Night Owl Cards

  I'm doing Jackie Robinson stuff the day after Jackie Robinson Day. I feel like a bad Dodger fan for that, but yesterday I just wanted to eat and watch baseball, and I'm not together enough to have posts scheduled a week ahead of time (or even a day ahead of time), so we're extending the JR love for another day.   As far as I know, the first card of Jackie Robinson to appear with his uniform number on the back as the card number was the 1997 Topps card of him, which showed up in the middle of the base set, looking very unlike any other card. I'm sure that was weird -- I wouldn't know, I wasn't collecting.   Since that time, the number 42 has been used for Robinson cards repeatedly. Here are just a few:   And the backs if you didn't believe me:   So we've gotten to the point of knowing that Robinson is probably going to show up at card No. 42 somewhere in some set, probably for the rest of time -- or for as long as Topps has the rights to Robinson's ...

I received this card from Cardsplitter a little while ago. He's the same guy who's threatening to throw out cards (don't treat the threat lightly, he's already done it once ). He guessed that I owned about four of this red diamond Jackie Robinson already. It turns out this is the first one I've owned, which is a bit surprising to me as well, considering how well I've done acquiring Jackie Robinson cards lately. Not a day goes by without a Robinson finding its way to my door. A couple even arrived in my mailbox yesterday. I have a few more cued up and ready to go from recent trades. I landed a handful at the card show last weekend, and went over 100 unique Robinson cards with my purchases there. I fully anticipate acquiring another Robinson today. I don't know how or when, but it's going to happen. It's Jackie Robinson Day after all. I'm acquiring so many Jackies because Jackies are everywhere. I can be as cynical as I want about it, and I ...