Night Owl Cards

I'm sure there are a lot of popular movie quotes traveling through your brain at any given time. In fact, I know that there is. I've run into a number of people, most of them significantly younger than me, who can barely put together a complete thought without underlining it with a movie quote. The quotes that I know usually stay in my head. And one that revolves through my brain's rotation at least as often as any other is the line from "Broadcast News," when the Albert Brooks character, in the midst of feeding lines over the phone to the William Hurt character (through Holly Hunter), who is on broadcasting on the air, says, "I say it here, it comes out there." This quote comes in handy a lot in my profession. But it also comes in handy a lot -- and in a much more pleasant way -- on this blog. There have been countless times in which I have merely mentioned a card on a blog in a slightly complimentary way and it shows up in my mailbox. It happe...

I have basically completed the 1977 Topps set. I'm just waiting for a few upgrades to trickle in, but I do have all 660 cards. I've double-checked for gremlins, too, and there is nothing missing. I'll put together a fitting tribute for that set some time in the future but I can't right now because I'm still buried in cards from 1979. Yup, 1979. That set that I said I was going to collect next, but wasn't ready for yet. I wasn't going to put up a want list, or request cards, or any of that because, I'll say it again ... I WASN'T READY YET. Nobody listens to me. I'm just now emerging from under an avalanche of '79 Topps sent to me from Adam of ARPSmith's Sports Obsession . He sent me around 350 cards from the 1979 set in a totally unprovoked fashion. He said he sent them so I could "get a jump" on the set. Well, here's the thing. I already got a jump on the 1979 set. Back in 1979. I accumulated around 400 or so ca...