Houston, Texas

These seven cards were sent by Marc of Houston, Texas.  Marc runs the card blog "Remember the Astrodome.".  You can also follow Marc on Twitter @marcbrubaker if you're a tweeter.  The 1991 Panini sticker is the first one I've picked up since I published the initial post for it back in 2012.  In fact, I can say with some degree of certainty that it's the first one I've added since 1991.

In 1991 my brother and I, along with the other kids in the neighborhood, were actively trying to fill the Panini sticker books.  Crazy kids that we were, we were actually peeling the stickers and slapping them in the book with no concern for their future value (what were we thinking!?!?).  They came in those sort of weird paper packs, similar to what a wet wipe at a wings restaurant comes in, only larger, and we could ride our bikes to the nearby grocery store that sold them.

What I discovered that summer, was that Panini had an offer where you could send them stickers with a SASE and they would send you specific ones you needed in return.  You just couldn't ask for a dozen Mattingly's or Strawberry's,...or Wallach's (as I'm sure they were being flooded with request for), only one copy per sticker per request.  I can say pretty safely that most of my five copies came to me through that offer.  So I guess at some point I had another copy stuck in the book, but that has long since been recycled or tossed.

Thanks for the cards Marc.

Updated Totals:

1987 Fleer: 227
1990 Topps: 536
1991 Panini: 6
1991 Score: 256
1991 Topps: 272
1991 Upper Deck Checklist: 240
1992 Topps: 235

Ottawa, Ontario

These five cards were sent by Angus from Ottawa.  That's in Canada if you're keeping score.  By my count it's the third time Angus has sent cards going back to his first submission in 2015.  Angus operates a Cleveland Browns centric card blog that you can check out here, "Dawg Day Cards."  The Browns, in addition to having helmets that look a lot like the classic Syracuse Football helmet, were also the NFL home for Syracuse greats Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, and Kevin Johnson.

Included in this mix of cards from Angus were two '86 O-Pee-Chee Stickers.  That was enough to double the total number I had in my collection bumping it up to four.  These are also the first two I have that weren't cut into individual stickers, so it's in no small sense they're really my first complete copies of this "card."

Thanks Angus.

Updated Totals:

1986 O-Pee-Chee Stickers x2: 4

1988 Leaf: 38

1991 Score: 255

1991 Upper Deck: 304

Newark, DE

  

These ten cards were sent by Mark from Newark, Delaware.  He sent them back in August, but I've been slow to post of late.  I hope to catch up by the end of the year.  Mark, "Kaz," is regularly contributor, and one of the first contributors going way back in this blog's history.  You may remember him from his own card blog, "This Way to The Clubhouse," which is still up, and primed for a come back (maybe?).

Thanks for the cards Mark.

Updated Totals:

1982 Donruss: 216
1982 Topps: 1,225
1985 Donruss: 124
1987 Sportflics Tri-Stars: 14
1988 Donruss: 887
1990 Score: 312
1991 Donruss: 293
1991 Donruss MVP x2: 275
1994 Topps: 126

McKinney, TX

This is my dog Ivy.  She'll turn ten months old next week.  For the most part, she's a pretty good dog.  Sure, we've had to work through some of the normal puppy stuff, house breaking, basic commands, and of course chewing.  With the exception of perhaps shedding fur all over everything in my home, chewing seems to be her greatest skill thus far.  I've lost a wallet and drivers license (always nice to go to MVD), four pairs of shoes, two leather belts, a chair, two cell phone screens (yes, she eats cell phones), a tomato garden, a Doug Marrone autographed game used football from Syracuse's classic win over Akron sometime around 2008, a set of cork coasters, all the throw pillows in my house (didn't really like them anyway), and most regratabley, some baseball cards.

Recently she got hold of an envelope sent by regular contributor and fellow Wallach collector, Nick, of McKinney, Texas.  Nick sent me a nice padded envelope stuffed full with 141 Wallach cards, including the first 1991 Topps Tiffany that has crossed my desk since 2012.  Unfortunately, I rather "carelessly" left the envelope on a shelf four feet above the floor, neatly stored in a plastic milk crate with some other magazines and mail.  Worse yet, I had the audacity to leave the house and go to work.  My dog, upon seeing the "reckless" manner in which I left the envelope took it upon herself to pull the milk crate off of the book shelf and do her best to destroy the contents.  The cards, thankfully, survived with only minor injures.  I can't say the same for the Mad Magazine and New Yorker.  However, I still count Wallach cards whether they're mint, slightly dinged, or even partially eaten, as is the case here. 

