General Forum

Many players such as commons they don't keep giving cards and cards to after they retire. However, it would be great if we had something like Last Season Playing or LSP or something like that. I like to collect cards from when they played but ofc there is exceptions.

Same here. I have no interest in cards of inactive/retired players. To me they're meaningless and worthless. 

When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s and I got a random Mickey Mantle reprint or something I thought it was pretty cool, even if they ended up being worthless.  As a Roberto Clemente fan I thought Topps 1998 set with reprints of all of his cards was awesome. But now every single retired player who wasn't a complete loser has multiple cards  in every iteration of every set every year. This is why I have almost zero interest in anything from the last decade or so. When more cards of Dwight Gooden were made in 2022 than during his whole playing career, things might be getting a tad ridiculous

Yep, some have more cards released after their playing days are through than they had when they were playing!

I can see the pros and cons of this but in a lot of cases it's overwhelming overkill

Not a feature that I would use personally, but I could see how/why some others would use a feature like this.

Rather than an “LSP” note on specific cards, I could see this being applied as a filter category under the comprehensive list of the player’s cards.

For baseball players, I would imagine that fields for MLB debut and final season year (or game date) would need to be added to the PID. (Maybe something like “years active” for other sports?)

The filter could then use that data to filter the available cards by year +1 year (to capture the cards released for the players final season subject to the publishing lag).

Once working satisfactorily, there might even be an opportunity for another filter to work similarly but capture only the minor league years.

This would require a lot of data input, might be a way to make this work.

To make the case, it would be interesting to do a playing and post playing card count of all (baseball) HOF'ers that have been retired at least 10 years.

For instance, Jim Rice has 4,204 total cards. Only 477 are from his active playing years, including Senior League Baseball. There are almost 8x post-retirement cards as playing days. 

Right now I’m trying to add Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry to my Mets Retired Number list (they are getting seperate ceremonies this spring), and trying to sift through dozens of pages of recent years products for a suitable card!  

And this is some 23-24 years after they both played their last game of MLB!

I collect mainly Topps cards and run a card blog. Another blogger coined the term ‘sunset card’ as a card showing a players final career stats after they have ‘rode off into the sunset’ and retired. While not an official list, I have made a list of major stars whom Topps issued Sunset cards of after their last season. I need to update it as some recent ones are missing, but it’s pretty close to being complete. https://toppscardsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/p/official-sunset-card-list.html?m=1 That is the list I’ve come up with (and included some custom cards for some that Topps missed out on). Not sure if this is what you meant, but hope it helps. 

OE, thought the poster above was the author of the blog listed in the post