Night Owl Cards

I have a lot of Dodgers cards. Many of them I don't need. They're extras. They just sit there and sit there, waiting and waiting. I suppose I could do a frankenset with the dupes or some other such thing, but that would mean finding another binder and devoting time to duplicates. That doesn't sound like fun. I have so many of these extras that I'd love to distribute them. Sometimes I offer up an invitation to Dodger collectors reading the blog that I'll be glad to send out some Dodger cards to them. I just did that in yesterday's post, in fact, about my OPC Dodger doubles. No Dodger collector responded. That happens a lot. I don't really know why. I know that the number of Dodger collectors on the blogs has decreased over the years. Some have stopped blogging. Some are still blogging but have stopped reading -- or at least commenting. The other Dodger collectors, well, I don't know what your excuse is. Explain yourselves! I know who the usu...

If blogging was around when I was a teenager, I don't think I could have done it. As I've mentioned before, when I was a kid -- before the teenage years hit -- I'd set out to write my own fictional novel. One time, I got up to about 70 or 80 loose leaf pages full of pencil-scrawled writing before I gave up. Then the teenaged years hit and writing became work -- essays and outlines and literary analysis. Who wanted to write during their free time? Plus there is having the guts to put myself out in the public like one must do when blogging. I couldn't have handled that as a teenager. I had a difficult enough time raising my hand in class. But I've come across several teens and pre-college card bloggers over the years. Sometimes I don't even know they're that young. Sure, I know they're younger than me because of some of their references, but often times I'm surprised when I find it's an 18- or 19-year-old who wants to be involved this hobb...