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brian pThe cards I collected in the seventies and eighties were all stored in Velveeta boxes (let's just say Mom bought the stuff in bulk). I used both the corrugated bottom section (to be on the safe side you had to slightly expand the opening side to side, as otherwise it was an very tight fit), and the less substantial thin cardboard tops (for cards you didn't value as highly). In fact, except for some of the cards that proved to be somewhat valuable and were over the years transferred to plastic card sleeves, I still have the flippin' things stored this way.
As far as how I organized them, they were catergorized by year, and within the year alphabetically by team, and within team by card number, with the team cards in front of the teams and all the checklists and extra cards at the very end of the year's stack. Sorting the cards when I got a new pack was half the fun--probably why now I work in a library (just kidding).
Brian