Night Owl Cards

  I received another card package of complete opposites from Sportscards From The Dollar Store a week or two ago.   Like usual, the cards contained players from sports at opposite ends of the spectrum in regard to weather. Though both sports are taking place right now, baseball is played in outdoor warmth and sunshine and hockey is played indoors to get away from whatever nastiness you walked/drove through to get to the game.  Often, Douglas sends me Bills cards, but I've got no room for those anymore for the most part, so this is much more manageable. The baseball cards were customarily fancy. I usually don't come across stuff like this.   From the top, starting with Tommy, a bright parallel from that Cooperstown Panini set that I laughed at back in the day, but when it doesn't cut off the tops of heads, it's all right.  The Michael Busch is a Chronicles card, I thought I'd be done with Panini baseball stuff by now, but at least I'm not buying any of it anymor...

I recently received some cards from two different blogging buds. The envelopes from each featured vastly different cards, but there was one thing in common with both of them. First the cards from Daniel of It's Like Having My Own Card Shop (come back to your blog, Daniel!)     Many of the cards he sent that I needed were shiny -- I mean super-shiny, like that Puig example.   OK, that one isn't shiny, just mini.   But these are shiny and they are also cards that are the theme of the post title. They will not stay flat. I could place them under a large box filled with my Dodgers dupes for six months and they still wouldn't be as flat as your average card. And you know what, it doesn't bother me much -- in this example. I  will put them in a binder and they won't warp the pages, so it's all cool. I will always give a pass to something in pretty colors. The other envelope was from J...