Night Owl Cards

    Not too long after the first cards of the season are out, I make an attempt to come up with a name for the new set. Sometimes it's easy -- when you see a sea turtle, you see a sea turtle -- and sometimes it's difficult. This year's Topps set is fairly easy. I think a few people came up with a name back when Topps unveiled the design in the summer.   2022 Topps is "the wrench set."    If you don't see it, tilt your head to the side and note that the logo is where the open-end of the wrench is and the position "tear drop" is where the "ring" is on your average wrench.   Now, I never stop at the current set when doing these Define the Design posts. My goal is to name as many as I can . And there are so many sets!   So let's throw a few more set names out there.   Staying with the tool theme, I've got a name for the very weird 1999 Upper Deck set. It's still mystifying that this is what passed for a flagship design in '99. A...

This was my expression a week or so ago when I hauled in from the porch an incredibly heavy package, opened it up, and saw six USPS priority boxes inside. The return address on the outside said the package was from Johnny's Trading Spot, and I was quite sure that I had done nothing to cause John to send a monster box my way. But you know how this goes -- that is if you're lucky enough to have received monster boxes -- the daunting nature of such a package is quickly erased by -- OH, BOY, SIX BOXES OF CARDS! Yay, me! That's what I felt like. And I started to get to work. John pointed me in the right direction with a few notes. The one I saw first referred to the middle two boxes, which he said are "the real ones for you." OK. Who are the other ones for? I figured I better start opening. I chose one that made some sort of reference to Braves. I was pretty sure I read it wrong. Braves? There's no one who wants Braves in this house -- ...