Night Owl Cards

I was out of town for a few days last week on vacation. When I got back, I was pretty busy, but that's never stopped me from posting before. This time, it stopped me. I just didn't feel like tending to the blog, or the hobby really. There are trade packages collecting dust, cards people sent me collecting dust, binders collecting dust ... and some half-hearted posts to tie it all together. But don't worry. I'm not going to start drawing ponies. I just wanted to see what it was like to ignore collecting for a few days. It felt good. A relief. My brain kept trying to turn post ideas over and and over in its head until it realized it didn't have to do that. "Phew," it said. We've decided -- the brain and I -- that we're going to do it again. Soon. But I'll always be back. Even if it's just a trade post. (*Ahem*). These are cards from Spiegel at Nomo's Sushi Platter . I can always count on him for a hard-target search of the wa...

It's not hard to find a famous Jake these days. There's Jake Peavy , Jake Plummer , Jake Gyllenhaal , Jake Delhomme , Jake Locker. But for a long time, the only Jake I knew was on this show . Jake was a name for old people. Really old people. Fortunately, I always dug really old people. (And by "dig" I mean "respect." Don't dirty it up). History always has been an interest of mine, and although I'm too lazy to really get into the past like others have, I do enjoy a good research project. Jake Daubert is one of those old-time Dodgers that I wanted on a card. It seems that even though Topps and Upper Deck have been issuing new cards of old legends, they tend to recycle the same ones over and over. I would like to see some current cards of great Dodgers from the 1910s, '20s, and '30s, like Daubert and Dazzy Vance, Burleigh Grimes and Zach Wheat, Babe Herman and Hy Myers, Freddie Fitzsimmons and Van Lingle Mungo . Fortunately there is Flee...