( Welcome to another day of getting nothing done, otherwise known as "postseason time." I had the day off yesterday and was within earshot of the TV for 11 hours. Today I work and I'll get next to nothing accomplished. Yay postseason! Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 84th in a series): Here is a rather amusing Steve Carlton card. But I'm not going to write about his out-of-date hairstyle, or his helmet askew, or his generally goofy appearance. Instead, I'm going to ask you to read a CNN article. It'll only take a minute. It's connected to collecting, I promise. And it's why I'm writing this post. So go. ... Howdy again. Wasn't that entertaining? The surprising thing to me about this article is not that CNN would go through the trouble of doing a story on supposedly "missing" baseball cards -- news organizations do stories all the time on situations that many think are inconsequential -- but that the angle of t...
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