Night Owl Cards

Lee Richard is officially launching a new segment on this blog. What's that make, about 300 features I've got going at once now? I don't care. Onward. I don't know very much about Richard, and I'm not going to spend any time looking him up right now. In fact, I'd prefer if the only thing I know about him is what I knew about him when I pulled this card as a youngster. And that thing is that "Bee Bee" has great speed. That's really all that needs to be said, isn't it? We thought this was very humorous. All those years of stats, all those numbers, and all Topps could come up with is that "Bee Bee," whoever the hell that was, had great speed. Years later, I look at that same sentence and know that what Topps was doing falls under the heading of "damning with faint praise." Topps really, really tried to find something complimentary to say about Richard, but when the player has spent that much time in the minors and...

I received an email from David a week or so ago. He said he had some cards for me. I had traded with him before . He's a Dodger fan residing in New York, just like me. I figured he had some Dodgers to throw my way. And he did. But what he mostly sent were 1971 Topps from my want list. Wow. And they weren't any old '71 Topps . They were mostly high numbers. The difficult ones. Seriously, with the exception of one card, the lowest numbered card that I received was #537. The majority were cards in the high 600s and 700s. Wow, again. The crazy thing is that these 60 or so cards aren't the only '71s I've received recently. I just received some more today from another trade, including a card I thought it would take me awhile to land. AND some more '71s are on their way from another trade. I am now up to having 84 percent of the set. I never ever thought I'd get to this point on this set so quickly. I mean the set is almost 40 years old, and it's known fo...