Night Owl Cards

I recently completed another Twitter trade with a fellow Dodger fan named Fernando. (How appropriate is that name?) The deal was mostly Dodgers for Dodgers. Fernando (or @NorCalDodger ) found a few cards from my want list, like this amusing Action Packed item of Todd Hollandsworth, and I sent him some of the bazillion dupes that I own. But amid the want list needs that I received, I was pleasantly surprised by a few extras. See if you can tell what I mean by looking at some of the cards. Did your eyes light up in the middle there? Mine did. And it's not just because the non-Dodgers in that series were unexpected. It was because the non-Dodgers were unexpected VINTAGE. How delightful to receive a random 1966 Topps card and a random subset item from 1973 Topps just because. I have absolutely no connection to the Astros beyond being able to tell you their 1980 starting lineup. I can't even tell you who Chris Zachary is. Does it matter that he isn...

It occurred to me as I was preparing to post some cards that I received out of the blue from Mark of Stats on the Back that a proper tribute to his generosity would be to show the "stats on the back" of the cards that he sent. But I didn't think of it in time. All of the card fronts had been scanned already. So I quickly selected the Hollandsworth card and scanned the back of that to put at the top of the post. You may think that it is an odd card to choose, since the Action Packed cards didn't have many stats to show on the back. Well, that's the front of the card. And the matinee idol look to this card bothers me. I've been a dude all my life and the appeal to this card is lost on me. Some critics of card collectors say, "all you're doing is collecting pictures of men," and I don't agree with that insinuation or line of thinking. But if all the cards looked like this, then they would have a point. So, I scanned the back, so the front of...