Night Owl Cards

I've noticed over the years that some bloggers only post when they have something new to relate, either a new card acquisition, or something card-related that happened to them at the hobby shop, or some event in their life. Even though that's probably the better way to keep one sane, that's now how this blog operates. This ain't Facebook. I try to blog almost every day because I think of cards every day. Daily blogging takes thought, creativity, persistence, and I wish there could be new card events every day but there just isn't. So I try to find card-related things to offer to fill in the gaps between "look what I did!' Along those lines, I am very close to debuting the 100 Greatest Cards of the '70s countdown. I have just a handful of '70s cards left to review and then I will rank them (the ranking actually doesn't take long) You'll probably see the first post within the next two weeks. OK, now on to a few card events that have h...

After finding 2017 Allen and Ginter on the shelves of my local Walmart early this afternoon, I had intended to give the usual exhaustive blaster-breaking rundown. A&G is always interesting and I think this year it might be particularly so. But I can't give it the attention it deserves because I pulled the biggest card I am going to pull all year from one of the two blasters that I bought. My luck with A&G has been pretty surprising the last couple of years. I seem to be pulling hits quite easily and of decent players, too. (You old-timers remember my Jeff Clement Years). I don't know if that's sudden good fortune or Topps seeding its blasters more liberally than in previous years. But whatever the case, today was the first time that I had bought two blasters of anything at the same time and pulled hits from both of them. The first blaster yielded this hit: This is the second time this year I have pulled an Anthony Rizzo relic out of an Allen & Gi...

It's a couple days after a card show and that's when the card sorting really hits its peak. I usually wait to do any kind of sorting until after a show and then add the cards I bought at the show to the other cards that have been waiting months for filing (I still have cards from my last show in September that need to be filed). So this is not the time to go searching for trades. But I've got to do what I've got to do. I didn't get any cards in the mail last week. And there were none today. It doesn't matter because card show, but still it's time to snap out of that funk. I just wrapped up a deal with Scott Crawford today. And I'm finally getting down to getting some cards together for Cardboard Clubhouse, Not Another Baseball Card Blog, 2 x 3 Heroes and Nachos Grande. But what about the rest of you guys? Yeah, that's big talk from someone who takes two months to get a card package together. But I need to get some cards out of my house. Spe...

I'm sure this has happened to everyone. You leave your home. You reach your destination however many minutes later. And you realize that you have no memory of anything that happened on your travels in between. That's how occupied I was yesterday as I headed out to run a few errands. I had planned to find most of what I was looking for in Target so I could then use the Target baseball card coupons that I kept forgetting. I had also planned to stop at the ATM to break in a new debit card. But before I knew it, I was pulling into a parking spot at Walmart, of all places. "Oh, no, no, no, no, no," I said out loud in disgust as I realized where I was. I hadn't stopped at the ATM, I hadn't gone to Target where I had coupons. I was in the gross Walmart parking lot with absolutely no knowledge of how I got there. Also, I had forgotten my Target coupons. So, resigned to my fate, I opened the door and walked toward Walmart, past the broken down shopping carts...