Night Owl Cards

  A couple days ago, Collecting Cutch informed me that it was National Sunglasses Day. I was out of town, so I didn't get the memo. I also didn't get the chance to post about sunglasses on baseball cards that day. So this is me being not-so-timely with a Blog Bat-Around type of post. I wanted to see how prevalent sunglass-wearers were on baseball cards today, by looking at the last 10 years of Dodgers cards in my collection. It turns out they aren't all that common. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because card companies want to make sure faces are shown? I just know that sunglasses show up a lot in baseball games I watch, especially in the outfield. I know that I use sunglasses just about every day during the summer (sometimes in the winter, too) and it's got to be standard equipment for people working outside, looking up into the sky. So, anyway, here are the five most recent Dodger cards I found with sunglasses worn. Justin Turner, 2021 Topps Mookie Betts, box-t...

    It's my turn to hop aboard the pink bandwagon.   As you may know, Collecting Cutch has been keeping the focus on Breast Cancer Awareness month by posting every day and tying Andrew McCutchen cards to various entertainment hotties with ... uh ... notable dimensions.   Most of the pink cards that he's shown are impressive. They're also mostly recent cards from the span of McCutchen's career. But pink cards have been around a lot longer than that, and back in the day they weren't nearly as exclusive.   I'm quite familiar with pink cards because the Dodgers were often presented with the color pink on Topps cards. I don't know why Topps attached that color to my team but it was pretty obvious.   But let's go back farther, into the '50s.    Topps' most prominent use of pink came in 1959. The Dodgers weren't the only team to feature pink cards in that set, Topps didn't discriminate with colors in '59. These pink cards, though, are very ...

During the recent Winter Meetings, the Dodgers were mentioned as being interested in the Pirates' Andrew McCutchen. I don't know how realistic that still is with the current crowd in the Dodgers' outfield, but I'd love to squeeze McCutchen in there. If L.A. could add Curtis Granderson and his termite-infested bat last year, they can find room for McCutchen. It would be a sweet post-Christmas gift. As for pre-Christmas gifts, McCutchen is already taking care of that for me. He's my Secret Santa! Ho! Ho! Ho! McCutchen, using the operator of the blog Collecting Cutch as his Christmas elf, sent me a glorious stash of Dodgers that happened to arrive at my door today, two days before the big day! That's cuttin' it clos ... er, right on time, mister! Besides Bowman Santa McCutchen above, let's see what else was in Cutch's big red sack: Here is McCutchen again, appearing all ghostly. That's because he's the Ghost of Christmas Prese...

By my count, this is the third Blog Bat Around of the year, or at least the third one in which I've participated. The Blog Bat Around is undergoing a revival! It's been at least six or seven years since I was churning out BBA's at this rate. This version of the Blog Bat Around is a fun, frivolous one. Not a lot of thought involved, just a bit of research and filching some images. Collecting Cutch wondered whether we could attach our favorite player to actor Kevin Bacon, using the always popular six degrees of separation parlor game. Would our favorite players have a connection to Bacon like every actor in the world? Well, I was pretty confident with my favorite player. Ron Cey played in Los Angeles for a dozen seasons. He was a popular player, and in L.A., any popular player finds his way into Hollywood in some way or another. Cey made an uncredited appearance as a "member of the house band" in "Murder She Wrote" in 1987, after his Dodge...