Night Owl Cards

    I haven't had much money to spend on cards the last three or four months. In fact, there's a card show this weekend and I ain't going. It's quite the contrast to earlier in the year when I was throwing money at 1956 Topps all-stars. But there are a couple new bills to pay and if I'm going to unearth some cash on cards it's certainly not going to be the new stuff. A few weeks ago I started to feel like I should live up to my name as a collector and see what the baseballcardstore had in stock. Even someone on a strict budget can afford to throw a few dimes at some cards. I was surprised to find that the dimebox store has become a nickelbox store. In order to compensate for the crazy shipping costs, the site's owners have moved to tiered shipping prices, and although those are higher than what was once on the site, they've knocked back the price on their cards to a NICKEL. By the time I added up the cards I bought and the new shipping price, it was no ...

When I first started blogging, there was only one other Dodger card blog out there. Jim, of that only other blog , was all too aware of this. I think when he discovered my blog, he did cartwheels. Finally! Another Dodger fan on which to dump his doubles ... er, I mean, with whom to trade. And so we did. We happily sent Dodger cards to each other and knew without a doubt that the other was grateful. How can you not be happy with Dodger cards? But after awhile, trading with the same person who likes the same team can get repetitious. I mean, I still trade with Jim and he's still a terrific trader -- one of the best. But we do have a lot of the same cards. Why not draw another Dodger fan into the mix? It took a long time to find another Dodger fan. There's a lot of screwed up people out there, you know. People rooting for Diamondbacks and Mets and Braves. I didn't think I'd find another blogger who knew that the Dodgers are really the only team to collect. P...

I might be the last participant from All Tribe Baseball's Old School OPC Break to post the loot I received. But that's just the way things work around here. Everyone is blogging about the latest and greatest in the hobby, and I can't even get around to some cards from 1992 that I received. That's OK. That's my personality. I'm OK with it. But before I show the cards, I wanted to mention that I always wondered where the name "O-Pee- Chee " originated. So I did a lazy internet search and it turns out the Canadian candy company was named after the robin in "The Song of Hiawatha," the famous poem from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Here are the words: "'Do not shoot us, Hiawatha!' Sang the robin, the Opechee ..." " Opechee " somehow became "O-Pee- Chee " and now when we hear the name, all we think of is hockey and baseball, not a bird in a poem about an Indian tribe. But I guess you could say what we have in ...