Night Owl Cards

  I wrapped up my first completed set of 2025 on Saturday.   The final two cards for the 1970 Fleer World Series set, illustrated by Robert "Bob" Laughlin, arrived to finish off the 66-card set, which dedicates a card for every World Series from 1903-1969.   I have been collecting the 1970 and 1971 World Series sets equally over the years, but I really ramped up on the 1970 version the past year for a few reasons:   1. I was closer to finishing it than I am for 1971. 2. The 1970 version seems a little quirkier without the "official MLB logo" that appears on the '71 set. 3. Many of the '71 drawings appeared in the 1980 Fleer stickers World Series set, so 1970 drawings were less familiar to me and therefore more desirable.   These two WS series are easy to mix up for those not well-versed with them, which is why they are often called "blue backs" (1970) and "black backs" (1971) after the colors used on the back.   But I've written about...

Nearly six years ago, I showed off what qualified as my "card room." It was tucked inside a makeshift room between a bathroom and a linen closet. My guess is at some point, someone who lived in our house before us cut down on the size of the bathroom to make some sort of mini den. I'm sorry they did that because the bathroom doesn't have a window and ventilation is always an issue. But it did allow a place for me to store most of my collection. It wasn't big enough though. I had to distribute other binders and cards and hobby-related stuff in a couple of different areas, on a separate card desk and down in the basement. And I was desperate for more space as the last bit of area in the "card room" had been filled and I could stack no more. Still, what you see above is basically the way it's been all the way into 2019. Four rows of binders stacked on a desk six binders deep. More binders stacked on a small file cabinet. More rows of binders ...