Night Owl Cards

I've been debating and stalling about how to present these cards that I received from Bo at Baseball Cards Come To Life! for about two weeks now. He was kind enough to send several cards off my 2001 Donruss Elite Dodger want list. It's one of those sets that I threw on the want list without even a thought. I don't really care about Donruss Elite -- every last card in a Donruss Elite set looks the same as the next -- and as soon as I put the DE list on my want list, I forgot all about it. So it's very nice that someone else did think about these cards and sent them to me. Because even though I never think about these cards, I NEED them. I know that makes no sense to anyone but a card collector. Fortunately, card collectors are reading this thing. I think. But the problem with Donruss Elite cards, as everyone with a scanner and a shiny fixation knows, is that the images you get when you scan the cards are unpleasant. Nobody wants to look at them. The images ar...

My wife announced Sunday that she and my daughter were off to Rite Aid to get some makeup supplies. Now, whenever I hear the word "Rite Aid," only one thing comes to mind: "The last drug store on earth that sells baseball cards." OK, I realize there are other drug stores out there that probably sell baseball cards. But there were a lot more of them when I was younger. In fact, for the first, oh, 28 years of my life, the only places you could find baseball cards were drug stores and groceries. Every drug store sold cards. I could name a half dozen off the top of my head, and if you give me 5 minutes to think, I could name you about 10 more. It was just a fact of life. Open a drug store. Stock it with medicine, cigarettes and baseball cards. But, now, I can name only one. Rite Aid. So, immediately, I said, "they have cards there!" And I gave my wife some money to bring back a pack to satisfy my daily ripping urge. She came home with more than a p...