Does your modern PC include base cards?

[KevJo]

As I struggle to fit everything in a confined space I find base cards of my PC player kinda.....well...taking up space. I am considering only having color/numbered/inserts and the GU and Auto stuff in the PC. How bout you, still doing the base or no?

[chris_ac]

No base other than true RC base misc. Just to have since printed to Saturn usually but don’t buy as singles so have to acquire via group breaks or personal boxes.

+1 on limited space to store. Been consolidating in phases over several years. But never considered adding boxes filled with base of even of my most favorite players.

[Tea10]

It really depends on year/era, and what we're defining as "base". Any PC players ~1890-1990 is going to have almost all base cards no?

Unless your PC consists of ultra-modern you should probably have a lot of base cards in it I'd imagine. I got Brady rookies, my main PC. Even the Prism and Vanguard are technically "base". Any vintage I have is mostly base. Any 60s-80s stars and RCs (Rice, Montana, baseball, etc) - base. I got a little DB HoF section with Night Train Lane RC, Rod Woodson RC, etc. All base.

Is your PC one player? Is that player currently playing? That would explain not having room for "base". Yeah ultra-modern base, generally, is trash. Barring weird exceptions like a Mahomes 2017 Silver Prism being a base.

[bojesphob]

I have base cards ranging from 1954-2025. Total collection is around 9000 cards, all Packers (or former Packers, or Packers from before they joined the team), and about 90% of that is base cards. I still on an exceptionally rare occasion rip packs, and keep whatever I get from the base for that group. Now, I will say that stuff newer than 2018 I don't have much of, only because that's around when I stopped collecting hard core like I used to. If I were still as heavy into collecting as I used to be, I'd probably have thousands of base since 2018 as well, but I don't have the disposable income I had before I got married and had a kid.

[Bosoxfan5990]

My main PC (Bethel Johnson) is heavily base.

[49erRCCollector]

My PC is ONLY base.

[KevJo]

Originally Posted by Tea10

It really depends on year/era, and what we're defining as "base". Any PC players ~1890-1990 is going to have almost all base cards no?

Unless your PC consists of ultra-modern you should probably have a lot of base cards in it I'd imagine. I got Brady rookies, my main PC. Even the Prism and Vanguard are technically "base". Any vintage I have is mostly base. Any 60s-80s stars and RCs (Rice, Montana, baseball, etc) - base. I got a little DB HoF section with Night Train Lane RC, Rod Woodson RC, etc. All base.

Is your PC one player? Is that player currently playing? That would explain not having room for "base". Yeah ultra-modern base, generally, is trash. Barring weird exceptions like a Mahomes 2017 Silver Prism being a base.

Modern Bro, I thought I put that. I know vintage is different.

[Brandon75]

I have been collecting Raiders cards since the late 80s. I collect them all. All of them are penny sleeved and in toploaders. I have some that are graded but that means little to me. Im somewhere in the 45 to 50 thousand range and if I counted doubles and triples I would at a few hundred thousand.

[Brian W]

I collected from 1995-2007....As a collector I ripped wax boxes and packs...so my pc is massive...I kept all my cards... rookies, inserts, commons....I still go through them once and a while...but my valuable cards are put away safe!

[KevJo]

Thanks for everyone's input!

[Slette]

I'm a flagship set builder, so by default a good chunk of my collection is base. I'm also a team collector so that binder is also stuffed mostly with base and low level inserts.

[KevJo]

Originally Posted by Slette

I'm a flagship set builder, so by default a good chunk of my collection is base. I'm also a team collector so that binder is also stuffed mostly with base and low level inserts.

Do you have space limitations or just more or less out in the open in a shelf etc....? My PC I have in a nice safe/lock cabinet that is custom and very nice so I wanna fit everything in it and I am space limited. Plus it keeps everything dust free and moisture controlled. The Mack base just takes up space next to all the magnetics.

[Chris P]

I don't go out of my way to buy base cards but if I rip product I do keep the base of my pc guys

[Slette]

Yep, space is the constant battle. I try to keep things as organized as possible and my sets are in binders so it's trying to arrange... and then rearrange... and then declutter to make more space. At some point I should move on from the sets and that would cure a lot of my ills, but when Topps lost the NFL license, I got all nostalgic. Unfortunately, nostalgia leads to consuming both money and space.

About how many Mack base do you have? You could always move them into a binder, while keeping the higher end stuff in magnetics.

[Stifle]

Budler is the hero of not just finding case for Nebraska but having everything itemized. I enjoy locating a base card that I didn’t realize I was missing. If there is anybody who I would give as the “Truest” of collectors Budler would be given that honor. Plus, he us a good man !

[mjekase]

I use a binder for base and higher serial #’d cards of my main PC player(s). Good way to view the progression of his career through cards.

