New People August 2025

 August is traditionally my least active month in the hobby. I don't really know why that is- it's usually too hot to do much anything else, although that was not the case this year. But for whatever reason August is always the month I get the least amount of cards. This year continued that tradition. I basically only did card stuff for 2 days on the entire month, one of which was buying some and one of which was scanning some. 

I did only 27 scans the entire month, and Cody Bass was the only new person scanned. This is actually the only card I have of him also, it was a gift from a friend. 

New People added was also small but it includes some pretty big names. Connor Zilisch is the biggest prospect in the sport to come up in generations. He's a Rookie of the Year candidate in the Xfinity series, and he's leading the points and has scored 8 wins, the most ever by a rookie...with 10 races left to go...and he missed one and a half races due to injury. It's already announced he's going to run for Cup Series rookie of the year next year, and everyone, myself included, expect him to contend for race wins pretty much instantly. Frankie Muniz is also a pretty big name, a TV and Movie star, he is running for Rookie of the Year in the Truck series, or he was before he broke his arm last week. He will probably miss the remainder of the season now because of it. He is chasing his dream to be a race car driver although the team he's with is not particularly good and the results just haven't been there. The cards of Muniz and Beers also added two new teams to my NASCAR collection, which is interesting. A third team was added that made it's debut last season with a veteran driver, Matt DiBenedetto. 

Also of note this month, the Buffalo Sabres became the 15th team in my NHL collection to reach 1000 cards. The Blues and Lightning are close, 4 and 17 away respectively. If I opened up all the packs I have stashed I know they would get there, but right now I'm more involved with my model stuff and probably won't get back into card stuff until it gets too cold to work on models. 

Sets I had none of on August 9th, 2010. What do I have now?

 I was doing some cleaning and found a hand written note that I wrote on August 9th, 2010 listing which major NASCAR sets I had none of at that time. Fifteen years later that has changed significantly, partially since I bought at least one card from each set on COMC, but also because that was before I was established on the Database and NUTS. 

So let's see how things have changed since then...

1996 KnightQuest is listed first on the list for some reason I no longer remember. 

It didn't take me long to get any cards from that set. My records show I got cards 9 cards on August 28th, 2010 and got the remaining cards from the set on January 30th 2016, when I also got 11 inserts/parallels from the set. Both times they came from other collectors. 

1993 Maxx Premier Series is a 300 card set, the largest set I was missing. I bought the complete set on Ebay and it arrived to me on January 11th, 2007.

1996 Maxx Premier Series is not as much of a success story as the first two sets. I have only one card from the set, an insert that I bought on COMC if I remember correctly. I still have none of the base cards from the set. The one insert I have I got on December 12th, 2016.

2008 Press Pass Legends is also pretty low in my collection. I have 8 total cards, 1 base card, 4 parallels and three inserts. The base card, which I got on Ebay, arrived to me on April 5th, 2015. I believe all the other cards I picked up via COMC. 

2009 Press Pass Showcase was the first stupid expensive set in NASCAR history, where the box was around $400 for 8 cards if I remember correctly. I currently have 3 cards from the set, two base and one parallel. My records show that I got the parallel on December 12th, 2009, and I know for sure I got that on the NUTS forum as a gift. I made a mistake when I wrote this paper chart.

2010 Showcase is funny because I wrote this chart on 8/9/10, and I got my first card from the set on 9/8/10! As of today, I have one base card, two parallels and one inset. I don't remember where I got the base card but I'm pretty sure the other three came from COMC. 

2010 Element is a fun set because it's one of the very few NASCAR sets to utilize old school brown cardboard. I now have 93 total cards from the set, 68 of them base. I got my first on August 20th, 2010, just 11 days after I wrote this chart. I don't remember where I got that card but I have a feeling I may have made a post about the sets I'm missing on NUTS and one of the people on there sent me one. 

1996 Wheels High Gear is crossed off because it doesn't exist. I had assumed it had and that I was just missing some. But I was wrong, it was never made. They didn't make it in 1997 either so I don't remember if I remembered that, if I thought I had it, or I discovered it right away after writing 1996 and that's when I crossed out 96. I don't remember at this point. 

