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Posted By: Ed McCollum

I bought a nice notebook and enough pages to hold all 525 cards. Then I printed up sheets of little cards the same size as the actual card that listed each player and card number according to the old Becket listing, with major leaguers, minor then southern leaguers. Cut them all out and placed them in the appropriate space in the notebook. Thought of these white slips of paper as just a placeholder until I got the real card to take it's place. And still have 342 of them in the book.

It also provided incentive to fill certain pages. The first page of the book is full (all 15 cards), which looks impressive until you see page two has only three cards.

Then filled the page with Demmitt, then O'Hara’s; it was a matter of surround the rarities with those that should be around them.

Bizarre, I know, but it keeps me going (slowly).