Let’s see some album/binder ideas!

[homerunhitter]

Mark,
You have motivated me to do something similar like this with my topps collection. May I please ask, what are the dimensions of those shelf’s? I would like to get those same shelf lengths for my collection so I could have the same set up. Thank you so much.

[deweyinthehall]

After years of having multiple different styles and colors of albums and a few different ways of marking the spines (none particularly appealing), I made an effort a short time ago to settle on a single binder style and color, blue, for my baseball sets (others, like football, hockey, basketball and non-sports, of which I have very little, and the 1995 Topps Cyberstats set, are in black). Instead of placing an actual card in the marker holder, I opted to print an image of a hall of fame card from the set along with the year and company on some off-white heavy stock paper.

[ajquigs]

My 1971 to 1979 Topps binders.

[homerunhitter]

Awesome!

I’m now trying to decide on which color blue binders to do. The classic blue binders like in the photos in this thread or now ultra pro has a brighter shiny blue version of these albums! Not sure which one I like better. The classic or the newer version!

[GrewUpWithJunkWax]

Cool collections.

I like the spine having a card, or a picture of a card, as a visual example from that set. But seeing a picture of a pack from that year is a clever addition too.

[darkhorse9]

Originally Posted by homerunhitter

Mark,
You have motivated me to do something similar like this with my topps collection. May I please ask, what are the dimensions of those shelf’s? I would like to get those same shelf lengths for my collection so I could have the same set up. Thank you so much.

The bookcases are store bought. The inside spaces are 28 1/2" by 13"

Oddly it matters if you use newer Ultra Pro binders or older. The older ones are 1/4" wider. That means you can only fit nine on a shelf (notice the bottom shelf with the 90's sets). The other shelves above it can hold ten sets ( an entire decade)

My collection has actual cards of a Hall of Fame ( or calibre) player on the front
, unless the card would be too big (52-56). Those are Topps issued reprints.

My run is complete through 2022. The binder with the 59 Fleer actually holds all the Fleer sets from 59 through the 71 World Series set. The 1/2" binders hold smaller sets like 54 Red Man, 53 Johnston Cookies, 60 Leaf etc.

The fun one is that Cubs binder in the lower right,. It has autographed pictures of every player from the 1969 Cubs team. If they played in a game that year their autograph is there

The rest are various odd ball sets that I've taken a liking to.

[homerunhitter]

Thanks Mark! I appreciate your help. I’m excited to get this project started! Thank you again.