He owns 30% of ALL the Mariners cards on EARTH…

He owns 30% of ALL the Mariners cards on EARTH…

So you have 2024 JP Crawford. I do have the complete rainbows for both of this. This hid in someone’s closet for 24 years only to be unearthed literally 3 months ago. My collection of 52,000 Mariners cards means to me that I’ve put together an incredibly large picture of each stage of this team of every year of every player. I’m James Stinger and I’m the biggest Seattle Mariners collector in the world. There may be people that have more griffy cards. and maybe people that have more Julio cards. Nobody can put together the width and breadth of the collection that I have. Nobody can tell this big of a story. I’m doing it as an observer. I grew up in a small town. There wasn’t a lot to come by. I immediately got interested in like the tobacco era cards, the Honest Wagner, the 1952 Mantle after Mickey Mantel passed away. Topps did a lot of commemorative stuff in his honor. I went after that stuff hard. fact that all of this was like a single line of just stuff that all went together or sometimes it was just just other, you know, insert sets I like, just things that caught my eye. All right, these are going to be some of your big names. Ken Griffy Jr., Ichiro Suzuki, for you current people, Julio Rodriguez. Got a little bit of everything. It was All Mariners all the time. It meant that there was something to put together rather than just a pile of cards in a box or, you know, a handful of shiny things in a binder. I don’t just collect Griffy or Ichiro or the biggest names. I also collect Joey Kora and Richie Saxon. Like when you’re going to a thrift store just trying to find some diamond in the rough. You’re searching for players that nobody thinks of anymore. As long as they’re in the uniform, that’s of interest to me. Doesn’t have to be necessarily rare or valuable. Now it means finding, you know, the newest shiniest cards or a new shiny card that I’ve been looking for for decades. I crossed something off my list that I’d looked for every day for almost 30 years. I estimate I have probably 30% of all the available Mariners cards. A lot of that’s one of a lot of that stuff you’re never going to track down. So, you’ve seen the 1% of the collection. Now, come on in here and see the other 99%. 125 binders, 1977 to the present. This is everything you don’t see on display. every base set, every insert, pretty much everything you could imagine lives here. And as of today, that’s 52,398 different mariner cards. There’ll be people that appreciate different pieces, and usually it’s because that piece had a connection to them. They may not make it up into a display. They might end up in a box somewhere just for me to enjoy, but the things that make me happiest are the things that are going to make other people happy as well. Right off the bat, I had a lot to learn, a lot to catch up on. When I first started focusing on mariners, they’re not that much older than I am. Our histories were pretty close. I started just collecting all the cards I could find. And that was that was fun to me. Being able to put together a puzzle. I’ve been buying on eBay since the late ‘9s. That was nothing new. But being able to find people to trade with and buy from was so much easier than it was in the early days of the internet. I jumped into all these different forums and websites and started meeting people that were into the hobby. And that just made it grow exponentially. And it was more fun because I could share it with people rather than just being a a solo exercise. All right, 2016 tops triple threads. This one is sheer perfection. Felix Hernandez, All Hail the King, and he is our king and always will be here from the early days of oneof ones. Gold label, Kazahiro Sasaki. Not easy to find a one from back then. I’m coming up on just shy of 5,000 different Griffy cards and it’s getting real hard to up that number at a reasonable price. 1994 finest refractor. And I love that they brought it back in finest flashbacks. New uh new take on this. Another pop of color. Let’s go with the power players refractor. Anything that’s exciting and really eye popping is something I want in this case. Griffy was the first of it for us. And especially so much of it was geared towards the younger generation that I think we just had a very different appreciation for for what he brought. But besides just bright colors, fun textures and materials like heavy lumber, this is just a nice looking set and really uh goes with the theme of swinging a bat, which is something he was pretty good at. I’m going to keep going to keep putting this picture together to keep telling this story of this team. There’s always each year going to be a new set of cars that tells what has just happened. As long as the team is here, there is going to be more to add to this puzzle that I’ve put together, to this giant picture and story. Storytelling is what I like to do. And the more of this I have, the better that story is going to be. [Music]

Do you want to see an insanely cool baseball card collection? James Stinger, the biggest Seattle Mariners collector in the world, owns 30% of all the Mariners trading cards ever made. It’s not just the stars, either – Stinger collects to tell the entire story of the Mariners. “As long as they’re in the uniform, that’s of interest to me.” Take a look at every single Mariners baseball card and listed to sports card collector story.

Join us as we visited Stinger’s MASSIVE collection in-person to learn how his Mariners museum came to life.

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