Night Owl Cards

(To those roaming the aisles at the National Sports Card Convention in Atlantic City, congrats. You are officially doing what I would like to be doing. My best guess on my first NSCC is 2018 in Cleveland. We'll see how that goes. Right now, it's Cardboard Appreciation time! This is the 243rd in a series): There are a lot of Mike Piazza cards from 1998. There are a lot of Piazza Dodger cards, a lot of Piazza Met cards, and a fair number of Piazza Marlin cards. But this is the only card that I know of that features Piazza with all three teams that he played for in 1998 on the front of his card. I wouldn't call Pacific's decision to place a photo with Piazza in all three uniforms a stroke of genius. It's more of a "why don't card companies do stuff like this more often?" move. In other words, "Why didn't someone else think of that?" How great would it have been if Dave Kingman appeared in the 1978 Topps set with all four teams he ...

I read this interesting story in the newspaper the other day. Yes, the newspaper. They still make those things you know. They're quite enlightening. The story was about something called the " end of history illusion ." It's a reference to our selves and how we recognize how much we have changed as individuals over the years, but underestimate how much we will change in the future. It said that we do this because we look at ourselves as fully evolved people. At the top of our game. We believe we are no longer changing. We have our likes and dislikes, interests and disinterests and they are there to stay. This view of ourselves is particularly noticeable in teenagers, as grown-ups look at teens' behavior and think or say, "you'll think differently in 10 years" but the teenager doesn't see it that way. But adults do the same thing. It helps explain why people marry the wrong people or take the wrong job. They can't see themselves as...