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Card Sets and Wantlists on SCN
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Posted by jaygross
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If you collect signed sets or signed cards, it is extremely challenging to stay organized. It can be difficult to keep track of the cards you need and the signing habits of those players. I am a set collector and I have felt this pain over and over and over.

For quite a few years, members have been asking me for the ability to track the signed cards they are looking for in their collection. While you could start a thread on some message board or email around a spreadsheet, they're a lot of manual work and are terrible solutions.

Last year I launched SportsCardDatabase.com (SCDB), with the goal of it being a sports card reference (among other things). Since then, the project has continued to grow and so many of you are using it/adding information to it - thanks... So, now SCN is using that card information to solve the problems mentioned above.

This functionality is available for basic AND premium members.

Introducing the Autographed Card Wantlist Tracking:

Browse for the autographed cards you want by sport and set:

View the checklist for the set, with each card cross referenced with the signing information in the SCN database:

Track the cards you want (check off the cards you want and click the "Save to Your Wantlist" button):

The cards and sets in your autograph wantlist become part of your user profile (making buying and trading much more efficient):

All the card data is based off the sets in SportsCardDatabase. If you are interested in a set not yet available, you can go add the checklist to SCDB. If you see errors or inconsistencies between the two sites, please contact me.

We have quite a few big features in the pipeline that will compliment this new functionality. Stay tuned and please check back with SportsCollectors.Net often...

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The 3 J's
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Posted by jaygross
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I loved watching college hoops in the early 1990's. The 1992 draft alone was just amazing with so many of my favorites - Shaq, Mourning, Walt Williams, Tom Gugliotta,Laphonso Ellis, Latrell Sprewell, Robert Horrry, Clarence Weatherspoon, Jon Barry, Doug Christie, Harold Miner, and Jim Jackson. I think that was the year that basketball card collecting really exploded in popularity.

At that time, the Dallas Mavericks were absolutley awful! They had went for it all a few years earlier with some really bad deals (Alex English, Adrian Dantley, and Fat Lever) and they were in full rebuilding mode. I remember when Terry Davis was their best player.

From 1992-1994, the Mavs had high draft picks and selected 3 extremely talented offensive players - Jim Jackson, Jamal Mashburn, and Jason Kidd. By 1994, Kidd was running a really high powered offense and these guys could really score.

Of the three, Jim Jackson was my favorite. I know he held out for months during his rookie year and he bounced around quite a bit during his NBA career. He was such a well rounded player at Ohio State, and carried that team for stretches. I remember how excited Nets fans were when Don Nelson traded him and Sam Cassell in the Shawn Bradley deal.

So I found a really cool from 1996 Upper Deck and I had always waned to get it signed, as I love getting multi-signed cards.

The first player I got was Kidd when he first came to the Nets. Then I got Mashburn right when he joined ESPN as a studio analyst. Thanks to the lead from Mark from Mark's Signing Bonus, today I got Jim Jackson c/o the Big Ten Network.

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Signed Hall of Famer Rookies
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Posted by jaygross
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In my last blog post, I mentioned that I have been inspired by some of our members to begin focusing on collecting signed rookie cards of Hall of Famers. Since that post, I have been focusing pretty much on building up this part of my collection.

I have been on a bit of a buying spree on eBay looking for unsigned cards of guys of which the SCN database tells me that I can get via mail, and I have been getting some really nice deals. If you do your research, it's a fantastic time to by a sports card buyer (thanks to SportsCardDatabase.com for comparison shopping).

This month I have added the following to my Hall of Famer Rookies album :

Yesterday I sent out to 8 more HOFers (which is a huge amount of requests for me these days), so hopefully we'll see some more soon.

I also have a nice stack of cards ready to go for players with fees such as Marcel Dionne ($10), Rick Barry ($5), Alan Page ($20), Ted Hendricks ($20), Herb Adderly ($5), & Dolph Schayes ($25). In addition, there are affordable upcoming signings being conducted by SCN members where I will be getting Juan Marichal, Elvin Hayes, and Elvin Bethea.

Thanks for the inspiration guys, you've got me hooked.

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