September 2018 Card of the Day

September was a crazy month. The Sousafly Collection that I bought took up most of my card time- I spent literally a week documenting cards, and that's only from two of the 9 boxes! And it wasn't the only card I got in that time! I also took multiple trips to Lake George, I hit 10,000 photos taken on the year, and more. In the latter half of the month, I worked hard on the mystery project I teased, and since I still have so much work ahead of me on that, I expect it will take up most of my time in October as well. I'm not complaining, I am really enjoying this project actually...It's something I have always wanted to do, but couldn't. I'll explain more at a later date...

September 1st:

2013 Goodwin Champions #41

From my pack stash. Wanted to start a month on Multi-Sport.

September 2nd:

2008-09 Topps Signature Red

This card (which is SN), has been sitting in the store collated repack I purchased and have been saving for this project since September 2014!

September 3rd:

2017-18 Panini Stickers #307

 From a random pack my mom brought home from the dollar store.

September 4th:

2017-18 Upper Deck #345

From the hobby box that I've been working on since June.

September 5th:

2015 USA Baseball Stars & Stripes #82

The only actual family vacation every year is in Lake George in September, for the Adirondack Nationals. Knowing I had exactly two cards from this set, I figured that I was sure to get a new card so I brought this pack with me and did Card of the Day in the motel room.

September 6th:

2016 Leaf Babe Ruth #02

 Yes, it really has the 0 in the number. Like the USA Baseball set, I knew I had one card from this set so I was sure to get new ones. I figured that over the 4 days, I would alternate the packs. It didn't turn out that way.

September 7th: This was the big day, the Friday of the show, my favorite day of the year. While we were in the car show, my mom was in town and visited the card shop. I knew I did not have enough money to go there this year so this was a very nice surprise.

1998-99 Black Diamond #55

She purchased me a store-collated Rangers team bag, and a general, all-team Hockey one, which she gave me the next day, which, due to my health giving out on Friday, I had to go back to the show. I tweaked my back when I missed a stop coming down in Fort William Henry, so I was in a lot of pain for quite a while.

September 8th:

1996-97 Donruss Elite #4

 This was the facing card in the general hockey pack she got for me.

September 9th:

1995-96 Collector's Choice Debut Trade #T4

Right as we were leaving on the 5th, the Sousafly Collection arrived, I had no idea what exactly was in the collection, and I was thrilled when I opened it up and saw a case marked "1995-96 Collector's Choice Debut Trade (132)". My enthusiasm dampened a bit when I opened it up and realized I wouldn't be completing the insert- it was 132 copies of this card! I later found more, bringing me to over 150 copies. I've never seen that many copies of one card in one place before. My previous record for most copies of one card before was either 82 or 86, I can't remember, but I do remember it was 1992-93 Topps Mark Jackson. It's kind of hard to forget when you have that many copies of something. (I've since given most of those away). Once we got home on the 9th, I spent most of the week documenting cards added to my collection from this collection.

September 10th:

1993 Classic 4-Sport Draft Stars #DS41

September 11th:

1993-94 Hoops Magic's All-Rookie Team #4

September 12th:

1992-93 Pinnacle #34

September 13th:

1998 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Promo #BP1

I've never actually seen this show, but a new card's a new card.

September 14th:

1997-98 Metal Universe Silver Slam #19 SS

September 15th:

2006-07 Fleer #74

The collection seems to end in 2006-07, which, coincidentally, is when I stopped collecting the NBA, which I now consider one of the biggest mistakes of my life. Of course, I've gotten back into by now. This set, while I have about 20 of them now, came out after I bailed so I've never opened any of it.

September 16th:

2001 Fleer Greats of the Game #15

On the 16th, we drove back to Lake George for the Hemmings Concours d'Elegance. I was feeling terrible all week and it was 90 degrees out with 85% humidity, so it was pretty miserable. Also, I had stayed awake for 23 hours so I could get to it! I saw some college cards were coming up so I set them aside for the 16th knowing I wouldn't have the time or energy to put into finding a good new card for my collection, so I went with the proverbial low-hanging fruit, knowing I had less than a pack's worth of this set.

September 17th:

2005-06 Topps Total #319

This one did not come from the Sousafly Collection, although it did come via trade on the Trading Card Database. The person I traded with dropped this into the mail on August 6th, but it took a while to show up. I wasn't worried because I'd traded with him before and knew it would show up eventually. It did, and everything was fine.

September 18th:

1996 Overpower Card Game Riddler: Death Trap

I saw ads for this when it came out. but I never got any until Shawn Norris- ictpactman on the Database- sent me one randomly out of the blue as a random act of kindness. Fun fact: Riddler's henchwomen are named Query and Echo.

