Night Owl Cards

Lee Richard is officially launching a new segment on this blog. What's that make, about 300 features I've got going at once now? I don't care. Onward. I don't know very much about Richard, and I'm not going to spend any time looking him up right now. In fact, I'd prefer if the only thing I know about him is what I knew about him when I pulled this card as a youngster. And that thing is that "Bee Bee" has great speed. That's really all that needs to be said, isn't it? We thought this was very humorous. All those years of stats, all those numbers, and all Topps could come up with is that "Bee Bee," whoever the hell that was, had great speed. Years later, I look at that same sentence and know that what Topps was doing falls under the heading of "damning with faint praise." Topps really, really tried to find something complimentary to say about Richard, but when the player has spent that much time in the minors and...

Feeling out of sorts? Uncertain? Unaccomplished? Wondering whether you should swing or take the pitch? Do you feel like you just can't get started? Don't know which way to turn? Afraid to make a move? Did you intend to write a Blog Bataround post by today's deadline, but haven't even written word one? Well, indecisive ones, I'm right there with ya today. I'm just not feeling it. But to cheer you up, I thought I'd show a couple other people's screw-ups. But just a couple, because like I said, I'm not feeling it. First, one of mine. This is what I call "When blog posts collide." This happens to me quite a bit. My scanner is not at eye-level. And I often forget and leave the last card I scan underneath the scanner cover. So, then when it's time to scan a new card, I just plop it on the old card without looking and I end up with the Matlack - Billingsley monster card here. Secondly, somebody else's screw-up. I offer two of my all-t...