2024 Year In Review

Every year, I have taken a look at how the past year has impacted my collection, and I have decided to  continue again this year and see what changed in 2024! 

2024 Highlights

• The blog has now reached 7 years, and this post here marks my 1,251st post!
  
• The Time Travel Trading Project continues to grow. I've completed 59 trades this past year, including my 300th Time Travel Trade! That's just 2 trades less than the year before, so there has been some consistency!
  
• My goal of acquiring the Topps base card of every Red Sox from 1975 onward is coming along well, I'm under 140 cards needed now, which is impressive since I wasn't collecting for about 25 years of that time. My unofficial goal for the year is to get that number under 100. Once I do that, I may start adding some other sets in, like Update.
  
• I finished just one complete set this year, and it was a small 4-card set that I had never even seen or heard of before I stumbled upon it this year - The 1994 Megacards Ruthian Shots set!

• That Ruthian Shots set got completed because there is now a card shop just a couple miles from where I work! It's not a "true" card shop as he can't afford to carry new product, but there's planty of loose cards for me to dig through!
• Without even realizing it, sometime in the past year I officially added the 50,000th card to my collection!
  

2024 Diamond Jesters Blog Stats

Number of posts: 143 (5 less than last year, still in range with what I have been putting out yearly)
Month with the most posts: 14 posts in July
Top 5 viewed posts:  The Spam-bots were out in full force this year, as I had 52 posts hit the 100 view mark, 15 more than last year. I only had 1 post hit 200 views last year too.

1. A Trade Between Bloggers: Johnny's Trading Spot (323)
2. Blog Bat-Around: 5 Best Pack Pulled Hits (315)
3. First Impressions: 2024 Topps (243)    
4. 1991 Topps Pack War (230)
5. Down The Ebay Rabbit Hole #6 - A Box Of Sox (And  A Small Contest) (217)

Most commented posts: Blog Bat-Around: 5 Best Pack Pulled Hits - 17 comments (This was a fun post, and I'm glad it got the response it did.)
Followers: 73 (Who says blogs aren't cool anymore? 3 new followers since last year!)

My Collection

(Stats courtesy of the Trading Card Database)

 

Total number of cards: 50,220 (This total does not include unopened products or cards from the Time Travel Trading project)

Cards from 2024 sets: 945 (Over 600 cards more than last year, and a huge majority of it is from an almost completed 2024 base set!)

Red Sox cards: 6,819 (An increase of 236 cards from last year's total - I'll take it!)

Autographed cards: 51 (8 new this year: Mike Greenwell, Dwight Evans, Matt Barnes, Steven Wright, Jordan Beck, Narciso Crook, Dwayne Hosey, and Shea Hillenbrand) 

 

Graded cards: 1 (No new cards this year, not something I actively collect anyway.)

Relic cards: 33 (7 new this year: James Outman, Koji Uehara, Josh Beckett, Tony Gwynn, Jed Lowrie, Michael Chavis, and David Ortiz)

 

All in all, 2024 was a great year! Here's hoping for an even better 2025!