Night Owl Cards

I've made some sort of attempt to collect a current set ever since I returned to modern cards in 2006. Even during years when I didn't like the flagship Topps brand, I either focused on another current set or made a half-hearted attempt to collect flagship. But I feel myself doing none of that in 2016. Sets that I have collected enthusiastically in the recent past -- Allen & Ginter and Stadium Club -- will get no more than token treatment. Heritage, the only set with promise, sabotages itself with shortprints every year. (I will still buy periodic packs because pack opening is the essence of the hobby). As I take greater control of what I want to collect, I've already sensed that I am placing greater attention on vintage and the quirky corners of this hobby. And that's coming out in what I buy and apparently in what I write about -- because others seem to be noticing it, too. In the last week or two I've been hit with card packages with the overriding t...

When I coerced UltraPro into making pages to house 1975 Topps-style minis and then somehow got them to send me a box of the new pages , I knew it wouldn't be long before the guilt would set in. My primary goal in getting these pages made was so I could store my 1975 Topps mini collection, which is now three cards away from completion. That collection is now stored in those free pages and ... I have a few leftover. What do I do with the leftovers? And -- here is where the guilt comes in -- will I ever need more of these mini style pages? I eased my guilty thoughts by quickly storing some 1970s Kellogg's 3-D cards in the remaining mini pages, knowing that I would likely be pursuing more Kellogg's cards in the near future. But at the achingly slow rate that I am adding cards to my collection, when would I ever need to buy more mini pages for the cause? Enter Tony of Off Hiatus Baseball Cards , who reminded me that '75-style minis are here to stay in many diff...