Night Owl Cards

We are living in that no-man's land between last year's cards and the first Topps release of the 2017 season. There are two full weeks left in new cardboard purgatory. I'm eager to put 2016 and its cards behind, but when you can't get your hands on 2017 cards yet, there is nothing more new than cards from 2016. Plus I need to clear out some cards from the scanned folder. So here is one last look back on cards I scanned in 2016 but didn't feel like showing you when it would have been more appropriate. I believe this card came from Cards On Cards . It's a numbered item from 2016 Chrome. I think I didn't show this because I was so devastated by the fact that blue chrome cards used to be my all-time favorite "fancy" cards back when THERE WERE BORDERS. This card makes me sad. But it's too rare not to show, so here you go, after the fact. I pulled this card out of the only Bowman pack purchase I made last year. I admit I was st...

I've mentioned a number of times that I barely collected cards between 1995-2005. It's my dead period, my "stone age" of collecting. At most, I picked up 3-6 packs some of those years but they didn't stir the urge to collect again. I've never had a name for that period, but now I do. I call it The Rusty Greer Era. I recently finally finished organizing and recording all of the cards that Johnny's Trading Spot sent me a little while ago . One of the benefits of receiving random cards of little connection to your collection is you end up with your first card of players you should have owned cards of a long time ago. The card you see above is my first Rusty Greer card. Greer played 1,027 games and this is my first card of him. That is because Greer's career, from 1994-2002, landed smack in the middle of my dead collecting zone. For years I've been aware that I didn't own a card of Greer, just because I knew he was a fairly prominent...