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rico43 · 04-14-2015, 06:58 PM

With the enthusiasm of the Topps Vault releases somehow diminished (at least temporarily), this wonderful board has hit a lull, it seems to me. An idea of last week has some merit, so in the hopes of building some goodwill, I volunteer to compile the White Whale (or those images akin to them) for a central clearinghouse of the missing images.

The bigger problem as I saw, reading through the posts lask week, is the definition of a white whale. and the degrees of actual scarcity. What I think is reasonable is to have more than one level of scarcity. What I want to do is receive each person's list OFFLINE and a chance to compile more than one degree of difficulty.

My concerns: time parameters. Topps' archives seem to go back to its beginnings, so I think that we need to divide the lists into decades. Then theres the tricky definition of what is and isn't "white whale" material. So here are my definitions, as applied to this project:

True unicorn: no known image of a given player with a given team, period.
White whale: Images have been known or believed to exist, but have yet to be located (an ongoing quest, as it were)
TV: For those who need only a Topps Vault image
Color: self-explanatory, replacing those that have never been in TRUE color (Wenty Ford, etc.)
ALSO
If you have TV images that require ID, we should have a new, current thread to turn the face cops loose on an image, much like you guys did for me on the Ric Wilson/Mariners image last week.

Whether or not you agree exactly on these definitions, for our purposes one definition needs to be accepted. Send me your current lists, categorized as above, as a private message and I will post the final results here within a week.

04-14-2015, 06:58 PM	#25043
rico43 Banned Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Chattanooga and Internet Posts: 476 Infractions: 0/1 (4)	Sea of white whales With the enthusiasm of the Topps Vault releases somehow diminished (at least temporarily), this wonderful board has hit a lull, it seems to me. An idea of last week has some merit, so in the hopes of building some goodwill, I volunteer to compile the White Whale (or those images akin to them) for a central clearinghouse of the missing images. The bigger problem as I saw, reading through the posts lask week, is the definition of a white whale. and the degrees of actual scarcity. What I think is reasonable is to have more than one level of scarcity. What I want to do is receive each person's list OFFLINE and a chance to compile more than one degree of difficulty. My concerns: time parameters. Topps' archives seem to go back to its beginnings, so I think that we need to divide the lists into decades. Then theres the tricky definition of what is and isn't "white whale" material. So here are my definitions, as applied to this project: True unicorn: no known image of a given player with a given team, period. White whale: Images have been known or believed to exist, but have yet to be located (an ongoing quest, as it were) TV: For those who need only a Topps Vault image Color: self-explanatory, replacing those that have never been in TRUE color (Wenty Ford, etc.) ALSO If you have TV images that require ID, we should have a new, current thread to turn the face cops loose on an image, much like you guys did for me on the Ric Wilson/Mariners image last week. Whether or not you agree exactly on these definitions, for our purposes one definition needs to be accepted. Send me your current lists, categorized as above, as a private message and I will post the final results here within a week. Last edited by rico43; 04-14-2015 at 07:01 PM.