It's award season. I think if you watched any football yesterday, you know that, with advertisements for the airing of the upcoming Grammys, for artists you don't know and songs you wish you never heard.
In keeping with the season, Trading Card Database announced their yearly "site awards" and Night Owl Cards came away with "Favorite Blog" for the third straight year. Woo-hoo! Throw in the Blog of the Year honor from Nachos Grande a few weeks ago and it's another sweep! It's a consensus, if you're not reading, you're receding!
Thanks for the votes. It's a little weird to be getting accolades after doing this for so long. It's not 2009 anymore, NOC isn't the new, hot, young thing. But I appreciate it, and I appreciate all that TCDB does for acknowledging collectors and collections.
I still use only a small part of what's available on the site. I don't use the forums, nor do I comment, nor have I started trading. As I've said many times, far and away the greatest attraction for me with the site is tracking my collection. Everything else is a side-benefit.
So, let's quickly review where my collection is on that site as of right now.
I'm still convinced that I don't have everything documented here yet, there's a pocket of my collection that I'm sure I've overlooked, but I don't know where to begin to look.
Anybody who reads this blog is not surprised by the distribution of totals here. I'm all about baseball, my favorite teams in other sports and some fun, nonsports stuff. Everything else can kick rocks. (Except tennis, which I wish was a mainstream sport in the collecting world).
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This is an updated list of the players with the most cards in my collection, which I've shown in the past on the blog. Not a lot of change here and now that Cody Bellinger is not a Dodger anymore, his once-inevitable trip into the top five will not happen and others will surpass him. I'm thinking Mookie Betts will pop onto this top 15 at some point this year. (If you're interested in player No. 16, it's Gary Sheffield).
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Here are the totals by team. Anything on this list that is not the Dodgers is a reflection on the checklist for individual card sets, not my collecting tendencies. I do not attempt to collect any team other than the Dodgers. I've never sought out a Yankees card, so I don't know how I have the second-most cards of that team. Just tells you where card companies' minds are I suppose.
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My total for Dodgers cards was No. 1 on TCDB for a number of months, until gcrl decided to add his collection to the discussion. At the rate he accumulates stuff like Garveys and such, I'll never retake my title. I get too distracted by oddballs and other bits of pretty paper.
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Underneath the totaling of your collection by individual sport are a couple of categories related to transacting.
I've begun uploading cards for the "sale/trade" portion -- there is so very far to go here. I've done nothing with the want list part other than adding some 1975 Topps buybacks that I saw listed there. Once I get involved in that is probably when I'll be fully immersed in trading here -- if that happens. Like I said, my favorite part of the TCDB name is the "Database" part, but maybe some day I'll have more free time for stuff like that.
For now, about the only other thing from TCDB I like to do is the mindless exercise where you can call up a random card from your collection.
Let's do that and see what first five cards pop up:
1. 2018 Heritage, World Series subset, Game 6.
Ah yes, a very happy time. Then came scandal.
2. 2018-19 O-Pee-Chee Chad Johnson
Chad Johnson was the Sabres' regular goalie in 2015-16. I don't recall that season at all.
3. 1992 Leaf Tom Candiotti, black gold parallel
This was a recent addition to my collection and here it is!
4. 1966 Topps Bob Miller
Weee! Vintage! Bob Miller is 26 is this photo. Twenty-Six.
5. 2008 Upper Deck Timeline Randy Johnson
Ah yes, a reminder of that year when I tried to buy every card set featured in pack displays at any retail store I happened to visit during 2008.
Also the year I started this blog.
Staying with numbers, this is my 5,201st post since debuting here. I have no plans to stop.
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Also, it's crazy that the Yankees have *that many* more cards than every other team. 10% more would be understandable. But the gap between the Yanks and the Red Sox is probably wider than the gap between the Red Sox and the Rays.
once i am through, i'll have to check how my player rankings line up with yours - i am guessing they are similar outside of my number 1. i haven't used tcdb for anything other than entering my player collections and dodger collection so far. maybe once i get the mini-collections and sets in there i will look at the other features.
As for the site, you have really done a ton of uploading compared to me. I have stuck with small collections which also makes me feel better as number one collector of most of those haha!
Keep up the great work blogging and we will keep on reading.
I am thinking I need another break from it and focus on my collection more than talking about it.
The golf is a Matt Kuchar card, I've interviewed him. The MMA is an "octagon girl". The auto racing, I had to look up. It's a Reggie Jackson card, which references his interest in auto racing.
I, too, started on TCDB (GoldenEagles555 over there) as a way to organize my collection. I moved a few duplicates to my trade list, somebody reached out for a trade, and the rest is history. I am now hopelessly addicted to trading on TCDB. Worse problems to have, I guess.