Night Owl Cards

  It's Easter weekend and one of my favorite parts of the holiday -- now that I'm required to limit my chocolate intake and nobody is buying me baseball card packs to put in my basket -- is all of the color.   I live where it's cold and gray just about six months out of the year and everyone's idea of fashion is to dress like a vampire. So I'm pretty desperate for something colorful by the time April hits. I also grew up in the '70s and '80s when people were not ashamed of color. For example, cards were always colorful, not something reserved for a parallel.   One of the best examples of that is my beloved 1975 Topps set. And one of the best spin-offs of that set is my beloved 1980 Baseball Immortals set.   I opined about the Baseball Immortals set a little over a year ago when I acquired cards 1-189 from it all in one shot. What a great day that was.   But I was still missing 10 cards from the set. Those were the ones added as other players were inducted i...

Easter greetings, readers. I have saved this mini card from last year's Allen & Ginter set for this very moment. See what you wouldn't be able to do if A&G ceased to exist? But, now that my greeting is over, and you're off to gorge yourself on pig flesh, this card's usefulness is done. And that means it is immediately up for trade. As are almost all of my 2010 A&G minis. Here is why: I have had pretty good success acquiring the Dodger minis for all of the A&G sets so far. But, for some frustrating reason, people have not been willing to part with their 2010 A&G Dodger minis. Out of the Dodger minis made in 2010, I have three: Rafael Furcal, Russell Martin and Jonathan Broxton. Here is what I need: #46 - Chad Billingsley #62 - Matt Kemp #65 - Andre Ethier #79 - James Loney #220 - Manny Ramirez #275 - Clayton Kershaw #336 - Hiroki Kuroda That is pathetic. It has bothered me for months. I don't understand how I haven't c...