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r/baseballcards

209.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6.6K upvotes, which works out to 31 per 1,000 members.

31peak upvotes per 1,000 members
209.7Kmembers
6.6Kbest post
10.1Kmost comments
420posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Image 50% Gallery 40% Text 5% Question 3% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Show Off 109 Sale 70 Question 21 Mail Day 16 Random 14 Trade 11 Want 9 Opinion 6 Show Off - Vintage 4 Giveaway 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

15 years ago today I called it quits on drinking, best move ever! Giving away this guy, pick a number 1-5475. If you’re in a tough spot and wanna tal…

↑ 6.6K 💬 10.1K image 2024

I opened a card store/brewery tasting room in New Hope, PA

↑ 5.7K 💬 588 gallery 2025

Made a watch strap out of an old ball⚾️

↑ 5.2K 💬 358 gallery 2026

My 10 year old son draws players and gets them signed

↑ 4K 💬 205 gallery 2025

Sold and then refunded an Evan Carter card to his Mom today

↑ 4K 💬 420 gallery 2024

I’m Wade Meckler, a professional baseball player - Ask me anything!

↑ 3.8K 💬 856 text 2024

My MLB Dad died 4 years ago so I started collecting PSA-graded cards for his 3 grandsons

↑ 3.7K 💬 230 image 2025

Grail found.

↑ 3.6K 💬 255 image 2025

Finally did it. The shop is open.

↑ 3.4K 💬 383 gallery 2023

Wife got me a box of cards. Biggest pull I’ve ever gotten!

↑ 3.3K 💬 221 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/baseballcards, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/baseballcards have?
r/baseballcards has about 209.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 420 of its posts; the biggest reached 6.6K upvotes, which is 31 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/baseballcards?
"15 years ago today I called it quits on drinking, best move ever! Giving away this guy, pick a number 1-5475. If you’re in a tough spot and " reached 6.6K upvotes and 10.1K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/baseballcards.
What subreddits are similar to r/baseballcards?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/baseballcards?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are image posts and 40% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/baseballcards?
Across 420 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 22:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 19:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes), Thursday at 23:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/baseballcards?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/baseballcards has 2.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 144 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/baseballcards, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.