Cheat sheet leaderboards updates - 1980s debuts players

Maybe a summer project is to get control of the bulk cards I hoard by players - through August, things have now gotten hotter, where the air is stale and it's hard to be holed up inside a room sorting all sorts of cards. 

I have collected mostly dollar and less binder material of various guys as a catch-all to give me some cheap thrills - maybe I wonder why I still do this, where my collection feels like it hasn't matured and ends up a little backwards. 

Maybe I just like to hoard player piles where every $0.50 card was supposed to mean something - for the most part, it's cards I end up with and not seek out, though that might not be entirely true.

Part of the fun is where I decide to add a number of cards, sometimes on a card-by-card basis [maybe from $0.50 to about $10 at most] - to boost my totals all-around, where it becomes kind of a game to build things up.

There is a sense that players or cards from previous decades just end up dated where no one really cares or wants their cards unless you have some nostalgia - for myself, there is a lingering sentiment for past players' cards, though I have to keep it under control, where it's too many cards that I do not have to take in out of an obligation to curate or be a historian of my personal card collection.

There might be guys in my leaderboards that ends up more like a semester or minor star in sentiment - maybe the distinctions mattered when the guys were playing and their common cards were worth a little something, but now I am more agreeable in considering 'lesser' subjects as second look guys rather than only considering the superstars of an era. 

There might be guys towards the bottom of my leaderboards - that have triggered inclusion, but may not be guys I'm really looking for more cards of. 

1980s [7/30/26]

Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Milk Chocolate Almond ice cream bars box
Ken Griffey Jr. - 280 cards with four dupes and four Ken Griffey Sr.; it might be a case here where I count the Sr. cards as part of the entire totals, though I might include 'one off' bonus cards for other players [that are not their card and are just tallied as one off quirks]. 

Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bars box

1st row
Tony Gwynn - 175 cards + two dupes
Cal Ripken Jr. - 164 cards + three dupes
Will Clark - 149 cards with seven dupes

2nd row
Barry Bonds - 136 cards
Don Mattingly - 136 cards + three dupes
Jose Canseco - 129 cards with nine dupes

Curry shoebox

1st row
Kirby Puckett - 126 cards with five dupes
Greg Maddux - 121 cards + two dupes
Mark McGwire - 115 cards + three dupes

2nd row
Roger Clemens - 109 cards + three dupes
Wade Boggs - 88 cards + one dupe
Ryne Sandberg - 83 cards
Larry Walker - 79 cards + a dupe

3rd row
Albert Belle - 72 cards + one dupe
Fred McGriff - 68 cards + three dupes
Gary Sheffield - 54 cards + a certified autograph card
Barry Larkin - 46 cards + one dupe
David Justice - 37 cards
David Cone - 37 cards + two dupes
Mark Grace - 36 cards + two dupes
Bo Jackson - 35 cards + one NFL
Cecil Fielder - 34 cards

UGG shoebox

1st row
John Olerud - 34 cards with five dupes
Kevin Mitchell - 32 cards + two dupes
John Smoltz - 32 cards + one dupe
Joe Carter - 31 cards + one dupe
Deion Sanders - 31 cards + two NFL + one dupe
Edgar Martinez - 29 cards
Paul O’Neill - 29 cards with 11 dupes
Craig Biggio - 29 cards
Julio Franco - 25 cards + a certified autograph card
Andres Galarraga - 25 cards + one dupe
Tom Glavine - 23 cards + one dupe
Juan Gonzalez - 23 cards + two dupes
Darryl Strawberry - 22 cards
Orel Hershiser - 19 cards
Harold Baines - 17 cards
Roberto Alomar - 16 cards + one dupe
Lee Smith - 16 cards
Curt Schilling - 15 cards
Sammy Sosa - 15 cards
Ken Caminiti - 14 cards
Bobby Bonilla - 12 cards
Jay Buhner - 12 cards 
Dwight Gooden - 11 cards, one dupe
Eric Davis - 10 cards
David Wells - 10 cards
Dave Stewart - nine cards
Omar Vizquel - nine cards + one dupe
Kevin Brown - eight cards
Rafael Palmeiro - seven cards
Fernando Valenzuela - seven cards

Busying myself up with my cheat sheet leaderboards updates

Maybe a summer project is to get control of the bulk cards I hoard by players - to give me the illusion I am still doing a thing, especially when some days are still relatively cooler than it will be in August.

I have collected mostly dollar and less binder material of various guys as a catch-all to give me some cheap thrills - I let what I call my update piles accumulate and see if I can update my main player piles once or twice a year.

I then dig up the main player piles which are separated by 1970s and before debuts - 1980s debuts, 1990s debuts, 2000s debuts, 2010s debuts, 2020s debuts onward.

I try to thumb through my player piles one by one to add any number of cards - a thing I have started paying more attention to is weeding out or just accounting for dupes that may show, where the dupes can be pushed along elsewhere so I have as many different cards per player as possible.

