1000th Yankees card !!

This weekend my first ever package from COMC arrived. I have been checking out that site for a while now and recently pulled the trigger and selected some great Yankees cards. The envelop that arrived this weekend included several awesome Mariano Rivera cards and while doing the admin Zistle told me I just entered my 1,000th Yankees card in the system, another milestone in my, still short, baseball collecting career !! Well, to be honest, I still have plenty of boxes and binders lying around that need to be put into Zistle but oke, seeing the ticker going above 1,000 was a nice feeling !

The card that did the trick was a great card, a 2005 Donruss Diamond Kings Crowning Moments card of my favorite player, Mariano Rivera !! A green parallel, so serial numbered to #50.

If you are curious about Zistle or my collection, now at 12,000+, in Zistle check it out here !

Look out for a more detailed review of what COMC delivered in the coming days !

Getting Organized !

It's Sunday so having some to think about my "new" hobby. As most of you will recognize, one of the key challenges, if not the largest challenge, in baseball card collecting is keeping track of all the (thousands of) cards. When I received the 15,000 card collection a few months ago, I started to seriously try to address this issue. Surfing the net I of course came across the Beckett Organiser but I basically fell asleep waiting for all the pages to load when trying to input my collection. Therefore, I decided to quickly move and look for a proper alternative. I think I found one in Zistle, a free organiser site with already loads of scanned cards. The site works pretty well and I have already put in over 10,000 and counting ! Check it out some day as it is really a neat site with lot of possibilities. The one thing I am still thinking of is to actually put my player collection into Excel to keep track of some nice statistics which is always harder to do with sites like Zistle or Beckett.

Here you can check my first 10,000 cards that I put into Zistle !

Please let me know how you organise it all !