Night Owl Cards

I have been visiting my mom in the hospital for almost a week. Jackie Robinson's famous quote about "a life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives," celebrated today on Jackie Robinson Day, rings particularly true when you're thinking constantly about your mother who has an incurable disease. She definitely had an impact on my life and many others. What mother doesn't? So in honor of my mom and the day, I dug up 10 cards of Jackie Robinson in my collection that I have featured on the blog, that recognized Robinson's impactful feat of breaking the color barrier in 1947. Here they are: Jackie Robinson left us too soon. My mom will leave too soon. I guess the most impactful ones always do.

(Greetings all. I am currently on vacation. Expect sporadic programming over the next several days. It doesn't seem fair that more free time should mean less cards, but the rest of the world has yet to get on my schedule. One day everyone will come around. It's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 254th in a series): Happy Jackie Robinson Day. This is one of my favorite Jackie Robinson cards. If you're saying, "hey, that's not Jackie Robinson," then you need to look at backgrounds a little more closely. To me, this card is definitely all about Robinson. It says that Robinson is looking over, holding up, the inspiration for, the reason for, the career of any minority pro baseball player, whether they're from this country or not. Luis Vasquez, from that Dominican city that produced so many major leaguers, San Pedro de Macoris, never reached the majors. During a nine-year career, he made it as high as Triple A, both for the Dodgers in Alb...

Those are 42 cards that could not have been made 70 years ago. And more than 40 players who could not have appeared on a major league baseball card 70 years ago. They all have one other thing in common. Each card is wearing the No. 42 on the back. Thanks again, Jackie.