Night Owl Cards

Imagine close to your ugliest day at work. I'm having it today. Throw in a sleep-robbing cough and there is no time for nothing today. So here is a simple showing of cards from Baseball Dad at All Tribe Baseball : Baseball Dad sent the stamps, too. He and I both used to collect stamps during our younger days. Both of us also remember when stamps were 15 cents apiece. Here's another thing we both remember: The prices of baseball cards in 1979. Yeah, I think I'll pick up a mint-condition 1966 Mantle for $5, please. Baseball Dad's a little older than me. Maybe he was able to jump on some of those card prices back then. He also might remember collecting cards in '66. I don't. Anyway ... ... (*sigh*) Is this day over yet? ...

I lost interest in the ring-trading aspect of Topps' Diamond Giveaway site a long time ago. At first, I didn't know what the heck it was. Then, I found out you could end up with Topps mailing you a ring, which -- I'm sorry -- is really not my style. And don't tell me I can sell it. I don't like it when my "prize" puts me to work. When I realized that you could also accumulate rings to get a complete factory set of 2011 Topps cards, I was momentarily intrigued, until I it dawned on me that I would have most of the cards already. It turns out those cards from the special 60th anniversary factory set aren't exactly the same as the cards I've been buying from stores. True to the tradition of the worst kind of parallels , dating back to those gullible days of the early '90s, the cards are the same in ever way except for a foil stamping of the Topps diamond anniversary logo in the left corner and the "factory set limited edition" not...