[JosieD]

All my Eagles cards are in 5000 count boxes, organized by player. Work in progress. Tons of base. All my 90s and early 2000s cards are in binders, organized by player, alphabetically. I have a display that I change out. Right now its Autos from the 2017 SB team.

[Siberian13]

My PC has tons of base. Just waiting for a giant bonfire to throw them in.

[Dallas Cowboys]

My 1960 - 1999 Cowboys Master collection from base to high end parallels, inserts and autographs are all raw and in penny sleeves and 9 pocket pages in binders. Organized by year then by set in alphabetical order then numerical order. 2000 and on I don’t really have much base. Mostly autographs, game used Jimbo patches and a few rare inserts and parallels. These are all kept in Ultra Pro one touches then team bag then stores in a shoebox.

[rnocards]

Yes, I have some base cards of modern HOF players, but they have to be valuable enough for me to keep them. I use an elaborate point system, where I rank all my cards, and if the base card generates enough points to meet my minimum standard, then I keep it.

[KevJo]

Originally Posted by Slette

Yep, space is the constant battle. I try to keep things as organized as possible and my sets are in binders so it's trying to arrange... and then rearrange... and then declutter to make more space. At some point I should move on from the sets and that would cure a lot of my ills, but when Topps lost the NFL license, I got all nostalgic. Unfortunately, nostalgia leads to consuming both money and space.

About how many Mack base do you have? You could always move them into a binder, while keeping the higher end stuff in magnetics.

I literally have 11 years of Mack base, I would need minimum 2 binders, not sure I wanna invest that space. Right now I have them in top loader soft sleeve and team bagged, but my second magnetic box is filling up and they don't quite, how can I say it, coexist with the top loaders they are kinda oversized vs streamlined magnetic/team bag.

[Seahawks fan]

I collect any and all Kam Chancellors so I'm going to collect base along with everything else. That being said, Base is such a small population of his cards. Since 2020 he's had a total of 676 different cards. Only 9 of those are true base and 9 others were common base inserts. Most of the stuff out there are just lazy parallels like 60 + different Prizm parallels or 40+ Mosaic parallels.

[KevJo]

Originally Posted by Seahawks fan

I collect any and all Kam Chancellors so I'm going to collect base along with everything else. That being said, Base is such a small population of his cards. Since 2020 he's had a total of 676 different cards. Only 9 of those are true base and 9 others were common base inserts. Most of the stuff out there are just lazy parallels like 60 + different Prizm parallels or 40+ Mosaic parallels.

Yeah the amount of parallels is crazy but at least some of the different ones add a challenge to finding them. I should have put I used base a bit loosely, I was talking base inserts as well. So the common version of the insert.

[PrimeTimeScott]

Originally Posted by Dallas Cowboys

My 1960 - 1999 Cowboys Master collection from base to high end parallels, inserts and autographs are all raw and in penny sleeves and 9 pocket pages in binders. Organized by year then by set in alphabetical order then numerical order. 2000 and on I don’t really have much base. Mostly autographs, game used Jimbo patches and a few rare inserts and parallels. These are all kept in Ultra Pro one touches then team bag then stores in a shoebox.

Being a Broncos collector and knowing you are a Cowboys collector, I always wondered how you store your cards and what you had on your checklist. My checklist for the Broncos has nearly every card included from 1960 to 1995 (there are a few sets from the 1960s that I removed, as I have never seen an example of the cards, let alone own them). My mom started the collection from back when she drove me to card shows before I could drive while I was collecting Jose Canseco cards. She stopped collecting in about 1993, but I felt like 1995 was a good place to stop the checklist with nearly all cards. From 1996 to 1999, I included most cards, although it cuts out an increasing amount each year. I have a bout 1,000 on the checklist of each of those years. I've tinkered with this part of the checklist the most, as there were becoming too many parallels that I could not find or afford. Then beginning in 2000, I collect about 250 cards each year (although more the first few years of the 2000s). I now have a binder of about 1,000 cards every four years. To me it provides a good history of the Broncos players and the cards that were produced each year. I used to have one or two parallels from most sets, but that has pretty much gone away entirely in the modern era, as even collecting just 40 parallels of Prizm and Mosaic each year would damn near fill an entire binder. Since 2000, I mainly collect base cards and inserts of most of the brands, but don't include the brands that the base cards are numbered to 99, as those are always way more expensive. I also don't collect autographs or relic cards to cut down on costs as well. With all of the other things I collect, those just aren't a focus for the team collection.

[KevJo]

My prayers have been answered in a BCW slab box, the white storage box. It fits not only my graded slabs but the base in the top loader/team bags perfectly. I have room for another 5-7 slabs and quite a bit of base/inserts. Had it sitting in my room best of all nearly brand new.