Night Owl Cards

   Someone on social media posed the question the other day regarding Rickey Henderson's domination of the American League stolen base title during the 1980s.   Henderson led the AL in stolen bases every year from 1980 through 1991 except for one.   The question: who led the league in stolen bases the year Henderson did not?   I had no idea.   I was on top of that stuff during the latter half of the 1970s and early 1980s. That's because baseball cards were there for me, specifically league-leader cards. I've mentioned many times how I relied on baseball cards to tell me important facts from the previous year -- league leaders, postseason results, records broken, etc. I went to cards before the newspaper or TV.   That's how those facts entered my head and stayed there. If someone asked me who led the American League and National League in batting average in 1977, all I needed to do was picture the '78 League Leader card with Dave Parker and Rod Carew on...

This is post number 2,000. Good gosh, how many words is that? Thanks for reading, enjoying and commenting. You'll be happy to know there is a contest attached to this. But I'm not sure if you'll want to enter it. Part of what I did on my vacation last week was to organize some cards. I am continuing to inventory my cards, and as I plod along on a task that's taken me years, it's pretty clear that I have far more cards than I thought I did. This was also evident as I also organized two large boxes of duplicates. In fact, that part of the organizing distressed me so much that I actually threw out a bunch of cards. This is something that I'd never do before, but I think it was necessary. I have no more room for any "extra" cards. The barn is full. And as I stared at those duplicates, stacks and stacks of 1990 Topps and 1989 Fleer, I knew that I could never get rid of them. I've tried it all, trades, charity, garage sales, and there are ju...