[Sleepless72]

I created a TCDb account and have been adding sets for a few years now. The whole cards vs. photos argument they've made in the past doesn't make sense to me, so I post... whatever... and let them tell me why it shouldn't count. Most of my checklists are still up there, so that's something. It really should be baseball cards and related items, and I think that anything released by Topps that's not clothing should be fair game for checklisting; by extension, anything that resembles in its format something that Topps produced should also be eligible.

TCDb may or may not realize it, but it's standing on the precipice of greatness. I don't think anyone else has so comprehensive a site available for free (and yes, it is free, though you can pay for a version that doesn't have ads, which I think is fair), and the hobby is worse for not having things like the Standard Catalog to flip through.

I do think they might be rethinking some of what should and shouldn't be allowed on the site as I've seen a few items appear recently that might not have made the cut before (Jay Publishing, Sportservice), so there's hope that the TCDb will continue to improve in the coming years. Maybe they'll eventually allow folks to upload checklists for the 8" x 10" publicity photos that teams used to publish and distribute.

As for the Bra-Mac (the reason I popped into this discussion in the first place), if anybody wants to send me any Bra-Mac checklists, I'm happy to upload them to the site. They may take them down... but then again, maybe not. (And I'd love it if you donated some sample photos to the cause, as I only have a few Pirates that I can scan from the 1930s set.)

By the way, this is my first post here, so, uh, go easy on me...!

Chris