General Forum

I have a general question (not trying to change the topic, but...):

I have a few of the Eagles cards (gold tab) that have been partially scratched. What is your opinion of someone uploading those scans? I looked to see if any others have been uploaded like that, but I didn't see any on a quick glance. Additionally, there are NO Gold tab Eagles uploaded. (I do have 1 unscratched that I'll be uploading after a crop job.)

Thanks.

I'm in favor.  If someone has a scan of a mint version later, I'm sure you would concede to their scan, but in my mind, if a card more than 30 years old has no scan, a lesser-condition scan of it is perfectly acceptable.

Thanks for changing the subject, BTW.

That's my point, though, Dan. It's not any different, yet we treat it differently. Just because there are other cards with different, non-jersey numbers doesn't change the fact that there are many cards with jersey numbers. By the argument you, Chuck and Bruno are using, those cards do not have a number. I'm not actually arguing that those should be changed- I'm arguing that the team cards, which use jersey numbers, should be listed by number, ignoring the fact that there are going to be numbers not used. I'm saying it would be insane to do that to the Topps sets or the set you link, yet it's exactly what we are doing with the team sets. We are ignoring what's printed on the card to make up whatever...just like Beckett. They've never cared about being true to the cards, and now we aren't either.

As for the partially scratched card, I'd post them. It's not really any different from a lower grade older card, which we have, and they are probably fairly rare to not have scans yet for an 80s card, so finding a better copy to scan might not be very easy. An unscratched version could always be overwritten over the partially scratched someday as well. I have a few cards that are in bad enough shape that I chose not to post them, but they are not rare cards by any means, and somebody will surely come along and post a scan of a better copy. In fact, I know of at least one case where that happened already, and I've since upgraded anyway.

I completely agree with Billy.  If the player's number is the only number prominently displayed, it makes way more sense to number by player numbers than NNO.  Now if there are no numbers printed on the card, it would be seriously crazy to number them by the players uni number since most wouldn't be visible.  I collect a lot of Police sets and it kills me to list them as NNO since I (and pretty much everybody else) has always sorted them by uni number if one is displayed (with mascots and special cards at the end of the set as NNO's usually).

And strange enough, I had my McDonald's Eagles sorted in by their last names. For YEARS. (It certainly had nothing to do with this site, as we still have them by uniform number.) I'm seriously torn on this. I can see where cards that have uni # that appears like a card number may be useful to list as the card number (may help in identification purposes). And in cases like the 1988 Score baseball set where they have listed the player's uniform number on the reverse and a card number, I think we're all bright enough to see the difference and don't have to get all "Which number shall we use then?" type stupidity.

Billy, since you are one of the strongest supporters of uni # vs. NNO, will you please contact Admin privately and explain the situation. As much as I'm on the fence, I would be willing to lean your way on this one under one condition: The uniform number is printed on the card and looks like a card number. Thanks!

I'll be posting scans of the other cards as I get the chance to scan and upload. That was kind of my feelings on them as well (they are sufficiently aged to have been uploaded already, and considering the Gold set has zero scans...).

Definitely upload those McDonalds.   Many tabs will have scratches but that is so much better than no scan at all.   It will be tough to find all those in perfect shape.