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About the Baseball Card Project
The Baseball Cube Project (BCP) was designed to be the most comprehensive and functional baseball card web site ever created on the Internet. The goal is to produce a scanned photo of as many cards as possible, correlated with player biography information and player statistics, including minor league numbers. The union of baseball cards and statistics is not new offline but it is something that is brand new on the web.
BCP has tried to provide as many different views of the baseball cards information as possible by allowing site visitors to view cards from many different angles. A typical visitor to the site can see data in the following format:
By Brand - (All Topps sets listed together)
By Edition - (All Topps Traded sets listed together)
By Player - (Listing of all cards for Craig Biggio)
By Team - (List for all players on a given team per set or a listing of all team sets available for a team)
By Year - (Listing of all available sets by card year)
By card - (Information on any given card including photo, bio info and stats)
Since new baseball cards come out every year, BCP is a perpetual work in progress and inevitably, the data will almost always be incomplete. Sets are added as a unit and so there should be no instances of a partial set being listed. The first part of the project was aimed at capturing the regular issue sets and more popular editions and over time, the more obscure should be included as well.
With so many baseball card scans to research and a lot of work involved in the production of BCP, naturally, we are looking to recoup the costs for equipment and time by earning some revenue and so you will notice some advertising throughout the site. There will be no popups and very little intrusive advertising and so your surfing experience should not be affected.
About the Creator
My name is Gary Cohen and I might best be known throughout the baseball world as the creator of The Baseball Cube, a web site dedicated to archiving baseball history, focusing on all levels of baseball from the Division I NCAA College baseball to the majors with everything in between. Baseball cards have been a part of my life since I was 5 and I collected cards between 1978 and 1993, finally aborting the hobby when the cost of cards and array of sets available made me dizzy. Until recently, I paid little attention to the hobby or my cards and it wasn't until late 2005 that I revisited a box of cards stored in my basement and I was awestruck by the vivid memories that returned. Memories of watching ball games on television when I was 8, sorting my cards on the floor for what seemed like hours. All kinds of memories that almost made me want to set the cards up on the living room floor again while watching a Red Sox/Yankees game. The feeling stuck with me for a couple of months and then I was struck with the idea of building a web site dedicated to cataloging and archiving data on as many baseball cards as possible in an attempt to not only recapture the joy of collecting cards but to reach out and touch my childhood once again.
I hope you enjoy this site as much as I enjoyed building it and that you'll also drop me a line to tell me what you think about improvements or just to say hi.