Night Owl Cards

  Just a quick post tonight. There's not a lot of time and you've seen these cards way too much on this blog. Yeah, I'm talking about 1975 Topps again. You know I'll never stop right?   On the occasion of Canada Day earlier this month I ordered up some O-Pee-Chee cards. I try to do something like that every July 1. This time I finally grabbed a few '75 OPC Dodgers. I've been very delinquent with this particular year with OPC, not sure why. All of the above are big cards so I am happy with the progress even though there are still Garvey and Sutton to go.   I also did a little bit of work with my '75 buyback chase. Just two cards this time but both are notable.   This Al Downing is now among my worst-conditioned buybacks. This doesn't matter to me at all. As I've said many times, Topps already marred the card with the stamp. So that card was cheap, but this one wasn't: I think I spent more for this card than any other buyback, but the guy is going ...

I was feeling a little down after a post I read here . I haven't really noticed a decline in posting across the blogobingo. In fact, I still can't keep up with all the new card blogs. But the post did remind me that I have noticed a general decline in readers. Most concerning, for me, is the lack of /major decline in activity on some of the blogs that were most prominent during that fall of 2008 when I first discovered the wonderful concoction of blogs and cards. I miss those guys. I wish they would come back. The realistic side of me knows that life intrudes or interests change, and that there are plenty of other blogs out there that have filled in the gaps. But the nostalgic part of me, which is growing larger by the day, wants it to be 24 months ago when everything was new and exciting and damn interesting. So, I was wallowing in that pathetic, sickening puddle of self-pity this afternoon when I noticed a package jutting from the mailbox. After tending to my usual mun...

Easter greetings! In honor of the greatest comeback in history (rising from the dead kind of puts the 1978 Yankees in their place, doesn't it?), I've done a minimal amount of research on the Dodgers' greatest comeback players. All of these players won the annual Comeback Player of the Year Award, which began in 1965. So take a moment between the ham -- or if you come from an Italian family like me, some amazing pasta -- and the chocolate bunnies and read about a few players who experienced their own rebirths. Their own little Easter on the ballfield. Phil Regan, 1966 Comeback Player of the Year. Regan, after some pretty good years for the Tigers, had an awful 1965 season. He was 1-5 with a 5.02 ERA for Detroit and also spent a lot of time playing for the team's minor league affiliate in Syracuse. The Tigers got rid of Regan in a trade with the Dodgers for infielder Dick Tracewski. That turned out to be a mistake because Regan had one of the most dominant seasons for a ...