Night Owl Cards

Thank you for all the kind comments and well-wishes and prayers on the last post. Even though this blog is as much me working out personal stuff as it is discussing baseball cards, I often hesitate before placing full-fledged personal issues here. I decided to go ahead this time just because you never know who can be helped. I'm glad I did. I probably won't need to take any of you up on your offers of assistance (well, except for you, Angus, I'm going to that card show next month no matter what!), but it means a lot that people care. Meanwhile, I've got cards to tend to among everything else going on, so I'm going to do that now. It's a couple of days before the start of spring and I love spring training. I love a lazy day of watching a lazy broadcast of teams lazily playing a spring training game on my TV. The only problem is, I almost never watch spring training games on TV. I'd love to -- so much. But they always occur during the busiest time o...

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...