Night Owl Cards

As I continue to assess what I really enjoy collecting, I find myself in a sort of collecting limbo. I'll go back to my traditional collecting desires, my many Dodgers cards and Dodgers binders, and that feels quite comfortable to me still. And then I'll dive into some of my more recent interests -- the '70s NFL cards and the Sabres cards and the music cards -- and those seem wonderful in a much more unfamiliar but exciting way. I'm a little out of my comfort zone when it's not all baseball, all-Dodger baseball all the time. I'm not nearly the expert that I am in the baseball arena. But that's OK. The hobby is anything I want it to be. I can test the limits of my comfort if I want. And that's exactly what I did recently, although it wasn't my choice at the beginning. But first, let's see some cards that I am completely comfortable with because I have been collecting them for the life of this blog and earlier: These, and the ...

(It's past 8 p.m. in my part of the world, and that means your time is up to enter the 400 followers contest. Thanks all who entered. I hope to have a winner determined on the weekend. But I'm afraid the surprise package won't go out until much later. You'll just have to bide your time with my blog posts. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 202nd in a series): I'm not sure if this happens to you, but as a traditional team and set collector it happens to me a lot. I miss out. Since I limit my collection to Dodgers and to what I consider genuine 500-card-plus SETS -- not piddly little insert wallet-robbers -- there are cards that I just don't see in my collection. Most of the time, it doesn't bother me. So many insert sets, so little time. I can't be bothered. But every once in awhile I see something great, look to see if there's a Dodger in the set so I can grab one, and am disappointed. With Fleer's Club 3000 set, issued in ...