Night Owl Cards

(Stage 2 of the creation of my card room has begun. A second set of shelves has been purchased and erected for my Dodgers binders. With that, there will be some reorganizing of stuff on the wall and possibly moving the card desk around. Then I'll get the remaining binders off the floor and onto shelves and then it's on to Stage 3 -- wall stuff! But now it's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 284th in a series): First reaction: he pitched in that? More on that in a minute. But I wanted to mention that I've noticed a handful of new legends in Topps products this year. Most of this is merely the return of retired players who already appeared regularly on Topps cards a decade ago. Mathewson and Pee Wee Reese (still need that wonderful Stadium Club card of Reese) were regulars in Topps products in 2010 and 2011. 2019 has also marked the return of cards for Rogers Hornsby and Mel Ott, who were each regulars back in 2011. The only legends newbies that I ca...

A few years ago, I introduced you to the concept of " the blob ," which is merely the player to make the last out in a ballgame. By extension, "the ultimate blob" is the player to make the final out in the World Series. I hope to keep that particular list going for as long as this blog exists. But the other day, while working on a post on another blog, I began to think about "the anti-blob". The "anti" to the blob, of course, would be someone who ended a game with a hit. The always celebrated "walk-off". And the ultimate anti-blob would be someone who did that in the World Series. Bill Mazeroski, Joe Carter, Edgar Renteria, etc. But actually, strictly speaking, the "anti-blob" would not merely be the "walk-off" variety of hit. It would be anyone who got the last hit in a game. And the ultimate anti-blob would be anyone who got the last hit in a World Series. It doesn't matter whether it ended a game. Ju...