It's always fun for me to reflect on some of the cool things going on here with the SportsCollectors.Net as the new year is coming. So we can look at the numbers over the past three years and see just how SCN is growing:

	Dec 31, 2009	Dec 31, 2008	Dec 31, 2007
Successes	578,826	483,735	378,537
Requests	798,034	670,300	527,214
Autographed Trade Items	47,236	29,167	17,841
Message Board Posts	284,566	201,851	132,334
Photos	54,439	21,581	N/A
Members	25,683	22,285	19,062
Premium Members	4,866	4,161	3,503

Every one of these statistics shows impressive growth across various areas of the site, and I think they speak for themselves just how amazing the contributions of this community are.

We started the year with a pretty major hardware upgrade to servers that power SCN. We went on to add some great new functionality like the Players & Teams and Shopping Tools sections. I have plans for more great stuff on the way, and always appreciate your ideas for functionality on the site.

My Personal Life in 2009

2008 brought my daughter into the family. Now she's now 16 months old, walking everywhere and talking up a storm (although I don't understand most of it). It's been truly an amazing experience seeing her grow up.

March of 2009 gave birth to a different kind of child for me, SportsCardDatabase. It's the sports card site I always dreamed of using.

I yearned for an easy to use reference site for cards, with thousands of scans to go along with them. I needed something to help me comparison shop for deals, see market values for card, and track my collection. I wanted something that would do for card collecting what SCN has meant to sports autograph collectors.

When I couldn't find something I liked, I built it and made it free for everyone to use. Thanks to everyone who helped contribute and make this a reality.

My Collection in 2009

I ended the year today with a great success from Harry Howell to finish this multi-signed 1991 Kraft Foods Disc:

With all the great things in my personal life, I have not had a lot of time to blog or write players this year. I'd like to think that this was the year that I focused on quality over quantity, but who knows.Therefore, I am a little ashamed to present my stats for writing players in 2009:

I have been inspired by a few of our members who collect signed rookie cards of Hall of Famers, especially thenavarro and jasonxmay. So I have been working on getting more of these my collection. Right now I have 67 signed Hall of Fame Rookie Cards posted in the photos section. I hope to get around to writing to a few more guys soon and adding to this list.


rookies of Ozzie Smith, Jim Parker, Bob St. Clair, Tom Heinsohn, Wade Boggs, Gene Upshaw, Bruce Sutter, Bob Pettit

I have made considerable progress on my autographed 1978 Topps Basketball set, I'm now 17 away. Last year, I need 41 out of 132 cards in the set.

I was very excited when the new SCN Favorite Player functionality hepled alert me that Jamaal "Silk" Wilkes, Billy Paultz, and Swen Nater were signing TTM and I was able to get them. Thanks guys for posting the successes.


This year I added 5 of the last 6 Hall of Famers I needed - Earl Monroe, Julius Erving, and Bill Walton are pictured here

Unfortuantely, the Pete Maravich card is the last HOFer I need and I know he will be a tough one. If you have any leads on this card, please let me know.

Closing out 2009 and Looking to 2010

I just wanted to thank everyone again for all your support. You folks (our members) and yo

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