 My favorite cards of the assortment, the run from '82 to '85 came out more or less okay, and the two '83 O-Pee-Chee's (a card I love) were both untouched.  Here's a break down of what was sent by Nick.  Thanks for the cards, they're always appreciated.

Updated Totals:

1982 Donurss: 215
1982 Fleer: 378
1982 Topps x5: 1,224
1983 Donruss: 140
1983 Fleer: 134
1983 O-Pee-Chee x2: 41
1983 Topps x2: 283
1984 Donruss: 156
1984 Fleer x2: 127
1984 Topps x2: 366
1985 Donruss: 123
1985 O-Pee-Chee: 26
1985 Topps x10: 344
1986 Donruss x2: 157
1986 Fleer: 127
1986 Leaf: 29
1986 Topps x3: 371
1986 Topps All-Star x2: 663
1987 Donruss: 436
1987 Fleer: 226
1987 O-Pee-Chee: 19
1987 Topps x2: 931
1988 Donruss x4: 886
1988 Fleer x6: 300
1988 Fleer MVP: 18
1988 Kay Bee: 34
1988 O-Pee-Chee: 17
1988 Revco: 40
1988 Score: 277
1988 Topps x4: 725
1988 Topps All-Star x2: 747
1988 Topps Big: 64
1988 Topps Glossy Send-In: 20
1988 Topps Mini Leader: 36
1988 Topps Super Star: 33
1989 Bowman x2: 159
1989 Donruss x3: 409
1989 Fleer x2: 393
1989 Score: 184
1989 Topps x3: 761
1989 Upper Deck: 200
1990 Bowman: 105
1990 Donruss x10: 456
1990 Fleer x14: 453
1990 Fleer League Leaders: 11
1990 Score: 311
1990 Topps x5: 535
1990 Upper Deck x4: 317
1991 Bowman: 69
1991 Donurss x3: 292
1991 Donruss MVP x2: 273
1991 Fleer: 187
1991 Leaf x2: 173
1991 O-Pee-Chee Premier x6: 79
1991 Score x3: 254
1991 Score The Franchise x4: 215
1991 Topps Tiffany: 3


One more photo of the card chewer.............

2019 Topps Archives Expos 50th Autograph

Card Review: 6.0  I'll cut to the chase.  I don't like autographs on cards.  I grew up during a period when it was considered sacrilege to write on a card.  "Don't let Mattingly sign an '84 Donurss, or Pete Rose sign a '63 Topps," were basic, bedrock principles of collecting that every kid on the playground trading cards knew by heart.  Beyond not liking the idea of some dude (even the dude on the card) scribbling his name on my card, I have never understood the appeal of an autograph that wasn't obtained in person.  Isn't that the whole point of an autograph?  It's proof of, or a way to commemorate, the experience of meeting someone?  These just feel like false, manufactured memories to me.  So, that said, this card has received the lowest rating of any of the four variations I've posted so far.

I'm also not quite sure what the design team was thinking when they opted to send Wallach the sharpies they did to sign this card.  It's really hard to see the ink.  If you're going to mess up a card with a signature, at least send the signers the right color/size sharpie to use.

I don't mean to complain too much.  Topps issuing new Wallach cards will always be a good thing, and I hope he continues to show up in these sets.  I'm not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth.  One thing this card has going for it, is unlike the foil variations, this is at least a "different" card.  The back of this card, while perhaps not the most exciting back I've ever seen, is at least unique.  This card is the result of it's own print run.  Not only is the back different on this card than the non-auto cards in this set, it's orientation in relation to the front of the card is also reversed.  Now, I can't the say the same thing about the various foil colored logos of this card that exists, but at least it's different from the non-auto copies.

Number of this card in my collection: 4

2019 Topps Archives Expos 50th "Red Variation" #/10

Card Review: 7.5  This Red "Variation" is my favorite of the color foil options Topps trotted out.  The "Blue" logo actually pops a little bit nicer, but given Topps went with a photo of Wallach wearing a blue batting practice jersey, the red works better.  I've said it before (Click the tags for blue or red b.p. jersey in the tabs to confirm), but I'll say it again, the Expos red and blue b.p. jerseys were awesome looking, particularly the red.  But I've never complained about the blue.  I would love to own those jersey's but I've never seen one for sale.  MLB did release a red Raines jersey a few years ago, and I did find a red one with no name on eBay once (unfortunately its too small to wear), but have never seen a #29 jersey.  The search does still continue.

