Night Owl Cards

(I took a couple of days off from the blog, The first day was because of work and the second was an extra bit of time to get past the negative vibes of last week, as well as to celebrate my daughter's birthday. I was going to make it three days off, but I received a nice phone call yesterday that got me back in the collecting spirit. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 350th in a series!):   I learned a couple of days ago that former Braves first baseman Jim Breazeale passed away earlier this month. He was 75 and had been dealing with heart issues for a few years.   There wasn't much social media notice about his death. I even checked over on the former Twitter, because there's still more people over there for some weird reason, but even then there wasn't much (and half of the mentions were bots/AI repeating the same sentence and link 🙄).   That's probably because Breazeale was a backup first baseman for a couple of years in the early '70s with the Bra...

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm never going to redeem a card from the Topps Golden Giveaway site. If I'm going to get one of those fancy things, I'll have to order it up on some other site. I haven't invested a lot of effort for me to realize this. About a dozen codes, that's all. And a bunch of stupid coins in return. In fact, I had forgotten all about the site until one of those redemption cards fell out of a Series 2 pack. That would make two Topps Giveaway sites in a row that had slipped my memory. Remember the Diamond Giveaway? Is that thing still going? Well, a post at Play At The Plate reminded me that, yes, that thing is still going (don't ask me if all its parts are working). And that reminded me that, golly, I still have cards waiting for me on that thing. And, gee golly, I still have cards that I WANT waiting for me on that thing. I decided to order a few of them. Why not? Bring a couple home. Where they'll be safe. Lord kno...