Night Owl Cards

  You ever have one of those blogging days where you have a post picked out and you're going through the process of scanning/picture-taking, uploading and figuring out a title, and then something else pops up that you should really write about and then something ELSE pops up that you should really write about? Yeah, this post is going to be a bit of a mess.   So, several days ago I pulled out of a box the first beer stein I've ever received as a blogging present. It arrived from reader Bob, who goes by GOGOSOX60 in the comments.   That stein arrived with some random packs of 1986 Topps. But I'll talk about that later. And, yes, I know the binder shelf in the background is sagging. I'll talk about that later.         The stein commemorates the 1974 World Series between the Dodgers and the Oakland A's. Even without knowing who Danny Goodman is, you can tell it was created by the Dodgers. Goodman was the Dodgers' marketing/souvenir guru for 25 years and h...

This will be the last plug for my new blog -- 1975 Topps (it's far out, man) -- that will appear on Night Owl Cards. After that, I will let the fledgling blog, the mere tadpole of a blog, speak for itself. Except that I'll leave that little advertisement up on the sidebar. Nobody looks over there anyway, right? Meanwhile, if you could add the newbie to your blog rolls (that is, if you like it), I'd appreciate it. On the occasion of the insanity of starting a second blog, I thought I'd feature -- what else -- a 1975 Topps night card! It was 35 years ago yesterday that Game 4 of the 1974 World Series was played. That was back when the World Series took place in October. You remember that, right? Game 4 didn't turn out so well for the Dodgers. The mustachioed A's scored four runs in the sixth inning on their way to a 5-2 victory. It was the only game of the 5-game series that was not decided by a 3-2 score. It makes a Dodger fan think that L.A. could have pulle...

I am almost certain I will not be able to post again until sometime Friday, so I better write something now. Also, I'll be announcing the winner of "the completely random multiple choice guessing game" contest on the weekend, so get in your guesses (and I do mean guesses) on the previous post . OK, the card featured above actually isn't awesome at all. From my perspective, it is "the saddest night card of all-time." This is a card of the key moment of Game 5 of the 1974 World Series. In fact it was the key play in the entire Series. In 1974, baseball received a glimpse of the future with the first All-California World Series, Oakland vs. Los Angeles. The two-time World Series champions vs. the young upstarts. This was before I started following baseball, but if I was of "baseball-watching age," this would have been a big moment for me. Oakland won the Series in 5 games for its third straight championship. The clincher was a solo home run by Joe Ru...