Night Owl Cards

Even though I showed quite a bit of the photos that Alan sent in the giant diaper box, I felt like I didn't give the package justice just because so much was left out. Since the arrival of the package, I've found out that this indeed was Alan's collection of Dodger photographs and my hat's off to him for his detailed accumulation as well as bestowing me with these. As for some of the items that I left out, let's start with this: This, I believe, is a program for the Montreal Royals, the long-ago farm team for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Marvin Rackley played for the Royals and I believe this program dates from 1946. That would be the year that Jackie Robinson played for the Royals, too, and Robinson and Rackley were teammates. They were also teammates with the Dodgers and each made their major league debut on April 15, 1947 according to a few accounts. That is far too cool and needs to be appreciated more than when I showed it on Twitter. Come on, man, th...

I've mentioned a few times that as an East Coast Dodgers fan as a kid, I resorted to the U.S. mail for my Dodgers memorabilia. I would order the Dodger yearbook each year during the late 1970s and early 1980s and consume every page of my distant Boys in Blue from the comfort of my bedroom. In the back of the yearbook, usually the last or second-to-last page, the Dodgers listed "souvenirs" that were available for purchase through mail. Here is what that list looked like, with one particular item I underlined in red: My funds were limited and my interests narrow back in those days (kind of like they are now). So there were just a couple of items that caught my attention. The Dodger autographed photo set for a buck seemed like my kind of deal (the packet that I scanned at the top is from several years earlier when the cost was just 50 cents). I'm sure I didn't know or care what "autographed" meant at the time and it's a good thing, since non...