Player Collectors-How do you store your collection?

[BiggioBrooks755]

I love the binder idea but that would take alot of time and space, right?

 

[joey12508]

I love the binder idea but that would take alot of time and space, right?

4 or 5 binders on a shelf wont take to much space. can fit a lot of cards with penny sleeves. easy to get at and look at your collection.

 

[ASTROBURN]

Doesn't take up much space at all. You can see proof in my picture from earlier. I would think that a bunch of big boxes of cards in individual toploaders would take up more space and be much heavier and difficult to move around.

 

[subject to change]

I'm slowly becoming a binder convert. I moved all my base Jack Wilson's to a binder a couple years ago, and will likely be moving all of my Wilson inserts and other Pirate base cards to pages when I place my next supply order. Right now anything above a common is in a penny sleeve and toploader, and then in shoeboxes organized by year/set, with game used, autos, and 1/1's in their own box.

But I find myself looking at the cards in binders far more often than the boxes cards, and I'm at a level of completion (about 75% minus 1/1's), where there will be relatively few holes if I leave blanks for cards I don't have. I have had all my autos (certified and ttm/ip) in binders for a few years and have never had any problems with cards getting bent or damaged, so I feel pretty comfortable moving exclusively to pages, though some of the best cards may still remain in toploaders.

 

[BiggioBrooks755]

The problems with moving my Biggio collection to binders:

1. I just brought 1000 toploaders lol
2. I only have about 1200/4300 of his cards, so alot of it would be empty and would cause massise sorting/resorting (Topps Tek/Moments and Milestones/ect)
3. 2005 has 802 cards alone, and I have about 100ish, so 90% of binder would be empty, which would be hard to figue out where the cards go.

 

[Will Style 13]

I've been using binders for years, but will only use quality pages (Ultra Pro) in D Ring binders. I have 4 binders (3 Ripken & 1 Brady) in order by year and leave space at the beginning of each years section but occasionally shift stuff to keep things together such as rainbows. Larger items such as GU's, Oversized oddballs, and graded cards are in plastic shoeboxes. Some items are hard to find protection for so things like Kraft mac & cheese boxes and hostess boxes are in Golden Age Comic bags. I've considered the 20 card wall frames but never did.

Here's a question what is the best way to store and display pro shooter marbles?

 

[ASTROBURN]

I've been using binders for years, but will only use quality pages (Ultra Pro) in D Ring binders.

Here's a question what is the best way to store and display pro shooter marbles?

D ring! Yes, you must use a D ring. If you use a binder where the rings are fastened to the center of the cover, you run the risk of crushing the bottom pages under the rings when you close the binder.

And after using one binder and getting a bigger one when I needed more room, I find that the way I have it now with multiple binders with just a couple years each works so much better. But it also depends on the amount of cards per year. Like I have all of Bags' minor league thru 95 in one binder. Fits fine. But when the insert/parallel explosion hit in the mid 90s, that definitely added to the card count per year, so now two years per binder is great. I really dont like filling a binder with empty pages in anticipation of getting cards in the future. It makes looking at a collection a horrible experience. Instead of viewing the cards you have and enjoying them, all you see are empty holes and a feeling that you may never fill them. Who wants that? Plus, that would mean I would have binder upon binder of empty pages. I'm not at halfway for Bagwell yet, and i dont wanna waste space on empty pages.

As for the marbles, there is a collectors market for glass marbles. Maybe there is display material available thru them?

 

[BiggioBrooks755]

D ring! Yes, you must use a D ring. If you use a binder where the rings are fastened to the center of the cover, you run the risk of crushing the bottom pages under the rings when you close the binder.

And after using one binder and getting a bigger one when I needed more room, I find that the way I have it now with multiple binders with just a couple years each works so much better. But it also depends on the amount of cards per year. Like I have all of Bags' minor league thru 95 in one binder. Fits fine. But when the insert/parallel explosion hit in the mid 90s, that definitely added to the card count per year, so now two years per binder is great. I really dont like filling a binder with empty pages in anticipation of getting cards in the future. It makes looking at a collection a horrible experience. Instead of viewing the cards you have and enjoying them, all you see are empty holes and a feeling that you may never fill them. Who wants that? Plus, that would mean I would have binder upon binder of empty pages. I'm not at halfway for Bagwell yet, and i dont wanna waste space on empty pages.

As for the marbles, there is a collectors market for glass marbles. Maybe there is display material available thru them?

Whats the most cards Bagwell had in a year? 2005 for Biggio had 802 I think

 

[ASTROBURN]

Whats the most cards Bagwell had in a year? 2005 for Biggio had 802 I think

I honestly dont know. Never bothered to look. After I finish my rename project, I'll look into doing a percentage like other player collectors do, even though it will be just under 50%... Ugh.

 

[predatorkj]

The marble I just keep in a fifty count snap tight and I have the marble wrapped up in a team bag. Not sure what else to do with it. As far as over sized items, ultra pro makes photo sleeves. Buy you some cardboard backs at a comic shop(check size) and put your over sized stuff in those and in binders if you'd like.

As for sorting your cards and not having to shuffle, get on Beckett or another place that has a list and just go by that. All you'll have to do is count how many cards are between the cards you have and leave the proper amount if spaces. The checklists will even be in alpha order based on product name. But you are going to have issues if variations or unknown stuff pops up.

 

[BiggioBrooks755]

Search Results | Beckett.com

I think it was 2005 lol

 

[predatorkj]

Search Results | Beckett.com

I think it was 2005 lol

I'm sure it was. The biggest amount of pages for my checklist are 2005.

 

[BiggioBrooks755]

He has double what I have for 2005

 

[predatorkj]

He has double what I have for 2005

Bagwell has well over 6,000 total cards. I'm thinking that's more than any other Astro but I could be wrong. Maybe Berkman. But I'd only count his stuff up until he left town.

 

[BiggioBrooks755]

Biggio has about 4000

 

[BiggioBrooks755]

Anyone esle?

 

[Enfuego79]

I use toploaders and shoe boxes and put the shoe boxes in tuff boxes.

 

[BiggioBrooks755]

I use toploaders and shoe boxes and put the shoe boxes in tuff boxes.

Whats a Tuff Box?

 

[BenG76]

On my McGriff collection I have base cards, inserts and serial numbered stuff above 99 in binders. All other cards get penny sleeved and then put in a top loader. All the top loaded cards get put in a two row box at the moment. I keep auto cards, Game used and the serial numbered in separate sections at the moment.

For my binders I printed my checklist off of Beckett. I have the cards in the order of the checklist. If I am missing a card/cards I leave empty slots for the cards. This does make me have pages with only a card or two or even some empty pages, but its nice to have everything ready. Its nice to see the holes in the binders getting filled in. I had 172 cards come in today and it was nice to be able to put them up.

 

[BiggioBrooks755]

On my McGriff collection I have base cards, inserts and serial numbered stuff above 99 in binders. All other cards get penny sleeved and then put in a top loader. All the top loaded cards get put in a two row box at the moment. I keep auto cards, Game used and the serial numbered in separate sections at the moment.

For my binders I printed my checklist off of Beckett. I have the cards in the order of the checklist. If I am missing a card/cards I leave empty slots for the cards. This does make me have pages with only a card or two or even some empty pages, but its nice to have everything ready. Its nice to see the holes in the binders getting filled in. I had 172 cards come in today and it was nice to be able to put them up.

I would do the binder thing...but Biggio has over 4500 cards I would never believe to figure out what cards go where in my binder,plus with added cards and new cards ect