The March to 1,000: New Additions

Since finishing my Frankenset, I have shifted my focus to my all-time Cubs player collection. Recent Cardbarrel and eBay orders and some card show pickups brought my total from 830 to 886. 

I compiled a list for my own reference of cards using the team page on Trading Card Database. This helped me find some cards from the 1995-present period that I had missed. I filled in some of those using Cardbarrel. We'll start with a group of guys I wouldn't have thought of in a million years without TCDB.

And a couple you might actually recognize:

Then, I focused on the late 40s / early 50s players, finding a seller on eBay offering some Bowman reprints of those players. Starting again with some randoms:

Maybe you thought, "Wait, I think I've heard of Dutch Leonard." You probably have heard of the other Dutch Leonard, though this guy actually had the better career.

A couple guys you're more likely to know:

I thought I had a good chance at getting some late 50s or early 60s cards from a vendor at a recent card show, and I was right. As I already have cards of the star players from pretty much every era, all of these are commons:

Art Schult looks sleepy.

Larry Jackson doesn't look thrilled to be joining the Cubs after 8 years with the Cardinals. St. Louis would go on to finish 2nd in the NL in 1963, while the Cubs ended up 7th. The Jack Curtis cards would fit well in my "blurry" card collection, but it is destined for the Cubs binder.

  

Also picked up some cards for my 2nd and 3rd tier player collections. The Mudcat Grant is well-loved. Liking the '79 Tiant signing autos and the Satchel Paige (does he have a bad card?). 

I've identified over 150 players on my master list who have a card that I think is fairly attainable. So that would put me over 1,000. I'm thinking when/if I get to 1,000, I would just focus on adding new players (though Topps Total is an online-only product now, I believe, meaning some players will be harder to come by at a reasonable price). 

Hoping to get some fun Frankenset facts out there in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.