I'm probably beating a dead horse here, but I am very reluctant to count these foil color variations as "different" cards.  These red ones are numbered to ten, but it's the same card as the silver, or blue, or green, or gold or black (I'm not sure there is a non-signed black version, or gold either for that matter).  Topps ran a print run of this card.  Then they took ten of them, it didn't matter which ten because they were all the same card, and added a red foil stamp to the front and a number to the back.  That doesn't mean any post production alteration can't be cool.  It just doesn't make it a new card.  Can you imagine the demand if Topps had asked Andy Warhol to doodle on cards in the 60's and randomly inserted them into packs?  That would have been amazing.  However I wouldn't feel as though not having a Warhol copy of a '66 Pete Rose meant that I didn't have a '66 Pete Rose.  I feel like who does the post production changes is irrelevant.  Be it Andy Warhol, Topps, or me as a five year old adding "C" to all my '84 Topps to differentiate them from my brother's cards. 

In any event, I feel as though I lack the authority to over rule the hobby standard and count these as all the same card, so I will count them as "different" too, albeit, reluctantly.

Number of this card in my collection: 1

2019 Topps Archives Expos 50th "Blue Variation" #/150

Card Review: 7.0  The "Blue" variation of the foil Expos Stamp looks better than the standard "Silver" variation (is it a variation if it's the "standard," or are all inserts inherently "variations?").  Obviously blue works better with the Expos logo and as a result these blue variations just look a little nicer, albeit, not as nice as the "red," which I'll get to posting in a few days. 

These are numbered to 150 on the back in tiny gold stamping.  Some people think that matters, I'm just not one of them.  Hear me out.  Topps printed up god knows how many copies of this card.  Once they did that, it was a "card."  That's it, that's the card.  Then they took 150 copies of that card, it didn't matter which ones because they were all the same card, added a blue stamp on the front, and numbering on the back.  It's still the same card, with some post production graffiti.  If I did it with a sharpie, the card is deemed ruined.  If Topps does it with a press, it's more collectible?  I've seen this movie before (remember those ridiculous Leaf Memories monstrosities?).  If Topps is going to do "variations," than they should actually do "variations."  The 2017 Archives Wallach had actual "variations," as the card itself was a different color.  They weren't all born of the same print run.  I still wasn't wild about that gimmick, but at least you could call them "different" cards and only sound like half an idiot.  Same for the chrome and refractor variations they've done before.  They may be goofy, and kind of stupid, but at least they're not literally the same card the way these foil stamp variations are.

Number of this card in my collection: 1

2019 Topps Archives "Montreal Expos 50th" #MTL-TW

Card Review: 6.5  The last thing I'm going to do is complain when Topps issues a new Wallach card in a current set.  I'm a firm believer in not looking a gift horse in the mouth.  That said, I'm still going to nit-pick a little, with the understanding it's coming from a good place.  And this is by no means a "bad" looking card, either, which is more than I can say for a few of the other Expos I've seen in this subset.  

The "Subset" nature of this card is a bit annoying.  The reason being, is about half the people who collect cards think they can charge a premium for an "insert," while I fall in the other half, the half who gets annoyed as they toss the two crap cards in a pack that don't help complete the set into a junk pile.  So these Wallach's are showing up online with prices well in excess of the 18¢ or so (probably less) that they warrant, and as a result, despite an abundance of them being available, I'm not inclined to buy them until I've exhausted the supply of say, I don't know, the 200,000+ 1987 Topps Wallach cards that can be bought for pennies.

Additionally, I'm just not a huge fan of the '69 design.  It's not horrible by any means, it's just sort of forgettable.  I'm about half-way done putting together the original '69 set, and have decided my favorite part of the design is the pink card backs.  These Expos tributes do a pretty poor job of matching the original color.  And while I'm on the backs, I would have liked some more numbers.  The write-up isn't terrible, but the fact that Wallach also had more hits, RBI's and a half dozen other records in addition to games played for the franchise maybe could have been mentioned.  And beyond that, how about some sort of career stat line as an Expo on all of these cards?  

The front is actually a pretty good photo, and stands out from the ones Topps used during Wallach's playing career.  This one features a "Silver" foil Expos stamp.  This is, presumably, the "normal" one.  To appease the scratch-off lottery ticket element of the card collecting world, this card of course comes in a dozen or so unnecessary variations, that for reasons that will forever elude me, some people are willing to pay obscene amounts of money for a couple of tiny foil stamped "1's" on a card.

The Silver foil stamping, also available in Green, Blue, Red, Gold, and Black

I did briefly consider trying to complete this subset, but ultimately decided against it.  The checklist just isn't that exciting.  Topps was clearly more concerned about who they could round up to sign autographs (another unnecessary variation of this card) than they were with the actual history of the Montreal Expos (Seriously, no Gary Carter?)  So, I'll just be rounding up the Wallach's.

