Jeepers Keepers

When it comes to Griffeys, I am the Statue of Liberty. “Give me your creased, your damaged, your dinged corners yearning to breathe acid-free archival storage media.” The same is true for a handful of player collections.

On the other hand, I am the freakin’ NSA recruitment board for everything else. The very few who make it past my several levels of security checks and personal evaluations eventually find themselves penny-sleeved and meticulously organized in a 5000-count card storage box.

I call these “Keepers.” I call the box – get this – the “Keeper Box.”

You may remember this box as the one I decorated with a bunch of cards. There has to be something really great about a card for it to make it into that box.

There are a few other levels of keeper-dom I maintain in addition to the big box. For example, I have a box just for cards with great photography:

Another for funny cards:

This one is where I keep any and all cards I can find from the first two sets of Fleer Metal Universe (I hope to build a set someday):

My box of super-nice keepers, those being cards that are too good for a modest penny sleeve:

Then I have this box that holds all my non-baseball cards, including Saints, football, basketball, a bunch of miscellaneous non-sports cards, and a few checklists and promotional/offer cards:

My oldest box, dedicated entirely to pumping out set after set of ’89 Donruss:

And finally, here is where I keep all my complete sets:

Back to the Keeper Box. Being that this is a Griffey blog, these cards never get the attention they probably deserve. For that reason I’m going to start a new feature, the Cavalcade of Keepers. These posts will feature a handful of non-Griffeys that deserve a scan and a snarky review.

So look out for that.