Night Owl Cards

Until a couple of weeks ago, this green-tinted parallel of Dodgers prospect Zach Lee was the only card I had from the debut set of Topps Heritage Minors in 2011. Although I enjoy minor league sets, it's more for their kitsch value. The old cards, the wacky poses, the ball girls and trainers, spotting some well-known major leaguer just starting out in the bowels of professional baseball. But Heritage Minors I'll probably never understand and definitely never purchase. The cards come at a bit of a premium because they're on Heritage card stock, yet they're still a bunch of nobodies. They don't deserve that fancy stock. That's for major league players. Along with that, I'm being asked to spend my hard-earned money on a bunch of guys who will probably never amount to anything on an MLB level. Yeah, I know, prospecting is about finding that needle in a haystack, but I'm much too poor for that nonsense. So, all I've got then are guys who played ba...

OK, Year 4 has begun and I'm just as tired as I was when I finished out Year 3. So let's ease into the new year with something nice and simple. Something easy. Something like ... ... oh, I don't know ... ... maybe ... .... A TRADE POST?!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, stop groaning. You know as well as I that without trade posts, half of the baseball card blogs wouldn't even exist. They are not only necessary, but they are many bloggers' reason for being. And I'm not going to question anyone's reason for being. Unless you're Nick Swisher. And if he would just stop using the word "man" three times in every sentence, I'd let things go. Anyway, I've got just three little trades here. All were just a handful of cards each. Very non-taxing. Very stress-free. Shipping charges were manageable. And I didn't break my back pulling the cards in from the porch. TRADE 1 The Lost Collector is up first. I wonder if he's still lost? He...