Night Owl Cards

  This post is going to meander a bit, but it's been a long time since a comment on my blog affected me like this.   I can't remember the last time someone had a meltdown in the comments about something I wrote -- maybe that MLB scout that one time when I dared to say I didn't want cards of scouts? -- but it doesn't happen very often.   In a single comment I was called "old," a "whiner" (twice!), a "complainer" and "childish." I don't know why someone can't just simply stop reading. It's the first time that someone actually announced that they were going to stop reading my blog.   I've gotten the "you complain too much" complaint before (it's interesting when people complain about complainers, which is what I'm doing here, too). I usually dismiss it. More often, when I go off on a rant, I then receive comments about how amused they are about it, and that it's when I'm at my best, and that ...

  I will have my annual postseason post coming up in a day or two -- I think -- but before that I wanted to show some other postseason cards I've gained lately. I know the early '70s Fleer Laughlin cards aren't everyone's bag, but that's good because it'll keep the greedy suckers who are gobbling up every card they think is valuable away from stuff I love. These cards give me the warm fuzzies, remembering those days in the '70s when Laughlin's art was all the rage (well, it was everywhere anyway) at the same time I was first getting to know the history of the game. I received these four cards, they're from the 1970 Fleer World Series set, in a Twitter sale thread. These are from Allen .   Sale threads are all over Twitter these days, it's about 50 percent of what I see, it seems like. It's pretty annoying but at least I found something I like and could afford. As usual, the quirkiness of these cards, from the topics selected, to the illustrat...