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Kennedy: The Chattanooga man who has 60,000 signed baseball cards

Staff photo by Abby White / Scott Hensley poses for a portrait June 18, 2025, with his baseball card collection. Hensley set out in 2018 to collect baseball cards of every player who appeared in the major leagues that year in honor of his son, who was born the same year.
Staff photo by Abby White / Scott Hensley poses for a portrait June 18, 2025, with his baseball card collection. Hensley set out in 2018 to collect baseball cards of every player who appeared in the major leagues that year in honor of his son, who was born the same year. Staff photo by Abby White / Scott Hensley poses for a portrait June 18, 2025, with his baseball card collection. Hensley set out in 2018 to collect baseball cards of every player who appeared in the major leagues that year in honor of his son, who was born the same year.

By Mark Kennedy 5 min read


You can’t talk about Scott Hensley’s baseball-card hobby without mentioning a few numbers.

Such as:

— 8 million: The approximate number of baseball cards Hensley has bought and sold in the past dozen years.

— 60,000: The number of hand-signed baseball cards he has in his collection. All of them are unique. There are no duplicates.