Night Owl Cards

 (Today is not only Columbus Day/Indigenous People Day/Canadian Thanksgiving it is also Moldy Cheese Day. I do not know if that refers to specific kinds of cheese with intended mold (blue cheese) or cheese left too long in the fridge with unintended mold. But what I do know is it's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 326th in a series and there is no mold on this card): Welcome to another card I should have had by now. Yup, this famed 1989 Upper Deck Gary Pettis card is just arriving in my collection. I've known about this card for a long time. You longtime bloggers probably remember Dinged Corners. One of Patricia's favorite kinds of cards were "recursive cards," what, in a more general way, also could be called "meta cards," or cards of cards.   But the recursive aspect is the mind-blowing part, and for that you need to see the back of Pettis' 1989 UD card.   Upper Deck has made it appear as if Pettis is holding his own 1989 Upper Deck car...

I came across this card the other day while reorganizing some Score cards. See if you can tell me what's wrong with it. If you aren't hindered by Mariners-Brewers blindness like me, you probably spotted it right away. But if you are, then it's been 25 years and you're just discovering this now. It's actually a relief to me that there are other people who get the Mariners and Brewers mixed up. I thought it was only me, thanks to the similar color schemes for each team over the years, the fact that they both share Seattle histories, and that Brewers players always end up playing for the Mariners and vice versa. This card is an error card. But it's an uncorrected error card (UER in your handy, archaic price guide), so it's not worth more than a few pennies. I discovered this error just as the weekly #CardChat on Twitter was discussing error cards last week. If you're not familiar with CardChat, it's a fun little Q&A thrown out to collecto...