Night Owl Cards

  I received some cards in the mail today that will require their own individual posts. But before I do that, I must clear the way for them with some earlier acquisitions that my feeble brain is unable to figure out how to make them their own readable posts. So, massive regurgitation of not-so-recent arrivals it is!!! Let's start with the marvelous Roy Campanella Shakey's Pizza card above and some sends from Rod of Padrographs . Rod recently held a small team group break in order to downsize his collection and I signed up for the Dodgers. All of the above cards (one is not a baseball player, I am aware) are either cards I didn't have or can repurpose in some fashion.   I don't associate Ernie Lombardi with the Dodgers at all -- 100 percent Reds. But the Dodgers are listed on the back of the 1980 Cramer card, with the other teams he played for, and Lombardi did begin his career with Brooklyn in 1931. He's also listed with the Dodgers in the set on TCDB, I'm not s...

I received this card from steelehere of 1207 Consecutive Games prior to Christmas. It's an unfortunate photo of Lee Walls, who had a couple of respectable years in the '50s, but mostly played a utility role during his career. He wrapped things up with the Dodgers in the early 1960s, and played in Japan for a year. Walls seems like a pleasant enough fellow, but if it wasn't for the baseball uniform he is wearing, you would never know he was a ballplayer. Something to do with the glasses, the receding hairline, the serene look. I know players look different these days. They don't wear glasses. They have contacts or get Lasik surgery. If they're going bald, they shave off the rest of their hair and grow a goatee. And players are in such good shape now that even if they are smiling in their card photo, they don't exactly look nonthreatening. But even though players looked a bit different back then, I think there were even a few people in 1962 who didn't belie...