Night Owl Cards

I'm in the middle of an extended vacation, which if I do say so myself, is well-deserved. One of the interesting occurrences of vacation is how you don't feel like blogging most of the time. While I'm working, all I can think of is "if I only had time to blog, I feel like everything is rushed." And then when I get the time, I'm too lazy. Got to always have that deadline, I guess. Anyway, because I'm not really feeling it right now, it's a good time clear out some cards that have been scanned but are really going nowhere. Yup, you feared correctly, it's an image dump! Come look at cards that are too good to toss but not good enough to turn into a clearly defined post. This is a card concept that I don't believe Topps has used in 25 years. Taking past cards of a significant player and republishing them as a kind of montage-series is pretty cool. You could even turn it into an insert series, if you must. Feel free to steal that idea, T...

In 1978, I began to realize what was truly possible in this hobby. This was still before price guides and rookie card mania and everything we experience today. So the best that we could do -- and it was really quite admirable regardless -- is complete an entire Topps set. I didn't know until 1978 that a complete set was available all in one shot, that you didn't have to go to the drug store every weekend of the spring and summer in a semi-futile effort to finish off the set pack by pack. But this is why reading was fundamental (and still is). Through our voracious reading habits, we discovered that you could order an entire 1978 Topps set through the mail. My brother took the leap because he was more carefree with his cash than I. When the set arrived, I could hardly believe that there was an entire set all in one spot in our home. It was like handling gold bricks. My life would never be the same. My brother completed the '78 set in 1978, but it took me 30 more years...