Night Owl Cards

Hey! I squeezed in a post! That means I didn't pass out from all the estrogen in the room and have momentarily broken away from discussions about home decor to provide this quick ditty about a night card. It's one of my favorites. I wrote about it in one of my introductory posts on this blog. And I've been waiting all this time to be able to add it to my night card binder. This card also came from Dave, who was the star of my last post. I'm not sure if it's the best night card that I own, but it probably has a very tiny number next to it on one of those countdown shows (does this mean there will be a countdown of the best night cards of all-time someday? Maybe. It kind of just popped into my mind just now). There is lots to like about this card. The play at second base. The colorful '70s uniforms. The dust flying. The ump's arms flying. Lights suspended everywhere in the background. Sheer greatness. What makes it even better is that the play was ...

I posted this card basically to keep the vintage train going. With this card, I am up to six straight posts of nothing but vintage material. I would like to continue that trend for a long, long time. But I can see it coming to an end very soon. I've been blessed with several very fine card packages in the last few days, and after feeling very caught up, I am now desperately behind again. Trade posts are on the horizon, and several of them will feature very snazzy, decidedly un -vintage cards. So, let's wallow in the wonderfulness of this vintage card for as long as we can. This is one of the cards from the World Series subset in the 1974 Topps set. I have always believed that a card company's main base set for the year should include a card apiece for each World Series game. Topps was faithful to this practice through the 1960s and into the mid-1970s. Then, for some inexplicable reason, it scaled back to only a card or two for the Series. In the 1979 set, they didn't...

I probably should explain the title of this blog a little. It might seem obvious, considering the "about me" profile along the right rail. And if you've been paying attention, almost all of my posts so far have been after midnight. Yes, I'm a night owl. I have been since I was a teenager. I work a job that requires me to toil at night, and I find that it suits me. I am most unpleasant in the morning (the few mornings that I see), but when 9 p.m. hits, the switch is on. Let's go, let's party. Now add the fact that I am an East Coast guy who is a fan of a West Coast team. After years of living through, "San Francisco at Los Angeles (n.)" in the newspaper, I fully appreciate being able to find the score of the Dodger game with a few simple key strokes. Waiting until 2 a.m. is no price to pay at all. Hell, I'm up already anyway. But that's only half of it. The other half is I've always enjoyed the night time more than the day. I love it...