Night Owl Cards

I recently received almost 500 cards of 1988 Score from Scott of Hand Collated . That's right, 500. And very few of them were doubles. Why did he send me so many cards from this set? Because that Scott, I tell you, he's got a mean streak, you've got to watch out for him, he ... oh, all right, I admit it. I asked for them. Moment of weakness. You're all familiar with '88 Score, right? Score's debut set? All the pretty colors? It's the reason why I like the set so much. And when you get a box of nearly 500 of them, all lined up by color -- purple, followed by blue, followed by red, etc. -- you can't help but be inspired. So, here is what I was going to do: I was going to present cards of each color and connect them to a song with that color in the title. I'd post the lyrics, and every time the color was mentioned in the song, I'd throw up another card. Kind of like what I did here . But I thought better of it. First of all, I've done it before...

I've been the recipient of several "out of the blue" card packages lately. It's quite an honor when someone pulls a card and automatically thinks, "the dude over at Night Owl Cards would like this card." That is apparently what happened when Paul of Paul's Random Stuff pulled this black-bordered O-Pee-Chee card of Clayton Kershaw. It arrived in a happy little envelope today. "I thought you might not have this one," the note said. Paul, you thought correctly. Another Kershaw for the collection. This card is awfully similar to one of the Timeline Kershaw cards from last year, and possibly one of the Documentary cards. There is a fine post on Wrigley Wax about this. It's a good reason to stick with collecting just one set per card company, especially when it comes to Upper Deck. Because the company obviously doesn't have enough photos to go around. (But I've also addressed the repetition with Topps and Bowman, too). Speaking of Topps...