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My name is Dan Neubert |
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I live in St. Charles, Missouri - a county west of St. Louis.
I have been married for 28 years and have 3 wonderful children. My wife is our shipping department. She handles all the printing, assembling, packaging and mailing of the books.
The Checklists beginning . . .
Years ago my son & I started to collect St. Louis Cardinals baseball
cards. When our collection got larger we needed a way to organize our
collection and a way to verify if we were collecting all the Cardinal baseball
cards issued by Topps cards. So, I created the small checklists to slip them
into tall top loaders. We organized the Cardinal cards by year. Then
we inserted the tall top-loaders into the box of cards. This enabled us to keep
track of the cards in the box.
We began to collect tens of thousands of cards so in 1998 we started to sell baseball cards by sets on ebay and selling at card shows. Before we began to sell the team sets by year we asked ourselves, "how do we know if we really had a complete set for each team for years that we were selling?". I began to put together a list of cards for each team. Then we used the checklists to build the team sets and we included them in the sets that we sold. We mailed the sets in the 25-count snap boxes and we inserted the mini-checklist. The buyers of the sets liked the checklists and wanted to buy them. But we were into selling cards and not checklists.
Well, since then my son has gone to college and is working in
computer graphics.
In the winter of 2003, I began to create MLB team checklist
books. March 1 of 2004, I began to sell the books on ebay.
In July of 2004 I was selling the baseball checklist at the Nationals in Cleveland and I had a lot of requests for the NFL checklists. I met James Beckett of the Beckett price guides. And we talked about the team checklist books. And the idea of NFL checklists came up and I mentioned that no matter how deligent I was I would not be able to be 100% accurate. He said he had a staff and that their data is not 100% accurate. So with his encouragement I start August 1, 2004 to compile all the information for the NFL team checklists.
November 1, 2004, I started selling the NFL checklists.
The future of the MLB team checklist: Right now I am compiling data to create a team checklist to list all baseball cards issued for each baseball team since 1948.
My plan is to have 1948-1989 by the end of 2007 and 1990-2008 by the end of 2008.
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I no longer
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The Baseball Checklists ...
The baseball checklists cover only
Topps, Fleer,
Donruss and the 1948-1955
Bowman.
As for the newer sets of Score, Upper Deck,
Bowman I have not decided about creating these checklists.
We have created TWO checklist books:
1. 1951-2006 TOPPS with the 1948-1955 Bowman Checklist book
2. 1981-2005 Donruss & 1981-2006 Fleer Checklists book.
Both books include our full page checklists which are printed on 8.5 x 11.5
and the smaller checklists which we call the
mini-checklists.
The mini-checklists are exactly the same as the larger checklists.
You can slip the mini-checklist into top-loaders and insert them in your box of cards as dividers between years.
If you keep your cards in 9-card pages in a 3-ring binder, the mini-checklist fit perfectly into one of the pockets of the 9-card page.
You get 6 mini-checklists for each year.
The books are bound with a very nice colorful cover.
The MLB team
checklists are pretty solid. I would say that they are very
accurate.
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The Football Checklists ...
The NFL checklists will list every major card company
cards - main set, inserts & parallel. I also list the jersey cards,
autograph cards, limited cards, and die-cut cards.
This NFL checklist project has been
a very aggressive project. No matter how
hard I tried to verify the data I was not sure if I could ever release
these checklists for sale. So, I came up with the idea of asking
for help.
WOW! Since Nov 1, 2004, I
have had a lot of collectors say that they would love to help. As a matter of fact, the collectors are saying that they are benefitting more from the checklists than I am with the list of corrections.
The NFL checklists has come a long
way since then. I started with the major card companies and now,
with the help of collectors, I have added regional and oddball sets.
These checklists are very comprehensive with so many sets being listed.
The NFL team checklists are comb bound, with a complete listings of the abbreviatians used in the checkist.
For most of the NFL teams,
I list over 18,000 cards.
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