Night Owl Cards

  I received some cards in the mail today that will require their own individual posts. But before I do that, I must clear the way for them with some earlier acquisitions that my feeble brain is unable to figure out how to make them their own readable posts. So, massive regurgitation of not-so-recent arrivals it is!!! Let's start with the marvelous Roy Campanella Shakey's Pizza card above and some sends from Rod of Padrographs . Rod recently held a small team group break in order to downsize his collection and I signed up for the Dodgers. All of the above cards (one is not a baseball player, I am aware) are either cards I didn't have or can repurpose in some fashion.   I don't associate Ernie Lombardi with the Dodgers at all -- 100 percent Reds. But the Dodgers are listed on the back of the 1980 Cramer card, with the other teams he played for, and Lombardi did begin his career with Brooklyn in 1931. He's also listed with the Dodgers in the set on TCDB, I'm not s...

 Have you voted in the latest round of Cardboard Appreciation, the review (part 5)? To select which card from this week's group should advance, cast your vote in the comments or copy-and-paste to vote in the poll with this link: https://vote.easypolls.net/62ab88285617e80062b60897   If you search around enough on my blog, you'll find a post or two or three of me saying I don't care much for sets from the early 1960s. I didn't -- for a long time. Nothing from that time period spoke to me. Unlike a few '50s sets that snuck in and connected despite me not being around to collect them originally, those '60s sets, I couldn't be bothered with them. Photos too boring, designs too plain and not much of clue about who was on the card. But things are turning around a little bit. I'm not trying to complete the sets or anything. But something in me decided it's right to have at least a small sampling of cards from this time, like I do for, say, 1957 or 1968. The...