Night Owl Cards

During the early days of the blog, when I was first trading through the mail, I would finish off team sets fairly quickly. When your want list includes 1990 Donruss Dodgers, people are lining up to fill your order. I remember Dan from Saints From the Cheap Seats being particularly good at this. There was also a guy named Eric -- he had a blog for awhile -- that did the same. I'd set up my want list stacks and they'd knock them down. That doesn't happen much anymore. It's not because those guys don't blog anymore, but because I have a lot more Dodgers than a few years ago. So when I received a card package from Nick of Dime Boxes last week, I couldn't believe my eyes. He actually completed three team sets for me in one swoop. 2000 Stadium Club. 2005 Topps Rookie Cup (yes, I know there are a zillion parallels. Let's not get ahead of ourselves). 1991 Topps Archives (inspiration for the '53 set ... or maybe not). That's a succ...

Has anyone here ever worked for the company featured on the front of a baseball card? Now, if you didn't have the ability to scroll down this post, or blasted Blogger didn't feature the first image on everyone's post in the dashboard, then you'd assume I was talking about working for Topps or Upper Deck or one of those cool card companies. But actually, I'm talking about working for barely above minimum wage at a department store. I spent one summer in college working a second job at Hills, which was a discount-type store, pretty much like Kmart. It no longer exists. Ames bought it out in 1999. Then Ames went bankrupt three years later. I worked for another department store before I moved away to college. Enjoyed my time there immensely. Quite the social scene. But that department store doesn't exist anymore either. Apparently, these stores just couldn't function after I left them. Anyway, here's the card that features the store I'm talking about...