I have my cheat sheet leaderboards standings that list my player totals for each decade - the cheat sheet part means having something to look at as quick reference of the leaderboards, which list the most cards I have for subjects and the least number, where seven cards is the random number that triggers inclusion to be added to the cheat sheet leaderboards collection at large.

A caveat is that these are merely cards accumulated from the past five or six years - there are cards I now considered archived stored in pages and binders.

My intent was to have 'books' for all these guys like might I may have seen the OG collectors do it, where you can appreciate the sheer quantity - but my player piles from the past five or six years have been merely squirreled away in various boxes, moved around and stored according to my last cheat sheet leaderboards updates.

Cheat sheet leaderboards

1970s and before [7/4/26] - New

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Nolan Ryan - 193 cards + two dupes
George Brett - 138 cards - including six dupes
Pete Rose - 133 cards + 2 Bart Giamatti, with six dupes from 1985 Galasso Rose set
Rickey Henderson - 122 cards + three dupes

Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Milk Chocolate Almond ice cream bars box 
Willie Mays - 91 cards
Mickey Mantle - 86 cards + three dupes
Mike Schmidt - 79 cards + one dupe
Reggie Jackson - 77 cards + three dupes
Ted Williams - 75 cards - including six dupes
Babe Ruth - 73 cards including four dupes

Under Armour shoe box
1st row
Roberto Clemente - 58 cards
Hank Aaron - 54 cards
Jackie Robinson - 52 cards
Lou Gehrig - 49 cards
Dave Winfield - 45 cards
Joe DiMaggio - 42 cards
Carl Yastrzemski - 42 cards + one dupe
Bob Gibson - 41 cards + two dupes

2nd row
Robin Yount - 41 cards + one dupe
Johnny Bench - 40 cards + two dupes
Harmon Killebrew - 39 cards
Stan Musial - 39 cards
Ty Cobb - 35 cards + one dupe
Ernie Banks - 34 cards
Andre Dawson - 34 cards
Duke Snider - 34 cards + three dupes
Carlton Fisk - 31 cards
Willie McCovey - 30 cards
Paul Molitor - 30 cards

Middle row
Gary Carter - 29 cards + three dupes
Tom Seaver - 29 cards
Ozzie Smith - 29 cards
Honus Wagner - 29 cards
Satchel Paige - 28 cards
Roy Campanella - 27 cards
Dennis Eckersley - 27 cards

Mailer box
Bob Feller - 26 cards
Dale Murphy - 26 cards
Jim Rice - 26 cards + three dupes
Brooks Robinson - 26 cards + two dupes
Willie Stargell - 26 cards + one dupe
Alan Trammell - 26 cards
Lou Brock - 25 cards
Sandy Koufax - 25 cards
Rod Carew - 24 cards
Eddie Murray - 24 cards

Missoni shoe box
Juan Marichal - 22 cards
Roger Maris - 22 cards
Thurman Munson - 22 cards
Warren Spahn - 22 cards
Steve Carlton - 20 cards
Tim Raines - 20 cards
Larry Doby - 19 cards
Ferguson Jenkins - 19 cards, one cameo on 2022 Topps Heritage 1973 Topps Pat Corrales #542 50th Anniversary buyback
Joe Morgan - 19 cards
Dave Parker - 19 cards + one creased 
2001 Upper Deck Decade 1970's #167
Yogi Berra - 18 cards
Josh Gibson - 18 cards + two dupes
Steve Garvey - 17 cards
Al Kaline - 17 cards
Eddie Mathews - 17 cards
Phil Niekro - 17 cards
Frank Robinson - 17 cards
Billy Williams - 17 cards + one dupe
Catfish Hunter - 16 cards
Jack Morris - 16 cards + one dupe
Mel Ott - 15 cards
Don Sutton - 15 cards
Lou Whitaker - 15 cards
Tommy Lasorda - 14 cards + two dupes
Tony Perez - 13 cards + two dupes
Orlando Cepeda - 12 cards
Jim Palmer - 12 cards
Christy Mathewson - 11 cards

300-count box
Phil Rizzuto - 11 cards
Keith Hernandez - 10 cards
Sparky Anderson - nine cards
Rollie Fingers - nine cards
Goose Gossage - nine cards
Monte Irvin - nine cards
Ralph Kiner - nine cards
Pee Wee Reese - nine cards
Dick Allen - eight cards
Richie Ashburn - eight cards
Don Drysdale - eight cards
Hank Greenberg - eight cards
Joe Jackson - eight cards
Bill Mazeroski - eight cards
Hoyt Wilhelm - eight cards
Luis Aparicio - seven cards
Jimmie Foxx - seven cards
Gil Hodges - seven cards
Tony Oliva - seven cards
Ron Santo - seven cards