Well, actually it does. There are a lot of cards I will never downsize. But what I am referring to is card brands. More on that in a minute. My series of downsizing posts have paid off for my overall goal of clearing space on my card shelves, but it's a very slow process. First of all, any movement on this project is restricted to the weekend. I don't have the time or energy for this during the week. Secondly, I probably should be giving away cards in much larger chunks for quicker progress. But I can't afford that. So piece meal it is. The process, like I've said, is removing cards from binders and putting them into boxes. I clear space in boxes through these giveaways. Some examples of progress since the first downsize back in November: Complete Allen & Ginter sets post-2011 are now in boxes. The double-row long box here houses 2012, 2013 and 2014 complete sets. There is another box elsewhere that contains all of my A&G cards from 2015...
As a young baseball fan in the late 1970s, I really wanted the Baseball Encyclopedia. I didn't know that the one I saw in advertisements had been just released in 1977, which is why I was seeing it in every baseball publication that year, The Sporting News, Baseball Digest, etc. I eventually bought the softcover version of the Hy Turkin Baseball Encyclopedia from an ad in Baseball Digest. I don't remember how much it cost but it was a lot for me at the time, maybe $12.99 or something? When it arrived, I took it everywhere. I distinctly remember taking it across the street onto the porch of our lifelong friends, two girls who didn't care a wit about baseball, and just pouring over the details right there on the porch. The thrill for me was having every player's record, every team's record right there for reference. I never had to wonder about this stat or that, I could pull it off the bookshelf built into my bed and read it right there in bed. And I did. Many...