So all those sets (that actually exist) are now present in my collection, with two of them complete. 

There are two sets I currently don't have represented in my collection:

• 2024 National Treasures
• 2024 Panini Prizm

I actually saw Prizm for sale at the Norwich, NY Wal-Mart a couple weeks ago but didn't want to spend the money on it. I am not a fan of the Prizm technology and I was going to a diecast store the next day, and I wanted the most money available for that as possible. So I didn't get any Prizm. After realizing it's one of only two sets I'm missing during the writing of this post I kind of regret not getting it. 

National Treasures is one of those insanely super high priced sets. For example, here it is on DA Card World...10 cards for $325, on sale from the usual $400. I will realistically never get to experience opening a box/pack of this brand ever. I will never know the thrill and excitement of being surprised with what I get. I'll never get a chance to truly get to collect this set, but I will probably end up buying something from it on the secondary market some day. It's not anywhere near as fun as actually collecting the cards yourself, but that's life. 

July 2025 New People Added

 I can't believe I forgot to type this post up at the start of the month. I went in to make a different post and realized it wasn't there. I don't expect anyone to care but I am doing this to track my collection growth, not because anyone else cares. 

38 new people which is a lot. I got some of the IndyCar cards locally, and I mail ordered a box of N G-League cards, which gave me pretty much all of the NBA guys. I hit the local card show for the second time this year (another post I need to write...) which gave me the hockey people. 

I didn't scan anyone new in the month. I scanned only 6 cards in all of July, 5 of which were shown in my last post about the Chinese NBA cards. 

Mystery Chinese cards

 Back in November of 2023 I went to an antique mall in North Carolina and grabbed a pack of a mystery NBA set. I finally found where I had put them and opened them up, and the mystery is no closer to being solved. 

Here's the pack. I used google lens but it didn't provide much help. 

Card fronts are colorful. They are just slightly smaller than standard size cards. So slightly that I didn't even notice they were different until I put them with some other cards. 

The card on the right is a contest card and I won a set of the rubber band bracelets. There's nowhere on the card or packaging to tell you how to get them though. 

The only date on the pack is 2015, but they MUST be newer than that since Anthony Davis didn't join the Lakers until 2019-20. Mario Chalmers last played for the Heat in 2015-16, so they are obviously pulling pictures from different seasons. The logos on the packaging and card backs seem to be a mix of ages as well, although I have to admit I can no longer truly remember when all the rebrandings have happened. I think the Kings, Suns and Nuggets logos are older than the others, and I don't remember the Atlanta Hawks being in Alabama either. 

I have no idea what year these were issued in. Anyone have an idea? 

June 2025 New People

 June was a weird month. It seemed like I did a lot of card stuff, but at the end it turned out it didn't. I only scanned 315 cards for the entire month and only 33 of them were done before June 30th. I did spend more of the month on my modeling hobby. I finished these all in June. Decaling is my favorite part so I was doing that and not finishing the builds, letting them get way too backlogged. There is literally months worth of work in this photo.

But I did scan cards, and of those 315, there were 82 people getting scanned for the first time.

You can see that quite a few of them were the ladies from the last post.13 of the 82. 

New additions of the month were very slim- 39 cards, 21 of which were Hero Cards I got at the Lime Rock race. I still need to write a post about it, but after 33 years as a NASCAR fan, I actually went and saw NASCAR on track in person for the first time! 

Every single of the people I added to my collection during June came from the track. Mabel Santley is included here too, but I actually added her to my collection in 2019....I just identified who she was this month. Close enough. 

Fun fact: Butterbean Queen is the first person in all of auto racing who has a last name starting with Q to get scanned. I have two cards of Dale Quarterley but they have not been scanned yet. He was in the race but did not attend the autograph session where I got all the cards. More on the racing stuff when I get a post written. Sorry I have not been writing much. Depressed and it's keeping me from doing much. 

Mysterious old ladies

 A couple of years ago, I bought a lot of vintage Actress cards when I was in Toledo. I finally picked the box they were in to scan this week, but this set is a tough one. There's no known year, it was a set issued across the 1880s and 1890s, and comes in multiple versions. Some of the cards are in less than perfect shape and I can't quite tell who appears on the cards. 

