The Right Stuff: Finishing up the Yearbooks. EXTRA INNINGS: TCDB update.

 Getting to the last of the magazines. I didn't think that it would go so fast, but it did. This is the other half of the Atlanta Braves yearbooks that I picked up on that third trip to Grand Slam Collectibles. 

Murphy and Horner grace the 81' cover.

Horner, Niekro, Hubbard, and Chambliss in color with Mathews, Spahn, and Hammerin' Hank in Sepia (lol).

Love the shot of Hank there. There wasn't an 83' in the lot so I am hoping that I have one in the "stuff" I already owned. I really am looking forward to getting to that project. 

Speaking of projects (I always have multiple going on): I have taken a break on the PC update (I haven't touched the L's seems like 2 months now). I figure they won't take long and with the M's (one of my largest sections) the halfway mark and the yearlong task thus far had me a bit ahead of schedule (I started last October) I could use a break to work on other projects. It was always a 2 year end to end project. Pretty sure once I get through this round and start up the process again it will only take a few months to cover it all especially with me drastically cutting back on the amount of bulk buys. Not by choice of course, but it works. 

For the next couple of weeks I have 20 CE credits to take care of. Three classes: one 4 hour Ethics update (every 2 years), one 6 hour class, and one 10 hour class (saving that one for last). I'll probably work on the L's once I have finished those courses. Try to get back in to the groove.....You know what I mean man? Catch my drift?  LOL.

The last 2 weeks I have been running the second round of sorting the cards in my garage which includes the 21K I bought last month. The first round of sorting included the 350K plus in my garage that I have begun sorting. I did the heritage and A&G already too while I was sorting. I broke the rest of them down into "sets" that I would build (or put together), and Flagship Topps (which I need none- ZERO, and non set builds. I just put any card that was in a future set build into boxes without further separating. This 2nd round of sorting which is a lot more reasonable is down to maybe 100K cards give or take a thousand. This round is separating them down to company/manufacturer. IE: Topps, Donruss, Upper Deck, etc.... I should finish that up tonight. The 3rd round will break each of those down into actual sets followed by a 4th round which will take one brand at a time and sort the sets by year and put in numerical order and entering them into TCDB, and pacing the rest in order back out in the garage. 

That is a whole lot of sorting folks. But when I am done with this project which should have never gotten this disorganized to begin with (life happens....excuses etc.) I will be able to trade/sell do whatever with relative ease in finding cards that others needs. Of course, that only pertains to the ones I am sorting. The "non-set build" cards will still be a mess, along with the hundreds of thousands of Topps Flagship cards.

It is PROGRESS that I can live with. With all of that said, I can get to the point now. Entering the PC update into TCDB along with the Heritage and AG stuff  and Chrome, etc.... has me currently sitting at #35 for total unique cards (only a few cards to jump three or four spots) and #17 baseball, not bad considering I haven't put a dent in what I have yet to enter. 

When it comes down to Atlanta Braves the other "yay who" is still 550ish cards ahead of me.

Oh look they used the photo of the AWESOME Dale Murphy cover everyone liked. Now if Topps would just use that shot on one of their Stadium club cards. That certainly could be a card of the year favorite.....

For those still paying attention to the  cover prices. $4.00 on this one. That is a 25% increase over the previous year, oh yeah we were in a serious recession back then or rather working our way out of one. I built my first house a couple of years later and the interest rate was fixed at 10% for my mortgage and that was extremely low compared to what others were paying, and that was a on a 20 year mortgage. The 30 and 40 year mortgages they are doing these days were unheard of. They really should be 10-15- or 20 years max on a mortgage. If people can't afford, chop the heads off the greedy banks/FED.... LOL. make them lower the rates.

Years 89-91 were also not in the batch so again I'm hoping I already them. But hey by this time America's team was on a roll (just couldn't close out the World Series...yet.

The last yearbook in the lot was this $7.00 one. I'm thinking Smoltz, Chipper, and Andruw should have been on the cover instead if Terry, Dave, and Lemke. That would look so much better with Glavine and Maddux. Don't ya think?

I hope you enjoyed this 2 week journey down memory lane with me. I did.