End of year community stats

Some 2023 highlights for me and my collection:

• I finally spent many hours getting organized and listed over 60K unsigned cards on buysportscards:
  https://www.buysportscards.com/search?sellerId=354fc7bb8e&sellerName=sportscollectors
  
  
  
  I accumulated a lot of stuff in the past 40+ years and I only had a very vague idea of what cards I had that were mixed up in many random boxes. After watching some videos of how Burbank Cards sets up their warehouse, I got inspired to organize my stuff by sport, year, and set in 5000 count monster boxes. It has been a lot of fun for me to "shop" in my own store for cards to send out TTM requests to players. No more needing to buy cards I already have.
  
  
• I sent out 400+ requests in 2023, a decent amount but considerably less than 2023:
  
  
  
  
• In the spring and summer I spent a lot of time getting to coach and root for my son Jack play baseball - he recently turned 12, is a righty pitcher, plays left field, and hits line drives left handed. All similar to the greatest Red Sox player - Ted Williams. We can dream....
  
  He has started to show interest in sports cards this year and we went to a local show a couple of times. After I gave him a slabbed 1986 Topps Traded Barry Bonds, he decided he wanted to try to slab his own cards. So I dug out a card I have since the 1980's in decent shape and we spent a few hours on a rainy Sunday putting this together:
  
  There was some trial and error, but we think it turned out pretty nicely. PSA and SGC has nothing to worry about, as I have NO interest to offer a sportscollectors.net grading service. I have since slabbed some of my autographed cards to display in my house (will likely be the subject of a future post).
  
  
  
  
• My favorite TTM autograph of the year was getting Michael Pittman Sr. to finish up this Bucs leaders card from the season after their championship team:
  
  
  
  
• I am still on the hunt for the following signed cards:
  -- 1992 Pro Line Portraits Al Davis
  -- 1977 Topps/ O-Pee-Chee Glossy Inserts (Round Corners) Ken Dryden
  -- 1977 Topps/ O-Pee-Chee Glossy Inserts (Round Corners) Denis Potvin
  
  
  

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Common Frustration - The date on signing passed, now what?

Introducing Completed Signings for Promoters

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Way back in 1998, I came up with the idea of creating a database for collectors to track when they mailed out a letter to athletes asking for an autograph. I went on to launch autograph request tracking as the key feature on SportsCollectors.Net in 2000 and it has been such a helpful tool for collectors. So many of us have been able to track my own successes and failures, and see how our collections grow.

Functionality that allows collectors to track autograph requests

Earlier this morning the SCN community hit a pretty significant milestone with 2 million successes tracked in our system. For context, the community of 1000's of collectors enter an average of over 300 successes each day. It still sometimes blows my mind that so many folks enjoy using this system and what we have accomplished as a group.

The 2,000,000th successes:

Thanks to the community:

To show our appreciation, I am extending the subscription of 100 members by 3 months. We will be randomly selecting 100 active subscribers who have entered 10+ successes in the past 90 days. If you are selected, you will receive a message from us with the details.

I'd like to thank everyone for all your contributions and for making SCN what it is today, you are all amazing.

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