September 19th:

2015-16 Upper Deck UD Portraits #P-16

Shane from Shoebox Legends sent me a medium flat rate box of (mostly) hockey cards, and I opened the box on the 19th. I barely scratched the surface, only opening 4 team bags, but still managed to add 161 new cards on the day! It took me most of the day to document them into my collection, and that doesn't even count the paper listings.

September 20th:

1993-94 Upper Deck Hat Tricks #HT16

 Back to the Sousafly collection. I didn't want to spend another day just documenting new cards- I am almost at the burnout stage- so I just pulled one card out of a box. Turned out to be my first from this insert.

September 21st:

2017-18 Upper Deck #251

Hitting the hobby box I've been working on since June again. Opened a handful of packs today. I will try and get it done before the new season actually starts. This is actually the first card in series 2.

September 22nd:

1996-97 Z-Force #119

 Another from the Sousafly collection. I loved Z-Force when it came out, but not as much anymore. Still thrilled to get some new ones for my collection, adding 4 that day. As an added bonus, Larry Johnson is wearing a throwback jersey, something the NBA introduced that year to celebrate it's 50th anniversary.

September 23rd:

1996-97 Ultra All-Rookie #6

 1996-97 Ultra is my all-time favorite set, so I was happy to get some more inserts from it, getting two from this very insert alone that day. Even better, next out of the box was a Platinum Medallion, only my 4th of that parallel! I plan to give it it's own post at some point.

September 24th:

1996-97 Finest Refractor #154

 I love Refractors. Muggsy was my first favorite player. Put them together and you have a really great card! I pulled three Refractors out of the Sousafly boxes that day, from this set.

September 25th:

2017-18 Upper Deck #209

 Back to trying to finish off UD, this was from my blaster of Series 1. In fact, it turned out to be the only new card of the 4 packs I opened that day...frustratingly, about half of the other cards were the next number off from one I was missing. I'm getting close to finishing these off and posting a wantlist though.

September 26th, 2018:

2001-02 EX Box Office Draws Memorabilia

 I didn't have the time or inclination to do anything that required thinking, as I was not feeling too good, so I just closed my eyes and reached into the COMC box. I happened to luck out and grab an Elton, and this is one of the ones I remembered was in the box. Since I had it shipped in November 2017, and I've made and opened two more boxes since then, I don't really remember too much of what's in there.

September 27th:

1996-97 Metal Freshly Forged #12

 Back to the Sousafly box, and 1996-97 Metal, my 2nd favorite set ever. I've completed the base set a few years ago but still need a bunch of inserts.

September 28th:

1991-92 Score Canadian Bilingual #232

 Another day where I didn't want to think too much, so I just grabbed a couple of cards out of one of the Sousafly boxes. The first one was a dupe, but this one was new.

September 29th:

1996-97 Skybox #234

 This one came from the Sousafly collection as well, and it's a good thing I checked. When I was pulling cards out of the box, I was sure this one was a duplicate, and I pulled more than 2 dozen more cards after it looking for a new one. It turned out that not only was it new, one of the other cards I pulled was as well, meaning I added a half dozen new cards! Even better: because this one, and Jerome Williams' base card from that year's Hoops were both new, it means my card of the day was NOT a college card!

September 30th:

2012-13 Totally Certified Rookie Roll Call #37

Today is my brother's birthday, so I had him pick a card out of the COMC box to be the official card of the day on his birthday, and this is what he chose.

Since the schedule worked out well for this, and I've had this card in hand since around 2 AM, I was able to get everything scanned that I needed to and will actually be able to get this done and posted on the actual last day of the month! That's the first time that's happened, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the only time.

I was so busy working on documenting the Sousafly collection, and working on my new mystery project, that I only scanned 338 cards in the entire month of September. That's a crazy low amount for me. I've done more than that in one day on multiple occasions! When I am working on scanning and nothing else, I average about 150 cards a day...but if I really push it (and if my health cooperates, a real rarity) I can do about 225 a day.  My record is 369 in one day, or 82 pages (both sides). I wrote a post about it when I did it, which you may recall, but I can't remember if I used a label so I can't easily find it. Everything has to go very, very right for that to happen and I think it's only played out that way twice, but still. The new mystery project will take up a good chunk of time in October so I expect it to be another low month for scans. However, with all that said...both February and March of this year only topped out at 170something cards scanned for the month (172 and 175 respectively). Those two months were mostly devoted to doing the Excel work I put off while I was getting everything scanned for the Database. Ever since my remote hard drive died in June of 2016 I've kept an Excel chart of everything I've scanned in a specific month, so I know what I have to redo in case it happens again. I'm still trying to pin down exactly what went missing then, although I've not really tried for months now. Edit: I found the post. You can see my memory is not as precise as I'd like it to be!