Night Owl Cards

Have you ever wished that you could budget the events that happen in certain months like you do an insurance or electric bill? I certainly do. The first two months I would attack would be March and October. Why must those two months continually hurl time-consuming, energy-sapping activities/tasks at you so that you have no idea what date it is, what day, sometimes even what hour? High school playoff games, on top of the baseball postseason, on top of the NFL, on top of work upheaval and restructuring, on top of seasonal change activities, on top of emergency home repairs. Spread it out a little! Usually my down time includes hobby activity or low-key game viewing or random household activities. But in October, if you have a team in the postseason, virtually all of one's downtime is spent pacing in front of the TV. The last two innings of last night's Dodgers-Nationals NLDS-deciding game, I barely sat down. You know that feeling you get when you're in that room wa...

I'm positive that Dodgers collectors have come across this before and maybe someone even wrote about this a long time ago, but I have always wondered something about the 1988 World Series champion team. There were 10 players on that team with a last name that started with an H. Was that a record for a World Series team, in terms of the most players with a last name starting with the same letter? Now, if I was researching this for the newspaper or, say, actually getting paid to write what I write here, I would spend some time looking it up. But you're already getting this writing gold for free, so someone else can do the heavy lifting. I'll satisfy my curiosity some day when I have the time. So who were those 10 players on the Dodgers that year? There was Orel Hershiser (1) , of course, the hero of the 1988 season. When Hershiser first came up, he was known as that guy with the wacky name. 1988 erased that bit of silliness. The sem -regular third baseman for the Dodgers t...