Almost 6,000 Cubs baseball cards were added to the collection between Friday and Saturday.
Big Shep from the About the Cards podcast sent a BIG box of Cubs. Nearly 4,500 Cubs cards were in his package and it makes it the second largest Cubs package of 2019. Bryan in Texas sent the largest box of Cubs this year with 4,547 Cubs cards.
People often ask me if I actually count my Cubs cards. The answer is yes. It seems like it would take a long time to count almost 300,000 cards, but in reality my average mailday is less than 400 cards. That’s an easy task. But how do I keep track of a larger box like Big Shep’s?
I count the cards by the 100, and put each pile in a 3,200 count box separating them by post-it notes. At the end I just count up the post-it notes. This box included some neat cards like a 2004 Upper Deck Etchings Carlos Vasquez numbered 740/2004.
I’m a sucker for Bowman Platinum. Here’s a 2010 Bowman Platinum Starlin Castro rookie card.
A young Kerry Wood from 1998 Stadium Club.
And there were even some newer cards like this shiny 2018 Bowman Draft Chrome Refractor Brendon Little.
Another box came from Josh. Love Javier Baez, and this is a really sweet 2019 Gypsy Queen Fortune Teller insert. This is my first Gypsy Queen of 2019.
A Willson Contreras sepia refractor from 2017 Topps Chrome.
A few 1970’s cards inside like a 1975 Topps Rookie Infielders that included Manny Trillo.
And “sweet swingin” Billy Williams from 1973 Topps.
The weekend adds pushed my collection to over 296,000 Cubs cards.
One Million Cubs Project Stats
Saturday’s (4/20/2019) Cards: 5,697
Saturday’s (4/20/2019) Packages: 3
January’s Cubs Count: 9,343
February’s Cubs Count: 8,980
March’s Cubs Count: 15,704
April’s Cubs Count: 9,724
Total Trades/Donations: 103
Trade States of Origin:
Arizona
Alabama
Arkansas
California (5)
Connecticut (8)
Florida (3)
Georgia (3)
Idaho
Illinois (13)
Indiana (3)
Kansas
Kentucky
Maryland (5)
Massachusetts (3)
Michigan
Minnesota (2)
New Hampshire
New Jersey (7)
New York (8)
North Carolina (4)
Ohio (4)
Oregon
Pennsylvania (3)
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee (4)
Texas (4)
Virginia
Washington (2)
West Virginia
Wisconsin (9)