Time to look at how my collections of the spotlighted Black NHLers have grown since last year at this time! I knew exactly how many I had of each person for the first time and now I will truly know how my collection has grown for these players, something I have not thought to track for anyone else. 

First up is P.K. Subban, who last year at this time I had 47 cards of, with 39 scanned.

I am still at 47 cards of him but I'm to 41 cards scanned. That's not really much of an update. I knew with him being retired he would stop getting new cards but there's still a whole bunch of old ones I don't have yet. 

2021-22 MVP Blue

Jarome Iginla also stayed put at 44 cards. Last year I was at 26 cards scanned and I'm now up to 29, so that's a good improvement. 

2001-02 Victory

The next player I highlighted was Ryan Reaves, who had 11 cards. He now has 13, so finally an addition! I have 12 of his 13 cards in my collection scanned, which is a very high percentage for anyone with more than 10 cards. 

2023-24 O-Pee-Chee

Anthony Duclair has been on a few different teams since I wrote my profile of him and now plays for the Islanders, although with Optimum being jerks and pulling MSG Network I can't see any of the three local teams. He also had a two card addition, bringing him to 21. Of those, I have 18 scanned.

2023-24 O-Pee-Chee

K'Andre Miller of the Rangers, my favorite team, had 5 cards in my collection at this time last year, and currently has 6, with my most recent addition coming on the first day of this month when I got his Metal Universe base card at my local card show. (Go back three posts to see a photo of it)

2021-22 SPx Finite Rookies Gold

 That is all.

 That was a crazy large upload. January started strong scanning wise, with me scanning more cards in the month than I did in any month for over a year- 2091 cards to be exact. As it turns out, only doing cards without foil goes a lot faster than those with foil. Uploading took forever, complicated by a few things, including my chronic health problems acting up a lot, and Fotki not working for a day and a half, which is highly unusual. They may have been upgrading their servers because I notice the uploading process was faster when it returned from being down. 

Because I was working through whatever came out of the boxes, and not searching out anything specific, I ended up scanning a lot of baseball and football this month, plus a bunch of minor league hockey which led to a lot of new people. So many new people that I had to break the screenshot into three parts and combine them with Photoscape! 

220 new people got scanned for the first time this month! Including somebody I didn't even know was in my collection! I have 1 card each of two different baseball players named Craig Wilson. I didn't know this until I went to upload the scan of the second one and realized they were two different people. 

93 of the 220 were baseball players, 55 were hockey and 39 were football.  

You may notice that one person- Francois Groleau- is not highlighted in the screencap. He was not scanned this month, but I just created his listing due to a mistake on my part that I noticed and corrected during the course of this month's upload. 

The most important thing about this month's uploads- baseball hit 1000 people scanned! I talked about when they may happen in a previous post and it happened this past month. Frank White happened to be the 1000th person to be uploaded. 

Not only did Baseball hit 1000 people, it passed Other Sports! I didn't scan anyone at all for other sports this month, and with the influx of new baseball people it now stands at 1008 people scanned, while other sports is at 1005. Not a big difference, but interesting, at least to me. 

With 4230 people basketball still has a healthy lead, although hockey is closing in fast, taking the lead is not outside the realm of possibility. 

For people added to the collection, January was light. 

All the hockey players came from the Topps Stickers, which I no longer have access to due to Topps being stupid, so that cuts off my main source for new people added to the collection. My entire input of new cards in January came from the end of the Topps Now stickers, the SI for Kids magazine subscription I maintain for the cards, and a small purchase I made off a friend which yielded no new people. I made a mistake when I did this listing - Ayoka Lee should be listed as NCAA, not WNBA. I've corrected it in my listing but didn't feel like making another screeenshot. 

 When the year started I stated that my only actual goal for the year was to attend the Fishkill, NY card show at least once. Today, I achieved that goal, attending the show for the first time since June 2022! 

The show was a little different from the last time I went- it was more crowded for one, and many of the dealers were different. Two dealers I had known previously but had not seen at this show before were set up, and I made purchases from both of them. There were a couple dealers I couldn't really see because I couldn't get to their tables, and by the time I could the show was wrapping up, since it only goes to 2 pm. It doesn't really matter too much because I was out of cash at that point anyway, and even then I had borrowed some of that from my brother. The one dealer I was looking forward to seeing the most- the guy with modern hockey dollar bins, including Young Guns- wasn't there, unfortunately. 

However, the show was excellent. For being a small show there is a wide variety of cards for sale, from vintage to brand new. 

So, since I'm trying to get this post up and work on my monthly upload on the Cardboard History Gallery, here's some pictures. 

My first purchase of the day was the Webber and the retail Prestige pack from 2009-10. I've never opened that set before, and it does have Steph Curry rookie cards in it. Maybe I'll get lucky. The football are for my best friend who's a big Buccaneers fan.

While I'm a DC fan I will still pick up at least one example of the Marvel sets, especially when I can find them for a dollar or less. My first playing era Bobby Orr too. 

My first pink Dazzlers and my first cards from 2023-24 Metal Universe and 2024-25 Artifacts. The Winter Classic card is actually an insert in a baseball set which I didn't know until I got home and really looked at the cards. 

The Richter is embossed, pretty cool.