December 2024 New People

 My goal for 2024 was to scan at least some cards every month during the year. I was successful in that goal, and ended the year with a bang...December was my largest month of scanning during all of 2024, which saw me scan 1266 cards, narrowly eclipsing June when I scanned 1256 cards. 

Naturally, with that many cards scanned, there were going to be a lot of new people. 

110 of them, to be exact! Several of these people didn't even appear in my collection until Christmas day. The largest portion of people came from baseball this month as I came across a large batch of 1989 Donruss to scan. The current way where I just work on whatever is next up out of the box instead of picking and choosing has proven to be very much fun for me, and I never know what will come out of the next box I grab out of the stack. Other than new additions like Christmas, I foresee doing this style of scanning is now the new norm for me. 

There is one mistake in the above image. It shows 111 people but it was actually 110, when I made the screencap I didn't realize I had Bo Jackson already listed under football and added him again for baseball. When I updated the Alphabetical Directory album for J on the Cardboard History Gallery I realized he was already there. 

The new people added to my collection in December was pretty heavy with NBA players, thanks to getting two boxes of the Topps G-League set for Christmas, which most of the people in those boxes never getting cards before they were guaranteed to be new. The hockey people mostly came from the cards I got for Christmas although the Topps Now stickers also contributed. In total I added 57 new people in December, 19 of whom also got scanned during the month....the rest set aside for the Heystack machine. 

My goal of scanning at least something every month being met, my goal for 2025 is....continue scanning at least some cards every month. Yay for achievable goals!