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Sportzcommish
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 11:50 AM | |
I'm looking for ideas to organize my PC binders. I mainly collect baseball players, but have a few football and basketball that I collect.
For baseball I basically collect Houston players, including stars that spent most of their careers and are usually identified with other teams, i.e. Andy Pettitte with Yanks, but I also collect many players who never played for Houston.
Currently there's a smattering of rhyme and reason for where my PC ends up in binders, but for the most part they're scattered around. Here are a few examples of my "organized binders":
- Killer B's - Bagwell, Berkman, and Biggio
- Batteries - pitchers and catchers that were stars but not HOF types
- Alphabetical - this is for both Astros players and non-Astros players in different binders
I'm just looking for some ideas on what you've done to enhance the enjoyment of our cards. I'm leaning toward having most of my PC in individual binders, which except for a handful eventually should reach way over a hundred cards.
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Sportzcommish
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 7:06 PM | |
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Follow my blog - I Identify as a Card Collector. “Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs.” - Puddleglum in The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 7:47 PM | |
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Sportzcommish
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 7:51 PM | |
I guess it's about being somewhat creative in my use of binders. I was hoping someone has thought of something to do aside from team oriented or alphabetical.
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Follow my blog - I Identify as a Card Collector. “Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs.” - Puddleglum in The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
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edk
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 8:02 PM | |
chronologically in a binder for the normal cards in 9 pocket pages and another binder for the stupid shaped cards (slabbed) that dont fit well with others. I only have one PC to deal with so I guess mine is also alphabetical and by team.
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 8:08 PM | |
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Sportzcommish
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 8:13 PM | |
If I'm following, David, if you have hundreds of a player do you split that up in the way you mentioned?
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Follow my blog - I Identify as a Card Collector. “Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs.” - Puddleglum in The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
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switzr1
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 8:24 PM | |
I don't have that many cards of any player, but if I did I guess 99 would go in 11 pages and the last one would go wherever until I got 8 more. It keeps the empty spots in pages at a minimum too. I left that detail out. If I gave Dominic Leone his own page, but I only have 2 cards, I got 7 empty spots, and that seems wasteful to me. I don't recommend this method. My brother is always amused by my new ideas though, because I don't stick with an idea very long. Of course, he puts cards in order by uniform number in one binder, and as a kid he put them in order by player weight.
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.
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spazmatastic
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 8:47 PM | |
It might be easier to show what I do. These are just my STL Cardinals collection (minus cased and/or framed cards).
Specific players are on the left. All other players are merged together on the right and organized by year/brand/card number.
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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending any offer. ONLY selling cards as of March 2024. No trades or purchases right now. _______________________________________________________________________ Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/22/24): STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8810; Carolina Panthers - 2888; GB Packers - 1790+ cards Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2038 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1875 cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1594; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 839; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 707
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spazmatastic
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 9:01 PM | |
Bottom to top on the left side:
* Yadier Molina and Stan Musial
* 8 different players + all AU's and MEM's that aren't cased/framed (ONLY STL cards of these players)
* Ozzie Smith (plus all Padres cards)
* Ray Lankford (who used to be in the 8-player album until space was a problem)
* Brock, Gibson, Edmonds, Rolen (all non-STL cards of them are also in there - Molina & Musial used to be in there too)
The right side is all other player cards from the 50's to 2008 with the album standing in the middle being 2009 to present. I have 3 albums of PC players that never played for the Cardinals. One is only Manny Ramirez, the next is 4 more players and the last is 6 more players. The albums are in ABC order by player IN the album, but not from one album to the next one. I just left them in the album where they started many years ago. I had to move Manny to his own small album as my Griffey Jr. collection grew and was too big for a small album.
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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending any offer. ONLY selling cards as of March 2024. No trades or purchases right now. _______________________________________________________________________ Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/22/24): STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8810; Carolina Panthers - 2888; GB Packers - 1790+ cards Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2038 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1875 cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1594; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 839; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 707
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