New People April 2026

 After a crazy high number of cards scanned in March, April was much slower with only 445 cards scanned. New additions were up though with 819 new cards. 

64 of the 445 cards scanned were new people, with 24 of the 64 being hockey players, and the vast majority of them coming from the Star Rookie Box Set, which my family gave me as an Easter gift. The biggest person appearing for the first time this month is Matthew Schaefer, surely going to win NHL's Rookie of the Year award and be a major factor in the league for the forseeable future. 

Something happened this month that is pretty rare- a person's first appearance in my collection is with a 1/1 card, and that is Woody Guthrie. The Historic Autographs 15th Anniversary set includes 2 1/1 cards per box and 4 cards that are SN to 6 copies each- two of them were non-people cards but the other two were old time baseball players (Lefty Grove and Hack Wilson) and they both appear here too. 

It's easier to acquire cards than it is to scan them, and 103 people joined my collection for the first time this month.

There's a lot of NASCAR people in here thanks to a GREAT trade I made on the Database that got me a large chunk of the 1992 Winner's Choice set, which I had completely missed previously. Most of the players in the Star Rookies Box Set also appear here...of the 25 cards in the set 19 of them were new to my collection. 

Technically I only added 102 new people. I didn't realize there were two NBA players named Jaylin Williams. One was born in 2000, and one in 2002. I got the card scanned of the older Jaylin Williams and I realized that it was not the same face on the card, so it must have been a different person, which is true. So although I actually got his card for my birthday back in October, I discovered he existed this month and the screencap reflects that. The older Jaylin is in the Nuggets system, while the younger Jaylin is a part of the Thunder team that won last year's NBA Championship and will likely win this year's as well.