Night Owl Cards

(Happy National Left-Handers Day from the resident lefty owl! I've often dedicated this day to a blog about baseball lefties and baseball lefty topics. But every time I do, I get the feeling I bore all the righties who are used to everything going their way. So just a simple wish this time: Give a lefty a hug! Or a distant wave. Whatever . It's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 295th in a series): As I get closer to completing all the Dodgers team sets from the main issues of the 1960s, with only a few pricey or elusive left on the list, I'm thinking more and more about the 1950s and the Dodgers I need to round up there. I'm feeling a bit intimidated. Unlike gathering Dodgers from sets from the 1970s forward -- even the '60s haven't been all that brutal -- the '50s are filled with known difficult acquisitions wearing Dodger blue. You know that high-number series in 1952 Topps where the cards are almost impossible to get? There 16 Dodgers ...

Wilton Guerrero is expressing the way I feel today. I'm really beginning to question whether I have the time to write a once-a-day blog anymore. June used to be a carefree month. Outside of July, the absolute best. But now, it's overloaded with projects and obligations and work on my days off. I have a notebook of blog ideas, and it taunts me even more than ever. There is no way I can formulate one of those ideas into a post. There is one thing that makes me continue to keep up the facade. People are still sending me cards. As long as they send them, I'll keep posting them. Whether it's in a format that's readable, well, I make no guarantees anymore. So, here are some cards from Max of Starting Nine . I think they're pretty cool. Maybe you will, too Max sent several of these '96 Pinnacle Aficianado Dodgers cards. I've called this set one of the most grotesque of all-time. Fortunately, I need to show only one of them here as I had all th...

Well, I shipped off an email to Bob Lemke about the Koufax postcard. I am hoping he'll be able to pinpoint its origins, although I'm sure he gets requests like this constantly. Meanwhile, I received another package recently that caused me to run toward my Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards (yes, run , I like to keep in shape). The cards came from Matthew Glidden at Number 5 Type Collection . He was holding an Easter Card Hunt Giveaway, based on the numbers on the back of the cards (too cool), and I was a winnah! Weeeeeee! One of the cards I received was the item you see before you. You may think it's merely a picture from a really old newspaper glued to some ancient piece of cardboard, and you wouldn't be far from the truth. But it's more than that. The card is a 1948 R346 Blue Tint of former Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Bruce Edwards, the guy who was kind of forced to the background (and to the outfield) by Roy Campanella. The SCBC says that the R346 cards wer...