Number of this card in my collection: 3

Reminder, I have a new address:

J. Corey Stackhouse

100 W Apache ST

Farmington, NM 87401

NEW ADDRESS

J. Corey Stackhouse

100 W Apache ST

Farmington, NM 87401

I have a new mailing address as my office has moved.  It changed on September 1, 2019, so if you've mailed anything recently, it may come back.  I apologize for the delay.  Email me if I owe you any postage.

Collection Audit 1994 - Present

In the interest of saving time, I'm not listing each card for for these last few years.  I'm just correcting the actual listing and will summarize the results.  Starting in 1994 the cardboard cancer that is inserts had spread beyond the point of no return and the hobby as we knew it was terminal.  I'm not sure when the actual time of death was, but I think anywhere between 1994 and 1997 is a reasonable estimate.  I don't know who decided we needed multiple variations of the same card, but having now dealt with the gimmick for two decades plus, it's safe to say, we don't.  Insert chasers will always have scratch off lottery tickets to feed their itch if the inserts went away.  Us set builders don't have much else to fall back on.  And for purposes of this "audit" I don't feel like mentioning every single variation is worth the effort.

For the cards issued in 1994, I came up with an additional 46 cards.  Stadium Club had the largest difference, with my count coming up with an additional 9 cards.  Pinnacle was next with 5, and Donruss, Fleer, and Score Select each had 4 more cards than I thought I did.

 Most of the 1995 tallies were pretty close or only one or two off.  I came up with an additional 48 cards.  Topps was by far the largest change, with the count yielding 13 more cards than I had listed.  Fleer Ultra was next with an additional 5 cards.

1996 was pretty much on point with only an additional 8 cards showing up.  Pinnacle with four more cards than I thought was the biggest difference.  I'm sure it had something to do with the fact that I just don't have very many copies of these cards.

As for the modern cards below, I came up with three additional cards.  I guess the individual numbering is good way to make sure I keep my numbers straight.

All in all, over the course of this "audit," I came up with an additional 927 cards.  I figured going in that I'd come up with more than I had listed, but I didn't think it would be anywhere near that high.  My best guess is that sometime around 2014 I wasn't adding new purchases as they came in and just waiting to update when I was mailed one, believing I would reconcile the numbers then.  I guess I didn't.  Don't look for this exercise to become an annual thing.  It was miserable, and I won't be doing it again any time soon.

