Night Owl Cards

  Last month when I received a very kind delivery of free cards from the baseballcardstore.ca , I resolved to get on the site quickly and pay for some cards to show my appreciation. I sort of succeeded ... until Steven from the baseballcardstore jumped in and thought he could help me with my effort by finding more stuff for me, even better than I could, that would fit perfectly into my collection.   Let me tell you how that happened.   I started on the site like I always did, by searching for various sets. That's hit-and-miss for me because most of the sets available on there aren't what I'm looking for, as you can imagine as a vintage guy. I also look for Dodgers I need, which is even more difficult, because I have a lot of Dodgers.   So the set search began, and without coming up with any 1985 Donruss baseball, I decided -- heck, might as well pursue some cards from the set I've been avoiding all my life.   Yeah, this thing -- the thing I've been making fun o...

If someone were to analyze my collection the way we analyze ballplayers, with the litany of statistics used these days, determining where that collection is most deficient, the numbers would spit forth a resounding conclusion: I suck at collecting cards from the 1990s. I have plenty of them -- because no decade created more cards -- but there are holes everywhere. And my heart just isn't in it for '90s cards. If I want to be a well-rounded collector, then I have to do something about my '90s deficiency. However, the beauty of collecting is nobody is evaluating my collection. There isn't a baseball-reference page devoted to my collection, websites creating graphs on my collection or fans in the stands calling up facts about my collection on their phones. I can ignore whatever kinds of cards I like. Logic says I need lots of '90s cards. My heart says: screw that. What can I still scrape out of the '70sl? Recently, Nick from Dime Boxes sent me a healt...