Night Owl Cards

  As of Monday I had the complete set of 2021 Topps Series 1 Dodgers in my possession, inserts and parallels excluded of course.   Thanks to buying into a Nachos Grande break, I received most of the Dodgers from the set. Then the other two -- Cody Bellinger and Gavin Lux -- came to me from reader Kyle.   I've babbled enough about the design issues in previous posts, and I'm as sick of looking at them (and trying to read them) as you are. But I'll go through the cards very quickly just to have them all in one place.   First the World Series cards, which has been a staple for Topps for the last dozen years, one card for each World Series win by the winning team.   Even with those four extra cards, there is still a whopping 16 more Dodger cards in the Series 1 base set. Here they are:   I'm not sure if I have a favorite card out of that crew. I'm probably going to have to give it time and see what ends up in Series 2. Among the notable items are the "Hands Up...

I'm taking another break from the 10th Anniversary Giveaway. In terms of picks, it's Henry Blanchette's turn to select (followed by gcrl). He may pick by commenting on my last post, but I won't set another selecting deadline until tomorrow's contest post. OK, as you know, baseball season is over and it was another garbage finish from my perspective. No offense to the Red Sox, who I am well-aware are not the Yankees, but really, I'm in no mood to discuss the close of the season. This is my mini-mourning period (though not as severe as last year). So the next Match the Song title post is appropriate. This famous album was created as the band mourned the death of their great singer Bon Scott. The first time I heard AC/DC on the radio was probably when many people did, when the band released "You Shook Me All Night Long" off their "Back in Black" album in the late summer of 1980. Produced by Mutt Lange, "Back in Black" was a bi...