Collection Audit 1992 & 1993

1992 Bowman - Listed: 54   Actual: 55   Difference: +1

1992 Bowman USA - Listed: 65   Actual: 71   Difference: +6

1992 Classic - Listed: 3   Actual: 4   Difference: +1

1992 Denver All-Time Records - Listed: 10   Actual: 10   Difference: zero

1992 Diet Pepsi - Listed: 9   Actual: 9   Difference: zero

1992 Donruss - Listed: 213   Actual: 226   Difference: +13

1992 Donruss Durivage - Listed: 3   Actual: 3   Difference: zero

1992 Fleer - Listed: 142   Actual: 163   Difference: +21

1992 Fleer Ultra - Listed: 141   Actual: 144   Difference: +3

1992 Leaf - Listed: 111   Actual: 108   Difference: -3

1992 Leaf Black Gold - Listed: 14   Actual: 14   Difference: zero

1992 O-Pee-Chee - Listed: 19   Actual: 22   Difference: +3

1992 Panini - Listed: 16   Actual: 16    Difference: zero

1992 Panini French - Listed: 1   Actual: 1   Difference: zero

1992 Pinnacle - Listed: 107   Actual: 113   Difference: +6

1992 Red Book - Listed: 6   Actual: 14   Difference: +8

1992 Post - Listed: 5   Actual: 5   Difference: zero

1992 Score - Listed: 85   Actual: 90   Difference: +5

1992 Super Star - Listed: 7   Actual: 7   Difference: zero

1992 Stadium Club - Listed: 68   Actual: 72   Difference: +4

1992 Studio - Listed: 73   Actual: 77   Difference: +4

1992 Topps - Listed: 215   Actual: 234   Difference: +19

1992 Topps Gold - Listed: 6   Actual: 7   Difference: +1

1992 Topps Gold Winner - Listed: 24   Actual: 24   Difference: zero

1992 Topps Kids - Listed: 42   Actual: 43   Difference: +1

1992 Topps Micro - Listed: 8   Actual: 6   Difference: -2

1992 Triple Play - Listed: 99   Actual: 104   Difference: +5

1992 Upper Deck - Listed: 281   Actual: 288   Difference: +7

1992 Upper Deck Gold - Listed: 3   Actual: 5   Difference: +2

1993 Bowman - Listed: 24   Actual: 24   Difference: zero

1993 Cardtoons - Listed: 3   Actual: 3   Difference: zero

1993 Donruss - Listed: 106   Actual: 110   Difference: +4

1993 Donruss McDonalds Expos - Listed: 10   Actual: 10   Difference: zero

1993 Flair - Listed: 38   Actual: 38   Difference: zero

1993 Fleer - Listed: 68   Actual: 78   Difference: +10

1993 Fleer Final Edition - Listed: 12   Actual: 16   Difference: +4

1993 Fleer Ultra - Listed: 42   Actual: 45   Difference: +3

1993 Humpty Dumpty - Listed: 7   Actual: 7   Difference: zero

1993 LAPD D.A.R.E. - Listed: 4   Actual: 4   Difference: zero

1993 Leaf - Listed: 86   Actual: 96   Difference: +10

1993 Memphis Chicks - Listed: 3   Actual: 3   Difference: zero

1993 Mother's Cookies - Listed: 2   Actual: 2   Difference: zero

1993 O-Pee-Chee - Listed: 8   Actual: 8   Difference: zero

1993 O-Pee-Chee Premier - Listed: 27   Actual: 29   Difference: +2

1993 Pacific - Listed: 2   Actual: 3   Difference: +1

1993 Panini - Listed: 10   Actual: 10   Difference: zero

1993 Pinnacle - Listed: 42   Actual: 43   Difference: +1

1993 Score - Listed: 29   Actual: 35   Difference: +6

1993 Score Select - Listed: 52   Actual: 63   Difference: +11

1993 Score Select Update - Listed: 10   Actual: 10   Difference: zero

1993 Stadium Club - Listed: 71   Actual: 72   Difference: zero

1993 Stadium Club 1st Day Production - Listed: 1   Actual: 1   Difference: zero

1993 Stadium Club Member's Only - Listed: 2   Actual: 2   Difference: zero

1993 Stadium Club Dodgers - Listed: 7   Actual: 7   Difference: zero

1993 Studio - Listed: 51   Actual: 55   Difference: +4

1993 Topps - Listed: 214   Actual: 248   Difference: +34

1993 Topps Gold - Listed: 34   Actual: 34   Difference: zero

1993 Topps Marlins Inaugural - Listed: 5   Actual: 6   Difference: +1

1993 Topps Rockies Inaugural - Listed: 3   Actual: 3   Difference: zero

1993 Topps Micro - Listed: 2   Actual: 2   Difference: zero

1993 Topps Traded - Listed: 29   Actual: 36   Difference: +7

1993 Topps Finest - Listed: 6   Actual: 6   Difference: zero

1993 Finest Refractor - Listed: 1   Actual: 1   Difference: zero

1993 Triple Play - Listed: 38   Actual: 42   Difference: +4

1993 Upper Deck - Listed: 146   Actual: 156   Difference: +10

1993 Upper Deck Gold Hologram - Listed: 1   Actual: 1   Difference: zero

There were some pretty big discrepancies over these two years between what I had posted and how many I counted in hand.  Most of them went in my favor, but I'm still at a loss as to how I'm so far off.  I've been running this blog for nearly a decade now, and I feel like there was a period in time where I was just filing cards I bought (not one that were sent), and assuming I would count them and correct the numbers when someone sent me more of them.  Beyond that, I have no idea.  In total I came up with 217 more cards than I thought I had for these two years.

Collection Audit 1991

After a delay due to nothing more than my own procrastination, I've finally gotten around to finishing up this audit.  Hopefully it'll be done this week, as I have a pretty awesome new item to post, and there new 2019 Wallach cards to get to as well.  Here's how 1991 shook out:

