Night Owl Cards

Ever since Mike Trout has come into the majors, I've had no problem pulling his cards. I've tried to complete only one Topps flagship set since Trout's 2011 arrival -- the 2015 set -- yet even while just sampling flagship every other year, I've pulled Trout's base card almost every year. I also seem to pull his inserts a lot, probably not saying much since he's likely in every single insert Topps makes, but still they seem to come out of my packs abnormally so. But this year, I have not pulled his flagship card. I don't even know what it looks like. OK, I just looked it up. I now know what it looks like. Anyway, I'm mentioning Trout cards because he's the AL MVP (again) and after my NL award winners post , I've decided to take a commenter up on his offer and go through the American League teams as far as which team has totaled the most MVP awards. And then I'll list the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year tallies as well. My enthusia...

Once upon a time I was all about the postseason awards. I couldn't wait to see who won the MVP award or the Cy Young. I remember reading in the newspaper about Rod Carew winning the American League MVP in 1977 and George Foster winning the National League MVP. It was a big deal, a moment big in my brain. But these days I've kind of lost touch with the baseball awards. I think it doesn't help that baseball has delayed them a full week from when they used to announce them. It also doesn't help when they announce "the top three candidates" ahead of time so you already know who the top three are. Kind of takes some of the suspense away. But overall I think it's because I just don't care too much about present-day ballplayers. And awards are very individualistic. It's a vehicle for the hype machine and we have to hear again about how Mike Trout is the greatest baseball specimen who ever walked the earth. However, I still have that little kid in...