I have three different back versions, and the argument could be made that there's 4 versions because the backs are found both upright and upside down compared to the card front, with card of Frankie Raymond appearing with both directions. 

Here's a good example of the variations

I have a card of Arline Stanley with all three back designs that I have, although I suspect that there may be other back types I do not have present in my collection, since that's how they did it back in the day. 

I have been told the horizontal Sweet Caporal with Kinney Brothers back is rarer than the others. It seems likely true because in the lot I bought there were less of them, although that's a VERY small sample size and jumping to big conclusions. 

I've also been told that there are more than 2000 cards in the set, which would make it one if not the largest sets ever! There are also male actors in the set but none of them appear in the lot I found and purchased. I do not know what the full checklist is though. 

And that's a problem, because two of my cards are in poor enough shape that I can't read the names...and I'm hoping someone with more knowledge than me or a better researcher than I am can figure out who they were.

Well I had posted this one and could make out Mabel. Her last name looked like Santley when I blew it up on the blogger feature and I did a quick internet search- and that's exactly what her name is! In fact I found a closeup portrait of her from the same set in the Jefferson Burdick collection on the Met website and her face is definitely the same. One mystery down!

The next one is going to be much harder.

This card has been damaged sometime in the 120 years it existed before I got it. 

I've got Miss **way**g. I think. Did I mention that some of the cards don't include first names? These must have been household names in the 1880s-1890s, Now most have been forgotten, very few even have Wikipedia pages. For instance, I can't find anything on Arline Stanley, shown above, other than other cards that were issued for her. She actually has quite a few, including others using the same photograph. It seems likely that there is history for her out there somewhere, but I don't know how to find it. It seems many of these actresses, popular on stage before film even existed, left their biggest mark on history via their trading card issues.

New People May 2025

 May was a big month for cards. I don't know why exactly, but traditionally it's always one of the big three months when it comes to card stuff, along with September (when I traditionally go to Lake George) and December (Christmas). This May was no different. I got cards again, I got back to scanning, and the burn out I gave myself by scanning more than 2000 cards in January went away. I ended up scanning 1103 cards during May, which was a lot of work to upload because there were a LOT of new people scanned. I came across a box that had some baseball and football, but also had all of the 1992 US Olypicards I had and a big stack of half naked ladies. Almost all of the latter two needed to have albums created, and it was doubly challenging because a good portion of the ladies had no names printed on the front of the cards. 

To make this I had to take 4 screenshots and combine them! 

Of the 258 new people scanned, exactly 100 were the above mentioned ladies, among 102 non-sport people scanned in total. This months uploads brings me to 935 non-sport people scanned. That's actually down two over what it would have been because I was reading the backs of the cards as I scanned them and I realized two of the women in the sets were actually athletes and should have been in the Other Sports category, which I corrected. That was Gail Kim, a wrestler, and Mia St. John, a boxer. They now reside in Other Sports. 

Other categorical additions:

32 new football players

44 other sports

11 hockey

69 baseball

Interestingly enough I scanned more NBA cards than another other topic during May, but every single one of them were of people that had already been scanned. Auto racing only got a few cards scanned but they were all previously done as well.

Randomly oddball factoid: I do believe this is the first month ever where two people named Ivan got scanned for the first time. Ivan Robinson, a boxer, and Ivan Zweig, a baseballer. 

With May 1st being "Glad I'm Not Dead Day", which celebrates the anniversary of when I got my second chance at life after coming literally 5 minutes away from dying back in 2013, my family always gives me cards and I got quite a few in May because of same. Because I got some NBA cards, which have been very hard to come by here lately, I got quite a few new NBA players.

yes, I see the typo and have fixed Jonathan Mogbo's name after the post went live

but hockey was not left out either of course. Nick Perbix and Brett Leason were both from this year's OPC so both of them got scanned. All the rest wait for the Heystack machine. Another fun factoid: Devin Cooley is the only NHL player known to have a pet rabbit. 

Yet another fun fact: Despite now being over 18,000 different people, these are the first people in my collection named Filipowski, Leason, Mogbo, Perbix, Salaun or Scheierman.