Night Owl Cards

This is me being picky, but if you've read this blog long enough you know that I tend to be picky. And yet you still read this thing ... I just finished cataloging the Series 1 and Series 2 base cards that I have from 2013 Topps. It is usually at this time that I find whatever weirdness I overlooked when I was originally pulling cards out of packs. Often, I'll come across something that boggles my mind. Like last year when I found a Wade Davis card in each series even though he didn't change teams, wasn't a star, or hadn't won any awards that would merit a second card. Just two Wade Davis cards for no apparent reason. And there's been previous examples of that as I mentioned on that post, and others mentioned in the comments. I didn't find anything like that this time, although it's still possible as I don't have all the cards in the set. What I did find was this Josh Johnson card in Series 2. His base card pops up in Series 2 even thou...

The Teal Phenomenon that swept the country during the early 1990s fascinated me. I've never seen one color emerge out of nowhere so quickly in the sporting world. It became the color of choice for expansion teams. The Marlins in baseball, the Jaguars and Panthers in football, the Sharks in hockey, and the Hornets in the NBA. The color signified excitement and daring. Come see the new team with wild colors! Those stodgy, old teams would never wear teal. Squares. People started displaying teal caps everywhere. Even I owned -- and wore -- a teal Marlins cap for a period (it was not pretty). The teal fad has pretty much faded away. Oh, there are teams that still feature the color. The Sharks and Jaguars still consider teal as one of their team colors. The Marlins prefer to call it "Marlin blue" now, whatever that is. The Panthers call their color "Panther blue." I've never seen a blue panther. But for my purposes here, I'm calling the color used wit...