Night Owl Cards

  It's been a fairly stressful week, between traveling, a delayed doctor's appointment, the loss of a beloved player from my youth, and now the most taxing World Series matchup I could possibly conjure up as a fan. The weekend will help a little (stupid sports teams still have to play on the weekend, tho) and so will the collection. I just happen to be wrapping up a super-simple sportlots order with the final cards trickling in. I like simple orders. Big-ticket and super-cool arrivals are always fun but they contain a certain amount of worry what with prices paid and condition concerns. Simple orders are just simple cards, they don't cost much but still they fill holes and are always wanted.   Some of those cards were upgrades and they've already been filed away with a smile. A 1983 Topps Ron LeFlore, a 1986 Fleer Bobby Castillo, items that should have always been pristine but weren't, and I was horrified. But now the monster is back in the closet.   Others were reg...

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 ...