Night Owl did a Top player for each team and that made me curious about the teams that I have that weren't Mets (Strawberry), Phillies (Kruk), Cubs (Sandberg), and Pirates (McCutchen). Those are all very easy for me to know. Granted, my collection is much, much smaller than Greg's: 119,048 items (his) to 17,156 items (mine, as of 3 April)...
For the record, I am not combining Expos and Nationals. That's stupid. And I also won't be combining Indians and Guardians. They'll each get their own count. I'm not sure if I'm totally 100% accurate in all this; for example some of the airbrushed unlicensed cards might not have the team affiliated with them for some cards. I can't worry about that. Nor can I worry too much if I stumbled on the wrong, for example, Blue Jays player.
1. New York Mets: Darryl Strawberry 914
2. Chicago Cubs: Ryne Sandberg 450
3. Philadelphia Phillies: John Kruk 296
4. Los Angeles Dodgers: Darryl Strawberry 264
5. New York Yankees Darryl Strawberry 81
6. San Diego Padres: John Kruk 80
7. Kansas City Royals George Brett 78
8. Pittsburgh Pirates Andrew McCutchen 75
9. Baltimore Orioles Cal Ripken Jr. 34
10, Houston Astros: Nolan Ryan 34
11. Milwaukee Brewers: Robin Yount 29
12. Chicago White Sox: Carlton Fisk 26
13. Detroit Tigers: Alan Trammell 26
15. St. Louis Cardinals Ozzie Smith 24
17. Boston Red Sox: Wade Boggs 22
18. Cincinnati Reds: Pete Rose 22
19. Los Angeles Angels: Rod Carew 22
20. Toronto Blue Jays: Gorge/Jorge Bell 22
21. Oakland A's: Rickey Henderson 21
22. Minnesota Twins: Kirby Puckett 18
23. Texas Rangers: Nolan Ryan 13
24. Seattle Mariners: Ken Griffey Jr. 13
25. Cleveland Guardians: Jose Ramirez 10
26. Tampa Bay Rays: Ji-Man Choi 6
27. Washington Nationals: Bryce Harper 11
These are hardly worth noting, but...
28. Colorado Rockies: Nolan Arenado 4
29. Arizona Diamondbacks: Paul Goldschmidt 4
30. Miami Marlins: Dee Strange-Gordon 2
Montreal Expos: Tim Raines 28
Cleveland Indians: Andre Thornton/Brook Jacoby 10
Milwaukee Braves: Hank Aaron 7
Washington Senators: Eddie Yost 2
Seattle Pilots: Mike Marshall
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That's a lot of Strawberry!
ReplyDeleteThank you! The whole collection is north of 1300 cards now. It's dizzying in a way.
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ReplyDeleteHonestly surprised that the Giants aren't Strawberry as well.
ReplyDeleteI have to recheck this now. Dang it.
DeleteNice choices. I really like the dead teams...wouldn't have thought of that.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I realize I forgot the Colt 45s. I think I have one or two of them. As well, the Athletics of Philadelphia and Kansas City and Oakland! I don't have any Sacramento A's yet.
DeleteNo "Sacramento" A's cards out there, it's all generic "Athletics" now. Which if you start counting those means you risk going down the Los Angeles/California/Anaheim/Los Angeles of Anaheim rabbit hole. And maybe the Cincinnati Redlegs rabbit hole.
DeleteGood point. I do have 2 Redlegs cards. That's probably one too many, too.
DeleteYou have some very impressive player collections. I don't have anywhere close to 914 cards of one player with the same team lol
ReplyDeleteThank you! I've been on a Strawberry kick since 1984 or 1985 (with a break from around 1992 to 2015).
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