https://www.sportscardforum.com/blogs/16909-DaClyde SportsCardForum is your source for everything related to sports cards for collectors and non-collectors alike! en Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:51:45 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.sportscardforum.com/images/misc/rss.jpg https://www.sportscardforum.com/blogs/16909-DaClyde https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2395-Clyde-s-Stale-Cards-on-Kronozio-com Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:11:55 GMT
As I haven't sold much on eCrater this year, I've decided to move a bunch of that inventory over to a relatively new site from Canada, Kronozio.com. You may have started seeing their ads popping up on sites like SportsCardForum.com or TradingCardDB.com. They are based in Montreal, and are all native French speakers, so if some of the English on the site seems a bit wonky, it is because of automatic translations. They have begun entering into partnerships with various hobby sites around the world, so the site language should clear up fairly soon.

Another reason I'm doing this is that for new listings, Kronozio's Kronocard software makes adding new cards to their site so much faster than manually inputting a card at a time to eCrater. Kronozio's software also offers an eBay connector for cross-listing cards to eBay.

When I first started listing cards on Kronozio, I actually sold a few right away, which surprised me, but then didn't sell much after that for awhile. Mostly that is due to my lack of promotion of my listings, and the limited nature of the listings themselves. Now with the eBay connector, I'm trying to take advantage of my monthly free eBay listings. Posting cards for sale on eBay is just as easy as posting to my Kronozio store. Once all the card details have been entered, it's just a drop down option as to whether I want to list it as an auction (with or without a Buy It Now) or a fixed price listing. Click here to see how the listings look on eBay.

Within a couple of hours of posting a certain MLB Showdown card of Ichiro, it had already sold. Yesterday I listed all of the cards from some Bandai Owners League boxes I'd recently bought and overnight the Dae Ho Lee card sold on eBay. I know, those two are likely special cases, and none of the other 30+ eBay listings have received a bid yet, but I'm happy to have so quickly unloaded two cards.

They make a big deal about how quickly you can scan and post cards for sale using their software. While they may overstate it a bit for people who don't have an automatic feed scanner, I can attest that they easily have the fastest system I have seen. Not having to scan and handle all of the images separately from the listing process is a huge time saver. They also have a service for identifying your cards for you, where you just scan them and post them to your account, and for a small service fee, they will handle all of the card identification for you. I guess that would be most useful if you had thousands upon thousands of cards to post. Doing batches of 50 or so at a time, I don't see the need, and considering how eclectic my listings tend to be, I'll just handle the card ID myself.

The scanning is very accurate with regard to finding the edges of the cards, and adds some buffer to make the edges easier to see. Anytime the scan is a bit crooked, it is very easy to adjust using little bull's-eyes to show Kronocard where the card's corners are. Here is are some sample scans:





The process is very simple. You place the cards face down on the scanner, and Kronocard makes a single sweep and picks out the cards. Flip the cards over and it makes another sweep and it catches the backs. The software also does a great job of matching the fronts and backs based on where the cards sit on the scanner platen. So basically always make sure when you flip the cards over that you leave them in the same place. Depending on the coloring of the cards I'm scanning, I will use a different backdrop or leave the scanner lid open so there is more contrast for the software to work with. Picking out white bordered cards against a white scanner lid background isn't easy for any image recognition software, and though Kronocard does a great job of it, why make the software work harder than necessary?

There are options as to what kind of scanner you are using, how you want to orient the cards on the scanner, how large the scanner area is, how you want to organize the scans for each session, as well as a way organize your cards by box, row and section, if you so choose. I really need to do that as my organizational skills are atrocious. The software scans everything at 300dpi, which is not configurable. If you are scanning lots of cards from a single set, you can even establish those details before you start scanning, and that information will be automatically tied to the cards you scan in that session, reducing identification time. Once you have your scans, you move on to the individual card identification process (setting card numbers, player names, team names, etc.), which ends with listing the cards in your Kronozio store.

Here is a video from their YouTube channel about the scanning and listing process:



They have also recently added an option to let you use your own scans if you already have a library of images, and don't want to re-scan everything. Kronocard Photo Import. To be perfectly honest, even if you chose not to list cards on the site, Kronocard is a fantastic bulk scanning tool. All of the images are stored locally in your C:\ProgramData\kronozio\Metacard\Images folder. The file naming scheme automatically pairs up fronts/backs, so if you sort the folder by name, everything lines up nicely, though all the images have names like 0b9a3411-473c-4340-bbca-cdcd5eca972ar.jpg.

