Night Owl Cards

This is that weird week where school and some government people are off but I'm not -- which gets even more awkward when members of the same household are off but I am not.   In other words, my time is not my own this week. Let's see if I can pound out a post before I'm swept off somewhere.   I finally completed the 2021 Update Dodgers team set the other day. The Corey Knebel card did not arrive when I ordered the team set online (a Royals card arrived in its place). When I alerted the seller, he said he'd get Knebel right out. He never did. Or the postal system ate it.   I put the card on my Nebulous 9 and reader Rich came to the rescue. What a relief. Very frustrating to have dupes of a parallel of this card but not the actual base card. More from Rich in a later post. Good stuff, too.     This card also completed a team set. I discovered that the Don Drysdale card was missing from what I thought was a completed team for the 1978 TCMA set, the 1960s. That had ...

  I took the blogging day off yesterday to get some card room organizing done. I finally found a second giant box to store my Dodger dupes instead of the dozen smaller boxes that have been stacked on top of each other and confusing me about what exactly was in each one. Now I have one giant Dodger dupes box that goes from the 1970s to 1999 and a second that runs from 2000 to now. Very convenient how that fell, broken down by century. I also bought a couple of binders to begin replacing the many dilapidated binders in my Dodgers collection. There's only so much you can do with duck tape. And I rooted around a little for the latest installment of Dodgers giveaway packages. Next group of four heads out this week. More to come. Also yesterday three card packages arrived for me -- none that I ordered. This is a rarity as we're long past the days of bloggers everywhere shipping cards hither and yon. The box from Johnny's Trading Spot rivaled some of those packages I received back...

  Hey, I know things are pretty grim out there. Heck, I'm not looking forward to anything coming up this week -- doctor's appointment, booster shot, big snowstorm -- it's another week of wishing my life away. But as of right now? This minute? In the hobby? Things are looking up.   Topps cards, pretty much as we know them, will continue to exist according to the news that broke last night (It's amusing how quickly news move these days: something breaks before it is announced and still before it's announced people start complaining about how they're sick of hearing about it). I'm sure everyone saw that news coming, but still it's reassuring to get confirmation that we're probably going to see Topps flagship, Heritage and many of the other familiar brands continue without interruption over the next few years. But in news closer to home: I found cards on my store shelf yesterday!   For a couple of months I've been hearing that cards have been return...

  I have my 2021 Topps Update Dodgers to show, long after people have moved on to Archives or whatever else is being released now (I just know it's not Big League, which apparently will be released in 2028? Push it back a few more times). That's OK, I'm done with the "stay up on the new releases" rat race, let alone buying new boxes. If I'm buying current stuff, it's probably just Dodgers and here's another example. These are all from BigShep's Cards . Tim has recently gotten into selling cards full-time and good for him. I know him from his work on the About The Cards podcast and I've traded with him a time or two. It's nice to get your cards from someone you know and trust. He even threw in the two National Baseball Card Day cards above as extras! Cool. Like many have said already, the Update set has some issues this year (but not as many as last year) because of the cut-off date for printing, which was in early June. That makes the ...