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How do you sort your cards? By year/brand/number or by teams?
Now, as a set collector who keeps all his sets in binders, obviously I have no choice but to have them by year/brand/numerical order (though I have been tempted to do my Topps sets by teams in alphabetical order, but I doubt I ever will). I also did much the same as a teen (when I first got into buying packs and such) and also did them mainly by year/brand/number. However, most of my friends at school who collected cards (at least back then there were some) all said they sort theirs by team. Another article I remember reading showed a card store owner talking about people who bring their collections from back when they were kids (the ones lucky enough to have not had them dumped). He reported that rather than having say, all their 1964 together, then 1965, then 1966, for example, they'd have all their Red Sox together, then Yankees, then Dodgers, then Giants, then Braves, and so on.
So how do you sort your collection? By year/brand or by team? Alphabetically or numerically? At least with the Fleer/Ultra/Flair sets from the 1980s/1990s they already come sorted by team and alphabetically if you put them in numerical order.
So how do you sort your collection? By year/brand or by team? Alphabetically or numerically? At least with the Fleer/Ultra/Flair sets from the 1980s/1990s they already come sorted by team and alphabetically if you put them in numerical order.

WISHLIST
D's: 50P,49S,45D+S,43D,41S,40D,39D+S,38D+S,37D+S,36S,35D+S,all 16-34's
Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
74T: 241,435,610,654 97 Finest silver: 115,135,139,145,310
73T:31,55,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,80,152,165,189,213,235,237,257,341,344,377,379,390,422,433,453,480,497,545,554,563,580,606,613,630
95 Ultra GM Sets: Golden Prospects,HR Kings,On-Base Leaders,Power Plus,RBI Kings,Rising Stars
D's: 50P,49S,45D+S,43D,41S,40D,39D+S,38D+S,37D+S,36S,35D+S,all 16-34's
Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
74T: 241,435,610,654 97 Finest silver: 115,135,139,145,310
73T:31,55,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,80,152,165,189,213,235,237,257,341,344,377,379,390,422,433,453,480,497,545,554,563,580,606,613,630
95 Ultra GM Sets: Golden Prospects,HR Kings,On-Base Leaders,Power Plus,RBI Kings,Rising Stars
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kept track of "haves & wants" on checklists and was always able to quickly locate any player from any team!
... and never could understand preserving them any other way...
Currently.....
Graded cards, I sort by player.
Raw, I sort by type of card. GU/REF/AUTO, etc.
I seldom get any/much pleasure from cards, but when I
do it is because I can inspect all of the graded cards
by player.
joe
http://sportsfansnews.com/author/andy-fischer/
HOF'ers Player/year
Mike
Pete Rose PSA Basic Set
Johnny Bench PSA Basic Set