1991 Baseball Price Guide Monthly - Listed: 3  Actual: 3  Difference: zero

1991 Baseball Card Magazines - Listed: 3  Actual: 3  Difference: zero

1991 Bowman - Listed: 64  Actual: 68  Difference: +4

1991 Classic - Listed: 5  Actual: 5  Difference: zero

1991 Denny's - Listed: 18  Actual: 18  Difference: zero

1991 Donruss - Listed: 280  Actual: 289  Difference: +9

1991 Donruss MVP - Listed: 260  Actual: 271  Difference: +11

1991 Fleer - Listed: 194  Actual: 186  Difference: -8

1991 Fleer Ultra - Listed: 84  Actual: 91  Difference: +7

1991 Holsum Disc - Listed: 1  Actual: 1  Difference: zero

1991 Home Run Kings - Listed: 1  Actual: 1  Difference: zero

1991 Jumbo Seeds - Listed: 9  Actual: 9  Difference: zero

1991 Leaf - Listed: 160  Actual: 171  Difference: +11

1991 Leaf Preview - Listed: 13  Actual: 13  Difference: zero

1991 O-Pee-Chee - Listed: 3  Actual: 3  Difference: zero

1991 O-Pee-Chee Premier - Listed: 73  Actual: 73  Difference: zero

1991 Panini - Listed: 5  Actual: 5  Difference: zero

1991 Panini Canadian Top 15 - Listed: 23  Actual: 23  Difference: zero

1991 Panini French - Listed: 1  Actual: 1  Difference: zero

1991 Petro Stand-up - Listed: 3  Actual: 3  Difference: zero

1991 Post - Listed: 14  Actual: 14  Difference: zero

1991 Red Book - Listed: 6  Actual: 6  Difference: zero

1991 Score - Listed: 238  Actual: 251  Difference: +13

1991 Score The Franchise - Listed: 199  Actual: 211  Difference: +12

1991 Score Superstars - Listed: 16  Actual: 19  Difference: +3

1991 Stadium Club - Listed: 125  Actual: 126  Difference: +1

1991 Studio - Listed: 82  Actual: 82  Difference: zero

1991 Topps - Listed: 262  Actual: 271  Difference: +9

1991 Topps Desert Shield - Listed: 2   Actual: 2   Difference: zero

1991 Topps Cracker Jack - Listed: 11  Actual: 11  Difference: zero

1991 Topps Micro - Listed: 5  Actual: 6  Difference: +1

1991 Topps Tiffany - Listed: 2  Actual: 2  Difference: zero

1991 Upper Deck - Listed: 295  Actual: 303  Difference: +8

1991 Upper Deck Checklist - Listed: 227  Actual: 239  Difference: +12

A review of 1991 yielded an additional 93 cards.  And while I came out with more than I thought I had, I'm more than a little annoyed to have come up with 8 fewer 1991 Fleers than I thought I had.  I'm going to have to make a point to add a few of those to my next Sportlots purchase.

Collection Audit 1990

Not featured in this photo, but the dog I mentioned yesterday did in fact get ahold of a few of these, pulling several team bags of 1990 Fleer off the table.  She tore open two bags and about 50 of my 1990 Fleer cards are now either missing a corner or feature some teeth marks.  (They still count.)

1990 Bowman - Listed: 102   Actual: 104  Difference: +2

1990 Bowman Tiffany - Listed: 5   Actual: 5  Difference: none

1990 Collect the Stars Magnet - Listed: 1   Actual: 1  Difference: none

1990 Donruss - Listed: 437   Actual: 446  Difference: +9

1990 Donruss Aqueos Test - Listed: 1   Actual: 1  Difference: none

1990 Donruss Baseball's Best - Listed: 10   Actual: 11  Difference: +1

1990 Donruss Learning Series - Listed: 10   Actual: 10  Difference: none

1990 Fleer - Listed: 375   Actual: 439  Difference: +64

1990 Fleer Canadian - Listed: 5   Actual: 5  Difference: none

1990 Fleer Award Winners - Listed: 8   Actual: 9  Difference: +1

1990 Fleer League Leaders - Listed: 9   Actual: 10  Difference: +1

1990 Leaf - Listed: 119   Actual: 123  Difference: +4

1990 O-Pee-Chee - Listed: 3   Actual: 3  Difference: none

1990 Panini - Listed: 5   Actual: 5   Difference: none

1990 Publications International Stickers - Listed: 3   Actual: 3  Difference: none

1990 Red Foley - Listed: 3   Actual: 3  Difference: none

I have no idea how I was off by 64 cards with 1990 Fleer.  I'm sure over the years there have been more than a few large purchases that fell threw the cracks, but not 64 cards at once.  It's not like 1990 Fleer is a Wallach card that shows up in 50 card lots on eBay the way his rookies do from time to time.  Still, better to have 64 more than I thought, than 64 fewer.  It's almost like my dog didn't take a bite out of 50 or so of them.

