If You Build It, They Will Come

 I hadn't taken full account of the number of cards in my collection until today.  As I write this, I have 12,341 unique Iowa Connection cards in my collection.  That is insane!  Of course, this number is more insane.  The number of Iowa Connection cards I need are.... Well, take a moment and think what your guess would be.  I'll put it at the end of the post.  I'll take a guess here myself.  Now, my best collection is Kurt Warner, where I have about 8% of his cards.  Towards the middle is Harvey Kuenn at 3.5%.  Some 90's players I have a significant chunk of including Kevin Tapani at 35.9%.  Many pre 1970's players and minor leaguers I have 0% of.  Hockey, Wrestling and other collections are wastelands right now.  So, I'll be a bit conservative and say that I own 2% of all the Iowa Connection cards.   That would make my guess 605,000 wants.  We'll see if I'm closer or if your guess is closer at the end...

 Today's group includes players from Iowa's three semi-minors teams: Clarinda A's, Waterloo Buck and Sioux City Explorers.  These teams are not associated with any major league team, and often have players from the college ranks playing summer ball or players trying to stay with baseball and hoping for another chance. I'm also going to add two players that played Perfect Game baseball in Iowa.  Its a small category because most of the players who make up those high school summer teams live in Iowa and were caught in the Iowa born net.  But these two (Alec Bohm, Johnny Ray) lived outside the state and played one summer in Iowa. I spent a bunch of last year tracking down rosters to look for players on these teams.  I'm still not finished with Waterloo, and I don't have complete rosters for both Clarinda and Sioux City, but I was able to find lists of players who made the majors from them. Overall I added 915 cards from this group, help enormously by Chuck Knoblauc...