Happy New Year 2025
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Posted by jaygross
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Wishing a happy and healthy New Year 2025 to the SCN community. You all continue to bring so much joy to my household and make collecting more fun!
SCN is turning 25!!!
I am very excited as 2025 will mark the 25th anniversary of my launching this community publicly. It's a pretty amazing accomplishment that this community has endured and continued to grow over the years. It's more amazing how many folks have been active members of our community for 20+ years.
I plan to do a post specifically celebrating the milestone with nice giveaways to lucky subscribers.
2024 had more amazing contributions from our community.
After hitting 2 million successes tracked on SCN milestone in late 2023, it has been amazing to see our members contribute so many more successes this year. Here are the end of year stats:
Some 2024 highlights for me and my collection:
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I continued to list more of my unsigned card collection on buysportscards and have been able to help collectors:
https://www.buysportscards.com/search?sellerId=354fc7bb8e&sellerName=sportscollectors
I also changed the way I store much of my collection and thought I'd share, as it has been a topic discussed on our message boards over the years:
Inventory cataloging and putaway choices for my sports card collection
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I sent out considerably less than 2021-2023 with a lower success rate, but much of that is I tried some less frequent signers:
- Some highlights of autographs I added to my collection this year:
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Completed these multisigned 1991 Kraft discs:
- My new favorite custom card based off the 1965 Topps Tallboy Football design:
- I have made some progress on some sets I more casually working on, like 1997 Goudey Football (I am very excited to get Scott Mitchell and Kevin Hardy back in the past month):
- 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
- My all time favorite vintage set is the 1911 T201 Mecca Doublefolders. This year I picked up the big 4 I have dreamed of owning for 35+ years (Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson). I very much prefer the SGC cases for vintage cards, even in these lower grades:
- Some of the reason I haven't blogged much and sent out fewer requests this year is that I got to spend time coaching and watching my son Jack's 12U baseball season.
While his town travel team didn't make it to the Little League championship in Williamsport (we watched on TV), he had a great season and it was so much fun. He went 16 for 19 in his big tournament at Cooperstown and here is a video of one of his home runs:
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