1990 Score - Listed: 302   Actual: 310  Difference: +8

1990 Sportflics- Listed: 10   Actual: 10  Difference: none

1990 Topps - Listed: 517   Actual: 530  Difference: +13

1990 Topps Big - Listed: 15   Actual: 15  Difference: none

1990 Topps Coins - Listed: 9   Actual: 9  Difference: none

1990 Topps Doubleheaders - Listed: 2   Actual: 2  Difference: none

1990 Topps Mini Leaders - Listed: 15   Actual: 15  Difference: none

1990 Topps Stickers - Listed: 2   Actual: 2  Difference: none

1990 Topps Superstars - Listed: 21   Actual: 21  Difference: none 

1990 Tiffany - Listed: 5   Actual: 5   Difference: none

1990 U.S. Playing Cards - Listed: 34   Actual: 34  Difference: none

1990 U.S. Playing Cards Silver - Listed: 1   Actual: 1  Difference: none

1990 Upper Deck - Listed: 312   Actual: 313  Difference: +1

The review of my 1990 Wallach's came out with 104 additional cards.  That brings the running total up to 515 additional cards.  I figure that number will shoot up again with 1991, and then start to slow down significantly.  Not that I'm rooting for it to.  I'd rather have whatever accounting ego I have be bruised and come up additional cards, that have it stroked and be sport on.

Collection Audit 1989

I had to pause this process for awhile, but had time to hammer out another year this morning.  The issue with doing this, is it takes up a lot of space and creates a good amount of clutter.  So it's not just a matter of counting the cards and running numbers.  Pulling the boxes and then laying out the cards, then putting them away eats up a lot of minutes.  I'm also the proud owner of a new dog.  A Siberian Husky.  She's 7 months old and has an amazing ability to destroy any and everything that isn't closed in a drawer, closet, or about 8 feet off the ground.  So leaving these cards out overnight or during the day is out of the question.  Otherwise, she's a great dog.  Here are some numbers:

1989 Alaska Goldpanners - Listed: 5   Actual: 5  Difference: 0

1989 Bowman - Listed: 152   Actual: 157  Difference: +5

1989 Bowman Tiffany - Listed: 6   Actual: 9  Difference: +3

1989 Donruss - Listed: 394   Actual: 406  Difference: +12

1989 Donruss Baseball's Best - Listed: 19   Actual: 20  Difference: +1

1989 Donruss Baseball's Best Blue Test Proof- Listed: 1   Actual: 1  Difference: 0

1989 Fleer - Listed: 401   Actual: 391  Difference: -10

1989 Fleer Glossy - Listed: 4   Actual: 4  Difference: 0

1989 K-Mart - Listed: 58   Actual: 58  Difference: 0

1989 O-Pee-Chee - Listed: 10   Actual: 10  Difference: 0

1989 Panini - Listed: 1   Actual: 1  Difference: 0

1989 Red Foley Stickers - Listed: 3   Actual: 3  Difference: 0

1989 Score - Listed: 183   Actual: 183  Difference: 0

1989 Sportflics - Listed: 11   Actual: 12  Difference: +1

1989 St. Vincent Stamps - Listed: 2   Actual: 2  Difference: 0

Probably the biggest surprise here was the revelation of three more Bowman Tiffany.  I have no idea where they came from or when I picked them up.  It's a fairly scarce card.  One more wouldn't have been much of a surprise, but to have 50% more than I thought I did is a bit of a head scratcher.  Somewhere along the way I credited myself with ten additional '89 Fleer.  Probably a math error at some point while adding a bunch at once.

1989 Topps - Listed: 750   Actual: 758  Difference: +8

1989 Topps Baseball Talk - Listed: 1   Actual: 1  Difference: 0

1989 Topps Big - Listed: 15   Actual: 16  Difference: +1

1989 Topps Stickers - Listed: 5   Actual: 5  Difference: 0

1989 Topps Tiffany - Listed: 8   Actual: 9  Difference: +1

1989 Upper Deck - Listed: 197   Actual: 199  Difference: +2

No real surprises here.  The total change for 1989 was 24 additional cards to add to the total.  That brings the total audit total up to +411, a number far larger than I expected to find, and there's still a good number of years to go through.

Collection Audit 1987-1988

I only made my way through two years with this post.  This process may take a little longer than I thought.  It went when there were only four or five different cards in the early 1980's, and I underestimated the tediousness of counting off a handful of copies for dozens of different sets in a given year.  Of this first batch, '87 Opening Day was the only real surprise.  Not sure how I missed 14 of those.  Sportflics was the lone set to go backwards.  I don't feel too bad about that given I don't really like Sportflics, and they tend to stick together when you're trying to count them.  So that error is easy enough to write off for me.

