Night Owl Cards

  The sooner you figure that out the easier life will get. I bet it takes people until their 30s to realize that, and many even later in life. I think I was in my 40s, and I still wonder if I know how to adjust. Because it's not just solely being aware that life is a series adjustments but to be at one with it, to be at peace with the new development and that there will always be new developments, and LFG.   For example, there's card show coming up in a couple of weeks. Not only that but -- new development -- there are two card shows in essentially the same area going on at the same time. I've had it marked on the calendar for months because shows don't come around all that often, my last one was five months ago. Why I plan stuff out anymore is beyond me, because I'm not even sure I'll go to the card show now because -- new development -- money is suddenly tight. With new developments and adjustments popping off all over the place, it's good to have backups....

It's winter time, the wind is blowing, and the snow is falling. So I thought I'd feature a card of a family that screams BASEBALL!!!!!! We all could use it. When you live in the Northeast you miss baseball-playing brothers like these. They're hard-core baseball and they're not going to live anywhere where snow gets in the way. That means I didn't get to see or know any of the Bragans, who are legends across the south. Before you get too excited (like I did), the signatures are facsimiles, except for the one between Bobby and Jimmy. That is Bobby Bragan's actual signature. He signed the card for Tom of The Angels, In Order , who sent it to me. Bobby, recently deceased almost a year ago to the day, is the most famous of the Bragans and one of those great Dodger mentors. A backup catcher for the Dodgers during the 1940s, Bragan used to "tag along" after owner Branch Rickey. When Rickey announced that Jackie Robinson was going to join the team, Bra...