Night Owl Cards

I've written way too often about Jamie Moyer on this blog, but I can't help it. When you're in your mid-40s, you find a guy like this fascinating. If I was operating this blog at age 25, I'd probably say, "Hey, cool, the old man won a game," and that'd be it. But he means a lot more to me than that. As I mentioned before , Moyer has been the gauge by which I judge whether I'm still young or not. The gauge used to be whether there were any current players in the major leagues who had been playing before I started paying attention to baseball. That ship sailed when Dennis Eckersley retired. Now, it's "are there any major leaguers older than I am?" For years, Moyer was my fountain of youth. Playing baseball kept him young, I would imagine, but it kept me young, too. But then he suffered an injury and it looked doubtful whether a guy in his late 40s would be able to come back from it. For an entire year, I was older than every majo...

(Is there anything better than knowing a vacation is on the horizon? Not at my age there isn't. And so, we've stumbled upon the theme of this week's Cardboard Apprecation. This is the 90th in a series. I think): It is Jamie Moyer's 48th birthday. At least it is for another 43 minutes as I write this. I know. How timely. But it would have been more fitting if I had forgotten his birthday entirely and wrote a belated birthday post instead. And here's why: I had a hell of a time finding this card. I had just gotten off of work, and after a delicious late-night dinner of Salami Sandwich and Applesauce (don't all get envious at once), I went to my "temporary baseball card station" to retrieve this Moyer card to scan. My "temporary baseball card station," heretofore known as TBCS, is situated in the living room. It's a haphazard stacking of soon-to-be-trade posts and soon-to-be-trade packages, which take up a tiny enough space on a ...

I know everyone has seen Topps Series 2 by now. But have you seen it out of one of those cereal boxes? I haven't. On the blogs anyway. I found these standing up like toy soldiers at Target today. I naturally picked the Jackie Robinson box. I have no idea who is on the other boxes, because all I saw was Jackie and my mind was made up. Everything about the cereal boxes is the same as Series I. A total of 55 cards, plus one legends chrome refractor . One Turkey Red, one Legends of the Game, one Toppstown . All for $9.99. Off we go: 1. #573- Adam Wainwright, Cardinals 2. #490 - Joba Chamberlain, Yankees 3. #439 - Ryan Spilborghs , Rockies. (Do you think the dude on the cell phone is telling the person on the other end, "Hey, check me out in Series 2?") 4. #397 - Carlos Ruiz, Phillies 5. #353 - Derek Jeter , Yankees (You've all seen it. The guy doesn't need any more face time). 6. #527 - Jason Isringhausen , Cardinals 7. #629 - Lyle Overbay , Blue Jays 8. #...