Night Owl Cards

I traded top loaders for cards. It was that kind of year.   I didn't hesitate to do it either. It made perfect sense. There are a lot of things that we've done in 2020 that made perfect sense that would seem ridiculous in any other year. Need I bring up bird brains and toilet paper?   So, yes, I was happy to trade cards for top loaders.   I've rarely needed top loaders, team bags or penny sleeves. Thanks to all the trades I've made through the blog for a dozen years, I've always enjoyed a healthy stockpile of all of them. I am certain I will never want for penny sleeves for the rest of my life and that loved ones will be finding them five years after I'm gone.   I thought I was well off with top loaders, too. I don't store many cards in top loaders, save for autographs and relics. But then I decided to house my growing collection of Kellogg's cards in top loaders because that seems the best way to keep them. That sucked up my supply right quick.   And th...

All right, you guys know how to put me in my place. If you're not pointing out errors in my copy or lecturing me in the comments (let's hope that never happens again), you're topping me in Christmas spirit. I was pretty happy that I had knocked down the last of my Christmas gifts for loved ones almost a full two weeks before the big holiday. But in order to do that, I put any card packages on hold until after the 25th. I often do that because I simply don't have the time. But other people have figured out how to do it. Oh, have they ever. Because for like the third or fourth year in a row, my desk is buried in Christmas cheer card packages. There are so many that my usual painstaking ritual of securing a single post for each package isn't going to fly. At the rate the cards are coming in, I'll catch up by Opening Day. So I'm going to show a bunch of them (but not all) here now. Sorry to lump everyone together, but at the very least readers will get ...

A little while ago, I received a package from fellow supertrader Adam of Infield Fly Rule . It's so good to have a destination again for all my spare Rockies cards (and all Rockies cards are spares). In that package, I came across two different topics that I wanted to discuss. The first is how nostalgia can pop up in the strangest places and with the strangest cards. For me, the most nostalgic cards, by far, are cards from the 1970s. So many memories and pleasant card moments from that decade. Cards from other eras hold some nostalgia, too, but I would never expect junk wax cards to produce many fuzzy moments, particularly anything from the early '90s. Those were not great cards, nor great times. So how do I explain the rush of feelings I received when I saw these cards come out of the package?: 1990 Score? Why in the world would anyone get melty over that set? Well, every time I see a few 1990 cards grouped together I am immediately transported to a small colle...