I got this card on his birthday

 Since I finished typing in all my collection data to Excel a couple years ago, I realized that there would be instances where I got cards the same day players were born. I started keeping records on when I got cards regularly in 1999, but was spotty in 2000 until early 2001, but then I kept it up pretty well until 2006, then did it correctly again in 2009-current. So it's not foolproof but there should be instances. 

As I was editing some scans on the night of April 13th, I decided to look up some of the players that I thought might be matched to a card addition date. 

On the third player I tried, I got a match. Nothing for Cam Reddish or Luka Doncic, but 2nd generation NBA player Cole Anthony was born on May 15th, 2000. 

On that day I show one card being added to my collection, Elton Brand's Topps Chrome rookie card. 

Cole Anthony card I was editing scan of, 2024-25 Haunted Hoops

This is the card I added to my collection the day Cole was born.  Unfortunately being a Chrome card it scans terribly.

Pretty cool that it randomly happened to be a card of my all time favorite NBA player. While I do keep track of when I get each card it doesn't really stick in my memory, for the most part. Certain cards I've gotten for my birthday or some Christmases do, and others I remember that I got them for Christmas but not WHICH Christmas. Most of the time if I want to know when I got a card I have to either pull out my paper listing or now, much easier, look on my Excel chart. 

Because Elton was already a favorite by that point, it's entirely possible that I got other cards that day but I only bothered to write the date down for his card. At this point in time I have no idea, but it's early enough of a date that I may not have done fully accurate record keeping at that time. 

I have dates recorded for 490 cards of Elton, and this is the 7th earliest. I am closing in on 600 cards of him so even my favorite's records are nowhere near complete.  I accidently typed in an acquisition date of 1991 for a card issued during the 2009-10 season so I can't say everything is 100% accurate but I find all this stuff endlessly fascinating and will probably post about it again in the future. Now I need to figure out when I got that one. Probably 2019 and I just reversed the digits and Excel auto filled it to 1991 instead of 2019 but who knows, lol.