Massive Player Collections

[brookdodger55]

Never thought of that, great idea thinking about doing that with my 1952-57 Brooklyn dodgers team sets, that solves the problem of the sheets fitting the
52-54's.
Mike

[cwazzy]

My Campanella collection is small compared to the massive collections modern players can have. I only have about 200 different cards in my collection. To keep me organized I created a checklist in Excel using beckett.com as my guide. I printed it off and check the appropriate box as I get a new card. Of course it's MUCH easier with '50s player that only has around 1,500 cards including modern 1/1s. I keep scans of every card in photobucket split out between vintage, modern base/inserts, and game-used cards. For storage I use a Roop style box that I purchased off the internet for about $30. Eventually I will display some of my favorites in a curio cabinet or wall display but haven't gotten that far yet.

[dabigyankeeman]

Originally Posted by brookdodger55

Never thought of that, great idea thinking about doing that with my 1952-57 Brooklyn dodgers team sets, that solves the problem of the sheets fitting the
52-54's.
Mike

Whats the problem with sheets for the 52-54's (actually thru 1956)? They make 8-pocket sheets to fit these cards. Am i missing something? Unless do you not want them in the sheets horizontally? That i can understand as i am not crazy about that myself!!

[brookdodger55]

Originally Posted by dabigyankeeman

Whats the problem with sheets for the 52-54's (actually thru 1956)? They make 8-pocket sheets to fit these cards. Am i missing something? Unless do you not want them in the sheets horizontally? That i can understand as i am not crazy about that myself!!

No you are not missing something, I didn't want to store/display the cards raw
in the pages, I thought that the card saver idea was new to me along with the postcard pages. Hope this clears it up.
Mike

[dabigyankeeman]

Originally Posted by brookdodger55

No you are not missing something, I didn't want to store/display the cards raw
in the pages, I thought that the card saver idea was new to me along with the postcard pages. Hope this clears it up.
Mike

Gotcha Mike. I can tell you I have been collecting and storing cards raw in the 9 and 8 pocket sheets since 1980 with no problems, but i do understand where you are coming from.

I will say that some of the GU cards do have a tendancy to slip up as you say. I fill my albums tightly with pages then put giant rubber bands around them and the cards dont move when i move the albums. But yeah, when looking at them, they can slip around, mainly in the 8-pocket sheets. The post card sheet idea is excellant.

[Julz24]

Quick Update:

I signed up on Beckett for a recurring monthly subscription. I was able to download the entire Griffey collection of cards, over 14,200!!

I copied and pasted the list into Excel for Mac. Now I just need to organize all of the information. It transfered over into one row unfortunately.

[cdn_collector]

Originally Posted by Julz24

Quick Update:
I copied and pasted the list into Excel for Mac. Now I just need to organize all of the information. It transfered over into one row unfortunately.

The problem with copy/pasting directly from your browser into the spreadsheet is that the formatting data may also have been copied (this is how it works with Excel on Windows, at least).

Two things two try rather than manually breaking that data into rows:

a.) Copy and paste it into a basic text editor and THEN copy it again and paste it into your program. In the Windows world, I'd use Notepad and then Excel. This will cause any formatting data that may have also been copied to be lost and *should* respect the proper rows/columns.

b.) If (a) above doesn't work, then again use the text editor but this time save the file and import (as opposed to open) it into your program. It *should* allow you to specify the where each column starts and ends, and should recognize each individual row.

Good luck!

Richard.

[Julz24]

Originally Posted by cdn_collector

The problem with copy/pasting directly from your browser into the spreadsheet is that the formatting data may also have been copied (this is how it works with Excel on Windows, at least).

Two things two try rather than manually breaking that data into rows:

a.) Copy and paste it into a basic text editor and THEN copy it again and paste it into your program. In the Windows world, I'd use Notepad and then Excel. This will cause any formatting data that may have also been copied to be lost and *should* respect the proper rows/columns.

b.) If (a) above doesn't work, then again use the text editor but this time save the file and import (as opposed to open) it into your program. It *should* allow you to specify the where each column starts and ends, and should recognize each individual row.

Good luck!

Richard.

Thanks for the info!! I read about your method somewhere else too but I had already began with copy/paste.

Luckily I found a thread on another site (blasphemy acknowledged) which carefully details how to clean up the worksheet by using functions such as search and replace!! Still have a little work to do but I'm getting closer.

[baez578]

Haven't tried it yet..but it might work for you


http://download.cnet.com/Sports-Card...-10435152.html

[vintage954]

Wow, I'm a Griffey collected as well but I only have around 900 different cards. Nice collection

[jrbeasley]

I just use zistle. No tech headaches.

[timzcardz]

My Ripken collection is somehwere north of 3,000 cards, maybe close to 4,000now.

I use an excel spreadsheet, however haven't updated it in a few years and need to find time this winter to update and maybe redo.

I keep the vast majority fo the cards in 9 pocket sheets in binders.

I also need to add the other Ripken collectibles to my spreadsheet. These include everything from food products to figurines to various autographed items.

[olrac44]

My friend has about 12,000+ Derek Jeter cards. He is fairly organized as all of his graded cards are organized by year in individual boxes, and all of his raw cards are in large 5000 Ct boxes (without the dividers). Each box is a specific product (i.e. Topps, Fleer, etc) top loaded and rubber banded by year.

Last year he purchased a high end Jeter card for $600 on ebay only to find out he already had the card. So I downloaded a Jeter Checklist from Beckett and together we cataloged them into Excel. He was a newbie to excel but he got the hang of it as I worked with him on it.

Then he was able to easily see if he had the card. It has also helped him see where he has heavy duplication and sold/traded the duplication to acquire cards he didn't have.

[bnorth]

I have around 7-8000 Wade Boggs cards with close to 1200 different. Very few are from 2000-present. I quit collecting in 2000 because I had enough of the crazy amount of inserts, parallels, serial #ed cards, and sets. I stayed in the hobby by flipping error cards. It was more for fun than profit. A few months ago I started collecting again but have not added many new cards to the Boggs collection.

[Julz24]

Update: I decided to stay with Numbers after all. It's just so familiar and easy to use for me I couldn't make the change. I ended up using a suggestion given to me thru pm by frankbmd, (thank you Frank). I created 5 separate sheets of data with the following titles:

- Main (1756 cards)
- Autographs & Game-Used (215 cards)
- Samples, Promos, Plates, Errors (52 cards)
- Oddballs (846 cards)
- Large Sets - ie. Moments and Milestones (435 cards)

Total: 3304 Different

By separating out the data into different sheets, the scrolling speed and search speed have dramatically increased. I also added a one cell table at the top and bottom of each sheet. That way when the software does start to lag, and won't let me scroll quickly, I can click on the "Bottom" table and it will take me directly to the bottom of the page.

After the first of the year, I plan on decreasing the amount of new pickups while I figure out how I want to sort and organize the actual cards.