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Does anyone spend time/effort compiling your own 9-card mini-collections? I am considering building a single page set for each of the Dodgers' World Series Champion teams. So, the 9 cards of the 2020 World Series might include Buehler, Kershaw, and Urias across the top row, with Bellinger, Betts, and Seager in the middle, and then Will Smith, Justin Turner, and Joc Pederson to round off the bottom.

The '55 team would be Don Newcombe, Roy Campenella, Gil Hodges, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Billy Loes, Sandy Amoros, Duke Snider, and Carl Furillo.

My questions are:

1) If you do this, are you a stickler for the card being of the same year for everyone? Like, would it be OK to use a 2018 card for the 2020 player, or a 1953 Topps Don Newcombe instead of a '55, for instance.

2) How do you display these? In their own binder? WIth a newspaper clipping from the World Championship? What are some ideas.

3) If I create my own "collection" to track these, can I set want-lists that are collection specific so that once I get a card of a player for that set I can remove it easily from my trade list?

Thanks all! I would love to hear about your own mini collections here!

I'll give you my perspective. MN Twins won World Series titles in 1987 and 1991. I put together a 3" binder for each year. Each binder contains:

• ALCS and World Series programs
• The entire Sports Illustrated magazine for the 3 weeks of the ALCS and WS...Twins were on the cover each week (87 & 91).
• Ticket stubs from all games I attended (about 8)
• Homer Hanky for each year
• Printed off the Season Stats and World Series Stats for Twins and their opponents from Baseball Almanac
• Bought the World Series package from Gateway Stamp Co. that profiled each game on a separate envelope, with silk cachet pictures and player autographs.
• Put together pages of baseball cards for the principal players of Twins and opponent. Roughly selected 10-15 players per team. I chose not to just collect the card for the year of the Series. I wanted the card for the player to reflect the stats for that World Series season; so typically the following year (or later). I selected the card brand based upon which card looked best for the particular player. Thus, my player cards are a diverse mix of the year and brand, but always shows the player stats for the year of that World Series.

Hope that gives you an idea or two. Good luck with the Memories.

Ken

This is one of the great things about a hobby like this.  The rules are yours.  However it is that you will enjoy the mini-collections the most is the way you need to do it.  If you want the 9 to be all the same year, do it.  If you want the 9 to showcase the player the best, do it.

The whole point is to have it mean something to you.

Kwolf, those albums sound fantastic! Thanks for the ideas.

Agreed, these are some seriously great ideas. Definitely something to consider!

For the 9-card idea, the players featured would the three top hitters and three top pitchers. How would the bottom three be determined? I am thinking on feel, but perhaps it'd also be World Series events? That might take a decent amount of research for the older World Series depending on how far one goes back. Would you also include notes as to what each player did during the World Series to help you remember why they are included in the nine?