Night Owl Cards

   One thing I still haven't been able to get into my head with this blog, even decades in, is that it's my blog.   You'd think I'd know that by now. I can post whatever the hell I want on here. I can post about happy little trees or rank rust-removal products or list my favorite Pure Prairie League songs. I can write about anything .   But instead I do dumb stuff like avoid showing individual cards that have come into my home recently because only 5 people might care. I make exceptions for cards that somebody has gifted or trade me or a large online order that I can wrap up into a theme, but the scatter-shot purchasing of a card here and there that I always do -- that we always do -- nah, that's not good enough.   I think that's because of my work job. As sports editor, and I've been doing this for a long time, my job is to find stories that are interesting and newsworthy to our readers. That sometimes bleeds over into my blog as I'm creating content he...

  Hey, it's another downsizing post. I didn't get to one of these in June and there are still cards that need to go out the door.   I've been pretty lax in adding cards to my collection, too. I blame some of this on the post office. There's been two times in the last month where I've ordered a single card ... and then waited a month for it to arrive. The second one hasn't appeared yet, and it damn well better because it finishes a team set and it wasn't cheap (i.e. another Heritage short-print).   That's put a damper on ordering through the mail, just a little. But a few cards have indeed arrived.     I've recently returned to the team O-Pee-Chee quest. After finishing off the '80s sets and some of the late '70s I moved on to other things. But it's time to get back. I'm starting with 1990 because it's the easiest. That Orel Hershiser was a former Nebulous Nine need.     BlueSky followers know that this 1965 Topps Leon Wagner card ...

Not even two weeks into my start as a card blogger, I received a late-September package from Dave of Tribe Cards , which was then called "Indians Baseball Cards. Always." It was a prize for answering a trivia question correctly on his blog. There were lots of those then. Trivia questions. Card prizes. Baseball cards flying across the country. Very exciting days. I couldn't believe my eyes because this was all new to me. Also, the box was huge, more than 100 cards of different Dodgers and it included a couple of autographs, I believe, and -- holy crap, a 1950 Bowman card of Carl Furillo. Dave's generosity was well-known then and continues to be legend among the veterans of the blogging world. He isn't nearly as prolific in sending out "just because" card packages because, you know, we've determined he's actually human and not some sort of card-sending cyborg. But still, every once in awhile, he gets the itch to send out a bunch of cards...