Night Owl Cards

I said I'd be supplying updates on my progress working toward a "100 Greatest Cards of the 1980s" countdown, so this is one of those. I've reached 1985 in my search for the greatest cards. That's about halfway, although really it's not, since the latter half of the decade is when the amount of cards exploded and why this countdown will be so much more difficult than the 1970s Greatest Cards one that I did a couple of years ago. I dutifully marked down the cards that were candidates for the countdown, but as usual, I came across other things that I found notable. Specifically donuts. What the heck happened to baseball donuts? Now before you accuse this of being another "everything was better before" post, please know that I don't really care whether baseball donuts exist or not. With the exception of night cards, I don't have idiosyncratic collections like "baseball donuts on cards." So it doesn't matter to me muc...

I try to be an equal-opportunity commenter. That means, if I see something interesting on a card blog, any card blog, I try to comment. Having time to read blogs often enters the equation, but mostly, when I have the time to read blogs, if I see something I find interesting, and my comment is more than "That's cool!", I will comment. It's only natural to gravitate to certain blogs that hold your interest but, again, I try not to reserve my comments for certain blogs. I've seen others do that, and it strikes me as clique-ish. I try to avoid that. I believe in commenting. I believe in being a good neighbor. A good blog neighbor comments. It's just the nice thing to do. It doesn't take long and nobody can claim that all they have time to do is write a post and that's it. Bloggers like to feel like what they write is being read. And the only real way they have to gauge that is through comments. So I try to be a good neighbor. It can pay off so...