Night Owl Cards

   Yesterday, I wrapped up another triumphant dupes box update ... well, it's two dupes boxes now. I've mentioned that I try to go through my giant Dodgers dupes boxes once a year to organize, adding the new dupes that have been piling up. It's tedious, but feels great when it's finished, and I always find a few cards in there that aren't actually dupes. That's the greatest feeling of all. It had been two years since I had conducted this dupes box ritual. The cards were really piling up (but not as much as if I had gone two years between updates, say, seven years ago). The best card that I found that wasn't actually a dupe was the 2020 Topps Holiday Cody Bellinger. It was the last card I needed to complete that team set and had been sitting on my Nebulous 9 list for months! I apparently have no idea what I have in my collection. Here are the other cards I found from the box that actually weren't dupes: The 1989 Fernando Valenzuela is the Tiffany version....

  A couple of weeks ago, I enjoyed a pretty good day. It was Friday, February 5th to be exact. The day brightened with the arrival of the mail just after noon. The magazine in the mailbox confirmed that I had indeed made the cover of Beckett Baseball Magazine! Or my article had anyway. I haven't checked to see if it's now available in stores. Maybe I'll look tomorrow. An hour or two later, I learned that the Dodgers had landed the biggest free-agent catch of the offseason. I was quite thrilled. I'm not one of those Dodger Twitter hand-ringers who is conflicted over this signing. For most of my baseball-rooting history, we knew next to nothing about baseball players' views or behavior outside of what happened on the field. Bauer's fondness for social media doesn't make it easy for things to remain that way. Twitter doesn't make it easy. But I miss that time before social media. When our team acquired someone talented, we rejoiced. Period. Therefore, send...