Night Owl Cards

  I've been debating publishing this post to recognize Canada Day, which is a week from now. But I don't like waiting too long on showing packages sent by readers -- it seems disrespectful. So here it is now. I've had the honor of several Canadian readers over the years. I was particularly blessed recently when a collector from Toronto emailed me and said he'd been a reader for several years. One post that I made last month caused him to head to his basement and go through his childhood collection of O-Pee-Chee cards. I'm now the owner of several of those childhood OPC cards. Everything that arrived is from the '70s and I think it's so cool that I've got cards that were in someone's basement in Toronto. This truly is an international hobby! Jeff said 1972 OPC was the first set he collected and he was certain there were a few Dodgers in that group. That's what I expected to get and I sure did! That's a bunch of the team set right there. Don...

  Before I launch into the latest edition of the 1975 Topps worst-to-best countdown, I have another batch of '75 O-Pee-Chee cards to show. These also arrived from Poison75, just like the last batch .     Poison75 pointed out this was a wrapper variation from the first OPC wrapper he sent me. Notice how excited Topps still was about issuing all 660 cards at once. I didn't know any better, there was always 660 in one shot from the moment I started collecting.        There were some MVP subset cards with this lot, including one I can put in my Dodger collection. Another Dodger, Doug Rau, is already in my team binder, so this goes in the '75 Topps/OPC binder. The rest. A whole bunch of big names there and much-appreciated. Still not attempting to complete the full '75 OPC set though. All right, on with the countdown. This round has some big-time favorites from when I was collecting in 1975. It pains me to see them in what's still the second half of the cou...

  Yesterday I teased today's post with a 1975 O-Pee-Chee wrapper. Yes, that means a '75 OPC pack-opening is coming.  Don't get too excited. I didn't buy a sealed '75 OPC pack.  The wrapper came to me as you see it from Poison75, aka, BaseballCommish75 on the SportsCardForum, aka, one half of the two collecting buddies ( The Collective Mind being the other one) who have the most challenging want lists that I'm determined to crack ... someday. Poison75 is looking to complete his own '75 project, which I'm sure he's mentioned in the comments on my blog previously but I don't recall what it is. I was the beneficiary of some extras from that project, which I'll show you right now: You sharp-eyed Canadians have probably noticed immediately that those are '75 OPC cards next to the OPC wrapper! Those are all the ingredients of a pack-opening if I ever saw one. So I put one together by averting my eyes and randomly selecting eight cards from the ...