining towards one card for every player. Then how to store in binders??? Oh the pain. Seperate by first letter of the last name?

I like to have spaces for the missing cards.

Mark

I just took a closer look at the pages I have. I says BCW  9T II on the edge of the plastic page. My 1991 Topps baseball set in those pages makes a crackling sound when I turn the pages. Weird stuff.

I must have bought an earlier version as it's BCW 9T. I purchased it between 1989-1991. I remember purchasing and loving it because I felt it was thicker and therefore provided more protection than the other pocket pages. I don't know if they even still sell the stuff.

Oh well, I'm happy with Ultra Pro - of course I've only had them for less than a year. I'll be back in a few years to see how its treated my cards.

Thanks for the input guys.

When I worked at Star Company, we decided we were going to release our sets prepackaged in pages (since they were 9-card sets - I'm talking the Gold, Silver, Platinum, Millennium, Stellar, and Nova series). That wound up being my job - find a good page, at a good price. After all, we were going to be buying in bulk. Rotman's was a company that used to advertise in SCD and probably other hobby publications. They sent me samples and gave us a better than advertised deal. This was 1991-1992 (the 1992s came out in pages) when I negotiated with them. I doubt they are still around, so I know this probably doesn't help, but I still have many items stored in those pages (I got a few of the extras as well as the samples for personal use - the owner at Star was awesome with me!), and those pages feel the same today as they did 25 years ago. I wish they still made them.

The pages I bought as a kid in the mid-1980s were MVP 9T. They weren't bad. I also had some other pages from before that cracked and got brittle (and were cruddy side load), so I removed all the cards from those and put the pages aside. (One reason why a large portion of my collection wound up in boxes instead of pages.) I don't remember the brand, I don't even think they had the brand on them.

I can't believe no one has mentioned Cardboard Gold yet. Those were the worst pages I've ever encountered, at least until a couple of years ago. My Grandma gave me a notebook full of cards that she found at a yard sale. All of the cards were in pages made by "Howard's Sports Supplies, Inc." based in Leipsic, OH. I'm pretty sure that company doesn't exist anymore. The pages are sticky and oily at the same time and most of the cards in the pages are stuck in the slots on both sides. I can carefully remove the cards but most cards still suffer surface loss to the pages. I still haven't removed all the cards from them b/c I can't stand touching the pages for more than 4-5 at a time. Then I have to go wash my hands. I'm glad I never bought any of those pages back in the early 90's! Once I found Ultra Pro pages around 1990, that's all I've ever bought.

vroomed....working for a sports card company must have been a fun job. As for Rotmans sports cards. They started out as (and still are) a furniture company in Worcester Mass. I think the sports card side of them went away around 2004. From internet searches, they also did sports card auctions.

I prefer top-loaders. But that doesn't work very well with sets, so it's back to those stupid albums and 9 pocket sleeves. Otherwise, I leave the cards in boxes close to the set sizes, then there's no easy way to look at them.

I like the album concept with the 9 pocket pages.  The only thing is when the set is 100 cards.  Yup, the 12th page with only one card.  I'll try to fill up those pages with some promos or SP extras.  Or I'll have to put in a few malinger cards from a set I may have only a few of to even out the 12th page.

One thing that makes me a little uncomfortable is pulling out one or two of the stars from the album and leaving the slots empty.  Sometimes I only have a slabbed card and obviously can't put it in the album page.  If I don't have an extra, then I'll print out on paper a copy of the scan, and make a makeshift card of it, and put the word copy on it, then place it in the empty slot of the album page.  This way I'll know I have the card, either on display or in a storage box.  Even though the copy is not the actual card, it is easy for me to see and say "oh yeah, I got that one put away, but this is what it looks like in the set." Small compromise, but for me it appeases the completist part of set building, while enjoying the stars of a set on display at the same time. 

I like what you do for your slabbed cards.

What my son did when he was much younger would put that single card in the middle pocket. Personally, I prefer your method on that as well! :)