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As we've discussed before, we all have varied reasons why we joined this site. I was looking to find checklists that would help me identify the Phillies cards out there so I could catalog my Phillies collection. I had been given 150 or so cards from the 1960s and had a pretty nice assortment already from the 1970s onward with a smattering I obtained of the 1950s.

Last night I finally finished entering all my Phillies cards (into my Philadelphia Phillies Collection, of course). I have NOT marked everything I don't have as a want, but it essentially is. I only mark higher priority stuff (such as team set completion cards) as wants. Of course, there were a few items in my collection that aren't listed here (and shouldn't be). But here are some interesting (to me) stats based on what is here:

6,849 - Unique cards / items listed on TCDB in my collection
1,141 - Different sets the items are from
1951 - first year of items (every year from then is represented)
7% - the percentage of all the baseball cards out there for the Phillies that I own

If it wasn't for Admin making multiple collections happen, this wouldn't have happened. Only took 5 years. :) (Actually, only started adding stuff less than 2 months ago, and really ramped it up within the last 3 weeks.)

Another cool fact - since I joined the site, I completed all the Topps Phillies sets from 1955 - 1978 (except those 4 cards that have been well-documented [63 Herrnstein, 66 Jackson, 67 Bunning, 67 Rojas]) along with several other team sets from 1991 to present from all manufacturers. (I pretty much had 1979 Topps - 1991 "big 5" already.) But it was thanks to having access to the info here that I was able to know what to pursue. So, thanks TCDB and everyone who has contributed something to it. You all rock!

Dan, congratulations on finally completing your own personal goal.  Two points though:

1.  If you didn't spend all of your free time helping the rest of us figure things out for our own collections, or correcting the things we mess up, you would have had this done years ago;

2.  Isn't it discouraging that you only have 7% of the cards linked to the Phillies?

Congrats Dan.  You deserve the optimum use of this site for your own personal collection.

Congratulations Dan, that really shows how big the world of baseball cards are. Almost 7000 cards and only 7%? Wow! I have to go check the largest team in my NBA collection and the percentage. It's several thousand less cards but I bet the percentage is higher. Edit: Yep. 4226 Chicago Bulls cards make up 16% of them. I never even thought to look at those percentages before!

Heck of an accomplishment!

Dan, I concur with Sandy. You do spend much time helping us, me in particular. Take a day off soon (from helping). Congratulations. 

I believe I have all my Astros logged in the database. I just don't have them filed at home. Been working on that for some time.

I didn't even know you collected cards. I thought you were here to help and/or manage those of us who repeatedly can't figure out how to add information to the database. 

But seriously, congratulations; that is one heck of an accomplishment and an impressive collection!

Well done Dan, but I need to know...does this figure include the 93 Fleer Incaviglia or not?

Thanks everyone, I knew there was a reason I wanted to share with you all - you get it, and can find good ways to make funny about it.

As for David's question - no, I don't have that card, as it apparently was not included in one of the many team set lots I've purchased over the years because who would really think it was a Phillie card???? :)

It's on the freakin want list however.

So you "want" it, whether you want it or not.

Hey Dan a HUGE congrats to you my friend, I have heard of this in talks with you over the past few years and am very happy for you to finally have gotten it done. Goals are somethign we all strive to achive, I know when I got my Ranford and Oiler RCs done the feeling was awesome, they are but a pittance to what you have done. I will never attempt that with the Oilers ...... EVER. Here's to hitting 10% someday soon LOL.

Again good on ya bud, are you not happy I finally got self-suffient, one weened off ten more people join!! ROFL