Too Many Manninghams: this post gets meta!

Yeah, last Saturday's game didn't go my favorite team's way thanks to untimely mistakes and unquestionably incompetent officiating, but at least it was a game worthy of the rivalry.

My disappointment hasn't kept me from doing some work towards posting, though.  While I'm focusing on a couple other projects, I decided it was high time to get this here blog's namesake his own album as I did for Hart, Henne, and Woodson.  I mean, if I don't show you how many Manninghams I have, how are you supposed to determine whether or not I own too many?  (Trick question--the answer is always that I never do)

It was a pretty easy decision for two reasons:  first, I have a pretty nice number of his cards between assorted stuff from trades and purchases, inserts, rookies from that project, and hits--especially the latter, as Super Mario claims fifth place in that collection with 61 as one of just five players to crack the 60-card mark.  And second:  thanks to everything in the previous point, I had fewer than 20 cards of his left to scan.  So this actually didn't involve very much work on my part.

All that led to the creation of Mario's own album, which can be viewed here anytime (and found on my player collections page as well)

Oddly enough, right now his total of 112 cards matches up exactly with Woodson's, though that'll change within a few weeks after my latest COMC order arrives.  Spoiler alert:  while that incoming package doesn't contain too many Manninghams, it does include a lot, along with a bunch of other very exciting Wolverines content, so stay tuned for that!

A bit of housekeeping on a blue Sunday

Well, THAT certainly could have gone a lot better, but it's over and there's still 11 games and a Big Ten title to chase.

Anyway, because I spun this blog off from Too Many Verlanders I've finally got around to separating my player wantlists and player collections so I'd have more stuff organized over here.

On the top bar you'll now see a few new Pages.  The first is my Singles/Players wantlist, most of which was taken from the TMV list (so that's only baseball over there now).  Although it's probably obvious, this is a list of all the Wolverines players I collect, as well as images/links to COMC versions of some singles I'm interested in (and definitely don't have--I keep this list very up-to-date) to give you guys ideas of what I like.

Next is a direct link to my TMV trade bait page since there's no reason to duplicate that.  It's something I need to beef up a bit, but it has pretty much all of my better cards available for trades right now.

After that is Player collections, which is intended to show off the stuff I have of my three current supercollections--Bill Freehan, Rich Hill and Zach Putnam--as posted on Picasa, plus link to my Google Docs checklists of those three guys so you can see what I have (or have incoming) should you decide to send me anything of them.

Finally, I made a separate section for showing off any nameplates and rainbows I've completed.  While I've got a few things in the works, I've only completed the Cazzie Russell nameplate, but that's a perfect place to show it off, no?   Hopefully I'll have more to add to that section soon.

I hope these new pages/links make things more useful for the few of you that check in over here sometimes.  Thanks in advance for anyone that helps me with any of my PCs and projects!