When you get right down to it, I would say they fall somewhere between Sportlots.com and COMC.com. Like Sportlots, you still have to handle all the shipping and inventory management, but you get the visual benefits of COMC's interface with all the card details and front and back scans for every card. If I ever generate enough sales to actually provide some numbers, I'll do another post comparing the fee structures between the three sites. Kronozio takes a flat 10% of your sales, simple as that. Listing is free. Any eBay listing fees are between you and eBay. Kronozio imposes no extra fees on eBay sales.

For now, I'd definitely say go check them about and give the site a try. If you happened to try them last year, but didn't really get the hang of it, give them another look as they have made some substantial improvements to their Kronocard software since they launched. They offer a lot more options than what I have covered here. Check them out on Facebook, Twitter, and on their Kronozio Blog. ]]> DaClyde https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2395-Clyde-s-Stale-Cards-on-Kronozio-com https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1998-International-Baseball-Card-Keyword-Cheat-Sheet Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:37:19 GMT Below are various terms one might find useful when attempting to search for information about baseball cards in languages other than English. Within some languages there are regional variations,... Below are various terms one might find useful when attempting to search for information about baseball cards in languages other than English. Within some languages there are regional variations, This is especially true of Spanish. I am no linguist, so these are all very much a layman's guide to these terms as I have encountered them in my web surfing.

SPANISH/ESPAÑOL

baseball (the sport) - béisbol

baseball (the ball) - pelota

baseball player - pelotero / beisbolista

card(s) - tarjeta(s) / estampa(s) / estampita(s) / cartita(s) / postalita(s) / barajita(s)

pack - paquete

While tarjeta is probably the most common term, there has not always been a large distinction between baseball "cards" vs baseball "stamps". Most often, I find anything intended for pasting or sticking into an album referred to as "estampa" or "estampita". Though the 1992 set issued by La Liga Mexicana de Beisbol was referred to as "estampas de fotos" and they were definitely baseball cards in the traditional sense, not stickers. Postalitas seems to be the most common term used for baseball cards in the Dominican Republic, even though it seems to translate literally as "postcard". Occasionally someone will use the term "carta", but that seems to apply more commonly to credit cards or playing cards than to sports cards. "Naipe" is another word that seems to translate to card, but it is almost exclusively used with respect to playing cards and almost never with sports cards.

sticker - calcomanía / estampa / estampita / postal

Calcomanía translates literallly as sticker, whereas estampa translates literally as stamp. They seem to be used almost interchangeably so your search results may vary. Postal, or the plural postales, seems to be most commonly used in Cuba. The sticker/stamp sets that were common in Cuba in the 1940s-50s were usually identified as postales on the albums issued for the sets. Postales is also sometimes used interchangeably with postalitas or tarjetas.
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JAPANESE

baseball (the sport) - 野球 (pronounced yă-kyū)

(baseball) player - 選手

card - カード

pack - パック

sticker - ステッカー
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KOREAN

baseball (the sport or the ball) - 야구 (pronounced yă-gū)

(baseball) player - 선수

card - 카드

pack - 팩

sticker - 스티커
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CHINESE

baseball (the sport) - 棒球 (pronounced băng-chyō)

(baseball) player - 球員

card - 卡

pack - 包

sticker - 贴纸
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DUTCH

baseball (the sport) - honkbal

(baseball) player - honkballer / speler

card - kaart

baseball cards - honkbalkaarten or honkbalkaartjes

pack - pakket

sticker - sluitzegel
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FRENCH

baseball (the sport) - baseball

(baseball) player - joueur

card - carte

pack - paquet

sticker - autocollant ]]> DaClyde https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1998-International-Baseball-Card-Keyword-Cheat-Sheet https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1996-CPBL-Sets-For-an-Ever-Shifting-League Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:27:18 GMT Late last year (2013), I got excited by a posting on the official CPBL blog (http://cpblonline.pixnet.net/blog/post/54755984) on what I thought would be the first real set to contain a card of Manny... Late last year (2013), I got excited by a posting on the official CPBL blog on what I thought would be the first real set to contain a card of Manny Ramirez in the Chinese Professional Baseball League. Manny played for the EDA Rhinos for the first half or so of the 2013 CPBL season, and as the league usually issued sets after the end of the season, I thought it reasonable to expect to see a card with Manny in a Rhinos uniform by early 2014.

