Night Owl Cards

A couple of weeks ago I found some spare money that was just enough to order a few inexpensive cards off of my favorite baseball card marketplace. It wasn't until I received the package in the mail a few days ago that I realized how many of the cards that I ordered were oddballs. I've always gravitated toward oddballs, but my main missions in collecting usually involve completing major sets. This package appears to signal some shift in my thinking. I did order some mainstream cards, but they were by far the least interesting to me. Instead I found much more appeal in stuff like the 1976 SSPC Gene Hiser above. I ordered it because the Hiser in my SSPC set contains a rip through it. So let's get the mainstream stuff out of the way so I can bore you all with my oddball interests. Cards off the Nebulous 9 list. Every last one sat on that list for a mystifying long time, although none more so than the Swing Man Mondesi. Here is a tepid response to my...

When I first started blogging, there were a few very vocal card bloggers who grew up with cards from the late '90s. Since I didn't bother collecting during that period, everything I saw on those blogs was new and different ... and often times weird. The '90s card bloggers would alternate between '90s items that they absolutely loved and ones that they derided. I'd look at all of it and wonder what the difference was. What was considered innovation seemed like a lot of desperation to me and I couldn't tell them apart. As the years passed and I gained more knowledge about a variety of cards, I have a better appreciation for late '90s card items. Although I'll never be as enthusiastic over them as people who grew up with them, I can enjoy crazy stuff like Circa and Pinnacle Certified and a few others. That doesn't mean I'm running out to get them, which is why this is the first time one of these has entered my home: That's a can fr...