1987 Donruss: Listed 429   Actual: 435   Difference: +6

1987 Donruss Opening Day: Listed 39   Actual: 53   Difference: +14

1987 Fleer: Listed 224   Actual: 225   Difference: +1

1987 Fleer Glossy: Listed 30   Actual: 34   Difference: +4

1987 General Mills: Listed 3   Actual: 3   Difference: none

1987 Hostess: Listed 4   Actual: 4   Difference: none

1987 Indiana Blue Sox: Listed 1   Actual: 1   Difference: none

1987 Leaf: Listed 53   Actual: 55   Difference: +2

1987 O-Pee-Chee: Listed 18   Actual: 18   Difference: none

1987 O-Pee-Chee Stickers: Listed 3   Actual: 3   Difference: none

1987 Red Foley Stickers: Listed 3   Actual: 3    Difference: none

1987 Sportflics: Listed 49   Actual: 47   Difference: -2

1987 Sportflics Tri-Stars: Listed 13   Actual: 13   Difference: none

1987 Stuart Super Star Panels: Listed 1   Actual: 1   Difference: none

1987 Press Box: Listed 1   Actual: 1   Difference: none

I'm at over 900 copies of '87 Topps and my count was only off by five.  I feel pretty good about that.  I'm going to have to make a point to push that card over the 1,000 mark before the end of the year.

1987 Topps: Listed 924   Actual: 929   Difference: +5

1987 Topps Stickers: Listed 6   Actual: 5   Difference: -1

1987 Topps Tiffany: Listed 19   Actual: 21    Difference: +2

I was an even 100 off on 1988 Donruss.  I don't know if I made a typo at some point or if I'm just an idiot.  I think I just have an aversion to 1988 Donruss.  It's probably my least favorite 1980's set design of the big three Topps/Fleer/Donruss.

1988 Donruss: Listed: 782   Actual: 882   Difference: +100

1988 Donruss All-Star: Listed 48   Actual: 49   Difference: +1

1988 Donruss Baseball's Best: Listed 34   Actual: 49   Difference: +15

1988 Fleer: Listed: 293   Actual: 294   Difference: +1

1988 Fleer Award Winners: Listed: 20   Actual: 24   Difference: +4

1988 Fleer All-Star: Listed: 11   Actual: 16   Difference: +5

1988 Fleer MVP: Listed: 20   Actual: 17   Difference: -3

1988 Fleer Box Bottoms: Listed: 15   Actual: 15   Difference: none

1988 Fleer Glossy: Listed: 11   Actual: 12   Difference: +1

1988 Fleer Mini: Listed: 15   Actual: 15   Difference: none

1988 Fleer Star Stickers: Listed: 80   Actual: 82   Difference: +2

1988 Hostess Disc: Listed: 4   Actual: 4   Difference: none

1988 Jiffy Pop: Listed: 2   Actual: 2   Difference: none

1988 Kay Bee: Listed: 32   Actual: 33   Difference: +1

1988 Leaf: Listed: 37   Actual: 37   Difference: none

1988 Leaf Canadian Greats: Listed: 35   Actual: 35   Difference: none

1988 Nestle: Listed: 6   Actual: 6   Difference: none

1988 O-Pee-Chee: Listed: 16   Actual: 16   Difference: none

1988 O-Pee-Chee Stickers: Listed: 2   Actual: 2   Difference: none

1988 O-Pee-Chee Super Stars: Listed: 6   Actual: 6   Difference: none

1988 Panini: Listed 11   Actual: 11   Difference: none

1988 Red Foley: Listed 16   Actual: 16   Difference: none

1988 Revco: Listed 42  Actual: 39   Difference: -3

1988 Score: Listed 267   Actual: 276   Difference: +9

1988 Score Glossy: Listed 2   Actual: 2   Difference: none

1988 Sportflics: Listed 9   Actual: 9   Difference: none

1988 Starting Line-Up: Listed 2   Actual: 2   Difference: none

1988 Topps: Listed 713   Actual: 721   Difference: +8

1988 Topps All-Star: Listed: 717   Actual: 745   Difference: +28

1988 Topps Big: Listed: 62  Actual: 63   Difference: +1

1988 Topps Cloth: Listed: 2   Actual: 2   Difference: none

1988 Topps Coins: Listed: 3   Actual: 3   Difference: none

1988 Topps Glossy Send Ins: Listed: 18   Actual: 19   Difference: +1

1988 Topps Mini Leaders: Listed: 34   Actual: 35   Difference: +1

1988 Topps Stickers: Listed: 25   Actual: 26   Difference: +1

1988 Topps Super Star: Listed: 29   Actual: 32   Difference: +3

1988 Topps Tiffany: Listed: 19   Actual: 20   Difference: +1

1988 Topps Tiffany All-Star: Listed: 17   Actual: 17    Difference: none

1988 Topps UK Mini: Listed: 89   Actual: 89   Difference: none

1988 Topps UK Mini Tiffany: Listed: 3   Actual: 3   Difference: none

I ended up finding 208 more cards than I had listed from 1987-88.  That brings the running total up to an additional 387 cards.  I suspect that it will continue to go up through about 1991, then taper off significantly, but we'll see.