Night Owl Cards

A couple of years ago, I wrote a post titled "Let's Complete a Team Set Today" . It was a happy little tale about how I completed the 1996 Fleer Team Wax Dodgers set, as confusing as Fleer made it that year. But that was mere peanuts compared with what we're going to do today. I have a list on my sidebar called "The Nebulous 9". I like to put the final card needed from a particular team set on that Nebulous 9 list, because there is nothing more satisfying than completing a set. You may have noticed that the list is now down to three cards. That's because I won a contest at Bob Walk The Plank and he decided to wipe out my needs on the Nebulous 9. Because of his decision, he completed six team sets for me. SIX. Let's take a look at them now: 2015 Topps Archives Dodgers . Completed. Technically, there's still that stupid short print Jackie Robinson card. But I'm not paying $25-$50 (that's what it's going for these da...

I used to try to get involved in every single group break that any blogger put out there, and then throw a private little stink fit when someone beat me to the Dodgers in one of them. I don't do that anymore. Mostly that's because there are a lot more group breaks than there used to be, and it's because I have figured out that I can't afford to get involved in more than one at a time. I'm OK with that. I don't freak out -- too much -- when someone lands a card that I want in a group break that I chose to skip. That's not to say I don't have my moments. Colbey at Cardboard Collections held one of his many group breaks a little while ago, and I didn't get involved because I was broke. The break ended up being a complete Dodger fest. This NEVER happens, not even in breaks in which I'm not involved. Yankeefest. Sure. Bravefest. Definitely. Astrofest. Yeah, even the Astros. But never Dodgers. After seeing the cards speigel landed from that...

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...