New People October 2024

 October saw a lot more scanning that I expected, with 958 cards scanned. Of them, 136 were new people.

There are some pretty big names in there, too, especially in the non-sport, music category. 

I also hit a pretty cool milestone. Miscellaneous sports hit 1000 people scanned! Of the 7 major categories, it becomes the 5th to reach the 1000 mark. Non-Sport, which I actively collect but doesn't get many cards, is the lowest number of people, with 817. Baseball has not hit 1000 scanned yet, sitting at 877 after October's additions, but will- I have more than 1000 in my collection, I just haven't scanned them all yet. My records show that I have more than 1300 different people for Non-Sport, so I guess I really need to get busy scanning them! (of course, I'll get to them whenever they come out of the boxes- it's more fun for me to grab a random box to work on scanning, then going and specifically looking for one) 

Although I don't know who the 1000th person to enter my collection for miscellaneous sports is, I do know who was the 1000th I uploaded into the album.

I have not a clue for sure, but I'd bet at least 50% of the people in the Miscellaneous Sports section come from the SI for Kids magazine, as this one did as well. I scanned three months' worth of the publication in October, providing 16 of the 17 people added in the Miscellaneous category. 

Here are the new people I added this month.

The largest contribution of new people came from the WNBA rookie set I ordered from Panini Instant, which was 14 cards. All of the NBA players and the single NASCAR driver came from the blasters my Mom gave me for my birthday. There is one obvious mistake that I need to fix here, in that William Fargo is listed as WNBA, instead of Non-Sports. William Fargo was one of the founders of Wells-Fargo, and got a card in the Pieces of the Past Historical Premium Edition that I got.