My excitement was misplaced, as it was not, in fact the new 2013 CPBL Player of the Year set that was released in January of 2014, but it was the very late set covering the 2012 season. What initially confused me (aside from the odd timing) was that they did not list it as "2012中華職棒年度球員卡", which translates roughly as "2012 Chinese Professional Baseball League Player of the Year". That title had already been used for the set that covered the 2011 season. Instead, they listed the new set as "職棒23年年度球員卡" which translates roughly to "Year 23 Player of the Year Baseball Cards".

In the past couple of weeks, the CPBL blog has been ramping up for the release of the actual 2013 CPBL Player of the Year set. The 2013 set (being released mid-2014) covers the 2013 season. I think this is the reason for the naming shake-up for the set covering the 2012 season. So effectively the sets since 2009 break down like this:

2009 CPBL Player of the Year - covers 2008 season
2010 CPBL Player of the Year - covers 2009 season
2011 CPBL Player of the Year - covers 2010 season
2012 CPBL Player of the Year - covers 2011 season
Year 23 Player of the Year - covers 2012 season
2013 CPBL Player of the Year - covers 2013 season

Several of the CPBL sets since 1990 have made direct reference to which season they covered, but since 2009, the blog has usually just tied the year to the set. But somehow, possibly due to the fairly unstable nature of multiple teams in the league over the past few seasons, the league is now nearly a full year behind in issuing their sets. What's more (and this will require some investigation), it seems possible licensing or team rights issues has resulted in one yearly set almost completely missing entire teams.

Here is an example of the problem. The 2009 CPBL set covers the 2008 CPBL season. In 2008, the CPBL consisted of these teams:

Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions
La New Bears
Brother Elephants
Chinatrust Whales
dMedia T-Rex
Sinon Bulls

Professional baseball in Taiwan has suffered from the influence of organized crime and game-fixing scandals for almost its entire history. In 2008, the dMedia T-Rex were an expansion team that had just joined the league. The Chinatrust Whales were a long established team that had joined the league 10 years earlier. Both teams played the entire 2008 season, but both teams folded due to game-fixing scandals (dMedia) and financial difficulties (Chinatrust). The 2009 CPBL set barely acknowledged the existence of either team, only including a single card for the Whales (because Fu-Te Ni lead the league in strikeouts) and three for the T-Rex (Szu-Chi Chou was a Best Ten selection, Cory Bailey was the May MVP and Chia-Hsieh Hsien set a record for fastest to 100 HR in 516 games). Normally, each team would have occupied upwards of 40 cards in the set. Rather than make a drastic cut in set size, cards 247-270 were dedicated to the swing or throwing motion of two players per team, and cards 271-310 just covered the starting lineups for the remaining four teams while effectively leaving some 65+ players unaccounted for. Given that 2009 marked a return of the CPBL issued sets after a one year absence, perhaps they wanted something of a clean slate.

For the Year 23 set, Sinon Co. was in the process of selling their franchise to the E-United Group (who renamed the Sinon Bulls to the EDA Rhinos for the 2013 season), and negotiations between CPBL and Sinon Co. were unsuccessful with regard to CPBL using Sinon Bulls trademarks. As a result, the set was released late, 26 December 2013, instead of the usual mid-July timeframe, and is completely missing the Sinon Bulls. The CPBL posted to their official blog a list of all the missing cards from the set.

The above occurrences make a strong case for the CPBL needing separate licensing bodies for the players and the league/teams as American baseball has with MLB Properties and the MLB Players Association. For American companies, this allows for the present situation where Topps has the exclusive license to use team names and logos, but Leaf and Panini (among others) have the license to use the players' names and likenesses. Separate licensing bodies would have at least allowed the CPBL to issue the Sinon Bulls cards without names or logos (assuming they would have been interested in that). However, in Taiwan and Japan, I suspect such a licensing body could never exist due to the teams all being owned by separate companies who never seem to have the league's best interests in mind.

The Inventory Manager at SportsCardForum.com has now been updated with the Year 23 PotY and 2013 PotY sets. Oh, and after all of that, despite the EDA Rhinos being present in the 2013 set, Manny Ramirez, the single biggest box office draw in the CPBL in the last decade, is nowhere to be found. ]]> DaClyde https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1996-CPBL-Sets-For-an-Ever-Shifting-League