Night Owl Cards

I'm back, baseball cards I've missed you these last four days Four days without viewing a single one of you In person or online I missed my baseball cards It amazes me how empty life is without you Simple pieces of cardboard with pictures Silly, really There is longing and craving Over disposable items Because I miss my baseball cards Life went on While you were so many miles away The conversation turned To more mundane matters But I missed my baseball cards The turkey wasn't as tasty as I remembered Although stuffing hit the spot Marshmallowed-sweet potatoes were controversial Pie for breakfast wonderful But I missed my baseball cards I busied myself with diversions Day-glo bowling balls and a free piece of pizza My niece's fingernails painted to resemble Pac-Man characters Mocking pre-Black Friday shoppers But I still missed my baseball cards The high school reunion almost did the trick My collecting buddy in school ha...

I've never shown much self- restraint when it comes to buying cards. I'm a sucker for just about anything. Piece of History, X, Opening Day, Spectrum, I'll try anything once. I'll buy repack boxes, too, because my card standards aren't all that high, and I always find something good in repacks. But there is one repack box in particular that I have always treated like the bad girl propped up against a locker. The one giving me the unsettling stare. ( Her looking at me like that . No good can come of this). I have turned the Fairfield repack down every single time. It's probably because of the packaging. Other repacks I can see through the container and gauge at least some of the packs that I'm getting. With the Fairfield box (a descendant of Pandora's Box, it seems), all I see is a plot to separate me from my money. It's all too Field of Dreamy. The ball and bat and glove. The old-time uniform. The baseball "Collector's Box." What...

These are some of the Dodgers that David of Tribe Cards sent me as part of his "everything must go" giveaway. Like I said in Part 1 , he sent a monstrous box of hundreds of cards. Among them were between 300 and 400 Dodgers. There were very few doubles. The nine 1994 Topps Pedro Martinez cards had me going for a second. I thought Dave might bury me in Pedros like he did dayf with Alomars , but the nine Pedros were the most of one card in the box. The rest were cool cards like the Gary Carter Stadium Club up top (Carter looks intense ). And extremely cool cards like this one, which I think is from the 1971 Fleer World Series sticker set. The only version of this card I had was from the sticker inserts that Fleer put in cards during the early 1980s. This card features all the glorious details of the Dodgers' spanking of the Yankees in the '63 Series. Wish I was around for that one. This card also reminds me that I would like to change my banner one day and ad...