Night Owl Cards

  OK, I said last month when I did the last Elusive '80s post that the next one would show up pretty quick, and here it is.   Only a month between posts hasn't given me much time to tackle any of those elusive '80s needs but several are sitting in carts and you're looking at the most recent arrival, which was on the last post as a need -- the wonderfully charming Jiffy Pop Fernando. (Never mind that "1st annual" nonsense).   In this post I'm tackling the Dodgers I need from sets issued in 1987 -- still seems ludicrous that I would need anything from 1987, even with this series telling me that needs are all around me, no matter what year.   Expect a few more Valenzuela appearances.   1987     1987 Albuquerque Dukes Police    Technically not a Dodgers set but I've been known to gather Albuquerque Dukes cards from the '70s and '80s, as so many future Dodgers favorites are displayed on those cards. This is a 30-card set and I don't have a s...

   I watched a half-a-box break of 2026 Topps Heritage last night. Yikes.   I was really glad afterward that I had already made the decision not to chase the set, as I had for 2023, 2024 and 2025 Heritage. It does not look great. Even the replication of the design -- which is not difficult for 1977 Topps -- is not good, which was mostly all I had to keep me dedicated to Heritage the last couple of years.   A lot of the photos do not represent 1977 photography and there were those ridiculous blue-sparkle parallels in every third pack and chromes in the rest of them (I also hear the collation is not good). This set is so far away from what it has been and what I was counting on it to be once Heritage reached the mid-1970s set. Very disappointing.   So I'm not building any modern sets for the first time in a few years and don't have any large vintage chases either. This is the perfect window to gather those random Dodgers needs, and so with that in mind ...  ...

This is the continuation of a series I started in February , about how that even for the 1980s, there are elusive cards for team collector types.   I went through what I still need from sets issued between 1980-83 in the first post. Today I'm going through what I need for Dodgers from 1984-85. Yeah, just two years this time. The amount I need increases as the '80s progress. Who would've figured that, huh?   Like I said before, this probably has limited interest, but the first one was so successful to my collection I have no choice to continue it. A look at what I added from the last post:   The top two cards wrapped up the 1980 Laughlin Famous Feats set as far as the Dodgers. The Walter Alston finished the 1981 TCMA The 1960s II team set. The 1982 Fleer Ron Cey stamp didn't finish any team set -- because they're stamps, come on -- but at least I righted a horrible wrong of not owning a rather common Cey Dodger item.   So, to me, that's well worth investigating f...