Night Owl Cards

Hello there. Miss me? I took a little break from blogging but I'm officially back. If you want to know the reasons I disappeared, it's nothing fascinating. Yeah, Blogger's inability to publish posts when I wanted it to was the instigator, but I went away for the weekend, too, and trying to goad Blogger into publishing posts while I was attempting to be on vacation didn't sound attractive. When you can afford to drop inconveniences you should, every time. And so I did. Those of you on Twitter know I didn't stay away from the community or the hobby totally. You also know I enjoyed a bit of hobby luck. I'll save that for tomorrow's post. But in the meantime, I did pick up some cheap old packs while I was away! I'm not in the habit of buying old packs, mostly because the ones most available are often from the last 25-30 years, and in most cases I'm not collecting that stuff. But these were staring me in the face, all for a dollar each, and I w...

(Maybe I'm the only one who notices this, but if you look at a newspaper sports page during the spring time, and compare it with the sports pages published during the winter, the spring pages are much brighter and more attractive. That's because everyone's finally outside, playing under the bright sunshine. Or at least that's the idea -- we might get some snow today. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 106th in a series):  I'm starting another informal series here on the blog. Not that any of the previous series are formal, it's just that I don't know how many cards I can find to make this more than a series of one or two posts. What I am looking for are cards that sum up the subject perfectly. The design is important with cards like this. And I think I have my perfect first subject. Carlos Perez was a flamboyant, left-handed pitcher for the Expos and Dodgers. He was a sight to see on the mound. After striking out hitters, he'd mimic the...