Night Owl Cards

Happy Canada Day, once again, to my Canadian readers. This is getting to be a bit of a tradition now that I've referenced Canada Day on the actual day the last three years. Tell me, non-Canadians, what's the first thing you think of when someone mentions "Canada"? If you didn't respond with "hockey," you need to try again. Hockey is such a Canadian institution that if someone were to tell me that a famous athlete from Canada never played hockey, I'd be more surprised by that than just about anything. Even professional baseball players from Canada played hockey before they made baseball their career choice. Larry Walker, one of the greatest baseball players to ever come out of Canada, wanted to be a goalie in the NHL when he was growing up. One of his childhood friends was Boston Bruins great Cam Neely. Walker never played professional hockey. But there are several MLB players who were drafted by an NHL team, played in pro hockey leagues an...

If you haven't noticed, Topps seems to have this weird obsession the last few years with featuring baseball players making strange faces on their cards. I'm not sure why this is. I would imagine somebody somewhere is amused by this. And while I don't mind an occasional goofy face on cardboard, I think it's been much too frequent lately. A periodic goofy face is memorable. A rampant run of goofy faces is annoying. Topps never has figured out the definition of overkill. But I thought I would make it work for me. I'm going to find a decent assortment of goofy faces. No need to send me any cards of them as I have plenty of my own, and my project can handle only a limited number of odd facial gestures. I'm going to make a little montage with them. This is the start: It's a floating head montage of goofiness! I will be taking suggestions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night ...