Night Owl Cards

  I'm making good on a promise I wrote back in July with this post, with just one day to spare.   During the last One-Card Wonders post I finished all the 1970s one-card wonders and said I wanted to do the same with the 1980s in the next post, which I said would happen before the end of the year.   Well, the end of the year is here and I can't let all those people who have been waiting for the last five-plus months down! So don't worry, be happy! The last OCW post of the year is here!   In this episode I'm covering 1988 and 1989, the only years I haven't touched from the 1980s. I'm also tackling not only the Topps sets from those two years but Donruss, Fleer, Score and Upper Deck, too (This means I'm technically not done with the '80s after this post because I still haven't uncovered OCWs for some of the other 1980s Donruss and Fleer sets).   As a reminder, I define One-Card Wonders as cards of players who appeared on one major release only. I discou...

 (Today is not only Columbus Day/Indigenous People Day/Canadian Thanksgiving it is also Moldy Cheese Day. I do not know if that refers to specific kinds of cheese with intended mold (blue cheese) or cheese left too long in the fridge with unintended mold. But what I do know is it's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 326th in a series and there is no mold on this card): Welcome to another card I should have had by now. Yup, this famed 1989 Upper Deck Gary Pettis card is just arriving in my collection. I've known about this card for a long time. You longtime bloggers probably remember Dinged Corners. One of Patricia's favorite kinds of cards were "recursive cards," what, in a more general way, also could be called "meta cards," or cards of cards.   But the recursive aspect is the mind-blowing part, and for that you need to see the back of Pettis' 1989 UD card.   Upper Deck has made it appear as if Pettis is holding his own 1989 Upper Deck car...

I've mentioned several times that I'm not one of those people who looks for deals or bargains. If I happen to be low on money and at a card show, then I will scope out discounts, but that's about the only time. This doesn't mean I'm rich or a wild spender. I'm neither. I just can't be troubled with spending so much time searching for deals. I don't check out the circulars in the Sunday paper, I don't pester retail salesmen for cents off, I don't argue with the check out girl about the price on canned pears. It's just too much time spent on something that doesn't mean much. If you grew up during the Great Depression or in a poor family or are a college student, then, yeah, I get why you'd be obsessed with finding steals. But, overall, I think too much noise is made about who got what for how little. I don't play that game. I don't care. I hope I never have to. This offends some people. A few days ago, my brother went...