Night Owl Cards

Don't you love my overly dramatic post titles? I'm afraid you'll be disappointed if you're expecting some great truth to be revealed here. I'm just cleaning stuff off my desk this week that's been sitting there too long. This is a pack that was sent to me by Shane at Shoebox Legends . But the pack got me thinking. I have the entire 1991 Topps Traded set already. But I couldn't tell you how I got it. I probably bought the whole thing for 14 cents somewhere. And those three previous sentences, my friends, is a commentary on how far baseball cards have fallen in the eyes of its collectors. The 1991 Topps Traded set was issued 23 years ago. And it's treated with a dismissive shrug by many collectors. I let this pack sit unopened for weeks. But if you were to hand me cards from 23 years ago when I was, say, in high school, I would flip out. Cards from 1959? Are you kidding me? These are the most precious items in the world! That, to me, sums up h...

OK, with this card, I have now officially displayed 100 night cards in the Awesome Night Card format on this blog. That is quite the occasion for a night card addict like me. To mark the occasion, I have purchased a binder to house my night cards. Yes, I know what you're thinking: "you mean, you don't have your night cards in their own binder already?" No, I don't. Although I collect them, I've never separated them. They are merely included in my 1991 Topps binder, or my 1984 Topps binder, or my many Dodger binders, or wherever they land in my arbitrary filing system. There has never been an O-fish-ee-al Night Card Binder, until now. This is a big step, because not only have I recognized another subset of my card collecting hobby in binder-and-page form, but I now must start collecting duplicates of a lot of these cards. In fact, that has been the one thing that has kept me from getting a night card binder (that and the fact that I hate shopping for...