Night Owl Cards

All right all you people who look at card blogs only to find out how much your rookie cards are worth -- BOOM! -- it's one of them rookies that actually retained at least a little of its value! You can sell this and not even have enough money to buy a case for your iphone! Yay, inflation! Yay, gadgets! Yay, nobody cares about cardboard anymore! Anyway, this is the best rookie card of Mike Piazza. It's beautiful. The Fleer Update rookie Piazza may cost more, but it's ugly sherbet green, the photo's scrunched, and Piazza is running out of the box in a painfully awkward way like he's a 10-year-old geeked up on Sprinkle Spangles . Also Update came in a limited box set and we all know real cards are issued in packs, during the season, out in the wild, in the midst of rabid, drooling collectors. There's also the Donruss Rookie Phenoms Piazza, which is both black bordered and shiny, but again you can hear the desperation on this late-breaking card if you hold it ...

I entered another one of those no-brainer group breaks at Cardboard Collections a little while ago. Colbey finds card sets that totally escaped me, charges next to nothing to enter, and then throws in extra cards with your winnings. It's practically irresistible. But I'm repeating myself . This latest break featured 1995 Topps Embossed, 1993 Bowman, something called Ultimate Victory and 1999 Stars N' Steel. I signed up and got meself some pretty funky cards. First the Stars N' Steel cards. I'm not sure how these were made. But they definitely consist of steel. The corners are definitely sharp. And they're definitely more dangerous than a butter knife, if you're so inclined. I've never considered cards a deadly weapon, but in the wrong hands you could draw blood with these things. I'm trying to picture me and my friends opening these as kids on the way back home from the drug store. We'd have to run back for band-aids. Here...