Night Owl Cards

I enjoyed Cardboard History's recent look at the history of chronicling NBA expansion teams on cardboard. I'm not much of a pro basketball fan, but I knew this would be something I could translate to baseball. The way card companies, and Topps in particular, have documented Major League Baseball expansion is something I've always been aware of through the years and it would be interesting to see the progression all in one place. So I looked through my collection and then I filled in the blanks with scans from the internet and I'm now ready to show you how expansion teams were shown that first year of each franchise. Basically, card companies have used four different ways to feature those teams: 1. List the player with his new expansion team but hide the old uniform in the photo and show the player without a hat. 2. List the player with his new expansion team but airbrush the player's hat so the old logo or old team's colors aren't showing. 3. L...

 I've participated in various Secret Santa exchanges over the years on the blogs. For the most part, I can't complain. I've received plenty of great goodies from some of the most generous people in the hobby. I haven't participated the last two or three years, though, partly because it's gotten way too hectic at this time of the year to add one more thing, but mostly because I'm just much too blessed by the cards coming my way already. It makes me a little uncomfortable to add another reason to get cards. It's a few days before Christmas and already I know I won't have enough time to show off the cards people have sent me recently that have come with Seasons Greetings or just the intention to send out something during the gift-giving season. So far, I've received five different packages in the last few days, a few unannounced beforehand, and I have a suspicion this won't be the end of it. I'm going to show three here, ...